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Forum: The Books
10-16-2025, 10:47 PM
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Replies: 22
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Priya
… continued from my previous post
A matter...
… continued from my previous post A matter unrecognized among general readers, and perhaps some scholars, is that at outset Tolkien envisaged The Lord of the Rings to be of roughly similar length*... |
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Forum: The Books
10-12-2025, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
The Way into Middle-earth Faërie
Now Wilfred...
The Way into Middle-earth Faërie Now Wilfred Rowland Childe, a poet and critic, was a family friend of the Tolkiens – and indeed Christopher’s godfather. However, as far as I can tell, he had... |
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Forum: The Books
10-07-2025, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
One of the things I want to bring out in the open...
One of the things I want to bring out in the open is Tolkien’s confession of an attraction towards stories of strange lands below the earth: “I am extremely fond of the genre, even having read... |
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Forum: The Books
10-03-2025, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
… continued from my previous post
Having...
… continued from my previous post Having discussed Tolkien’s documented thoughts about a ‘green sun’ and other ‘time’, I think that it’s worth delving a little more into fairy lore, and so I... |
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Forum: The Books
09-28-2025, 06:14 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
I am shortly going to return to fairy tales...
I am shortly going to return to fairy tales because, per the example provided in my previous post, the standing stone of Einion and Olwen guards the entrance to fairyland; thus it is key. And to... |
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Forum: The Books
09-24-2025, 11:14 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
So after exploring reasons as to why Tolkien...
So after exploring reasons as to why Tolkien included another faerie into his great story, I now want to get back to our ‘standing stone’; rather an equivalent one where, once again, mysterious... |
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Forum: The Books
09-21-2025, 12:51 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
In repetition from my last post:
‘Where is...
In repetition from my last post: ‘Where is the proof?’ Unfortunately - absolute proof is lacking. But I will say - no scholar has adequately tied in the faerie of Smith of Wootton Major or... |
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Forum: The Books
09-18-2025, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
The most definite and obvious otherworld of...
The most definite and obvious otherworld of Tolkien’s sub-created mythology is voiced in Bilbo’s poetic recital at Rivendell: “… from Otherworld beyond the Sea …”. – The Fellowship of the Ring,... |
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Forum: The Books
09-15-2025, 03:29 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Before, I comment on records in our world of...
Before, I comment on records in our world of single standing stones - I want to try to strengthen the idea about Frodo inadvertently entering Faërie. To do that I think we ought to think more about... |
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Forum: The Books
09-11-2025, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Now we must not forget how one of Tolkien’s early...
Now we must not forget how one of Tolkien’s early memories was a recollection of one of only two surviving words spoken by pre-Celtic aboriginal inhabitants of the British Isles: “… nothing of the... |
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Forum: The Books
09-08-2025, 10:19 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Described as a “warning finger” and possibly...
Described as a “warning finger” and possibly imbued with enchanted powers the standing stone was characterized, as I have already surmised, to resemble Tara’s. Furthermore, it shared commonality with... |
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Forum: The Books
09-05-2025, 11:15 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Legends
It’s curious that below Tara...
Legends It’s curious that below Tara - within hollow hills, as legend has it, dwelt the race of the Fairies. Here in Irish myth lay the entrance to the underground land of the Celtic daoine... |
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Forum: The Books
08-31-2025, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
As I intimated in my previous post, in order to...
As I intimated in my previous post, in order to reconcile Tolkien’s hollowed-out and mounded hill with our world’s fairy-lore we need a bit more evidence. Tom Bombadil is obviously intricately... |
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Forum: The Books
08-28-2025, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Hello Huinesoron
I quite understand how your...
Hello Huinesoron I quite understand how your personal experience of the Downs in actual English counties left a deep impact. Deep enough that it ought to have had a memorable effect on Tolkien... |
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Forum: The Books
08-25-2025, 02:34 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Now it’s not just the hill of Tara, which I think...
Now it’s not just the hill of Tara, which I think Tolkien modeled the Barrow-downs midday halt location upon. I have a strong suspicion that Tolkien also represented from Arthurian lore - Sir... |
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Forum: The Books
08-22-2025, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
It is interesting to note that the Barrow-downs...
It is interesting to note that the Barrow-downs was a place of evil repute in hobbit lore: “… the Barrow-downs had as sinister a reputation in hobbit-legend as the Forest itself.” – The... |
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Forum: The Books
08-20-2025, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Well no pebbles thrown so far - let alone...
Well no pebbles thrown so far - let alone standing stones! So below is what I think Tolkien may have modeled the shallow hill with its standing stones upon. It’s Ireland over France that I’ve... |
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Forum: The Books
08-18-2025, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Hello Huinesoron
Those links were very much...
Hello Huinesoron Those links were very much appreciated. The one of Mayburgh Henge is, as you say, a great match - and I quite agree. By the way, is there a ‘real’ English region (with a... |
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Forum: The Books
08-15-2025, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
Hello Mithadan
Thank you for pointing out...
Hello Mithadan Thank you for pointing out how an eastern shadow lay over the slumbering hobbits after they’d propped themselves against its east facing side. Yes, direction was of supreme... |
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Forum: The Books
08-10-2025, 10:40 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 25,446
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Priya
The Standing Stone
What was the significance/purpose of the ‘stone’ at the center of the hollow in the Barrow-downs adventure? “… they … went down into the hollow circle. In the midst of it stood a single stone,... |
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Forum: The Books
09-24-2024, 09:33 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 18,556
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Priya
Splendid theory! Well done!
Matches well...
Splendid theory! Well done! Matches well with Letter #181 (from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited by H. Carpenter, 1981) where after talking about his youth in being brought up in (Sarehole) a... |
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Forum: The Books
09-15-2024, 08:48 PM
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Replies: 154
Views: 216,901
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Priya
Hello Huinesoron
Don’t you think...
Hello Huinesoron Don’t you think Tolkien is a ‘relevant’ person? Wouldn’t he be the most ‘relevant’ of all ‘people’? In fact wouldn’t he be more in the ‘know’ about the fate of the... |
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Forum: The Books
09-13-2024, 02:03 PM
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Replies: 154
Views: 216,901
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Priya
I think we should heed Tolkien’s last known...
I think we should heed Tolkien’s last known thought on the matter. Per the 2023 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Revised and Expanded Edition & Letter #283a of 12 January 1966: “… only one of... |
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Forum: The Books
03-20-2024, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 13,895
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Priya
Unreliable narrator? Or perhaps we are...
Unreliable narrator? Or perhaps we are ill-educated readers? The source and mythology behind the stone-giants is most likely River Legends, 1875 by Edward Knatchbull-Huggesen (one of Tolkien’s... |
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Forum: The Books
02-22-2024, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 21,410
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Priya
Hello Rune Son of Bjarne
Perhaps we ask...
Hello Rune Son of Bjarne Perhaps we ask too much of Gandalf. Despite being of a divine nature - he was not infallible. Tolkien related in a correspondence: “But in this ‘mythology’ all... |
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