tolkien

(I have a 54 page two week long study of the details of each of the sources I used, but there is a limit to how big a post one can make, so this is the smaller version of a rather extensive study.) One of the most persistent misconceptions about J. R. R. Tolkien is that the depth of his...

One of the most fascinating aspects of Tolkien’s linguistic work is watching how a single root evolves over decades of thought. The case of órë is a particularly clear example, because Tolkien himself returned to it late in life and explained what he believed it really meant — and just as...

You remember in the Hobbit when the dwarves and Bilbo were making their way through the Mirkwood and Bilbo climbed the trees to see how far they had left to go, and the blue butterflies all flew up and around from the tree tops? Have you ever wondered what was the significance of that, if...

I remember first coming across the idea of Faërie in a book called "The Tolkien Reader," in the chapter called "Tree and Leaf." It was a most astonishing concept, and to honor Tolkien and ever keep it in our minds, I wish to say what I enjoyed the most about learning about this. Tolkien insisted...

Why Tom Bombadil is J. R. R. Tolkien I gave this as a discussion on my You Tube channel about a month ago, and I thought you Tolkien lovers and appreciators would enjoy it. I. The Enigma of the Eldest Among the many puzzles in The Lord of the Rings, none has provoked more debate than the...

So I'm watching the video of a historian reacting to Sabaton's "Cycle of Songs" (honestly my favorite Sabaton song ever, or close at least), and he mentions that the number 9 in Egypt was important. Pharaoh "slaughtering the nine" symbolizes his role as a protector and a warrior. "Nine Bows" are...

Hello all! Long time no see :) I am currently writing a course paper about Tolkien. The topic is "Wind as an image-making element in J.R.R. Tolkien's poetry". Could you please suggest me some Tolkien's poems in which wind is mentioned? I really need as many of them as possible. ;) Thanks a lot!

- The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Rings: The Council of Elrond The Coat of Many Colours (wikipedia) - King James Version, Genesis 37:3 As a devote Catholic Tolkien must have been aware of the Biblical Coat of Many Colors, and this is not a particularly common phrase. One knock...

The talk about the great hall of speculation made me think, and I am dangerous when I think. Well, here is the thing, I know Tolkien at some point wanted his stories to be interpreted as a very distant past, a precursor of our own world. He toyed with the idea of Arda being always round and...

Tolkien was very aware that Beowulf’s dragon wasn’t just a monster but a moral climax. In his 1936 lecture Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, he described the poem’s structure as “balanced and significant” precisely because the dragon isn’t just a beast to slay—it’s the final test of courage...

Just curious - what is your favorite textual ruin in Tolkien's works? :)

I imagine he would sympathize with the Amish to some level. But i am so sick of Ai using digitlal necromancy. The disgusting stuff i see of dead people performing like they are alive. Its unnatural and just makes me sick. If i could live in a world where, all we had was piano, books and a...

Everybody loves Mermaids or Mermans in some cases right? https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Mermaids

I mean you can never go wrong with "Cab Calloway" music. I think Classic Rock personally is kinda outdated with Modern Rock, in my view atleast since that music just shakes the house down more. But Cab Calloway. Absolutely! Still amazing to this date! edit: Come to think about it. Would this...

Good morning everyone, I am an Italian student of Languages for International Communication. This is a questionnaire about invented languages, especially the elvish language (Sindarin): about perception and use in fan and scholar communities. The compilation is anonymous and will only take a...

I had never heard about this before, but I was watching a youtube channel, one of the few that is very accurate and reliable. they said that in one of his letter, Tolkien said that himself, and his son Michael had recurrent dreams about being in Atlantis. In a later letter, Tolkien said that...

I was bored, so I started having a Tolkien talk with ChatGPT and Gemini. Boy were they hallucinating? With ChatGPT I was discussing the fate of Tuor and Idril. ChatGPT told me that Christopher Tolkien explicitly cited a note/letter whatever from his father saying that Tuor and Idril reached...

A.S. Byatt's "Ragnarok" is a novel about a young girl who was evacuated to the English countryside during the Second World War. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she was given a copy of a book of ancient North myths and her inner and outer worlds were transformed. Byatt's book...

Lets discuss some theories. When Gandalf returns, Tolkien writes him to be virtually indistinguishable from Gandalf the Grey. (Except for those few close to him, who notice some small differences in his behavior, and his character.) He is not recognized as different in Rohan. He is not...

Tolkien picked Blue, Red, and White for the color of the 3 unsullied Elven Rings. Given Tolkien did much of what he did based on 'associative meaning,' what crosses your mind as his potential reason for choices of the colors of the rings? Many possibilities exist here. Just curious to see...