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Forum: The Books Today, 04:48 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Anything new?

Anything new?
Forum: The Books 06-10-2025, 04:57 PM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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...
Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum 05-27-2025, 02:39 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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...
Forum: The Books 05-14-2025, 04:30 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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...
Forum: The Books 05-13-2025, 04:42 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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 -...
Forum: The Books 05-10-2025, 11:58 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Silmaril @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...
Forum: The Books 03-29-2025, 07:17 PM
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Posted By Arvegil145
@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:

...
Forum: The Books 02-20-2025, 09:32 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Tolkien 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...
Forum: The Books 02-09-2025, 06:06 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Pipe Sons of Olwe

In 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...
Forum: The Books 01-10-2025, 10:45 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
@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).
Forum: The Books 10-21-2024, 06:40 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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...
Forum: The Books 10-19-2024, 06:22 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
@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...
Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum 10-17-2024, 06:31 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Sting 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...
Forum: The Books 10-17-2024, 05:34 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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...
Forum: The Books 10-09-2024, 12:59 PM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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...
Forum: The Books 10-09-2024, 07:19 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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:
Forum: The Books 10-09-2024, 06:19 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
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...
Forum: The Books 09-25-2024, 11:26 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
...and now it's gone, again.

...and now it's gone, again.
Forum: The Books 09-25-2024, 11:02 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Yeah, I didn't mean that late version. (Even so,...

Yeah, I didn't mean that late version. (Even so, Tavrobel and Cortirion on Eressea are still mentioned in the post-LOTR legendarium.)





I think the Ottor > Aelfwine narrative switch is one...
Forum: The Books 09-25-2024, 06:01 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Cool map! There are some other locations missing...

Cool map! There are some other locations missing however - this category on TG (https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Category:Tol_Eress%C3%ABa ) lists some more obscure ones such as Estirin (Exeter), Tol...
Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum 09-24-2024, 01:11 PM
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Posted By Arvegil145
There is a newly published poem in the Collected...

There is a newly published poem in the Collected Poems by Hammond and Scull that might be relevant here (Scatha the Worm) - here are three versions of it:



Not sure about the relative dating of...
Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum 09-24-2024, 01:03 PM
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Posted By Arvegil145
Does anyone here have the new Collected Poems by...

Does anyone here have the new Collected Poems by Hammond and Scull?

Because the book has the original Mîms Klage poem in English, titled The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf in the table of contents.
Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum 09-24-2024, 12:50 PM
Replies: 39
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Posted By Arvegil145
Just so that you and everyone else has the full...

Just so that you and everyone else has the full context, here's the full passage from PE 23, p. 143:
Forum: The Books 09-22-2024, 01:22 PM
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Posted By Arvegil145
True!

True!
Forum: Translations from the Elvish - Public Forum 09-20-2024, 02:30 AM
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Posted By Arvegil145
So...apparently, the new issue of Parma...

So...apparently, the new issue of Parma Eldalamberon (PE 23) gives us the name of Teleporno's father: Gilitīro (in Telerin) or Gildír (sindarinized).

The reason I mentioned 'Teleporno' and not...
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