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  Tolkien 101: Bilbo Baggins

  06.02.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Bilbo Baggins is the title character of 1937’s The Hobbit, Tolkien’s first published novel that takes place in Middle Earth. The story is told from Bilbo’s perspective; in fact, although this is not indicated in the novel itself, it was Tolkien’s intention that Bilbo himself was the author of The Hobbit and the story’s narrator, with Tolkien himself only acting as the “translator” of an ancient document.

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  What Doesn’t Make Sense About the War of Wrath and the Breaking of Beleriand

  04.20.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Unfortunately, the War of Wrath is so wrathful that the Beleriandian (is that a word?) sub-continent is almost completely destroyed, and sinks below the sea. The Valar invite all the Elves to Valinor, but lots of them refuse… The Edain follow Elros to Númenor, but lots of Men are left behind in Beleriand. So.. how did all the surviving Elves and Men get to Eriador?

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  Jackson versus Tolkien – a long-overdue list of gripes

  02.16.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Let me be clear — I love the movies. Love them. I genuinely do not believe that any other filmmaker on the planet would have done as good a job as Mr. Jackson… But here are my major gripes, as far as changes from the books.

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  Tolkien’s characters — how would they vote?

  11.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  As for whom Gandalf would advise you to vote, he would be torn between McCain’s strong military stance against Mordor, and Obama’s pledge to reverse the worst excesses of Denethor’s disastrous reign. Chances are he’d back Ron Paul, as Gandalf would be quite keen to see a hobbit in the White House.

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  The Hobbit 2: Electric Boogaloo

  10.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sauron, driven from Mirkwood, escapes to Mordor. Gollum leaves the mountains to search for his Precious. Barad-dûr is rebuilt. Aragorn meets Arwen. Balin goes to Moria. Saruman tries the palantir, and goes bad. Some people are born, some die. That’s it. Not much of a story.

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  The final word on balrog “wings”

  10.01.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  …Likewise, we know for a fact that Tolkien’s balrogs did not have wings, for the same reason we know ents did not have wings – because Tolkien never said that they did. Let me repeat that – TOLKIEN NEVER SAID BALROGS HAD WINGS….

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