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What IS the Power of The Ring?
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[I don't know if this is in the books, but from the movies:] "...and into it (the Ring) he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life." [Another quote regarding Aragorn, from the book:] "In that hour I looked on Aragorn and thought how great and terrible a Lord he m...
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The Everlasting Darkness
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Feanor and his sons call upon themselves the Everlasting Darkness if they break their oath. But what is this Everlasting Darkness that they should be doomed to if "their deed faileth"? Why I think this may matter is because the Everlasting Darkness may have to do with the torment that the...
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Hurin's superhuman abilities
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Hi im new too this, and was just asking wether anyone else finds it hard to see hurin killing 70 trolls singlehanded at the end of the Nirneath Arnoediad? -- Edited by Turambar on Sunday 17th of January 2010 07:49:32 PM
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History of the Nazgûl
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I haven't read the UT - maybe it says something in there, but I have two questions. 1. Which realms/kingdoms were the nine men kings of? And... 2. What makes the Witch King the head of the Nine? Why is he so special/more powerful?
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Strider's Weapon
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Hey guys. I've been wondering about this for some time now, so I thought I'd get your opinions. What did Aragorn (Or Strider) use for a weapon, before the War of the Ring? Did he use the Shards of Narsil? Or did he carry another sword around all the time? Maybe he used some other type of weapon? I know that he...
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The psychological aspect of the Arda legendarium
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So I was thinking, what is it really that made the peoples of Middle-Earth (and of course Valinor) do what they did? By this I mean psychologically. In our own world, psychology is "the study of the mind, occurring partly via the study of behavior." - And I would say this applies to Tolkien's...
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Broken Rules
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Hi all Now we know and love Tokien's world. The author over the years created a mythos and history in remarkable detail. His attention to detail is incredible, and his world follows rules of sorts.... But here's the question....where and why did the author intentialy try to upset his own rigid mythos...
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What would have happened?
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What do you think would have happened if Boromir had got the Ring off Frodo? How do you think the War of the Ring would have gone then?
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Biblical Comparisons
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Hump de bump.... So yer man J.R.R had a very religeous upbringing.... Their are some easy Biblical comparisons to be made........ I'll let you tell......
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Book Discussion on the "The Children of Hurin"
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Several of us are reading "The Tale of the Children of Hurin" please use this thread for discussing anything pertaining to the book. -- Edited by ArwenLegolas on Saturday 27th of October 2012 05:40:01 PM
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The Adversary
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Hi All Please forgive my spelling. The role of Adversary was given/appointed taken by Melkor. Despite his best efforts, he only ever furthered the aims of Eru. It seems to me that free will was denied to this Valar. Almost as if his appointed role was to unite the free peoples against him. But here's t...
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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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Providence, Fate, and Luck
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I am moving all further discussion about the issue of Providence, luck, and Fate in Middle-earth here. This has some Advanced discussion potential and will be continued here.
To catch up on the discussion that took place in another thread, here is what the topic will be about:
Celethil...
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Legolas' eyes?!?!
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