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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...

'Good often does evil': JRR Tolkien on 'the most tragic moment' in The Lord of the Rings Hate to post clickbait, but I knew what this moment was as soon as I read this headline. I'm sure the rest of you can too. Unrelated excerpt:

I can't think of many boys's names that I like the sound of and wouldn't give the child funny looks. Excluding names like Tom or Bill of course. Girl's name there are some more: Idril Elwing Arwen Indis Miriel Aredhel

there are numerous science fiction books or movies that deal with time travel, yet, they all face the same problem, the paradoxes of traveling to the past, they try to twist it but more paradoxes emerge. Time travel to the past is not possible according to the laws of physics, and for a very...

Someone online told me. That Christopher Tolkien sorta said Tolkien was inconsistent about some of his stories. And so he wrote The Hobbit as a response to that. Or am i wrong? But if true. Then thats kinda amazing ^^

Did JRR Tolkien plagiarise himself when he wrote The Lord Of The Rings? A controversial question no doubt! But let's take a closer look that led to the question. The good professor had great success when The Hobbit was released and his publisher, George Allen & Unwin Ltd was keen for a sequel...

In the last few weeks I have read multiple books that at one point or another concerned themselves with negative criticism of Tolkien's Works, especially the Lord of the Rings, and all of these Books went out of their way to prove these critics wrong. Sometimes it seemed the critics didn't even...

Since he was... very against technology and modern cinema

The beings are as follows. Fairies. Wereworms. Stone giants. Saying that one of the male Tooks most have taken a fairy as a wife given their reduced size a couple of generations back, always sounded like a joke to me. Likewise wareworms seems like the types of monsters that Hobbits of all...

For me it would have to be this one. The harp, the singer's voice and honestly the following imagery of the New Line Cinemas regretfully unused content for Peter Jacksson's trilogy does not hurt either.

"I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own (bound up with its tongue and soil), not of the quality that I sought, and found (as an ingredient) in legends of other lands. There was Greek, and Celtic, and Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian...

As an excercise, I thought I would take the two story worlds that I enjoy thinking about the most (Tolkien's Middle Earth and My Little Pony's Equestria) and see how many similarities I can find. 1. Dragons Although many fantasy works have dragons in them of some distinction, it must be noted...

I just finished the Unfinished Tales again and in there is the Tale of Aldarion and Erendis, who, after some disagreement over when Sea Voyages are to be undertaken and how long they should last, separated as it was put in the text. When I thought about it, it was the only instance of a divorce...

I read in NOME that talking was thinking on the fate of Aman after the change of the world. He debated to himself if Aman was a physical entity or not (before the change of the world) and concluded that if it was physical it needed to be destroyed, and the Americas would be what Aman was. And...

I’ve always enjoyed the way Tolkien describes the eyes of his characters: color, inner light, fire, sparks, blades, etc. In this thread I’ll gradually assemble a collection of Tolkien’s descriptions of his characters’ eyes. Feel free to make any comments you’d like regarding The Eyes of...

As Tolkien was a great expert on linguistics, I have often found myself wondering what his opinions on generative text LLMs like "CHAT-GPT" would be. I will compile all the quotes here that I think are relevent, and then try to end it with my own explanation as to what I think he would have...

Dance style etc.

It's a book by Nick Groom, copyright 2023. I didn't see a thread on it. I'm around 100 pages in and it's good so far. Lots of biographical information, some discussion about the works that JRRT wrote prior to LotR, discussion about good and evil in Middle-earth. Anyone else read this, and if so...

A good friend of mine got talking about Tolkien with me and told me something interesting I responded to, and I will share it here because you folks are the finest Tolkien fans I know of, and I am so appreciating reading all your ideas and discussions with helping all appreciate Tolkien's depth...