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Showing posts with label The Book of Lost Tales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Book of Lost Tales. Show all posts
23 July 2023

The Death of Melkor and the Life of the Elves

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Thus spake Mandos in prophecy, when the Gods sat in judgement in Valinor, and the rumour of his words was whispered among all the Elves of t...
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28 July 2015

Why Does the Roaring of the Sea Disquiet the Valar?

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The Sea -- Copyright  ©  Ted Nasmith. All rights reserved. A well known theme that runs throughout Tolkien's legendarium is that...
15 July 2015

Is That An Allusion To Ulmo and Tuor in "The Great River" (FR 2.ix.380-81)?

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... they let the River bear them on at its own pace, having no desire to hasten towards the perils that lay beyond, whichever course they t...
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27 June 2015

From the Bliss of the Gods to a Jewel Shining in the Darkness -- What Tolkien's Kilbride Dedication Can Show Us

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The sale at Sotheby's  in London on 4 June 2015 of a first edition of The Hobbit  for £137,000 has certainly drawn its share of attenti...
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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22 March 2015

Tolkien Reading Day 2015 -- On Friendship

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The other day, thanks to  +Jeremiah Burns , I read a BBC article on a 98 year old woman whose mother gave her the middle name of 'Somm...
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