The Hall of Fire

I always thought her style looked like the medieval illumated manuscripts I've seen. Lovely and delicate. My mom based a masquarade costume off her illustration of Jadis from the Magician's Nephew. She will be missed.

I found Maggot's name somewhat off-putting despite the character being quite sharp. The reference to ale got me thinking a little. There are references to alcohol based beverages throughout the book, mostly beer of some variety but also wine. What about hard liquor? I’m not sure there would be much ...

Another chapter I led the discussion on for another board. A few of my thoughts culled from that discussion. I will try to reply to some points brought up by others. "'In Eregion long ago many Elven-rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they were, of course, of various kinds; some ...

I led the discussion of this chapter on another board so I'm going to pull a few things from that if that is okay. The dialogue between Frodo and Pippin at the beginning of the chapter seems to have several levels. There are several levels to this exchange. There is humor with Pippin playing the par...

Let me state up front that I am related to Sandra. I have a copy of the original essay. A few quick things before I come back to post a little more. 1. An entire paragraph was cut from the essay that might have helped her arguments 2. Her footnotes were eliminated, again, hurting her arguments. 3. H...

My mom calls Legolas a "trailer park" elf.

I finally have my copy! It was a birthday present, precious, yes it was.

Now I just to find some time to look at more closely...

A couple of things I have listed in my talk include: The 2 Trees Tapestry in Arwen's room The Ring of Barahir "the grace of the Valar" the lamps carried by the elves as they leave Rivendell are similiar to the Feanorian lamps described in the Sil. The Doors of Durin which include the star ...

While I need to read this thread more carefully, I did have this little saying to add: "Courage is fear that has said it's prayers."

This came up during our smial discussion of the book. Nienor looks like a female version of Húrin! Did he forget what his father looked like? Or what the women of Dor-lómin looked like? Wouldn't Nienor at least look familiar? And while that might not have ultimately stopped the marriage, maybe Túrin...

I picked up the set myself. I don't think it's terribly user-friendly. Great for picking out things at random but it seems harder to find something you are specifically looking for the way it is organized or unorganized in this case.

Dramatic effect maybe?

After re-reading the Fall in BoLTs, I am disappointed that CT didn't include more of this in the published Sil.

You are quite welcome, Voronwë. Glad my suggestion worked out. I do that ahead my talks just to disarm any language critics in the audience. I think if you say ahead of time, "Look, I may screw this up." you come across more humble and they have less to complain about. I'm sure you are qui...

Way to go Voronwë! I was thinking about you today and hoped everything had gone well. And ruffling a few feathers ain't such a bad thing either!

I love it when "outsiders" invade the cozy, little fishpond of Tolkien Studies. Keeps everyone on their toes.

I've been listening to LOTR on CD during my walks. I always pleasantly surprised when I hear dialogue from the book that made it into the movies. Alot was used. Many times it was from a different character or different part of the story but Tolkien's words were used. There are parts of the movies th...

Is Gone With the Wind listed? To me, that film is an excellent example of adapted a rather long and unwieldly book into a smooth linear story. Alot was cut but nothing critical to the main relationships between Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley and Melanie. Oliva de Havillad's Melanie is so much better than t...

I'm not sure how to change the topic header to alert people of the new sections. We now turn our attention to the character of Beren. I’m doing this in two parts since Beren’s was at first an elf then later a man. This is all material from the Book of Lost Tales II “Now Beren was a Gnome, son of Egn...

I wanted to reassure everyone that I haven't forgotten about this thread. I'm working on the first part of the discussion on Beren. I know things move slow around here but I also liked all the discussion that was generated. I don't want to lose that energy.

I think she was grief stricken and returned to Valinor because of it. Some of your thoughts echo what Verlyn Flieger talks about in "Splintered Light". Excellent book if you haven't read it. The big difference between the Silmarils and the Ring, of course, is that the Silmarils aren't inhe...

Ah but the how is the key. Túrin may have still come to ruin but had he made different choices maybe he wouldn't have taken so many innocent lives with him. In regards to free will, I believe the characters make choices as we all do. But Eru will take that choice and turn it to the good. Perhaps a g...