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Showing posts with label Christopher Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Tolkien. Show all posts
04 September 2021

'To Rule the Fate of Many: Truth, Lies, Pity, and the Ring of Power' -- Perhaps a part of an Introduction

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Introduction: ‘the burden of a large story’   ‘They wanted a sequel. But I wanted heroic legends and high romance. The result was Th...
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23 April 2018

From The Top Of That Chimney You Can See Mordor (RK 6.viii.1004)

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Vesuvius 1944 © The Telegraph By 3 April 1944 Tolkien had started work on The Taming of Sméagol  ( Letters , no. 58). By the end of ...
15 September 2017

The Silmarillion, published 15 September 1977

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That is my Silmarillion pictured above, the one I bought forty years ago today. I took an hour and a half bus trip that day after schoo...
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17 February 2016

Boromir, Fear, and the Pity of Frodo (FR 2.x.396-402)

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In studying the long lead-up to the introduction of Gollum as an active character in The Taming of Sméagol , I have come more and more ...
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10 September 2015

The Time Is Out Of Joint -- Erroneous Dates in The Notion Club Papers

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One of my many peculiarities is being fascinated by things that go on in the background.  When watching a film, I look at what is going on ...
28 May 2015

Swanships and Swanroads in Tolkien and Beowulf

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From the earliest days of the legendarium the swanships were present.  In 1917 (or so) Tolkien wrote in  The Book of Lost Tales, Part One ...
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