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Elvish Chronology (2 replies)
The Ents Among us! (0 replies)
Was Ungoliant an alien Vala in Tolkien's Round World legendarium? (4 replies)
Sons of Olwe (2 replies)
Politics in The Shire (2 replies)
Tol Morwen, Beleriand, and Europe (3 replies)
The Medieval Enviromentalism of J.R.R Tolkien (0 replies)
Mordor vs All Free Peoples (0 replies)
Are Fairy Tales For Children? (0 replies)
LotR book meta (9 replies)
Kingship in Middle-earth (0 replies)
Finding the Cottage of Lost Play (6 replies)
A "what if" military scenario -LOTR (4 replies)
The Hobbit is 87 years old today (7 replies)
Parma Eldalamberon 23 just dropped! (4 replies)
The Greatest Success Against Morgoth By Elves and Men (4 replies)
An alternative First Age timeline inspired by Huinesoron (7 replies)
Mordor Communication (6 replies)
Maedhros, grandfather of Feanor (8 replies)
'Conspiracy' plot hole (5 replies)
White Council inconsistency? (2 replies)
Did JRRT ever meet Dr. Seuss? (11 replies)
Luthien and The Sun Blackens (0 replies)
My Podcast Interview Regarding my new Tolkien Book! (0 replies)
Questions from 'The Hobbit' (12 replies)
Tolkien Reading Day 2024 (2 replies)
Middle-earth Lore Now Available for pre Order (0 replies)
New Tolkien book coming in September (7 replies)
Isengard no! (22 replies)
Browseable family tree of all tolkien characters (with links to wiki pages) (2 replies)
my new book, Middle-earth Lore: Tolkien's Legends Revealed (0 replies)
Family tree of all characters of middle-earth legendarium (1 replies)
Seriously - what was it that scared Gandalf to look more into Bilbo's ring? (13 replies)
"First Age of the Sun" misconception (8 replies)
Apologies (0 replies)
How many 'Great Tales' were there? (9 replies)
Relationship between Thingol and Cirdan (9 replies)
Can this be real? (3 replies)
My Tolkien book has been re-released!!! (0 replies)
A new 1948 map of Arda by Tolkien! (7 replies)
Eol the Nando (10 replies)
Interesting parallel (3 replies)
Did Beren and Luthien return to Middle-earth on a ship? (3 replies)
Goldberry: a relic of an earlier idea? (7 replies)
Bilbo: an unreliable narrator? (9 replies)
Of the House of Ingwë and Indis' parentage (4 replies)
Variant Ageing Schemes of Elves (0 replies)
The case for Dorwinion being an Elvish realm (+ speculation about Bladorthin) (11 replies)
Unpublished Material (16 replies)
The Father Christmas Letters (2 replies)
Timeline of the Great Rings (14 replies)
What did Gandalf look for in archives of Minas Tirith? (5 replies)
To what extend did Istari know Middle-earth? (5 replies)
"Three rings that the Dwarf-sires possessed of old shall be returned to you" (4 replies)
The Shadow of the Past - Gandalf's knowledge (11 replies)
A question of tone (2 replies)
Galvorn is real! (4 replies)
Revised and Expanded Edition of the Letters (30 replies)
Was Pippin named after Gandalf? (7 replies)
My First Book!!! The Road Goes Ever On and On (0 replies)
A Question (7 replies)
Puns by Tolkien (16 replies)
Mîms Klage / The Complaint of Mim the Dwarf (25 replies)
Finding the "Lost Road" (4 replies)
Old Man Algernon (5 replies)
The Unions of Elves and Men (16 replies)
600,000? (8 replies)
How does Earendil speak Beorian? (16 replies)
Beren in Dagor Dagorath (16 replies)
Twentieth Century Tolkien (8 replies)
Incanus or Outcanus… canon who? (15 replies)
The Last Alliance and its Army (6 replies)
The Orc who knew too much (11 replies)
The Silmarils and the Rings (7 replies)
"Concerning... 'The Hoard'" revealed (33 replies)
What are your views about Oedipus Rex by Sophocles? (1 replies)
Bernard Cribbins RIP (2 replies)
"The Fall of Numenor", coming November 2022 (15 replies)
The New(ish) Tolkien Estate Copyright FAQ (23 replies)
Sauron Mirkwood Ring confusion (5 replies)
Names of the Stewards of Gondor (2 replies)
Looking for Tolkien Quote Preferred Political System (2 replies)
Other JRR Tolkien Works (2 replies)
Priscilla Tolkien RIP (3 replies)
Ages of the Valinor and the Ice Ages. (5 replies)
In these WOKE days, would Tolkien and the LOTR be banned? (6 replies)
Isildur (23 replies)
Letter # 214 (3 replies)
