I was flicking through the Appendices of LOTR the other day, on an unrelated mission, when something really curious caught my eye in the Dwarvish genealogy tree. It’s a really small detail, almost insignificant – but the more I thought about it, the more it intrigued me, and the more intrigued I became, the more I realised that it’s actually a whole lot of details all packaged up in a single detail. Namely, Durin VII. When was he born? When did he reign? And, perhaps most pressingly, how did he obtain that epithet? From the perspective of Tolkien as author,…
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There are few more infamous passages in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy than when Faramir, Captain of Gondor, elects to take Frodo, Sam and Gollum into his custody, and to bring them and the Ring to Minas Tirith. For movie fans, it is a slightly baffling diversion – Faramir’s change of heart and release of the hobbits comes swiftly, and the episode results in few consequences to him or to Frodo and Sam. To lovers of the book, though, it is an outrageous change, a sign of everything wrong with the films, a complete bastardisation of one of…
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This will (hopefully) be an unusually short post from me, since it’s less a post in its own right, more a postscript to my discussion of Elves in The Hobbit…
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Picture the Elf. Tall, serene, wise, beautiful. More graceful, more artistic, possessed of knowledge beyond our ken and in communion with nature and the world..
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I was chatting to a friend of mine yesterday, when she asked me a disarmingly childlike, simple question. A question that desired no philosophical or detailed…
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