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Showing posts with label Frodo Baggins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frodo Baggins. Show all posts
15 August 2024

Which hand did Frodo put the Ring on?

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A question posted online in a private group set me thinking about which hand Frodo wears the One Ring on. During The Lord of the Rings  Frod...
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23 May 2023

Frodo, Too, Tips His Hand -- The Threat Outside the Black Gate (TT 4.iii.640)

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When Frodo, Sam, and Gollum reach the Black Gate and Frodo declares that he must try to enter Mordor that way, a panic-stricken Gollum slips...
19 May 2023

A Long-expected Parenthesis -- Textual Clues to How Much of The Lord of the Rings Bilbo Wrote

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  This essay first appeared back in November and December of 2021 as five separate posts, which I have now decided to combine into one, whil...
20 February 2023

Pre-order 'Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many'

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Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many  now has a publication date -- 12/12/2023 -- and an ISBN: 9781606354711 . A fe...
09 January 2023

Two Paragraphs and Two Threats Converging in Tolkien (FR 2.ix.382)

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Here's a piece of analysis I decided to take out of my book, To Rule the Fate of Many: Truth, Lies, Pity and the Ring of Power , about w...
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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30 October 2022

Faramir and the Shards of Boromir's Horn

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Quite a while back I came to the conclusion that Faramir doesn't actually see Boromir's funeral boat, as he is convinced he does, bu...
23 August 2022

The Wheel of Fire: Between Thought and Expression

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'And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. And I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.' ( RK  6.i.919) 'I am...
22 August 2022

The Pity of Théoden (TT 3.vi.519-20)

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Gandalf and Frodo's argument over Bilbo's pity and mercy and the death which they agree Gollum deserves versus the healing the wizar...
28 June 2022

Hope Shall Come Again: 'The Choices of Master Samwise' and 'The Children of Húrin'

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In 'The Choices of Master Samwise', when Sam believes Frodo to be dead, his anguish leads him to contemplate his own death, by suici...
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06 April 2022

The failure of memory and the untold tale (RK 6.iii.937-38)

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‘Do you remember that bit of rabbit, Mr. Frodo?’ he said. ‘And our place under the warm bank in Captain Faramir’s country, the day I saw an ...