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Showing posts with label Elrond. Show all posts
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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17 April 2021

The Council of Elrond and the Doom of Choice (FR 2.ii.270)

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'I will take the Ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.' Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt hi...
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14 April 2021

'I shall' and 'I will' at The Council of Elrond

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'I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.' These are perhaps some of the best known words said by Frodo in all of The Lor...
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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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30 October 2015

Gollum before The Taming of Sméagol (IV)

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What the reader learns about Gollum by the end of The Council of Elrond comes in two parallel phases at the beginning of Books One and...
01 September 2015

Elrond and the Last Sons of Fëanor (FR 2.iii.281)

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As the Fellowship is about to depart Rivendell, Elrond offers them these final words: '... no oath or bond is laid on you to go furt...
17 May 2015

Gollum before The Taming of Sméagol (III)

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A Long-Expected Party  and The Shadow of the Past  paint a very ugly portrait of Gollum.  The one thing that runs counter to this is Gandal...