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What a great question. We see a whole gamut of enforcement levels in other things, all the way from essentially none at all; "let them...

To go back to the original question, about whether there were any literary antecedents for the title of 'Dark Lord' before Tolkien, let...

I feel like "dominion" means that from that point forward, the "dominated" one does only the bidding of his master. Once Gandalf...

What a great question. We see a whole gamut of enforcement levels in other things, all the way from essentially none at all; "let them...

The supposition that the Nazgul are rendered completely dis-embodied and uncorporeal by the flood is quite attractive, as it gives an...

Occasionally a religious person - a rabbi or a priest - will write or say something about how the best, kindest, most tolerant people...

Note: I found a third footnote in TLOTR. It is in 'The Scouring of the Shire'. "It was probably Orcish in origin: sharku, 'old man'."...

From Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein, Lazarus Long speaking to one of two identical twins:

Omg I haven't been here for more than a year now :eek: Is season 5 finished? Beren and Lúthien soon?? What's up?

Hey everyone In my free time I play RPG's and someone from my local RPG group is working on this tool where you can catalogue your...

Link has been journeying through Ocarina of Time for nearly twelve whole episodes. He's had his ups and downs; his successes and...

Here is an observation which I thought to bring up when we reached the Field of Cormallen. However, it came up in discussion at New...

Here is an observation which I thought to bring up when we reached the Field of Cormallen. However, it came up in discussion at New...

That's totally fair.

Or the seven cloaks etc. were washed away in the flood, a more likely explanation. I've been thinking of the word "uncloaked," which we...