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	<description>Aiya! Periannath.com is a weblog for the genuine Tolkien aficionado.  There are no 13-year-old Orlando Bloom fans here. Get news and features about the writings, the legendarium, the languages, collectibles and games, and yes, the movies.</description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Fëanor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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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: How to tell apart Saruman and Sauron</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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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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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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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>Ten new year&#8217;s resolutions for fans of &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you were introduced to Tolkien by Orlando Bloom’s shield-surfing antics, or if you have read The Lord of the Rings every summer since the 3rd grade (guilty), there is always more you can do to become the Tolkien superfan you have always aspired to be.

Here are ten suggestions...]]></description>
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		<title>Sauron&#8217;s Blog #56:That’s It, I QUIT!</title>
		<link>http://periannath.com/web-links/saurons-blog-56that%e2%80%99s-it-i-quit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With post #52, Sauron’s Blog began the story of Beren &#038; Lúthien (told from Sauron’s point of view). Now, the epic tale continues, as Sauron learns that Beren and Lúthien have stolen a Silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgoth...]]></description>
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		<title>Oxford Dictionary&#8217;s 2009 Word of the Year: &#8216;Unfriend&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have chosen "unfriend" as its "2009 Word of the Year," beating out other Internet-oriented neologisms such as "hashtag," "netbook," "paywall" and "sexting."

Tolkien aficionados may remember the word from The Silmarillion, where it is used twice (once in the form "unfriendship"). ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; first published 72 years ago this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventy-two years ago yesterday, JRR Tolkien's first novel, The Hobbit, was published by George Allen &#038; Unwin, Ltd. of London.

The 1,500 copies of the first printing sold out by the end of that year, 1937.]]></description>
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		<title>Sauron&#8217;s Blog #48: The Battle of Sudden Flame is ON!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our first assault in the new war, I got to try out my patented Pyroclastic Attack. See, we dug so deep at Angband that we hit magma, so I designed a series of sluices that brought the magma up into giant reservoirs. Last night we blew the floodgates, and millions of metric tons of lava, ash and poisonous gas burst out onto Ard-galen, converting what was a hideous plain infested with bright green grasses and sickly white flowers into a beautiful wasteland of basalt and hyaloclastite. Yes!]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Sauron Gorthaur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: The Basic Cosmology of Tolkien&#8217;s World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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