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My suggestion would be the use of leitmotif whenever one's magic is used, ie in Sleeping Beauty when Maleficent makes her presence known...

The idea that Peter is pointing out is that sometimes small details are considered an indicator of larger issues - a warning sign. So...

We had tobacco-plantations in Norway up to 1920. In 1730 king Christian VI of Denmark-Norway encouraged farmers to grow tobacco, and...

Not sure what Tom wears in the First Age, but minimum one article of clothing must at least semi-rhyme with "Bombadillo".

The Strategikon advises to attack the Slavs in winter, because the defoliated trees made ambushes harder. So it's not that lightly...

From "The Strategikon", attributed to the Emperor Maurice (reign 582-602): "Dealing with the Slavs, the Antes, and the Like. The nations...

Sure, i dislike manwolves as much as most people Like this maybe? A bit more gmork/rampage so..more wolf like, but i like the...

I only find it hard to imagine the woodwose stumbling in on Lùthien's dancing wearing mail. And harder to have Thingol bestowing one...

But no mail until after Beren visit Nargothrond.

The Alan Lee cover shows Beren with a sword (possibly Dagmor) on his left hip, a dagger on his right, and a longbow. Dagmor itself...

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

Why, plenty of beings are not obviously distingishable by sex? And there are kinds of people who are not very distingishable also?

Jumping in on this discussion very late, but: we know from LotR that many Hobbit children were born in the year after Sauron's defeat...

Another minor example of how the Ring reinforces isolation would be how Bilbo would put it on to disappear when he wanted to avoid the...

Putting on the ring to avoid the Sackville-Bagginses is merely choosing the lesser of two evils.