The Hall of Fire

I have a list of characters to work from so we will get around to Fëanor, Húrin etc.

I think Eärendil got a raw deal. All he did was try to get the Valar to live up to their responsiblites as caretakers of Arda. I also feel sorry for Maedros and Maglor driven to complete the Oath and knowing it was wrong. You get this sense of self-loathing and despair from that sequence. I know hav...

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I find your comments quite interesting Breogan. I am Catholic too. I think what I have found is a Catholic "sensibility" (poor word but the best I could come up with) that permeates Tolkien's writing. There are very few places where it's explict. The reference to the Incarnation above bein...

Thank you for your encouragement. And I understand about being Entish. I tend to be an idea person rather than a doer but I will work on an outline which should help.

Is that an okay? If so, I will try to pull some material together to start something next week?

A few preliminary thoughts from my first reading. I, too, love the Alan Lee artwork! It was good to read a more complete story. The flow from section to section does not seem particularly awkward. I do like the "epilogue" with Húrin and Morwen. It is a way to tie things up. While the "...

Very funny! Don't forget the word "thought". As in 'deep in thought", "in my thought", "lost in thought" "long in thought" etc. Has anyone pariodied the obssessed Tolkien fan? Not meaning any disrespect to the fine company here, of course, but I've been f...

I think my mother assumed I had a copy of The Silmarillion. It was rather interesting reading to be sure. I read alot during my first semester of nursing school. During class.

I thought your "essay" for lack of a better word was very well done, Voronwë! It got me thinking about my own experience with Tolkien. I started small, reading The Hobbit when I was younger. But I never made the leap to Lord of the Rings until right before the movies came out. Universe exp...

Oh my! I'm a second gen sf fan, my parents started taking me to cons when I was 7. Harlan is Harlan and sadly has not improved with age. The last WC I went to was Boston in 03 because the LOTR exhibit was there. Can't remember the last regional I've been to. I sort of grew up in fandom. There was a ...

I wish Christopher had included the Fall of Gondolin as it was written in the "Book of Lost Tales". It is so dramatic and visual. I also like reading Tuor and Voronwë's journey in "Unfinished Tales." Of course, the biggest problem I have with Tuor is that I get almost no sense of...

Going off topic for a moment. Voronwë, I directed my mother to this site, specifically your Arda Reconstructed thread. She was very impressed by your work. She read LOTR in 1965, the illegal Ace editions :oops: , and wrote some of the first criticism of LOTR in the 1970s. When the movies came out, s...

I agree Voronwë! And his most "explict" reference to the Incarnation. A few preliminary comments I was struck how Finrod has some characteristics of the archangel Raphael from the Book of Tobit. (Tobit is canonical in the Catholic and Orthodox bibles, apocrophal in the Protestant bible). R...

A few comments on this section. First, I am quite embarrassed :oops: that I didn't realize how much of this chapter was made up. I haven't looked at the BoLTs in several years. Second, I am also one who does not like the Second Prophecy. The description makes Túrin and Nienor like archangels. I just...

Thank you Voronwë! I did take my screen name from that story. I use Saelind on another board. I do hope I have a "Wise-heart". :) I need to re-read this before commenting much. I will say that I expect it will read differently now. My father passed away in August 2006. He was only 64 and i...

I wouldn't say these books are similiar but they are good fantasy. Deed of Paksarion by Elizabeth Moon. While not as rich as Tolkien, does have a very strong spiritual sub-text that I could relate to. Old Kingdom triology by Garth Nix: Sabriel, Lireal and Abhorsen. More YA than adult fantasy. Very i...

Goergette Heyer fans! Whee!

How can anyone not remember The Grand Sophy! I got very excited when Harlequin re-issued a bunch of Heyers. I was able to pick up some. You cannot find them in used bookstores. I have looked!

Must go look at my bookshelf now.

I just found this thread. I finally got around to reading the book this past summer after it sat on my dinning room table for months. I really enjoyed the book! The tongue in cheek/winking that Clarke does is more like Georgette Heyer than Jane Austen. Georgette Heyer started the Georgian/Regency ro...

Thank you! I heard about this place at The Gathering but haven't made it over here until now. I have already posted once so I am trying to get the hang of things.