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Why doesn’t Frodo just ride an eagle to Mount Doom?
07.09.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Why didn’t Frodo just ride an Eagle straight from Rivendell to Mt. Doom, and drop the One Ring into the lava? We know Gandalf was buddy-buddy with some giant Eagles, who rescued him from Orthanc and later snatched Frodo and Sam from certain immolation. If the Eagles can pick up the Hobbits from Mordor, why can’t they take them there as well?
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Which Characters from the Lord of the Rings Movies Will Appear in The Hobbit?
06.22.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

What characters from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy could or should appear in the The Hobbit? Let’s run down the list…
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Jackson versus Tolkien – a long-overdue list of gripes
02.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

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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Was “Parma Endorion” stolen? Is distributing e-books “theft?”
01.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I was confused by this post by Michael Martinez on the Tolkien Studies Blog. He’s mad that a copy of his e-book, Parma Endorion, escaped into the Internet badlands as a non-protected PDF file, and is being shared without his explicit permission. Some thoughts…
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Does anyone really want to collect pieces of Tolkien’s house?
11.10.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Now they’re ripping up the house and selling off the pieces. Of the house. Like they’re relics, and the proximity of this random piece of wood or rock has somehow been magically imbued with a Tolkienian essence. What’s next, finger bones?