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'...and Tolkien readers have debated it for 23 years' https://3dvf.com/en/jackson-cut-the-book-s-real-ending-and-tolkien-readers-have-debated-it-for-23-years/ Agree or disagree? For myself I agree, but only because the film trilogy was never set up to have a Scouring. But I disagree that the...

I know i might be having a hot take. When i saw the movie i thought he was a good character. But the part in the book where he tells Eowyn to give up her old ways. I was thinking. WHAT?!!! But its only when i am older that i get it. And its honestly well written. In reality, i think Faramir...

Just wanted to share the experience I personally had, and see if anybody felt something similar... I was introduced to LOTR through the movies (18yo when the first released) and then read the books a few years later. I have always been a reader, more into history books than anything else. And...

Does Eowyn even get to have any lines in that book? I remember she being a mute in Two Towers book, until Return of the King book happened. Where she got more lines to say, and a falling in love with Aragorn, before he politely dismisses that affection. But in Two Towers. From my memory...

First off, I wasn't sure where this exactly fit and by my powers of debatable deduction I decided here was probably the best location. If this is incorrect please feel free to move it where it belongs or remove it and let me know where I should be placing it! It's my first post and I don't want...

I must have missed that part? Would that mean Frodo Baggins was 36-40 years old by the time Gandalf first visited. Then turned 50 when he left the Shire with the ring? However... timeline consistency feels weird here. I dunno. Can someone fact check me. My apologies...

Other than The Hobbit, which I’d say/hope we all know, what are some of your favorite opening lines from books? Those lines that capture your attention and lead you off to new, known worlds, those lines that lead to either an authors masterpiece or drivel.

Hello, Boots here. I would just like to talk to some people about these first two volumes of The History of Middle Earth series. I don't necessarily have trouble reading these books aside from occasion vocabulary I don't know. What I would really like to know is what parts of these books that...

Did Balrogs have Wings? What do you think, rather than what you evidence thinks....I don't want people to argue, just whether they have wings...

I know one adorable "Black Norwegian Forest cat" is hanging around "Prancing Pony". But are they canon interms of Tolkien lore?

Title says it all. Every few year I wish to repeat the experience of reading the Lord of the Rings with some new book I never heard off, but everything stops at start as there is no decent suggestion. Only once did I find something that was like LOTR, and it wasn't even the same genre, but it...

Hello, everyone. I'm writing a book with the Elvish etymology (in Quenya) of my family. In it, I'll include the etymology of all the members' names, plus their Quenya counterparts. I want to title it: "Family History" The History of Our House in the Tongue of the High Elves. I need a...

What do you think Aragorn felt for Eowyn? Could have part of him liked her if he wasn't devoted to Arwen? I found this excerpt, too, although Wikipedia is not accurate, and so it has to be confirmed by users who have researched the topic: Where do you think their characters differ so much, so...

Link Rather amateurish article, judging by the author's frequent failure to use apostrophes, as in the paragraph above; odd for an MSN article, imho (way to promote literacy, msn). I don't how if I have an opinion about which movie is the most book-accurate but in case anyone is curious and...

A short chapter to tidy up loose ends and see how the various main characters fare in the aftermath. With Saruman and Wormtongue both dead, the war of the ring has drawn to a close. Frodo rides to Michel Delving to release the prisoners from the Lockholes: notably resistance leader Fredegar...

I dont think or remember how they were described in the book. But looking up online they seem to resemble Africans. Whereas in movie, they changed them to look more middle eastern (Probably due to the message of anti war due to the aftermath of 9/11 at the time) But from a Europe centric view...

Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz— The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets? Do you remember the rats; and the stench Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench— And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain? Do...

I took a metaphorical deep breath before diving into this crucial chapter. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields is a climax but surely this chapter is the climax of the story. This intense three character Beckett style drama has been playing out since early in book IV. Much has been written about...

A hard time we had of it. At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly. Did Tolkien know his Eliot because these lines from The Journey of the Magi are very appropriate for what happens in this bleak...

Into the valley of death rode the 600, although this feels more like the first day of The Battle of the Somme which Tolkien knew something about. This is the last throw of the dice as Gandalf put it though I can't quite see Gandalf being the wizard who broke the bank at Edhellond - no sensible...