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		<title>Tolkien 101: Tom Bombadil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who the hell is Tom Bombadil?

If your familiarity with Tolkien’s Legendarium comes entirely from the movies, your mystification is easily explained – he wasn’t in the films. But if you have read The Lord of the Rings, you are no doubt still asking the question...]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: The Men of the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casual viewers of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy will hear a lot of references to Aragorn’s people: The Men of the West, the Dúnedain, the Númenóreans, the Rangers of the North, the Arnorians and Gondorians. It all seems pretty confusing, but in fact it’s quite simple...]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: The Shire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two locations that appear in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that play central roles in both stories, and that can themselves be described fairly as “characters.” One of them is Rivendell, the sanctuary and fortress of Elrond Halfelven.

The other is the Shire, the homeland of that prosperous and agrarian race, the Hobbits...]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Samwise Gamgee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think it strange to devote an entire article to someone as small and insignificant in the Legendarium as Samwise Gamgee, then you have bought into Sam’s own view of himself, as nothing but a simple gardener from The Shire.

But many have suggested that Sam, rather than Aragorn or Frodo, is the main hero of The Lord of the Rings; and this view was promulgated by no less an authority than JRR Tolkien himself...]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Fëanor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fëanor is one of the greatest characters of The Silmarillion; although Beren Erchamion, Lúthien Tinúviel and Túrin Turambar are more traditional heroes, it’s Fëanor’s choices for both good and evil that create the conflicts that drive the bulk of the story.

The story of Fëanor (told here as briefly as possible) begins as the story of the earliest Elves...]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Aragorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your sole familiarity with The Lord of the Rings is with the Peter Jackson film trilogy, then you probably only know Aragorn son of Arathorn as the handsome, brooding, scruffy loner with the broken sword who looked so dorky in that crown at the end of the third movie, of which he is the titular character. But there’s a huge backstory behind Aragorn, and this article will fill you in on the basics.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: How to tell apart Saruman and Sauron</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an aficionado of the original books, I find it strange that viewers of the Lord of the Rings  movie trilogy have trouble telling the difference between the villain characters Sauron and Saruman. But I have heard from more than one intelligent, attentive moviegoer that they were confused on this issue. So let's get this cleared up...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy eleventy-eighth birthday to &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; author JRR Tolkien</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, Oxford University professor, and author of the globally beloved fantasy epics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born eleventy-seven years ago today, on January 3rd, 1892, in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Ringwraiths</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...Men were the perfect victims for the rings. Nine heroes, sorcerers and kings of Men accepted the rings, gaining seeming power and unnaturally long life. But after a few centuries, it became clear the rings were a curse rather than a gift. The nine Men were enslaved by the rings, and by the Dark Lord wearing the One Ring. Their bodies faded away, until the Men were nothing but invisible, undead shades enslaved by Sauron. They became the Nazgûl or “Ringwraiths,” the greatest of Sauron’s servants.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: How does one pronounce &#8216;Tolkien?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Type “pronounce tolkien” into Google, and you’ll find a lively debate on how to pronounce the surname of the beloved author of The Lord of the Rings. There are two main camps. One insists on “tol-kenn." The other will argue that “Tolkien” is a German name, properly pronounced “Tolk-een.”

They’re both wrong.]]></description>
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