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Showing posts with label Aragorn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aragorn. Show all posts
11 October 2024

Prophecy, Hope, Despair, and Sorrow in "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen."

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Recently I have been reading Johm F. Whitmire Jr.'s interesting article, "An Archaeology of Hope and Despair in the Tale of Aragorn...
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17 April 2021

Éomer and Aragorn's New Mood (TT 3.ii.433)

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Gimli and Legolas looked their companion in amazement, for they had not seen him in this mood before. He seemed to have grown in stature whi...
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23 March 2021

Hope and Courage in Memory -- Tolkien Reading Day 2021

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After rescuing the hobbits from the Barrow-wight, Tom Bombadil, in a moment I have always found unforgettable, conjures an elegiac memory of...
11 February 2021

Never again as a living man -- Aragorn at Cerin Amroth

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It is part of my 'head-canon' that the following two passages, taken together, suggest that the spirit of Aragorn was waiting for Ar...
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05 December 2020

The Shortsightedness of Denethor

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Compare the following passages, the first Denethor's words, the second Faramir's.  'I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tom...
14 October 2017

The Wonder of the Unexplained (TT 3.v.498)

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Carl Emil Doepler From early on, people have wondered if Tom Bombadil is really Eru Ilúvatar in disguise. As early as September 195...
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06 August 2017

'Not Unlike the Verse of the English' -- From Rohan to the Havens of Sirion

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Alan Lee © 2007  Many of us no doubt first encountered alliterative verse in Tolkien, in the scene where Aragorn first chants in th...
28 June 2017

'As it was told of old' -- Two observations on FR 1.xi.191

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'Beren and Luthien in the Court of Thingol and Melian.' copyright 2017 Donato Giancola 'I will tell you the tale of Ti...
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16 June 2017

'Our king, we call him' -- The Identity of the Speaker at RK App. A 1043-44

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In the section of Appendix A called The North Kingdom and the Dúnedain  an anonymous speaker tells something of the return of King...
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26 April 2017

Barrow-wights, Ringwraiths, and William Morris (FR 2.ii.248)

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"Under the Spell of the Barrow-wight" © Ted Nasmith "Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's mar...
27 March 2017

'Fear not' and μὴ φοβεῖσθε -- The King Revealed (FR 2.ix.393)

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'The Pillars of the Kings' © Ted Nasmith Reflecting on Stephen Winter's latest post on the hands of the King made me th...
04 March 2017

'She died' -- The Choice of Lúthien and the Destiny of the Elves (FR 1.xi.191-93)

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In one of the most disappointing scenes in the extended edition of Peter Jackson's film, The Fellowship of the Ring , Strider and t...
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10 February 2017

Some Thoughts on Structure and Meaning in The Lord of the Rings

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Yes, Simon. There she is again Quite a few years ago now in his still highly relevant article, 'The Interlace Structure of The Lo...
08 January 2017

No Laughing Matter: the Ring and the Quality of the Dúnedain

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'We know the Ring is no laughing-matter; but we are going to do our best to help you against the Enemy,' says Merry to Frodo ...