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- Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:00 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Silmarillion Discussion at The Hall of Fire
- Replies: 511
- Views: 209254
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Silmarillion Discussion at The Hall of Fire
- Replies: 511
- Views: 209254
Yes, I do realize that I have a high threshold of tolerance for the Lost Tales, but they are the only narrative accounts of what happens deep inside Doriath and Gondolin as they fall - 2 very important events, by all counts. Admittedly I’ve learned to bypass inconsistencies, which I’ve found to be s...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:15 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Sil apportioned by word%
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6576
JRRT! I thought about it, but figured a Maia speaking those words was close enough to an undislosed narrator writing them. Bottom line is that, according to my strict counting procedures, they were JRRT's words, not CT's. Like I said, I was very liberal towards CT! And don't go defending him on me, ...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:03 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Silmarillion Discussion at The Hall of Fire
- Replies: 511
- Views: 209254
In fact, its over 2/3 complete editorial invention (68.5%), thus this chapter belongs more on a Guy Gavriel Kay website than a JRRT one! (Of course that would be ignoring CT's masterminding). The only way to make sense of this chapter IMHO is to somehow reason that scribes of later ages, surfacing i...
- Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Sil apportioned by word%
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6576
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:51 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Sil apportioned by word%
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6576
- Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:18 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Sil apportioned by word%
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6576
- Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:34 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Sil apportioned by word%
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6576
Sil apportioned by word%
Voronwë requested that I post and edit this follow-up to Arda Reconstructed . Using his work as a guide, I’ve apportioned the chapter-by-chapter wordcount of the published Sil between the various JRRT texts & CT’s edits/manipulations/inventions (so far for 9 chapters, more to come ASAP)… Here’s ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:54 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Second Prophecy (and related subjects)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 216733
Hope nobody minds, but I linked to this great discussion in a tORn RR post, regarding Túrin, final prophecy, and a possible end to The Tale of the Children of Húrin . Not much action over there, but it was a lingering thing that I wanted to complete. Now that its over, I'll be more vigilant here. :)...
- Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:06 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Kentuckian Hobbits
- Replies: 41
- Views: 21581
Here is a reply by David Bratman in a recent exchange on the Mythsoc website: ***** At 03:51 PM 12/1/2006 -0800, Jason Fisher wrote: >And BTW, there are rumors that some of the surnames of the sort you >mentioned above may have come from a Kentucky telephone book or something >like that. Mis-memory ...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:36 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Kentuckian Hobbits
- Replies: 41
- Views: 21581
I think the truth lies somewhere in between Davenport and Bratman. The influence of Kentuckian Allen Barnett on Tolkien has been stifled by the Tolkien Estate and Carpenter, so much that in Letters and Biography he doesn't even exist. One has to go to Grotta's overly maligned biography (riddled with...
- Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:57 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: "Children of Húrin" has been published...
- Replies: 212
- Views: 98041
Alas, probably not. But we can cross our fingers! In fact I would give up a finger right now - one of the middle ones on my left hand, honestly - for CT to include it, preceded by The Wanderings of Húrin , and the last paragraphs of the Turambar and the Foalókë - Lost Tale (with names altered to be ...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:01 am
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 1015908
Yes, Mithluin, as chance has it! ;-) Its as nice to meet you online, as it was to meet you in person! And thanks to all that welcomed me here - I only peeked in as I saw Mith's name as the current poster - but I just remarked on Voronwë's Silmarillion thread after lurking there quite some time. And ...