The Hall of Fire

Tolkien himself confirms that the result of Merry's stabbing of the Witchking was that he fell over, not that he died. In his letter to Forest Ackerman about Zimmerman's proposed movie script, talking about Weathertop, he wrote (Letter 210): There is no fight. Sam does not 'sink his blade into the R...

I'm going to give this a few more days, and if no one else has anything to say I'm going to move on to the next chapter. It is a short one, but I have quite a bit to say about it.

Here is the quote that I was thinking of, which comes from "Of the Sun and Moon" in the Silmarillion: ... they [the Valar] mourned not more for the death of the Trees than for the marring of Fëanor: of the works of Melkor one of the most evil. For Fëanor was made the mightiest in all parts...

Voronwë, thanks for posting all of that. Really interesting, that is. I'm so glad that Tolkien changed his mind and ended up with the story that is in the final version. Your welcome. :) I wonder why he had planned to kill Éowyn. It was the pattern that a lot of literature follows, but that seems a...

*Pats Wampuskitty gently on the head*

Its okay, we still love you.

Now its too small.



565x341 would be perfect.

Frelga, its still 754 pixels wide. If you could reduce it to 600, that would be a great help.

What a sad (but unfortunately quite accurate) commentary on human nature.

Y'all had to know that this post was coming, eventually. ;) It the develoment of the Lord of theRings, the first mention of Éowyn called her the daughter of Théoden. That was quickly changed, but for some time there was another character named Idis who was Théoden's daughter, and older then Éowyn. C...

Welcome, Brian! I was hoping we'd see your smiling face around here.

Ethel, there was absolutely, positively, nothing wrong with your post. In fact I posted my little joke Monet before even seeing your post. It was my post that was ill-timed and ill-considered, not yours. I love this thread, but I have nothing real to offer to it. You on the other hand have made wond...

Just to balance out the energy a little bit, from Claude Monet:

Sassafras wrote: the females form the societies and do all of the heavy work.

And that's different from humans how?

Nice pic.

What she said!

Glad to have you with us, Kushana.

What, a beautiful, sad, uplifting post, IE. Thank you so much for sharing that.

I think that the One Ring would turn a Maia like Sauron or Gandalf invisible only if they wanted it themselves, and the same probably would go for such powerful Elves like Galadriel or Glorfindel. The mortals becoming invisible when they put on The One or any of the other rings devised by Sauron se...

Wow, Eru!

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