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Forum: The Books
03-17-2005, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 7,560
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Silmarillion and LOTR class Balrogs are large, deadly, and have mid-ranged weapons (whips) and short ranged weapons (blades). So the ideal way to kill them is to be in the mountains, on some high... |
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Forum: The Books
03-05-2005, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,223
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Nobody messed with the Barrow Downs, or the Paths of the Dead ... or the Mere of Dead Faces. Why? They were haunted. Now, while "fell spirits" are different from great warriors and lords who... |
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Forum: The Books
03-05-2005, 07:13 PM
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Replies: 490
Poll: Do Balrogs Have Wings?
Views: 197,151
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Shape-shifting of any variety was something Tolkien made a habit of mentioning. The only few examples came from ... Beren, Luthien and Sauron, and Beorn and his offspring. He went out of his... |
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Forum: The Books
02-18-2005, 07:20 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 6,905
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Tolkien made a lot of people see that just because something was fantasy, didn't mean it couldn't be taken seriously as great literature. And the best part, he didn't even write it for those... |
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Forum: The Books
02-16-2005, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,951
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It seems like, if Middle Earth is supposed to represent an ancient past of real life, that sailors setting out west like Columbus, or Ponce de Leon, may have been "searching for Numenor". I mean,... |
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Forum: The Books
02-10-2005, 07:49 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,614
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I'm familiar with "rule of thumb", and I see the connection. But even so, a "rule of thumb" is a LOT less rigid a measurement than using an measuring instrument, like a ruler. Rule; 1.... |
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Forum: The Books
02-07-2005, 02:22 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,614
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Tolkien using the term "as a rule" suggests that these sorts of unwritten codes, these usual sorts of things, have over time just made themselves, based on common sense and living peacefully in the... |
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Forum: The Books
01-29-2005, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 490
Poll: Do Balrogs Have Wings?
Views: 197,151
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Well, Morgoth, unlike Sauron, didn't rely in his later years on a ring to do his creating, which bound things to it. So, presumably, his "gifts" (and the mark of shadow and being burnt by the sun)... |
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Forum: The Books
01-28-2005, 03:14 PM
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Replies: 490
Poll: Do Balrogs Have Wings?
Views: 197,151
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It's "Demon of Might", not "Demon of Flight". I think it's about time to remind everybody that this is; "DO BALROGS HAVE WINGS?" Not; "CAN BALROGS FLY?" |
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Forum: The Books
01-25-2005, 04:42 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,014
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The Elven rings heal and maintain things. Rivendell, Lothlorien, Theoden and the spirits of every member of the Fellowship and soldiers of Rohan and Gondor are examples of their healing virtue. ... |
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Forum: Quiz Room
01-25-2005, 04:26 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 26,563
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Forum: The Books
01-25-2005, 04:10 PM
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Replies: 490
Poll: Do Balrogs Have Wings?
Views: 197,151
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I can't believe anything in the History of Middle Earth is 'lawful canon' as far as the story goes. I believe if something doesn't make it into the actual story, all versions aside, it isn't... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
01-24-2005, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 7,355
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Boromir would return five days after Aragorn got back from seeing Frodo off and would discover that not only was Faramir the Steward, and Denethor had died, but Faramir had gotten married to Eowyn. ... |
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Forum: The Books
01-24-2005, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 7,434
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I doubt Saruman would give Sauron any inside information. He was probably personally looking forward to taking the minds of Gandalf, Galadriel and Elrond once he found the One Ring. But to do... |
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Forum: The Books
01-24-2005, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 13,716
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No. Actually, reading the Lord of the Rings made me worse. Seriously ... let's see ... in grade school and middle school I was an A+ student. Then in 9th grade I read the Lord of the Rings, and in... |
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Forum: The Books
01-24-2005, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 490
Poll: Do Balrogs Have Wings?
Views: 197,151
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Ugh ... Nasmith. He couldn't resist the scales and tail, and reptilian feature. And who ever said Balrogs had horns? And yet EVERYBODY draws them with horns, or paints them with horns. And I see... |
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Forum: The Books
01-20-2005, 10:00 PM
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Replies: 490
Poll: Do Balrogs Have Wings?
Views: 197,151
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I've done years of pondering on this. I started out as a pro-winger, using the 'if they don't, why'd Tolkien use the word 'wings'' argument. Then I saw the movie, and thought 'hey, if the movie... |
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Forum: The Books
12-17-2004, 09:14 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 10,150
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This is simple enough; Confidence is in the middle of a teeter-totter, pride is on one end, and modesty / humbleness is on the other. Balancing it in the middle is tricky - it swings one way or... |
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Forum: The Books
11-21-2004, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 9,489
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I think I would like to point something out. This adds to the first post, in that I also agree that in some form or another, the mortals who were accepted into Valinor gained immortality. In... |
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Forum: The Books
10-23-2004, 11:46 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 10,690
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I love it when a thread shows us something that we all already knew, but didn't really know. This idea of desire versus love was really right under our noses. One of those invisible, taken for... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
10-22-2004, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 14,193
Views: 2,415,397
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"Hold on Frodo, we're being followed by a swarm of some creature or another. Take the reigns while I incinerate them ..." |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
10-22-2004, 02:23 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 19,230
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Seriously, this is easy for me. Eating bread. I'm always eating some sort of bread product when I read LOTR. Just plain old sliced bread, out of the package. Bagels, wheat breads, cakes,... |
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Forum: The Books
10-22-2004, 02:15 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 10,690
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I always saw Ithilien as more of a successor to Lothlorien ... like; "We Men aren't all stone castles and deforestation, we appreciate nature too." It really stems from how much Legolas enjoyed... |
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Forum: The Books
10-22-2004, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 10,690
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When Faramir was younger, a lad, presumably, was when Gandalf came to Minas Tirith searching for lore and records left by Isildur, and anything else that could help him solve his dilemma in the... |
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Forum: The Books
10-18-2004, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 16,970
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That's what I was sort of getting at. It wasn't Boromir's Pride, or Envy or other sins that led to his spell, if anything his sins and virtues were balanced out fairly well, as they should be in... |
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