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Forum: The Books 05-27-2025, 02:18 PM
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Posted By AndyC
I always figured that Isengard was Angrenost in...

I always figured that Isengard was Angrenost in the local language.
Angren : iron
Ost: Fortress, fortified place, guarded place
Iron-guard
Isen-gard

Thus Isen would be pronounced with the same...
Forum: The Books 04-04-2016, 10:15 AM
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Posted By AndyC
This can be resolved (and I'm sorry for banging...

This can be resolved (and I'm sorry for banging on about it :) ) by taking the viewpoint that mortal blood (in any quantity) = mortality.

It's supported by Mandos' words in The Lost Road, which...
Forum: The Books 04-04-2016, 09:54 AM
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Posted By AndyC
They weren't. They were born c. 503 and the...

They weren't. They were born c. 503 and the voyages of Earendil began in 534 (aged 31), the Kinslaying at the mouths of Sirion was 538 and Vingilot arrived in Valinor in 542, when Earendil and...
Forum: The Books 04-04-2016, 07:30 AM
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Posted By AndyC
I think that Tolkien's "only three unions" really...

I think that Tolkien's "only three unions" really referred to the Pereldar, those who were descended from Edain and Eldar; Mithrellas, as a Silvan Elf, would not have been counted as Eldar.

Or, at...
Forum: The Books 12-12-2015, 12:19 AM
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Posted By AndyC
To support the position that the first Dragons...

To support the position that the first Dragons were inhabited by spirits of power who followed Morgoth, we have, on p151 of The War of the Jewels

"In the passage in NE (p118) describing the eyes...
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