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- Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:59 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Hobbit as Gaeilge!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16559
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Hobbit as Gaeilge!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16559
That is very cool indeed! :) For those who are curious, I found lists of Translations of the Hobbit and Translations of The Lord of the Rings on Wikipedia. Surprisingly, there are none yet in Welsh, a language that the Professor dearly loved. I do not own any non-English translations of The Hobbit o...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:56 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 816244
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:09 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Elvis Presley, or how times have changed.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4733
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:34 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Elvis Presley, or how times have changed.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4733
Re: Elvis Presley, or how times have changed.
“... the most disgusting exhibition of mass hysteria and lunacy this city has ever witnessed,” Kirkwood wrote. At least until the hockey team lost game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, eh? :P Seriously, I watch footage of the Beatles playing to crowds of screaming young women, etc. and wonder what the ...
- Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:40 am
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 476820
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:16 am
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 476820
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6521
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Is this for real?
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I guess this is what Lincoln must have been doing in his spare time when he wasn't acting as Commander in Chief during the War Between the States, hanging with Kirk & Spock aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, or partying with Bill & Ted.
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I guess this is what Lincoln must have been doing in his spare time when he wasn't acting as Commander in Chief during the War Between the States, hanging with Kirk & Spock aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, or partying with Bill & Ted.
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:50 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 476820
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:15 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 476820
I just did something I haven't done for a few years: purchase tickets to attend an MLB game. I noticed the prices have sure gone up! Still, they're not nearly as expensive as hockey tix. :blackeye: I'm taking my wife to see the Detroit Tigers play in the Oakland Athletics on Sunday, May 13th. After ...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:34 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 816244
IIRC Quenya was analogous to Latin. Yes, in that it was not used by anyone as a daily speech but was still used in ceremony, etc. It is phonetically based on Finnish. Galadriel's beautiful lament in The Fellowship of the Ring is in Quenya. Donald Swann's setting of the text and tune devised by Tolk...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:39 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 816244
Interestingly, someone commented on the Deciphering blog as well about the language used. ... this contract perpetuates the same error made by our dearly beloved Faerie-telling Prof himself with the Book of Mazarbul pages. (Included in the 50th Anniversary Edition of LotR). I don't own a 50th Anniv...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:22 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 816244
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:46 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 816244
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:06 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 816244
I would have thought so. If, you know, I actually was worried about what alphabet was used on a fictional document to a fictional hobbit from a fictional dwarf in a movie of a piece of fiction. ;) You may not have been worried about it, but perhaps Tolkien would have. You may recall that Gandalf re...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:51 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
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Wouldn't a contract intended for a Hobbit be written in Westron? Which throughout LotR is rendered in English? The original that Tolkien created was in fact written in English, but using the Elvish script Tengwar. Both the Certhas and Tengwar are phonetic alphabets. You can conceivably write in any...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:19 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 816244
The Hobbit: Deciphering Dwarf Documents The document is written using a modern alphabet? Wouldn't Thorin have used either an Elvish script ( Tengwar ) or runes ( Cirth )? (While Dwarves favored runes--they devised their own systems based on the Certhas Daeron--they are known to have used both alpha...
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:07 am
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 476820
I used to be a HUGE baseball fan. I was even a member of the Society for American Baseball Research ( SABR ) for several years, helping co-found a chapter here in Sacramento. Since the revelation of the rampant abuse of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone, however, my interest has waned signi...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:33 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Fake Silmarillion Trailer
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17549
The Silmarillion is also closer to, well, sacred writings, than LotR or certainly the Hobbit are. I think sacred is a very good way to describe The Silmarillion , at least from the point of view of the Tolkien Estate. Professor Tolkien labored on them nearly all his life. I imagine they were to him...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:59 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Fake Silmarillion Trailer
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17549