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Showing posts with label Saruman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saruman. Show all posts
27 February 2022

The true gift to the foes of Mordor

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Here's just a wee bit from right near the very end  of the conclusion of my book, To Rule the Fate of Many: Truth, Lies, Pity, and the R...
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24 August 2020

Σοφιστής and 'Saruman', part two

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Recently  I suggested that 'Saruman' is Tolkien's rendering into Old English of the Ancient Greek σοφιστής. Last night I discove...
08 August 2020

Σοφιστής and 'Saruman', or, Tolkien at play in the fields of philology

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Every now and then I see a connection that has been staring me in the face for a long time, one of those connections that seems unbelievably...
13 February 2018

'untouchable now by pity' -- Frodo on the slopes of Mt Doom (RK 6.iii.944)

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Then suddenly, as before under the eaves of the Emyn Muil, Sam saw these two rivals with other  vision. A crouching shape, scarcely ...
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03 January 2018

Etymology is Destiny, Saruman, Saruman

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As many are aware, Tolkien derived the name 'Saruman' from Old English. The entry in Bosworth- Toller for searu starts wit...
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28 July 2016

'Radagast The Bird-Tamer!' and the Characterization of Saruman (FR 2.ii.238-39)

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Radagast's Cunning © Lucas Graciano   At the Council of Elrond Gandalf describes Radagast as 'a master of shapes and changes of...
29 November 2015

The biter bit -- Gandalf and Sauron Share a Perspective

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© Jeff Murray As Merry tells his comrades of the storming of Isengard by the Ents, he doubts the accuracy of Saruman's previous re...
18 October 2015

'In which case it is no longer white' -- The Exeter Book and Saruman

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In the 'Riming Poem' in the Exeter Book ( Thorpe, p. 354, ll. 57-62 ) appear the following verses: Searo hƿít solaþ sumur hát có...