legendarium

The idea came from an author, I think his name is Rick Riordan who wrote a series of books about the Olympic Gods but in current times (Olympus is in New York, etc.). They are quite entertaining and they explain a lot of lore as well. What about the Legendarium? I imagine that in current times...

1-Melkor 2-Tom bombadil 3-Tulkas 4-Manwe 5-Ungoliant 6-Orome 7-Eönwe 8-Sauron 9-Ancalagon 10-Gothmog

FAMILY TREE OF THE CHARACTERS OF MIDDLE-EARTH LEGENDARIUM Hello everyone, Here is the giant family tree the characters of Tolkien's Middle Earth legendarium. The tree starts with Eru and the Ainur before Time itself, and goes straight down from there to all the characters living at the...

This Enting, being new, would like your input please. I have seen a definition in one place that equates "The Legendarium" with "HoME". In your mind, what constitutes the "Legendarium"? Is it just the twelve volumes of HoME? Is it more? Is it less? And I see some may consider Hostetter's...

gollum is the great hero of the works of tolkien because if it was not for him the entire world would have enslaved by sauron. does anyone else agree? no swearing or name calling please

OK, since I am interested in Roman/Byzantine history, I noticed something. Constantinople was often associated with the symbol of moon - specifically the star and the crescent moon. This symbol was used even in Greek Byzantium, and continued to be used in Constantinople. This matches Minas...

So I don't know if there is a thread on this at all or not but I thought maybe we could just list as many of the mysteries of Tolkien's Legendarium as possible. This just gives us a thread to reference when looking for new things to read into in the Legendarium. I know a almost all of these...

This thread is for announcements of serious books by serious scholars whose interest is JRR Tolkien. For openers: =============================== Sutton Publishing Release Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: A Guide to Middle-Earth By James Wray Dec 16, 2004, 23:50 GMT Sutton...