Jack said: Hi Steve! Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo! Welcome to the group! Feel free to email an introduction. Thank you Jack for the welcome Jack! But I'm...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 9, 2007 2:58 am
I'm hoping to reread LOTR next year, sometime after I finish The Atlas of Middle Earth and Unfinished Tales for the first time, and The Hobbit for the Third...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 9, 2007 2:55 am
My interest in Harry Potter is just to enjoy the movies. I may read the books to my daughter one day, but for the moment, I am enjoying being entertained by...
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Rob
cosmiccostello
Nov 8, 2007 9:44 pm
<<So while, Sauron can't control the Elves through these rings like he can men and to some extent the dwarves, it seems their life essence, and everything they...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Nov 8, 2007 7:30 pm
If you remember, when Galadriel was talking to Frodo (I think), she talks of the loss of power of the rings, and everything that was preserved by them such as...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Nov 8, 2007 6:53 pm
Paaah!!! But it deals with Harry Potter! To even hint that Harry Potter ranks anywhere near Lord of the Rings and anything Tolkien is heresy to me! Aren't...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 8, 2007 4:09 pm
I found this in the Encyclopedia of Arda: "Nenya, Narya and Vilya; the only three of the Rings of Power to be made wholly outside the influence of Sauron....
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 8, 2007 3:40 pm
Please! Give SPOILER warnings for stuff like that!!! I am only up to Order of the Phoenix!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a lot!! I had no idea what your post was about...
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Matthew Beyers
matt_beyers
Nov 8, 2007 3:33 pm
I almost hesitate to say this because it brings in a whole different set of fantasy stuff, but a thought occurred to me the other day and I thought I'd share...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 8, 2007 1:34 pm
... wrote: [Matt:] <<I would also presume that the destruction of the Elven rings would lead to the destruction of the ring makers.>> ... [Rob:]> An...
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Peter Chapman
lordofhawks
Nov 8, 2007 11:34 am
Re: Wolves in Tolkien, European folklore & religion.You're preaching to the unconvertible. L-o-H ... From: Bruce Alan Wilson To:...
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Bruce Alan Wilson
larryu81
Nov 8, 2007 2:37 am
The lion/lamb bit is a misquotation. The actual passage says wolf/lamb, lion/calf. And, yes, it is improbable, but "with God all things are possible." That...
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Rob
cosmiccostello
Nov 7, 2007 8:49 pm
<<It was not clear to me in my one reading of The Lord of the Rings that it is with the Elven Rings that the lands of the Elves are preserved.>> I didn't "get"...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 7, 2007 3:24 pm
This part of the chapter also mentions that Imladris (Rivendell) is founded by Elrond. I so wish Tolkien went into a little more detail on the founding of...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Nov 6, 2007 9:14 pm
Hi Virginia, welcome to the group. You sure live down in a beautiful area, except when the winds pick up. Then it is not much fun. So what started you out with...
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Rob
cosmiccostello
Nov 6, 2007 8:50 pm
Welcome aboard! We just finished reading through The Silmarillion and discussing it in some depth. I do not know if any such structured discussion is on the...
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Virginia Smith
vcsmith123
Nov 6, 2007 8:39 pm
Hi, I am new to the group. My name is Virginia and I live in Chesapeake, Virginia. I have been a Tolkien fan since I first read the books in the 60's. I...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 6, 2007 8:28 pm
I checked my digital copy of The Silmarillion, and it only talks about him taking up the ring after returning from Numenor and using it to clothe himself in...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Nov 6, 2007 8:01 pm
I think I read somewhere that he left it in Middle Earth (laying aside his ring he humbled himself) - but can't find the passage. Unfinished Tales perhaps? ...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Nov 6, 2007 8:01 pm
Isn't it the lion that lays down with the lamb? And surely the prophet is talking about something very improbable here? ... Jack... _____ From:...
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Peter Chapman
lordofhawks
Nov 6, 2007 7:30 pm
Re: Wolves in Tolkien, European folklore & religion.The wolf shall feast upon the lamb. L-o-H ... From: Bruce Alan Wilson To:...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 6, 2007 5:31 pm
<SPOILER> . . . . . . . . . . . There is another problem for Sauron if he removes the ring. Later in this chapter we learn that Sauron becomes disembodied when...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 6, 2007 5:21 pm
The question of why Sauron did not take the ring with him to Numenor is probably one of the little inconsistencies that JRRT would have cleaned up had he...
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Bruce Alan Wilson
larryu81
Nov 6, 2007 5:14 pm
Precisely. We Europeans (including "Europeans in Diaspora") are the descendants of farmers and heardsmen; no wonder we don't like wolves. Native Americans,...
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whiteladyofrohan@...
dpadula
Nov 6, 2007 2:36 pm
That's interesting. I wonder who was left in charge of overseeing it and what would have happened if the keeper had tried it on for size! ~Debbie In a...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 5, 2007 6:06 pm
Events in Middle-earth continue from when a disguised Sauron teaches the Elves to make rings of power to when Sauron forges his One Ring to Rule them All. The...
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Matt
uncutray
Nov 5, 2007 5:46 pm
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age -- Part 2 -Sauron puts on his ring and is revealed to the Elves. In anger and fear they remove their rings. Sauron...
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TolkienDiscussions@ya...
Nov 4, 2007 5:50 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the TolkienDiscussions group. File :...
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Gustavo
oliua_guga
Nov 4, 2007 2:22 am
I put a table in another mailing-list database I have, with many alphabets ... If anyone is interested in this kind of thing, and would care to take a look,...
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Gustavo
oliua_guga
Nov 4, 2007 2:17 am
I never faced a wolf, so, I can't say anything about shooting it. Probably, a sword might be more efficient against such kind of enemy ... Maybe trying to...
