The Hall of Fire

I checked out the titles of other stories that NYT guy wrote, and it seems he skewers everything. He is a theater critic, emphasis on CRITIC. I would like to know what he liked before taking his condemnation too seriously. His review was the most extremely negative one I have seen. I don't think he ...

Meneltarma wrote:MithLuin!!!!!

I just noticed! Wonderful to have you here.

Hello! Good to see you, too! I just noticed there was a welcome forum/thread thingy....

So, a very belated hello to everyone...

I'd watch your One Man Bombadil show! ;) No, seriously, if anyone ever makes LotR into a TV series, it should def. include Bombadil. I think he would work best as an 'episode' - he is hard to work into the whole, because he stands alone, really. But that is no excuse to forget about him! But I would...

Hmmm, quite a bit of Finrod-swooning going on in here.... So, I could not resist.... 'An oath I too shall swear, and must be free to fulfill it, and go into darkness. Nor shall anything of my realm endure that a son should inherit.’ http://www.goldseven.de/c_finrod_fin.jpg But it is said that not un...

More news articles, since it officially opens tonight or tomorrow or something: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Page&cid=1007643938417 Not necessarily new news.... but pictures! In costume! Very exciting... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php...

<waves back> Hi, Hobby ! It seems I did find my way here, eventually ;). It doesn't hurt that I gave up TORc for Lent.... But I really signed up because I saw there was an Athrabeth thread...I should post in that at some point! But since I dropped out of the Movies forum on TORc before Fellowship w...

At the end of the day, my opinion of this movie has to be that I am very glad to have seen it, and I think it is incredibly moving in places. Yes, some scenes make me cringe. Some scenes make me shout at the TV, "YOU DIDN't SAY/DO/THINK/REMOTELY IMAGINE THAT!" But all of my criticisms have...

When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of Milady from The Three Musketeers . She's just so...conniving and interesting....and runs circles around the gents ;). Hmmm, I found myself interested in Scarlett's youngest sister, but I only made it to page 600 of Gone with the Wind , so I don't...

The chapter ends with yet another portent of the great events to come. Galadriel is visiting her brother Finrod Felagund at Nargothrond now that it is full-wrought. She asked him why he had no wife: foresight came upon Felagund as she spoke, and he said: ‘An oath I too shall swear, and must be free...

I agreed with Nár, the thread originator, that the SotS is flawed. I remember that thread! But then, I enjoyed the half-orc discussion ;). Nár seemed to think that it wasn't dark enough, and someone (maybe him?) thought that the image of hobbits fighting men (and winning) was just too comical to be...

I just scared up some quotes about Túrin's description, and this is what I found: The Helm: "grey steel adorned with gold" "gilded image of the head of Glaurung" "overwritten with runes" Túrin in Doriath: He wore a grey cloak over mail. His clothing was brown and grey a...

Co-incidentally, I am currently re-reading the Silmarillion, and have reached this chapter... I do not know how many times I have read the book. I was confused and disappointed the first time, and only came to love the story after a second reading. At one point, I re-told most of the stories to my l...

Poking around the Frodo's Kitchen threads, I found: So to come back to Gollum: Frodo does not like Gollum and he does not love him either. He only starts “seeing” him through a different prism, the moment he realises he is a tormented twisted soul under the influence of the Ring. His experience with...

<bows> Seemingly, I come when called ;). Hobby , the Kitchen Ladies did not condemn Sam fully. IIRC, they took the tail end of the last quote of Voronwë to heart: By temporizing, not fixing the still not wholly corrupt Smeagol-will towards good in the debate in the slag hole, he weakened himself fo...

I don't know Sindarin, either. But I think the easiest way to start is just to get a skeleton vocabulary based on the names in the books. This will not help you with forming sentences (no verbs), but it is a starting point, I guess. So... Amon = Hill Emyn = Hills Anduin = Long River Anfalas = Long S...

Neither do I ;) I can add something about the healing power of kings, though: The origins of the belief in this miraculous power are very obscure: all that is certain is that the claim was being made in both France and England in the early twelfth century, and that it had developed in some way from ...