This blog is dedicated to my thoughts, musings and ponderings on Lord of the Rings and the Tolkien legendarium as a whole. The five most recent entries appear on this page, for older content please select by category on the right.
Category: MoviesIt looks as though a decision has finally been made on The Hobbit movies... Peter Jackson is slated to be director (RESULT), but in a further development there is a suggestion of a 'further sequel'.
There is much speculation as to what this could... [MORE]
- 2007-12-19 08:47:05
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There appears to be some significance surrounding these numbers throughout Tolkien's 'legendarium'. Some of this is evident in the old rhyme Gandalf mutters to himself as he rides with Pippin to Gondor:
"Tall Ships and Tall Kings, three times thr... [MORE]
- 2007-12-03 20:05:28
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The Dragons were created in the First Age by Morgoth. It is stated in several places that they are 'great spirits', which suggests that they may be fallen Maiar (like Sauron and Curumo). Dragons were capable of breeding on their own, and the maps in Th... [MORE]
- 2007-09-11 07:59:13
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Apparently J R R Tolkien did not like the Black Speech, finding it vulgar and distasteful. This perhaps we can see in that he wrote very little of it - the inscription on The Ring, and the short sentence spoken by Grishnákh in The Two Towers are v... [MORE]
- 2007-09-06 15:09:34
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There have been hundreds of maps of Middle-Earth drawn, some official, some copies, some augmented and altered to suit the uses of their cartographers. I always found the maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien to be the best, although I have often wished fo... [MORE]
- 2007-09-06 13:25:12
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