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Showing posts with label Corey Olsen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corey Olsen. Show all posts
04 January 2024

"Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many" -- Exploring the Lord of the Rings, Session 287

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20 May 2023

Detecting the Hand of the 'Translator' in The Lord of the Rings

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Yesterday in my effort to catch up to Corey Olsen in Exploring the Lord of the Rings, I was listening to him talk about detecting the hand ...
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17 November 2022

Not to find them, not to bind them -- Elrond and the Ring verse

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'Yet no oath or bond is laid on you to go farther than you will.' ( FR  2.iii.280) As I was listening to Corey Olsen on episode 226 ...
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12 November 2022

A Random Thought about Bill the Pony

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I was listening to episode 221 of Corey Olsen's Exploring The Lord of the Rings podcast today (I am about 20 episodes behind -- hey, w...
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25 February 2021

A Brief Note on "Exploring 'The Lord of the Rings'" episode 174

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In discussing Elrond's commentary on the stories of Frodo and Gandalf in The Council of Elrond , Corey Olsen had occasion to wonder how...
28 September 2020

Questions on The Ring, the Ring-verse, and Elision at FR 2.ii.254

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 1) If the Ring is sentient, as some suppose it to be, why doesn't it react at all when Gandalf recites the Ring incantation in the Blac...
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21 July 2019

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Best Preserved of All? (FR 2.i.225)

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[Frodo] got out of bed and discovered that his arm was already nearly as useful again as it ever had been. He found laid ready clean ...
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15 October 2017

Iliad 1.1-52 Mythgard 2017 Webathon Recording

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I make no pretense of being great at reading Homer aloud.  I am well aware I made a number of mistakes in this recording. There were ti...
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...
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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26 January 2017

Anachronism and Artifacts of Translation (FR 1.i.27-28)

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The lights went out. A great smoke went up. It shaped itself like a mountain seen in the distance, and began to glow at the summi...
04 October 2015

From Crickhollow to the Gates of Bree: States of Consciousness

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In her splendid study, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie , Verlyn Flieger illuminates the role of time and dreams in ...