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Hey all, Perlandra spoilers below! You've been warned! I've been listening back to episodes of our Faces discussion when Orual goes up the mountain to find Psyche - first the trip where Psyche tries to show her the god's house, and then a second trip where Orual coerces Psyche into shining...

I was thinking it was when Gandalf rides out from the gates of Minas Tirith to save Faramir, who is being pursued by the Nazgul. As Pippin looks on from the walls, Gandalf "raised his hand, and from it a shaft of white light stabbed upwards. The Nazgul gave a long wailing cry and swerved away"...

Hi all, I missed a couple of classes in December and now I'm listening back to session 283 - the end of the road, and I have a couple of thoughts. This is all from A Journey in the Dark, when the fellowship is traveling towards the entrance to Moria. Trough We looked at the clause: "but...

Okay, thanks. I'll put off getting this one then. Bruce

Hey all, Quick question. Is The Fall of Numenor, published last year edited by Brian Sibley, new Tolkien content? Or is it a gathering under one cover material found elsewhere (Sil, appendices, Unfinished Tales, HOME, etc) framed by Sibley's commentary? Bruce

MithLuin, I think you're right about Princess and the Goblin, though it's probably been 30 years since I read that. On Tehanu, again it's been years, but I felt it was spotty. Anyway, I never went back to the additional Earthsea books, just reread the original 3 every few years. I guess...

Hi all, As we've been reading through Faces together, I've seen a lot of echoes of other works, either earlier works that may or may not have influenced Lewis, later works that may or may not have been influenced by Lewis, or other Lewis works that (unsurprisingly) use similar phrases, images...

Hi all, I've been getting caught up on the last couple of Exploring classes, in what Corey is calling the "Council near the Knees of Caradhras", and the discussion in class centered on Gandalf's hope of making it through Moria. Gandalf says: "But I would not lead you into Moria if there were...

Hi all, I was just listening to session 266 from a couple of weeks ago. Even though we're still somewhere around the ankles of Caradhras, we looked ahead briefly to The Choices of Master Samwise, and Gorbag's statement about the Nazgul: "But He likes 'em; they're His favourites nowadays, so...

Hi all, I just heard about this today: Going Through Hell: The Divine Dante - an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC that will be there through July 16 (2023, in case you're reading this in the future). Its a collection of 20 works inspired by the Divine Comedy. I live...

Hi all, I've discussed this before, both during the live Exploring sessions and here in the forum in this post and this post, but I have a head canon about Findegil. As stated in one of those posts, we know that Findegil made edits to the main text long after the direct participants had died...

Hi all, I'm listening back through the past few classes and was struck by the word "hiss" as the Company are taking shelter from the storm on Caradhrass: "though all round [the fire] the snow hissed, and pools of slush crept under their feet". Yes, there is a purely physical phenomenon as...

Hi all, I just ran across this story, but it's a couple of weeks old, so maybe others have noted it. Jules Bass, one half of the Rankin/Bass directing/producing team, passed away on October 25 at the age of 87. Rankin/Bass were notable for many hand-drawn and stop-motion animated tv specials...

I always assumed there had to be an overland route from Fornost to Annuminas. We know that Annuminas was founded around SA 3320, and that in TA 861 Amlaith moved the capital from Annuminas to Fornost. "Moved the capital", not "founded a new city", which suggests that Fornost was already a...

Hi all, I missed Exploring for the past few weeks but was just listening to session 239 from two weeks ago and Corey was discussing the point of view. Back when I was in high school I wrote a paper on LotR for my AP English class*, and I was really proud of my insight that the POV was almost...

Hey all, I was looking on YouTube for musical adaptations of Jabberwocky (my favorite was this by Donovan), but also found a bunch of dramatic readings, including Benedict Cumberbach, Christopher Lee, John Hurt, and John Gielgud, but by far my favorite is this one: Okay, the John Hurt one is...

Hey all, In last weeks Exploring (May 17, 2022, at the setting out of the company from Rivendell) Corey asked if Tolkien describes stars as "burning". There was an instance just a little earlier in The Ring Goes South: "But low in the South one star shone red. Every night, as the Moon waned...

Hi all, I was reading a little about the opening poem (well, okay, I read the Wikipedia page) and I thought this was interesting. I know Corey's method is to focus on the words on the page and not outside information, but I thought this added some to my enjoyment of the poem. I vaguely knew...

Hey, That link doesn't work for me, but this link does: Bruce

Hey all, Excited to start Alice this evening and wondering if there's any chance we'll get past the preface poem. Anyway, I was thinking about the class and wondering if we'd discuss a movie adaptation, like we've done for some books in the past, like the Disney animated one (hopefully not the...