Orcs and Elves (and Men and Animals) (11 replies)
Tolkien and Isolationism (12 replies)
'Time and Ageing' Sequence of Composition (5 replies)
My Manuscript was Accepted by a Book Publisher (5 replies)
Tolkien's final First Age timeline (113 replies)
Wrongly remembered. The blurry lines between film and book headcanon. (4 replies)
What was Tolkien's view of the Eastern Orthodoxy and Cathodoxy in general? (4 replies)
Galadriel: with what was each member tempted? (16 replies)
Keys of Middle-earth (0 replies)
Tolkien the Postmodernist (12 replies)
Are there any pre-1977 readers here? (11 replies)
New Tolkien coming! (68 replies)
Characters paying attention (28 replies)
Invitation to a Birthday Party (2 replies)
Upcoming New CbC Discussions of Tolkien's Minor Works (6 replies)
"Canonicity II": Has Yours Changed? (40 replies)
Protecting One's Self (21 replies)
When did Gandalf Choose Bilbo? (3 replies)
Professor Verlyn Flieger presents "Waiting for Earendel" for The Tolkien Society (4 replies)
So what do you all think of the new book on Tolkien? (6 replies)
The Dead and The Undead (31 replies)
The Elvish languages of the First Age (3 replies)
Ford of Bruinen = Red Sea/Book of Exodus (6 replies)
Spiders in Mirkwood (2 replies)
Unlucky Thirteen (1 replies)
Who cleared the Redhorn Pass? (2 replies)
Where did beorn and Radagast meet? (10 replies)
Tolkien Quote “Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire but it’ (7 replies)
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth (and Seventh?) Ages (38 replies)
Battle of Five Armies (0 replies)
Merry Rivendell Departure! (0 replies)
Project Northmoor (5 replies)
Question about the Grey Company (11 replies)
Invading Valinor impossible? (7 replies)
Broseliand (Beleriand) in the Primary World (9 replies)
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” (5 replies)
Etymology: Isengard and Helms Deep (33 replies)
Why was Sauron so powerful during his war against the Celebrimbor and the elves? (14 replies)
3 Falls of 3,7,9 and Christ on the Via Dolorosa. (0 replies)
Who is Your Favorite Hobbit? (19 replies)
A proto-Angmar in the Second Age (4 replies)
New evidence found for the riddle of the West Gate. (0 replies)
Could the Edain have a Gondor kingdom during the First Age? (3 replies)
The Pits of Utumno (7 replies)
If the dunedain found Meneltarma (2 replies)
Why didn't Sauron unleash the Nine on the Last Alliance? (4 replies)
Could Sauron have resisted against Ar-Pharazon? (9 replies)
Reality Theory (9 replies)
The palantiri= one of the main reason for Gondor's success against Mordor? (5 replies)
Re-imagining the Ringwraiths (18 replies)
Father-names among the Noldor (24 replies)
Morgoth once had a army of corrupted maiar? (12 replies)
The Ordinary People of Bree-land (6 replies)
The Balrog as the Loathly Lady from medieval literature. (44 replies)
Were the Edain stronger than Gondorian men in the T.A? (2 replies)
Oversight, or changing conceptions? (20 replies)
Last Prince(ss) of Cardolan (0 replies)
Ost-In-Edhil and the lands of Eregion (5 replies)
Tolkien's System and Secret Grammar. Prediction #1. (10 replies)
Utumno, the strongest fortress every built? (2 replies)
Combined armies of the west vs Mordor (2 replies)
Details in HOME about inventing Arwen? (10 replies)
Question about Sauron's army during the War of the Elves (5 replies)
Was Numenor different than Middle-Earth? (1 replies)
The riddle of the hidden images in the West Gate. (17 replies)
New Tolkien book coming! (61 replies)
More on round-world vs flat-world (11 replies)
Beorn and Aragorn meeting (1 replies)
The brave people of Ithilien (10 replies)
The Fate of..... (7 replies)
Whence dwimmerlaik? (14 replies)
Recommendations for a reading copy? (7 replies)
Invitation to an Unexpected Party (0 replies)
Sam as Frodo's Garner (2 replies)
Beorn (2 replies)
A military historian on the Siege of Gondor (20 replies)
Did Tolkien Ever Draw an Ent or Huron? (5 replies)
Why not use Sting's light? (4 replies)
The Common Tongue and Latin (8 replies)
Your Pledge Papwerwork (1 replies)
Relics in Middel-Earth (8 replies)
Death of Christopher Tolkien (20 replies)
