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Forum: The Books
11-27-2014, 10:43 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 15,494
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jallanite
Neither the cover reproduction I found (at...
Neither the cover reproduction I found (at http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403181958l/7347.jpg) nor anything published previously in this forum indicates that this cover was from a Ballantine edition.... |
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Forum: The Books
11-24-2014, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 15,494
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jallanite
This illustration is found on the web at...
This illustration is found on the web at http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/The_Silmarillion , marked as “Second Edition Cover”. It is also at... |
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Forum: The Books
11-23-2014, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 15,494
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jallanite
I think this non-standard image was chosen by the...
I think this non-standard image was chosen by the publishers in part because it is non-standard and pictorially striking, not because it fits closely with any part of The Silmarillion. It might be... |
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
11-22-2014, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 17,363
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jallanite
The essay mentions pipeweed as an hallucinogen as...
The essay mentions pipeweed as an hallucinogen as you mention. The Lord of the Rings claims instead that pipeweed was “a variety probably of Nicotiana”. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana . ... |
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Forum: The Books
11-21-2014, 06:42 PM
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Replies: 89
Views: 59,237
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jallanite
Tinfang Warble also has a vague origin, being...
Tinfang Warble also has a vague origin, being either, in a crossed-out passage, the son of the Elfin King Tinwelint by the twilight spirit Wendelin and brother to Lúthen Tinúviel or son of an... |
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Forum: The Books
11-16-2014, 07:22 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
Elrond says at the Council that he had known...
Elrond says at the Council that he had known Bombadil long ago when his name was Iarwain, but had forgotten him until now (presumably being reminded again about him when Frodo’s story of his journey... |
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Forum: The Books
11-16-2014, 11:45 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
Source?
Where does Tolkien indicate that...
Source? Where does Tolkien indicate that Gandalf and Elrond had no idea what or who Tom really was? Tolkien does not indicate any of the Hobbits asking Gandalf or Elrond about who Tom is.... |
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Forum: The Books
11-15-2014, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
Denigration is an interesting word.
Its...
Denigration is an interesting word. Its meaning is found at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/denigrate and various other dictionaries on the web. But is not an accusation that one has... |
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Forum: The Books
11-14-2014, 03:48 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
I agree. But I don’t have any disagreement with...
I agree. But I don’t have any disagreement with the premise of the topic as I understand it. Essentially the problem, as I see it is only the communication between Tar-Jêx and myself and I see this... |
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Forum: The Books
11-14-2014, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
Fair enough and quite right about ignoring Tom....
Fair enough and quite right about ignoring Tom. Just ignoring Tom would be wrong. I thought to mean only ignoring the various theories about Tom that Tolkien did not mention. I have, after sending... |
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Forum: The Books
11-14-2014, 03:29 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
I have put forth a theory that I don’t believe....
I have put forth a theory that I don’t believe. You have put forward nothing except pie-in-the-sky faith that Tolkien had an explanation. The problem is not that Tom is an enigma or a puzzle, but... |
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Forum: The Books
11-14-2014, 03:03 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
Do you believe that the reader must come up with...
Do you believe that the reader must come up with what Galadriel55 calls “crazy theories”, and it doesn’t matter if they are crazy. I totally disagree, I don’t see that ignoring the mystery of Tom... |
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Forum: The Books
11-13-2014, 11:50 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
I agree mostly with Galadriel55 as usual.
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I agree mostly with Galadriel55 as usual. The problem as I see it is that Tolkien only explains Tom Bombadil as an enigma, which may be explained as a puzzle. The question then is whether Tolkien... |
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Forum: The Books
11-12-2014, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
Agreed.
However Tolkien did refuse to give...
Agreed. However Tolkien did refuse to give any explanation other than that. Tolkien writes: “And even in a mythical Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one... |
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Forum: The Books
11-11-2014, 08:32 PM
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Replies: 89
Views: 59,237
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jallanite
To continue with the main subject of this thread,...
To continue with the main subject of this thread, I note particularly the discussion of the Valar. We have Tolkien describing the actual arrival of the Valar and their people in the world, whereas... |
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Forum: The Books
11-10-2014, 02:36 PM
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Replies: 89
Views: 59,237
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jallanite
Yes the same person is called Melko in The Book...
Yes the same person is called Melko in The Book of Lost Tales, and other names in later works, principally Melkor and Morgoth. But the name Melko is very close to the name Melkor and the name Morgoth... |
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Forum: The Books
11-09-2014, 02:24 PM
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Replies: 89
Views: 59,237
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jallanite
Indeed, my list of names that are the same in The...
Indeed, my list of names that are the same in The Book of Lost Tales and The Silmarillion was wrong in three places, because I simply put down forms that I remembered as being the same in both, and... |
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Forum: The Books
11-08-2014, 03:30 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 14,526
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jallanite
On the main point of this thread, the use of...
On the main point of this thread, the use of gnome as a name for the Noldor, a particular kind of elf, this does not work with Paracelsus’s meaning in which gnomes are supernatural entities who, in... |
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Forum: The Books
11-07-2014, 03:38 PM
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Replies: 89
Views: 59,237
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jallanite
Your original post does not indicate this. But I...
Your original post does not indicate this. But I still fail to take your point. Fomendacil, quite rightly, in my opinion, indicates that Tolkien’s change of Teleri from the first kindred of the Eldar... |
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Forum: The Books
11-06-2014, 12:13 AM
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Replies: 89
Views: 59,237
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jallanite
But the only words not translated in Rúmil’s ...
But the only words not translated in Rúmil’s speech (except for the expletive tirípti lirilla) are names of people and places, which one should not expect to be translated, even when a translated... |
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Forum: The Books
11-04-2014, 12:32 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 14,526
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jallanite
The letter K was used in Old Latin and survived...
The letter K was used in Old Latin and survived in Classic Latin in the word kalendae, after the 5th century B.C.E., which referred to the first day of each month, and in the praenomen Kaeso, used by... |
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Forum: The Books
10-30-2014, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 14,526
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jallanite
I agree with you. I posted only that quendi “may...
I agree with you. I posted only that quendi “may reflect the genuine etymology of fée.” The word may was very intentional. A somewhat imperfect English translation of your link is available at... |
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Forum: The Books
10-30-2014, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 14,526
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jallanite
Any author may use any word to describe any...
Any author may use any word to describe any fantasy race. Tolkien dropped fairy as a synonym for elf because he felt that its use by Victorian fantasy writers, principally children’s writers, had... |
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Forum: The Books
10-25-2014, 02:57 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 93,488
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jallanite
Cirdan’s essay at ...
Cirdan’s essay at http://tolkien.cro.net/else/bbeier.html seems to me to be totally nonsense, typical of the many enthusiastic essays I have read which all provide contradictory explanations of... |
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Forum: The Books
07-26-2014, 05:23 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 18,271
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jallanite
denethorthefirst is quite right about at least...
denethorthefirst is quite right about at least some of the Dwarves participating in the War of the Last Alliance against Sauron. I had forgotten the mentions in Unfinished Tales. *My shame* But I... |
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