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Forum: The Books
12-26-2025, 06:30 AM
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Forum: The Books
12-24-2025, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 4
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Can a moderator merge this entire thread with...
Can a moderator merge this entire thread with http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=19550 ('Tolkien's final First Age timeline')? |
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Forum: The Books
12-24-2025, 06:39 AM
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Not sure about 'final comment' (who can tell),...
Not sure about 'final comment' (who can tell), but yes - this is the furthest I managed to dig through (Vyacheslav Stepanov actually mentioned the relevant quote about 8 months ago but I didn't... |
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Forum: The Books
12-23-2025, 05:21 AM
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Because I do, from the 1964 BBC interview:
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Because I do, from the 1964 BBC interview: All of this is referring of course to the LOTR. So perhaps '7-8,000 years ago' could be a sufficient guideline for the c. 1968+ Silvan Elves and... |
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Forum: The Books
12-23-2025, 05:15 AM
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Forum: The Books
12-14-2025, 03:29 AM
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Replies: 115
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Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum
06-29-2025, 03:18 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 45,714
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I've since found another text which is more...
I've since found another text which is more explicit about Morgoth being thrown out of Ea: - Letter 297 (August 1967), p. 386 (bolded part is my emphasis) This is a very late text (1967),... |
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Forum: The Books
06-14-2025, 04:48 AM
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Replies: 115
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Forum: The Books
06-10-2025, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 115
Views: 203,617
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I just want to add another thing about the...
I just want to add another thing about the Dwarves: - NoME, 'Silvan Elves & Silvan Elvish', Text 1, footnote 3, p. 357 Not sure if this quote implies that the Dwarves did not awake yet... |
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Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum
05-27-2025, 02:39 AM
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Replies: 73
Views: 53,701
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I wonder if the project shouldn't change...
I wonder if the project shouldn't change Carcharoth's death to be in line with Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals? That is - Mablung should be the one to kill Carcharoth. Or at least deal the... |
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Forum: The Books
05-14-2025, 04:30 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 203,617
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I think a far simpler and a far better answer is...
I think a far simpler and a far better answer is that the lives of the Eldar in Aman compared to Middle-earth were something like the lives of the Edain in Numenor vs those in Middle-earth: i.e. they... |
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Forum: The Books
05-13-2025, 04:42 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 203,617
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Well, I think the earlier timelines (ones dealing...
Well, I think the earlier timelines (ones dealing with the Great Journey) have absurdly long figures, but not in this specific range of c. 6,000 years IIRC. As to the extended duration -... |
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Forum: The Books
05-10-2025, 11:58 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 203,617
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@Huinesoron: another late (written on paper dated...@Huinesoron: another late (written on paper dated to 1968, text itself probably even later) text from the NoME that might just be the latest conception about the duration of the First Age that... |
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Forum: The Books
03-29-2025, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 115
Views: 203,617
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@Huinesoron
I think I found a late (c. 1968...
@Huinesoron I think I found a late (c. 1968 or later) quote from an Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals-related text that might be of consequence regarding the timing of the Dwarven awakening: ... |
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Forum: The Books
02-20-2025, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 4
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Was Ungoliant an alien Vala in Tolkien's Round World legendarium?What do you think of this passage from the chapter 'The Numenorean Catastrophe & End of "Physical" Aman' in the Nature of Middle-earth: Particularly the bolded parts - I find it curious that... |
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Forum: The Books
02-09-2025, 06:06 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 7,283
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Sons of OlweIn The Silmarillion there is a passing mention of the fact that Olwe had (at least two) sons in addition to his daughter Earwen. I always wondered why he never bothered naming them, until I... |
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Forum: The Books
01-10-2025, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 115
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@Huinesoron
Do you have any new insights on...
@Huinesoron Do you have any new insights on the subject, or otherwise any changes you'd make to your timeline? Just looking for an update (if there's any). |
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Forum: The Books
10-21-2024, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 14
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Also, there's this quote by Elmar talking to...
Also, there's this quote by Elmar talking to Buldar (her...eh...non-consentual would-be-husband): - PoME, 'Tal-Elmar', p. 425 This is clearly a reference to Tal-elmar, but I'm not sure... |
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Forum: The Books
10-19-2024, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 24,053
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@Huinesoron, this post...
@Huinesoron, this post (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=19224 ) goes a bit deeper into the whole 'Tal-Elmar' text, and what the latest versions of it are like + some earlier but... |
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Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum
10-17-2024, 06:31 AM
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Replies: 131
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Is there a place here for the newly published...Is there a place here for the newly published rhyming couplet of the CoH (from 1931/2)? It goes quite in depth in regards to Hurin's final stand - here's a portion of it, since I'm unsure of... |
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Forum: The Books
10-17-2024, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 24,053
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I've seen the 'Isilmo might be the Witch-King'...
I've seen the 'Isilmo might be the Witch-King' idea before, but personally I never bought into the idea that anyone on the House of Elros family tree (at least those who are named) turned into... |
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Forum: The Books
10-09-2024, 12:59 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 24,053
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Of course it's speculation - if it weren't...
Of course it's speculation - if it weren't everyone and their grandmother would be flooding in with quotes. :p However, I take issue with you pointing out the 9 (Men) and the 3 (Elves) in contrast... |
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Forum: The Books
10-09-2024, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 24,053
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By the way:
There is a letter (Letter...
By the way: There is a letter (Letter 211, p. 279) where Tolkien outright states that Sauron had the Ring with him in Numenor: |
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Forum: The Books
10-09-2024, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 24,053
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There is a peculiar 1:2:4 pattern to many things...
There is a peculiar 1:2:4 pattern to many things Dwarven related (i.e. 1 - Durin's Folk, 2 - Firebeards and Broadbeams, 4 - eastern Dwarves; 1 - Khazad-dum, 2 - Nogrod and Belegost, 4 - presumably... |
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Forum: The Books
09-25-2024, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 4
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