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RRachel Port replied to the thread Why does the Council of Elrond become Story Time with Gandalf?.I don't think anyone in the room has another important meeting at 11:30. But Gandalf's purpose isn't to convey urgent news. He conveyed...
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Flammifer replied to the thread Why does the Council of Elrond become Story Time with Gandalf?.Before it was story time for Gandalf, it was story time for Bilbo and then for Frodo. Poor Bilbo! Lunch time must have come and gone... -
FForodan replied to the thread Wise groups.Yes! Now send that to the managers of LOTRO to encourage them to add more interesting details to the world that are not directly part of...
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FForodan replied to the thread The Valar & The biblical Divine Council. Thoughts inspired by "Tolkien and the Great War".I think it's pretty clear even in the published Silmarillion, which is really the effort of Christopher Tolkien to finish his father's...
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Ddrowsnake posted the thread Why does the Council of Elrond become Story Time with Gandalf? in Questions for Narnion.Hi all, I'm a first time poster, but I've been listening for about a year and I'm coming close to catching up (although I've joined a...
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RRachel Port replied to the thread Wise groups.I heard a lecture about Jane Austen, which looked at how she re-created the novel form by creating her world with characters who are...
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R"All is explained" is a good scene to have in a murder mystery, but in fantasy (and in all but the hardest of hard science fiction) it...
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Flammifer reacted to Jim Deutch's post in the thread The Valar & The biblical Divine Council. Thoughts inspired by "Tolkien and the Great War" with
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Oh, please do! And if you can work in the phrase "discretion was not the better part of the Valar" I will overflow with joy. -
Jim Deutch replied to the thread The Valar & The biblical Divine Council. Thoughts inspired by "Tolkien and the Great War".Oh, please do! And if you can work in the phrase "discretion was not the better part of the Valar" I will overflow with joy. -
Jim Deutch reacted to Croaker's post in the thread The Valar & The biblical Divine Council. Thoughts inspired by "Tolkien and the Great War" with Like.
I've been thinking about why the Valar are as disengaged as they seem to be in the travails of Middle Earth, going back to the First...
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Jim Deutch replied to the thread Wise groups."All is explained" is a good scene to have in a murder mystery, but in fantasy (and in all but the hardest of hard science fiction) it...
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Jim Deutch reacted to Forodan's post in the thread Celebrimbor and the Making of the Rings with Like.
The question of 'where' the power for the Rings comes from is misunderstanding what is going on. As Tolkien says more than once in the...
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RWhat Boromir knows about the Ring is what we have spent the past year of this class on. That's all he knows, other than the ancient...
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Anthony Lawther reacted to Flammifer's post in the thread What are the powers of the Ring? with Like.
Rachel, I agree with you that Boromir would be considerably concerned with making his troops immune to the fear of the Morgul-spells...
