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Thinking and writing about Tolkien's life and works.
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RT @tolkienthoughts: The Witch-King tells Eowyn he "will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh…
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RT @tolkienthoughts: Here’s a little thread on a new but very niche addition to my Tolkien book collection that I’m very excited about 1/x…
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I enjoyed this post from Jason Fisher about J.A.W. Bennett's tribute to Tolkien's Chaucer scholarship:
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@jacqueboatman My 5-year-old knows her basic prayers in Latin but I haven’t tried to start teaching her the language yet 😬 My 3 year-old just wants to read our Latin edition of The Grinch over and over lol
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RT @tolkienthoughts: Deliverance on Mount Doom: a thread about Frodo and Sam's prayerful journey through Mordor. 1/x
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"The hobbits wandered here and there visiting again the places that they had passed before; and Sam hoped always in some shadow of the woods or secret glade to catch, maybe, a glimpse of the great Oliphaunt." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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@paul_leone @blogofmazarbul I think that, collectively, the Elves must be saved.
Here's a speculative thread on the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth and the salvation of the Elves by Men. 1/x
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@blogofmazarbul Interesting thought. I do think at various times Tolkien conceived of the Elves as "unfallen," and yet when read holistically across his works, they pretty clearly are fallen.
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A new review of Parma Eldalamberon 23 by @ashiggins in the Journal of Tolkien Research praises the editorial work of @cgilson75 and Arden Smith:
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Random, but in reading Jason Fisher's blog recently, I noticed he calls attention to Joel Heck's resources on C.S. Lewis, and this is just a reminder if you are interested in Lewis and haven't downloaded Heck's "Chronologically Lewis," you are missing out!
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"Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people for ever!’" - J.R.R. Tolkien (Legolas)
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Neat little post by B.M. Henderson on the Silmarillion Minutiae blog about the font style of the 1st Edition Silmarillion:
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RT @tolkienthoughts: Wonderful news that Stephen Winter is returning to his blog about The Lord of the Rings, after a break of a few months…
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"West, west away, the round sun is falling. Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me" - J.R.R. Tolkien (Legolas)
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For those who missed it last night, I posted this thread with some initial thoughts about prayer in Mordor
Deliverance on Mount Doom: a thread about Frodo and Sam's prayerful journey through Mordor. 1/x
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"To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying." - J.R.R. Tolkien (Legolas)
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