Technically, Loegolas, through his father Thranduil, the High King of the Woodelves of Mirkwood, was Sindarin, not Silvan. Maybe the Silvan elves really are...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Jan 22, 2008 8:15 am
I believe that Thranduil is a Sindarin elf, who has become king of the (avari) wood-elves Think I read that in Lost Tales, but would not be able to pin down a ...
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Rob
cosmiccostello
Jan 22, 2008 3:20 am
I've always thought that the portrayal of the "wood elves" in The Hobbit and Legolas in LotR were not in congruence with each other. Legolas seems a lot more...
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Matt
uncutray
Jan 22, 2008 12:39 am
These Elves are more like Dwarves than like the high Elves that we met in The Silmarillion. They are coarse and crude and taken to drink and partying. I guess...
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John Davis
mcxg46
Jan 21, 2008 7:48 pm
Hi, I've just taken over the events section of the Tolkien Society website. So if anyone, anywhere, at any time, knows of any Tolkien-related events, please...
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steveseg@...
segutorio
Jan 21, 2008 5:35 pm
"Barrels Out of Bond" is the title of chapter IX in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit." It begins with Bilbo and the dwarves, sans Thorin, making one last ...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Jan 16, 2008 2:50 am
This seems to be one of the first times where Bilbo starts to show the measure of what he is made of. It appears that Bilbo well and truly learned his lesson...
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Matt
uncutray
Jan 15, 2008 4:03 am
The first time I read this, I imagined enormous spiders such as the type we see in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings or the second Harry Potter film (Chamber...
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steveseg@...
segutorio
Jan 14, 2008 7:53 pm
"Flies and Spiders" is the eighth chapter of "The Hobbit." It begins with Bilbo and the dwarves entering Mirkwood through the arched entrance of the Woodland...
Hi, Saruman's cross-breeding was between men and orcs to create Half-orcs, creatures often enough like men to pass as them, such as the 'swarthy' spies in...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Jan 8, 2008 11:02 pm
Goblins and hobgoblins are the names used in The Hobbit for Orcs (yrch in Sindarin, uruk in the Black Speech) Interchangeably, I think ... Jack _____ From:...
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Ron Philo
rphilo
Jan 8, 2008 7:26 pm
Tolkien Discussions>Knowing the dangers of Mirkwood, Bilbo inquires of the possability of skirting the forest entirely but is told by Gandalf that the...
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Ronn! Blankenship
ronn_blanken...
Jan 8, 2008 6:56 pm
... Back in the days before Georgia (the state in the SE U.S., not the country) had completed I-20 westward from Atlanta to the Alabama state line (which they...
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John Davis
mcxg46
Jan 8, 2008 11:39 am
Hmm. Really?! How about... In what (British) TV sitcom did a character called Bilbo appear? And for bonus points, what role did the actor allegedly audition...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Jan 8, 2008 12:12 am
Who knows, I may have got it mixed up with Andre Norton's 'Witches World' by mistake which would more likely get me an Egg in the Face medal Fourth Class...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Jan 7, 2008 11:06 pm
I wondered about that - I even checked online to see if it had been published as Witches World in North America But I couldn't see any sign of it If you MEANT...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Jan 7, 2008 10:41 pm
I think the reason why Beorn was willing to give them information was that he had such a deep hatred for the goblins that they just narrowly escaped and seemed...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Jan 7, 2008 9:27 pm
Well at least i was half right with Witches World. ... From: Jack To: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:41 PM Subject: RE:...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Jan 7, 2008 7:42 pm
Witches Abroad is right Your turn! ... Jack... _____ From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John...
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Matt
uncutray
Jan 7, 2008 4:57 pm
This is the chapter where JRR starts to lose me. I think that he should have fixed (removed) all the stuff about the talking animals that were serving food....
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steveseg@...
segutorio
Jan 7, 2008 4:07 pm
"Queer Lodgings" is the title of Chapter Vll of 'The Hobbit." It begins with Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves leaving the Eyrie of the Eagles astride the backs...
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John Davis
mcxg46
Jan 7, 2008 11:56 am
Got to be an early one surely, before Pratchett disowned the fantasy genre. So the Colour of Magic perhaps? Or Witches Abroad? John ... From: "Jack"...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Jan 5, 2008 10:06 am
Nope ... Jack _____ From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Bellinger Sent: 05 January 2008...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Jan 5, 2008 6:05 am
Is it Witches World? ... From: Jack To: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:53 PM Subject: [TolkienDiscussions] Tolkien Trivia ...
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Gary Bellinger
pepper_gaz
Jan 5, 2008 5:59 am
Happy eleventy-sixth then professor! From the Harbottles, Bracegirdles, Bagginses and the Proudfoots! Or is that Proudfeet? ... From: Jack To:...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Jan 4, 2008 10:54 pm
We haven't done this for a while, but I found a super one. What Terry Pratchett book features a cameo appearance by Gollum? ... Jack...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Jan 4, 2008 10:54 pm
We missed it yesterday - Prof T would have been eleventy-six http://www.tolkiensociety.org/toast/2008/index.html ... Jack...
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Matt
uncutray
Jan 2, 2008 2:59 am
This chapter also introduces us the some of the Geography East of the Misty Mountains, including the whereabouts of Men and Eagles. I was amused to learn that...
