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  Tolkien 101: Ringwraiths

  09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  …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.

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  Sauron’s Blog #49: Melkor 1, Noldor 0

  08.11.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  First off, we finally — finally — launched a finished, fully-functioning Flying Fire-Breathing Monster version 1.0. On the official paperwork these things are called Úruloki; I wanted to call them the Great Worms, although they don’t look very much like worms. But when the first one attacked the Elves, they all ran away yelling “dragon! Dragon!” Which I think means “I’m crapping my pants in fear!” in elfy-talk.

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  Tolkien 101: Sauron Gorthaur

  06.29.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Sauron is the titular character and primary villain of The Lord of the Rings. He is introduced as The Necromancer in The Hobbit; and his origins and history are recounted in The Silmarillion. But who is Sauron? Why is he so evil? And how did he become so obsessed with locating missing jewelry?

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  Tolkien 101: The Basic Cosmology of Tolkien’s World

  06.09.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In order to give meaningful background information for characters like Gandalf, Sauron, Galadriel and Elrond, I will have to refer to cosmological and cosmogenic ideas laid out in The Silmarillion, which tells the early history of Tolkien’s world.

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  Sauron’s Blog #43: Ow, The Light! My Eyes! Again!!!

  04.22.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  Well, Morgoth and I were still debating which of us would kill Tilion and which would consume The Moon, denying the world its light forever, when the unthinkable happened. From the East, a terrible bright burning started to rise from the horizon, which resolved into a bright, white light shifted toward the yellow. The firmament turned blue as this terrible light extinguished The Moon and the stars.

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  Jackson versus Tolkien – a long-overdue list of gripes

  02.16.09 | Kunochan | 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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  Sauron’s Blog #41: Melkor is back!

  11.03.08 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  Sauron’s Blog has been updated. Read the new post, or start from the beginning. Sauron says he is NOT an evil lighthouse.

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  Tolkien’s characters — how would they vote?

  11.03.08 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and 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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  Sauron’s Blog #40: What the heck was that noise?

  10.02.08 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  Sauron’s Blog has been updated. Read the new post, or start from the beginning. Don’t believe that book of Elvish lies. Discover the truth about Sauron Gorthaur, Lord of the Earth, straight from the Lord of Barad-dûr himself!

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