well yes he has. now, I just remembered this and I guess you might now this just wanted to add that he and his wife had as inscriptions on their graves the words Luthien and Beren
can be...anyway they have Beren and Luthien I personally would have said Sam and Rosie...but dunno...it was his choice...anyway I think we are quite off topic
Well anyway. I am sure Tolkien would be amazed by the fuss made over his works. He's probably up there dying to correct mistakes he hear's people make - "No Morgoth is the evilest, Morgoth, Morgoth! Struth, didn't I get that through!?"
I don't know. I think he wanted people to imagine a continuation for the story, like the fourth age and further. I think the movies would disturb him more, just as the first movies disturbed him.
amazement? his books were quite succesfull even at that time and he knew that people liked his stories. of course that the success and the notoriety the movies gave to the books was very great, but I think he would be more proud then amazed.
To see kids playing dozens of Video games on Characters he created 60 years before in a book, on a Television? I think amazement is more apt than proud.
__________________
Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!
Yeah I suppose Beren is pretty couragous to, stealing a Silmaril from the iron Crown of Morgoth. But then if Hurin were to be given that chance I suppose he probably would have done so to as he did insult Morgoth while in front of him and surrounded by his demons!
I doubt. Aragorn was scarcely building up courage to look in the Palantir, let alone go to Barad-dur himself alone. You think he would venture to the black depths of Angband, or the cold peaks of Thangordrim to the throne of Morgoth?
I would only say that the men who lived in the First age would attemp such a fiet. Elendil, Isildur, Aragorn, Pharazon were all very courages but for there time. Hurin, Beren, Turin, Earendil I would say had about the same courage as the mentioned but for there time and the First age required more courage I believe as Morgoth was an undefeatable enemy, Sauron was not.
Well yes the Early Numenoreans of Numenor (not the later of Middle-earth) were very nearly parring I suppose. But the only reason they are so Couragous is becuase they are the Edain who fought against Morgoth so they are actually first age men. But even there leaders (Elendil,Pharazon,Amadil) all except Elros, I doubt would go alone to the great Darkness.
I must remind you...Beren was not alone actually Luthien did most of the work to save him from Sauron and then to put all of Angband to sleep. Beren only had to go through many sleepy creatures and cut the Silmaril of course this still needs great courage, but I don't think that means others wouldn#t have done that
But Beren i think would have done it alone without Luthien. Anyway this is a opinion, I just don't think the men of the second and third age had the amount of courage as the First age men as they were not facing an undefeatable enemy and were in a less evil time.
alone? impossible how could he have gone into Angband? he had no elven magic? no powers to cast sleep on others? do you mean fight his way all the way to Melkor? I doubt that.
Whether or not he succeeded is irrelevant. Just the attemp is all that needed the courage. He could have only got outside Menegroth with his thought on reaching Angband and perished, but providing he wholly meant to go through with it then the courage value is no less than had he succeeded.
no, I doubt he would have sacrificed himself like that he tried alone and he only managed to end up captive in Sauron's prison but that doesn't mean others were not in similar situations
I says in the Silmarillion that Hurin was the mightiest of the woriors of mortal Men. But, this is the greatest of men. It depends on the definition of "greatest".
I don't think there is a reason to use such words when reffering to another language. As far as I am concerned I will use which words I see fitting, as long as they don't offend anyone.
America does not have a language TM. Its called English (thats England). They simply accepted it and contorted a few words for there own customisation.
From what I know you despise the phrase 'Chill out'.
__________________
Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!
LoL America has a language. Its a dialect of English, just like Mexico uses a dialect of Spanish (Spain).
The English can continue to pine over their lost colony if they like, but we're not coming back until the world grows up and forms a global government.
__________________
Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda
