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Showing posts with label The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen. Show all posts
11 October 2024

Prophecy, Hope, Despair, and Sorrow in "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen."

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Recently I have been reading Johm F. Whitmire Jr.'s interesting article, "An Archaeology of Hope and Despair in the Tale of Aragorn...
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17 February 2022

The Passing of Evenstar (with Homer on the side)

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Since the early part of the fourteenth century, to say that someone has 'passed away' has often meant that they have died. ( OED   p...
23 March 2021

Hope and Courage in Memory -- Tolkien Reading Day 2021

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After rescuing the hobbits from the Barrow-wight, Tom Bombadil, in a moment I have always found unforgettable, conjures an elegiac memory of...
11 February 2021

Never again as a living man -- Aragorn at Cerin Amroth

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It is part of my 'head-canon' that the following two passages, taken together, suggest that the spirit of Aragorn was waiting for Ar...
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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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31 January 2016

Words Which They Only Partly Understood -- The First Hymn to Elbereth (FR 1.iii.79)

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‘Listen! They are coming this way,’ said Frodo. ‘We have only to wait.’   The singing drew nearer. One clear voice rose now above the...