Recent content by DolorousStroke

...after many, many months. Rode from Bree to Rivendell. (I had forgotten how to use milestones.) Goodness gracious, what beautiful scenery. Passing by a hundred ruins and byways, each that could lead to the sun or to the moon, riding east by night, the archer stars glowing, the sun coming...

Thanks, Kalle, for the kind words. It was fun to put together: I like NLP, and I enjoy Java. The program can sort sentences (Java streams and Comparators are like magic) based on 1: raw energy of the single most energetic phoneme, 2: energy density of that single max phoneme, 3: raw energy of...

Really excellent thread, by the way, with close attention to language in the instant case as well as comparisons to other usages. Nicely done all.

I didn't want to litter the Questions for Narnion forum with any details, but since Narnion has expressed an interest in alliteration, he and anyone who might be interested in automating searches by "natural language processing" might want to check out: Exploring The Lord of the Rings / Let's...

And finally, to amuse those who like pictures, here is the electrostatic energy grid which generates the top result. The sentence is the first line; the phonemes of the sentence are the second line. Across the left are the phonemes that exist in the sentence; and the grid shows the...

Here, using an expansion and refinement of the above mechanism (implementing most of my suggestions, particularly using phonemes instead of mere alphabetical letters (so it now catches "cellar sale"), syllabifying, and weighting starts of words and syllables more strongly), is a better list of...

“nixambulatory”! (? (! (? (!))))

Format is [score]{letter}: sentence. Click on the spoiler button to see the sentences. See if you can spot the winner, with a score above 35.

Given the current interest in alliteration, I wondered if it would be easy to write something which would try to identify alliterative hot spots in the text. I settled on a Java program which uses an electrostatic energy density model--that is, each letter has a repulsive power against other...

This was mentioned in Ep.38. How do you take even a completed fully realized painting and turn it into 3d, such that a player can interact? (Go behind, look underneath, see spots in the game where something in the painting was hiding it.) Let alone take just a mental image of e.g. Minas...

In Ep.38, Prof CO, while discussing adjustments made in the Peter Jackson films, calls the "fixing" of the Gollum problem of Chap V "Riddles" in The Hobbit one of the most brilliant pieces of retcon ever. Interesting that, in Letter 128: 1 Aug 1950: Letters of JRR Tolkien, it is made clear that...

Just to follow up on this: an eager public awaits the results!

I was just browsing through "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien," and I saw a reference I'm not sure was mentioned back during the Great Try and/to Say Controversy. Letter 148: to Katherine Farrer: 7 August 1954: "I am afraid there are still a number of 'misprints' in Vol. I!... Jarrold's appear to...

It is mildly interesting that the Norse god of skiing is Ullr. There are a lot of stories about him; not very many go back to early source material, though, where references to him are scarce. (Besides that it was common to swear oaths on Ullr's name while touching one's own ring; if one...

Wow, I just watched Ep 36 with CO, MP, and the handsome olive-jacket gentleman who works with the studio and, goodness gracious, we need to cross-reference every issue touched by CO in the entire Signum/Mythgard oeuvre with ExLotR. The idea of "moving Tolkien themes around" (e.g. putting one...