Recent content by Trevor Trumbull

A couple of quick questions. 1) How are we defining depression? The word gets used a lot these days and in a lot of different ways, anything of clinical depression to generic feelings of sadness. 2) Elves are not human, that is to say, they are not mortal. There seems to be a difference, not...

I completely agree with MithLuin's post. Even if Ambras is depressed/in despair why does that necessarily mean he must always be depressed throughout the rest of the First Age? Sorrowful over the death of his brother, upset at the manner of that death, angry at his father I can understand. But...

Is Mandos truly closed to them though? Mandos seems to know of the Oath since he speaks of it in his Doom, and yet he still says their spirits shall return to Mandos.

During the episode on the Kinslaying much time was given to how the elves, and perhaps especially the Noldor, would view death. Thinking of Amrod’s death and the way Amras reacts, or at least the reaction as it was discussed during this morning’s episode using words like depression, I cannot...

Gandalf in the Return of the Kings makes a few remarks; the board is set, the Enemy has the move, pawns are as likely to see as much as any etc. Following his lead I've been pondering the remark about Túrin's advice in Nargothrond and that perhaps it is on Gildor's mind in similar terms. It...

How are you defining myth? Using the OED's definitions do you mean "a widespread but untrue or erroneous story or belief; a widely held misconception"? Or rather "a traditional story, typically involving supernatural beings or forces, which embodies and provides an explanation, aetiology, or...

I think the idea of animating the Ainulindalë is an interesting once since it would afford us the chance to depict things that would be harder to do via a live action format. Yet having said that I agree with Nelson's point above about needing to settle on one format and stick with it, since...