death

There are a number of threads on various sites detailing the timeline between the wounding of the Two Trees and Fingolfin crossing the ice. People are arguing that the journey took 33 years! As I re-read the Silmarillion, that timeline seems crazy. 1) It makes no narrative sense. Feanor is...

Who's death in the Children of Hurin do you find the saddest? There was originally a poll with different names of characters who die in TCoH alongside with this. I think it got lost when this thread was moved to a different forum. Is there a way to restore it? If not that's fine. I originally...

Is it the halls of Mandos? To Iluvatar beyond the borders of the world?

Balrogs, we've seen Glorfindel die to one to slay it, and so too Gandalf. I was watching FOTR Extended and had a question. Is it a in universe rule that to slay a Balrog you must give your life or are they just so dangerous that death is the only way? CL

Feel free to move this to the proper thread but I just wanted to take this moment in memoriam of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Who died this very day fifty years ago in 1973. May his wisdom and genius never be forgotten! Pour one out and toast to the man who started it all! Happy Fiftieth...

Was there anywhere mentioned that Turgon told Fingolfin and Fingon about Aredhel's death and the existence of Maeglin?

Tolkien would have been well versed in Arthurian mythology: even reusing the place name Avalon. Some have noted the similarity between Merlin/Arthur and Gandalf/Frodo. In letter 154 (in the older book of the letters: first edition 1981, mine is 2006) Tolkien refers to the return of Arthur as an...