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2 Minas Tirith?
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I was recently reading through the Silmarillion when I came upon the creation of a watchtower by Finrod in the first age, it was known as Minas Tirith. Does anyone know how the citadel of Gondor came to bear the same name?
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1. austrian- international middleearthfestival (6.-8.09.2013)
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Gather, hobbits and dwarves, elves and rangers, riders of Rohan, people of Gondor, Bree and all the other corners of Middle-earth, you wizards and ents, orcs and urukhai, trolls, wargs, ... Anticipate three-day-walking-tour (optional) followed by three days come-together and festival - six un...
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Olvar of Middle-earth and Beyond Discussion Thread
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This is the Discussion thread for everything Olvar. Please feel free to expound on the subject to your heart's Contentment
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Indepth Discussion of the Olvar of Middle-earth and Valinor
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This is a thread to discuss the Olvar of Tolkien's Worlds. Unlike the Trivia Thread, which should have SHORT answers without a lot of Dialogue, This is where you want to delve into the books. I have noticed that a lot of people will take the easy route and go to Wikipedia, which is alright with me, but I rea...
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Orcs under the Sun
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In The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields the orcs of Mordor appear to fight on after the Sun shines (a great wind blew, and the rain went North). The hosts of Mordor, which I would say included orcs (orcs that are said, after Aragorn is revealed, to have hated the Sunlight), were actually heartened by the Bla...
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Perception of characters changing as we change
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Hump de bump I'm now a grumpy middle aged man. In my youth I adored th Elves for their vigour, their beuty and strength. Now they seem a bit tiresome , always looking backwards, never at where they are or going. Aloof Anyway, now I adore men....hmmmm as a race. The death of Boromir seems to affect me more. H...
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What did Galadriel mean when she says I will diminish?
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After Frodo offers Galadriel the ring and she goes through her trial why did she say she would diminish? Did she loose her powers?
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A child of his time
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Here's a thing Yer man Tolkien grew lived and died in a more inocent time. By which I mean a reserved, moral and simpler era. Where Hemp was for ropes and gay meant happy. How would the works have differed if Toklien was a child of the MTV generation ? They told me , "Filli stand by the jams" I di...
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So why wasn't Ulmo the first of the Valar to discover the Elves?
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Hi guys. I hope this is the correct forum for this question, and I hope you don't mind me butting in here without so much as a by-your-leave (I'll post an intro thread soon!) I also posted this question in a non-Tolkien forum of my acquaintance. My apologies if this is an unacceptable cross-post. Whi...
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Difference between Orcs and Uruk-hai?
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Im not sure about you but I am very confused about the creation of Orcs! Saruman say's they were once elves, but arent they supposed to be made of mud? And what is the difference between Orcs and Uruk-hai?
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Mouth of Sauron?
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Alright I am doing this by memory, so tell me if I get something wrong. Aragorn said at Parth Galen that Sauron did not use his right name or allowed it to be spoken, so why did the Mouth of Sauron introduce himself with that name? And also I think that he even referred to his master as Sauron the Great, or som...
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resolving "Middle earth as our earth" with Tolkien's religiosity
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It's pretty well-known that Tolkien had long toyed with device of making Middle Earth an earlier, long forgotten version of *our* earth. This is explicit in the tales of Aelfwine/Eriol, the notion that Tolkien somehow got his hands on "The Red Book", and little things like Tolkien mak...
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Why is Frodo seen as the Hero?
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One question has always nagged at me about the final moments of the "destroying" of the ring. After the journey, the search, the end of the fellowship, Frodo failed to throw the ring in. In the end, taken over by the ring itself, he refused to rid the world of the ring. If not for Gollum, the ent...
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what happened to Shadowfax?
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I know most new topics are a question, but this one is more of a statement. I've heard the question "what happened to Shadowfax when Gandalf sailed sailed away?" And just now came across the answer in Christopher Tolkien's the end of the third age.
Sam's son Merry asks in the epilogue of th...
