The Hall of Fire

John Rhys Davies is Welsh, is he not? Maybe he could have a go at it.

That is very cool indeed! :) For those who are curious, I found lists of Translations of the Hobbit and Translations of The Lord of the Rings on Wikipedia. Surprisingly, there are none yet in Welsh, a language that the Professor dearly loved. I do not own any non-English translations of The Hobbit o...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Gage, of course, plays the made-up character Alfrid, a servant of Fry's Master of Laketown.

A servant named Alfrid? Somebody must be a Batman fan.

As for girls screaming at Beatles' concerts, so what? It was a harmless exercise and they seemed to enjoy it. That's just it, I don't think those young women did enjoy it; "it" being the music. They were too freaked out emotionally. And the Beatles, and performers like them, have literall...

“... the most disgusting exhibition of mass hysteria and lunacy this city has ever witnessed,” Kirkwood wrote. At least until the hockey team lost game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, eh? :P Seriously, I watch footage of the Beatles playing to crowds of screaming young women, etc. and wonder what the ...

I saw Jose Canseco in all his "back from the dead" glory. It wasn't pretty.

Is this for real?

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I guess this is what Lincoln must have been doing in his spare time when he wasn't acting as Commander in Chief during the War Between the States, hanging with Kirk & Spock aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, or partying with Bill & Ted.

Oh? Did my mom invite you for dinner?

I just did something I haven't done for a few years: purchase tickets to attend an MLB game. I noticed the prices have sure gone up! Still, they're not nearly as expensive as hockey tix. :blackeye: I'm taking my wife to see the Detroit Tigers play in the Oakland Athletics on Sunday, May 13th. After ...

IIRC Quenya was analogous to Latin. Yes, in that it was not used by anyone as a daily speech but was still used in ceremony, etc. It is phonetically based on Finnish. Galadriel's beautiful lament in The Fellowship of the Ring is in Quenya. Donald Swann's setting of the text and tune devised by Tolk...

Interestingly, someone commented on the Deciphering blog as well about the language used. ... this contract perpetuates the same error made by our dearly beloved Faerie-telling Prof himself with the Book of Mazarbul pages. (Included in the 50th Anniversary Edition of LotR). I don't own a 50th Anniv...

He's obviously translating as he reads, and that's okay. The hobbits aren't. No, Gandalf isn't "translating", he's reading something written in Westron. His reading is made difficult because of the condition of the Book. Edited to add: In contrast, Gandalf was translating the Door of Duri...

axordil wrote:...and the contract is similarly consistent with the notion of Westron = English in translation.

And the Book of Mazarbul was written in Westron, translated to (spoken) English by Gandalf, yet depicted by Tolkien written in runes and Elvish script.

I would have thought so. If, you know, I actually was worried about what alphabet was used on a fictional document to a fictional hobbit from a fictional dwarf in a movie of a piece of fiction. ;) You may not have been worried about it, but perhaps Tolkien would have. You may recall that Gandalf re...

Wouldn't a contract intended for a Hobbit be written in Westron? Which throughout LotR is rendered in English? The original that Tolkien created was in fact written in English, but using the Elvish script Tengwar. Both the Certhas and Tengwar are phonetic alphabets. You can conceivably write in any...

The Hobbit: Deciphering Dwarf Documents The document is written using a modern alphabet? Wouldn't Thorin have used either an Elvish script ( Tengwar ) or runes ( Cirth )? (While Dwarves favored runes--they devised their own systems based on the Certhas Daeron--they are known to have used both alpha...

I used to be a HUGE baseball fan. I was even a member of the Society for American Baseball Research ( SABR ) for several years, helping co-found a chapter here in Sacramento. Since the revelation of the rampant abuse of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone, however, my interest has waned signi...

The Silmarillion is also closer to, well, sacred writings, than LotR or certainly the Hobbit are. I think sacred is a very good way to describe The Silmarillion , at least from the point of view of the Tolkien Estate. Professor Tolkien labored on them nearly all his life. I imagine they were to him...

The "heir apparent" to act as the arbiter of the Tolkien Estate is Christopher's son, Adam Reuel Tolkien, who is...the son of Christopher second wife, Baillie. Ah, so Fingolfin will be the High King. Fëanor will not be pleased. ;) Well, I guess I should have said "minus the sometimes...