The Hall of Fire

I don't suppose you'd like to teach us Eru?

Padme, please feel free to jump in at any time. No previosu knowledge is required. We're simply reading a chapter at a time and exploring what parallels we see with Tolkien. The link to the text is in the first post.

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Is there anyone here who could give me a grounding in Sindarin? Following along with TTBKs score discussion has reawakened my desire to understand a little Elvish. I'm not looking to be fluent, merely to be able to translate the poems in the books and also the lyrics used in the Soundtrack. Bear in ...

Wow.

Thanks for that IS. I didn't know a quarter of that.

Well, I have read the first four chapters and decided to give a quick account now. I started to read the fifth, but it feels like a new section while the preceding four were very much linked. I may be wrong in this, but it felt like a natural section to deal with as a whole. I admit I am very surpri...

I'm not sure really Cerin, but I can commit to reading a chapter at a sitting if that sounds right? We each read the first chapter, then discuss with the group, then set a time by which we should attempt to read the next chapter. Actually, I have just checked and there are 61 chapters which would ma...

That would be no problem. If you like I can run a script to generate the calendar year with Dates and Events?

Let me know.

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There's a really nice perl module that may be of use for that Jnyusa. It converts dates to Shire calendar. Unfortunately it's probably not possible to get running on a PHPBBer site. http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/T/TB/TBRAUN/Date-Tolkien-Shire-0.02.readme NAME Date::Tolkien::Shire.pm DESCRIPTION...

Vison, I'm not really qualified to answer your question but I'll do my best. Dublin was certainly used by the Vikings as a major port and there are excavations of Viking dwellings there, but the Vikings never really "settled" Ireland. They plundered it frequently and it was in response to ...

Why do I get the feeling Toby Hall will forever be referred to as NewToby...

You heard it here first folks...

I'd prefer no spoilers... I have seen the BBC TV series, but have little recollection of the specifics. My pace will probably be in spurts, I read quickly but infrequently. Mainly because I tend to come to bed late after checking the latest posts and I dislike disturbing Mrs Alatar by turning on the...

I agree with you Jewel. In fact I've already seen a stage production of Lord of the Rings. Granted it left out a lot but it was at least an hour shorter than this production will be. It was a production by the Canadian "Theatre Sans Fils" Company using a mixture of puppetry and live actors...

Although I enjoy the Silmarillion I ache at what it might have been. I wish with all my heart that the full Quenta could have been as fully expanded as it was in the narratives in "Unfinished Tales". It's only there that we see the Silmarillion written in the narrative style of Lord of the...

I'd be willing to join in on this and perhaps see if the male perspective is any different to the female. I think I have a copy somewhere.

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Hobby, it's simple enough. You get an MP3 ripper. I use CDEx or Windows Media Player 10. I would recommend CDEx as it's freeware and the default settings are perfect so there is no need to mess with anything before ripping. You put in your CD and let the titles get downloaded from the internet (assu...

I spent some time installing instrumentation on Oil Rigs in the North Sea and elsewhere. When a rig is being worked on or commissioned the staffing level is higher than the accomodation available on the rig. As a result there are mobile platforms called Flotels which are secured to the stationary Ri...

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Although I have little to say on this, not having read the passage in question, I do find it very interesting. I hope that Voronwë might consider giving us a guided tour of some of the more interesting sections of the History of Middle Earth. The 10 volumes that I own have hardly been opened, but wh...

I hope to contribute just as soon as the really smart people stop saying everything for me.

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It's good to see you again IS