http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CmAZfjTNU0 ... Jack (Never believe anything until it has been officially denied ) Click here for jokes, cartoons, and...
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I have always thought of Tom & Goldberry as Maia of Yavanna & Ulmo, respectively. But JRRT himself said that they didn't quite fit into the rest of the mythos...
Has anyone checked this out yet? http://lotrproject.com/ I like how Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are identified as an "Anomaly". They are squeezed in between...
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/story/2012/09/20/tolkiens-hobbit-celebrat es-75th-anniversary/57809718/1 ... Jack (I used to spend my evenings time...
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Yes, the article I read mentioned the assault on Dol Goldur ... FOR EREBOR and other parts of HOME for things that happened 'offstage' in Book!HOBBIT (e.g....
My understanding is that they've 'mined' THE QUEST FOR EREBOR and other parts of HOME for things that happened 'offstage' in Book!HOBBIT (e.g. what Gandalf was...
Yes indeed I suppose Longfellow might have just arrived at the metre independently - it's hardly difficult! ... Jack From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com ...
The metre is familiar to us because Longfellow used it in the "Song of Hiawatha." By the shores of Geetchee Gumi By the shining Big-Sea-Water Stood the wigwam...
Supposedly an inspiration for Tolkien's sagas of Middle Earth (the tale of Turin Turambar.at least), Sibelius and surely also for Longfellow's Hiawatha: Thus...
Excellent stuff! I for one am getting twitchy ... Jack ... From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
Wonderful blogs of Jackson's New Zealand shoots on You Tube! Here is one of the links.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euq4h_T9sgs These can be a spoiler! ...
I agree about the plate spinning. And this spinner keeps adding poles and plates on top of existing plates! I'm not sure how far in you are so I don't want to...
He reminds me of a plate spinning act – lots of vertical poles, lots of plates, and the author adds more plates and gives the existing ones an occasional...
As it happens I'm reading them also: just into book 4. All I'll say is there's a reason he has such a large cast of characters. Scott (Sir QotM) ... As it...
I've been reading A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin I thought you might be interested in my review: "The Tudors go to...
Perhaps because British actors are better at "costume dramas" than American ones? Or, in the case of LOTR, because JRRT was British his language sounds better...
