Halstein

Re-reading LOTR. Recently had my 51st birthday, and think I will not be very bendy when I reach the age of Treebeard either.

Just finished "J. R. R. Tolkien, Author of the Century" by Tom Shippey. What an excellent book.

Watched "Lord of the Beans", the Veggie Tales adaption of LOTR yesterday. It was, eh, intresting.

Have started to read Casper Clemmensen's "Tolkien og det mytiske Jylland" (Tolkien and the mythical Jutland). A book about Tolkien in Danish.

It would be only fitting if "Exploring the Silmarillion" will be done by one of Corey's sons.

Birthwort's (Aristolochia clematitis) Norwegian name, "pipeurt", literally translate to "pipeweed".

"Boromir had a long sword, in fashion like Andúril but of less lineage", so of the same Oakeshott-typology? Maybe type XI.

Flittermouse, flittermouse, flies around the house.
Is not a bird, it has no neb.
Nor a fly, afeared of lob's web.

God Jul.

Must admit I only skimmed Tolkien's elf generation schemes in chapter XVII.

Luthien is probably the most "tralala-laly" elf ever.

The mysterious machine in ep 193 of Exploring the Lord of the Rings, looks like part of a rope-walk to me.

Finished "Morgoth's Ring" today. So I have caught up with reading The History of Middle-Earth. Only finished ep 14. on the Mythgard episodes though.

Typical of my luck: Normally do office work 8.00 to 9.30, then go to teach. When SilmFilm broadcast from 8.00, "course-day" all day from 8.00.

"Gandalf, the need for steed", the video-game.

We three hosts of Silmfilm are,
Corey, Trish, Dave on jewel war,
makes discussions, weights suggestions,
sometimes on tangents go to far.
😉

Lately, when driving to work, I have seen Eärendil's Silmaril in the sky.

After finishing the "History of LOTR"-part of "The History of Middle-Earth", I have a feeling the "LOTR"-films made a surprising amount of changes in line with ideas discarded by Tolkien.

Wonder where one can get hold of C. R. Tolkiens "The Inns and Outs of Oxford".

The bit about the Elves leaving in the unpublished epilogue (from "Sauron Defeated") is some of the saddest things I've read.