Songs for the Philologists (6 replies)
The Clerk’s Forgotten Tale: Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer (4 replies)
You think you've read drivel? You haven't read drivel until you've read this (46 replies)
Rainbows in Valinor (5 replies)
Amon Sul: A Tolkien Podcast (2 replies)
Jail-Crow of Mandos (9 replies)
The Lament for Boromir (6 replies)
Stone-giants – Finally a Credible Source (3 replies)
Character redemption (15 replies)
The economy of Arnor (as seen in The Hobbit) (4 replies)
Why Imrazor the Numenorean? (17 replies)
Fall of Gondolin (55 replies)
A moving moment, in hindsight. (11 replies)
What was the dominant writing system in Middle-earth? (9 replies)
Oropher - brother of Celeborn? (7 replies)
The conspiracy just doesn't work! (11 replies)
Please Help me Understand Gondor Stewardship and Kingship (16 replies)
The First Lord of the Rings Map - new discoveries in the East (24 replies)
What If: The Noldor never leave (10 replies)
Aule's Grief (0 replies)
Contradictions between the hobbit and LOTR? (15 replies)
What do we Know About Radagast? (15 replies)
How Powerful was Gandalf the Grey? (10 replies)
Did Farmer Maggot get home OK? (5 replies)
Was Gandalf a Valar? (13 replies)
Narmer the Numenorean (9 replies)
Transmission theory - what if it's ALL true? (26 replies)
The Power of Galadriel in the Third age- That of a Maiar? (10 replies)
Pro Morgoth version of the Dagor Dagorath (9 replies)
What is the Chance of the Valar Fighting for the Free People During the Third age? (25 replies)
Sauron vs Morgoth who did More to Counter the Free Peoples? (4 replies)
Tharbad (2 replies)
Bombadil & Goldberry - A Case of Applicability (1 replies)
On Elvish Weddings (4 replies)
Did the Eldar eat Dwarves? (15 replies)
Tolkien's World - The Theater Analogy (0 replies)
Tolkien & English Renaissance Drama (4 replies)
Questions About Arda Reconstructed (11 replies)
Siege Towers, Ladders, Catapults etc (6 replies)
Numbering the Maiar of Middle-Earth by the Ages (11 replies)
History of Middle Earth What is Needed? (6 replies)
Nonsense Rhyme (1 replies)
Goldberry and an Estonian Fairytale (0 replies)
The Shape of Bombadil's House (4 replies)
More of Hobbits in the History of Middle Earth? (5 replies)
The Army of the Dead- Movie vs Books (5 replies)
Could Durins Bane have become more powerful over time (12 replies)
The Origin of a Pygmy Hobbit (3 replies)
Dunedain colonization of the new lands (1 replies)
Gondorian or Numenorian settlements/ports at Tolfalas (3 replies)
Size of third age Armies (0 replies)
"The Fall of Gondolin" Due Out August 30th, 2018 (19 replies)
Searching for a lore Accurate Size of Mumakil (11 replies)
Tom Bombadil and Luthien Tinuviel (2 replies)
Early Hints at Bombadil? (6 replies)
The True Origin of the Name 'Bilbo' and the source of The Hobbit ? (2 replies)
Does the Silmarillion Contradict Third age History? How Powerful Were Those First age (63 replies)
Was Gil-galad born in Middle-earth or Eldamar? (1 replies)
The Root of the Boot - A Philological Parody? (6 replies)
Gandalf's First Dol Guldur Visit + Sauron in the East (2 replies)
The Role of Stealth in the Lord of the Rings (7 replies)
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age (5 replies)
A Deeper Embedment of Biblical Material in the Bombadil Chapters (0 replies)
Questions about the host of Valinor (25 replies)
Morgot's servants more terrifying than Sauron's? (14 replies)
What type of forces did Sauron had in the second age? (14 replies)
Mercenaries in the third age(and middle earth more generally) (4 replies)
Valarin Names (1 replies)
Thirty silver pennies in a fundamentally religious and Catholic work (30 replies)
Frodo in the Tower of Cirith Ungol (30 replies)
Tension between Rohan and Gondor in the fourth age (12 replies)
Celtic Roots and Infrastucture in Book I (0 replies)
Parma Eldalamberon - Where is it? (8 replies)
New Lands Settled? (2 replies)
The Archangel Michael in Middle-earth (17 replies)
The Void (16 replies)
If Sauron prevailed... (10 replies)
Banditry in middle earth and the third age (6 replies)
Evil men in Mandos (6 replies)
The full extent of the Reunited Kingdom (8 replies)