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Morgoth's Children- speculative
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I always felt that JRR could write about, absolute evil....in only a palatable way. True he wrote the works in a more innocent time. I also feel that although he wrote about unspeakable evil, he being such a good person, did not understand "evil". (I'm only vaguely nasty...but I'd shock JR...
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Infertility of the Valar/Maiar
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Ohhhhh bald is so buetifull Apart from Melian and Shelob, did any of the powers that be, do the jiggy jiggy and beget offspring ?
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The Common Speech
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Hey there. Are we to assume that the common speech is actually English, or that the inhabitants of Arda speak something else, and Tolkein simply wrote in English? The reason I ask this is that the place-names seem to be in a langauge that is not similar to English at all. The placenames of the hobbits are...
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Legolas' eyes?!?!
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Addressing Knowledge
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Tolkien characterizes the quest for knowledge with ambivalence in LOTR's. What are the various ways Tolkien presents the quest for gaining knowledge in the novels? -- Edited by Halobella85 on Monday 1st of November 2010 11:59:16 PM
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More , More , Encore
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My ding a ling goes bring bring bring Imagine that you could talk to the man....JRR That you could corner the man and invoke him to flesh out something about the works... Oh I don't know...there's so much ! For me it would be to embelish the tale of Beren and Luthien. It underpins the LOR and in it's own scal...
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Could Frodo
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Hey ho Could Frodo have "commanded" the Nazgul ...at eathertop on eraing the ring my key isn't orking...hmmmm
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What if ?
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The quest is on a knife edge........ Well what if.....what if Butterbur delivered his letter What if Gandalf had not met with Thorin whilst pondering Dragons What if ..what if what if. The works often focussed down into a single moment, a singularity where further events were dependant. What were th...
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Middle-earth chronology
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I was wondering if anyone might be interested in a bit of research I did. Being very curious to find a precise date for the events in the books I had conducted a lengthy internet search only to come up with one result; 3102 BC for the start of the Fourth Age. This did not square with a Tolkien quote that the Fa...
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"The Complete Guide to Middle-earth" VS. "The Complete Tolkien Companion"
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I have a question. As a matter of fact, I've been pondering this for a very long time, so actually I don't know why I did not seek an answer until now. I bought some time ago JEA Tyler's 'The Complete Tolkien Companion', which is sort of an encyclopedia of Tolkien's world, with a large number of names which...
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Miruvor
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I know there was a Miruvóre, the Nectar of the Valar, made from flowers in the gardens of Yavanna, and served it at the festivals of the Valar. I am trying to find out if Miruvor might have the same origin, or a similar origin and if it was there in the First Age, before the Noldor came back to Middle-earth. I...
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The Valar and People
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I have a small question... I was wondering if the people of Middle-Earth (Men, Dwarves, Hobbits, And the average Elf) knows about the Valar? If they do - do they know very Valar are only major ones? More specifically do they know of Yavanna? I look forward to replies.
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Eowyn and Ioreth
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As I have said many times before, I believe the reason that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series is so popular because no matter who you are, where your from or what manner of temperment you are, you can find at least one character to attach to or relate to. That being said, I myself, being as concieted as I a...
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The Rainbow Cleft
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Anyone with KW Fonstad's book note that there is no seeming gap through the mountains from the Sea into Hithlum and Dor-Lomin, and so no passage, if not over mountains at least, except through the Gate of the Noldor and the Rainbow Cleft? But compare to (Christopher) Tolkien's map and (it seems to...
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Transmission And Authorship
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I decided to make a thread concerning the imagined transmission and authorship of the texts, and post some findings in one place (and in a place I can more easily locate by name as time goes by). One problem here is Tolkien's changing mind. In the early 1950s JRRT still held to the idea that (ver...
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betraying Gondolin
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Sorry about the length! Maeglin is usually noted as betraying the location of Gondolin in that he seemingly gave the needed details to allow an assault to take place. If I recall correctly, in earlier versions of the Túrin saga, Húrin's release did not reveal the location of Gondolin in any measure,...
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