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Forum: The Books
06-13-2025, 08:28 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 12,477
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William Cloud Hicklin
I think also Gondor was more fertile, and had...
I think also Gondor was more fertile, and had seaports, which would mean that not only did Gondor start off with more Dunedain and far more non-Dunedain, but the population differential would have... |
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Forum: The Books
06-13-2025, 08:18 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 21,360
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Ah, but I would submit that Isengard is not...
Ah, but I would submit that Isengard is not modernized at all; you could show it to Alfred the Great and he would recognize it immediately, or at least its compound meaning (since it isn't an... |
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Forum: The Movies
06-12-2025, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,478
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
I thought this one needed updating in light of...
I thought this one needed updating in light of The Rings of Power 1934 Pontiac, Amazon restoration: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=774&stc=1&d=1749736990 |
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Forum: The Books
06-12-2025, 07:49 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 18,944
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Y'all are overlooking the Nameless Things.
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Y'all are overlooking the Nameless Things. That's only halfway a joke, Tolkien in many places implies that "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy." |
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Forum: The Books
06-12-2025, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 21,360
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
I am not sure what Tolkien was thinking in that...
I am not sure what Tolkien was thinking in that recording! Because - all discussions of Appendix E aside - Isengard is definitely not Sindarin, nor is it Westron. It's Rohirric, that is, Old... |
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Forum: The Movies
01-17-2025, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 19,041
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William Cloud Hicklin
Indeed. Tolkien would have known, as PJ plainly...
Indeed. Tolkien would have known, as PJ plainly didn't, was that one of the principal responsibilities of the lady of a great house was supervising the kitchens, and looking over the cooks'... |
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Forum: The Movies
01-13-2025, 02:23 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 47,402
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William Cloud Hicklin
The good news: it's not as bad as Rings of Power ...
The good news: it's not as bad as Rings of Power The bad news: it's not even as good as the Hobbit trilogy. What we have here basically is a minimally competent cliche. There is nothing in it... |
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Forum: The Books
01-06-2025, 01:47 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 11,563
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William Cloud Hicklin
I don't think the Plan ever contemplated the...
I don't think the Plan ever contemplated the Noldor recovering all three. |
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Forum: The Movies
12-21-2024, 06:22 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 47,402
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Now, I haven't seen it, nor do I plan to, but the...
Now, I haven't seen it, nor do I plan to, but the impression I have gleaned from clips and from reviews is that this project is let down, as much as anything, by that plague of contemporary popular... |
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Forum: The Books
11-23-2024, 10:31 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,142
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William Cloud Hicklin
An interesting wargame scenario. There are I...
An interesting wargame scenario. There are I think some logistical concerns; the idea of Sauron sending his main force to march along the coast and occupy all of Gondor but Anorien has a serious... |
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Forum: The Movies
10-26-2024, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 13,179
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
FWIW, Ulmo's speech to Tuor feels like it belongs...
FWIW, Ulmo's speech to Tuor feels like it belongs to the period after Tolkien had really re-thought his cosmology, and thus with or after the AAm typescript. No proof that I can point to, just that... |
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Forum: The Books
09-25-2024, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,861
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
I ran into it in the little post library in...
I ran into it in the little post library in Oberammergau; I was 9 or 10. I had read through all of Baum's Oz books (they had beautiful deluxe first editions, with tooled leather covers, green-gold... |
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Forum: The Books
09-21-2024, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,065
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William Cloud Hicklin
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
08-30-2024, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 100
Views: 36,017
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William Cloud Hicklin
Tolkien's dragons are some of his best villains. ...
Tolkien's dragons are some of his best villains. Smaug, Glaurung and Chrysophylax are all deliciously wicked in their own ways. |
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Forum: The Movies
08-30-2024, 08:36 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,362
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
And then this:
"He [Haldude/Sauron]...
And then this: "He [Haldude/Sauron] encounters some common folk, one of whom is unaccountably capable of articulate profundities almost as if he were speaking as a Californian scriptwriter with... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-30-2024, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,362
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
My favorite (from The One Ring) is titled simply,...
My favorite (from The One Ring) is titled simply, "Boring and Stupid" |
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Forum: The Books
08-29-2024, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,935
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William Cloud Hicklin
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Forum: The Books
08-26-2024, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,935
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Acc to Tolkien, the range of Osanwe was in theory...
Acc to Tolkien, the range of Osanwe was in theory unlimited, but in practice was subject to many limiting or attenuating factors, especially among Eruhini and most especially among mortals. At the... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-25-2024, 07:31 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 47,402
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Except Aethelflaed wasn't out swinging a sword. ...
Except Aethelflaed wasn't out swinging a sword. Like many "warrior" queens (Elizabeth I, Elizabeth the Great, Galadriel) she had a keen mind for strategy, but wasn't personally bashing people with... |
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Forum: The Books
08-24-2024, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,712
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
From the exerpt from Osanwe-kenta:
And...
From the exerpt from Osanwe-kenta: And that I think encapsulates my view: the "curse" was Morgoth's ability to amplify the worst aspects of the target's nature. This is actually not unlike the... |
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Forum: The Books
08-24-2024, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,935
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William Cloud Hicklin
I would be careful about overstating the power...
I would be careful about overstating the power and utility of Osanwe, although some sentences in the essay could be interpreted that way. More important, I think, are Tolkien's comments about... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-06-2024, 05:31 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 38,994
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
You can untick it, since it appears The War of...
You can untick it, since it appears The War of the Rohirrim will have almost nothing to do with what Tolkien wrote. |
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Forum: The Books
08-06-2024, 03:42 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 47,241
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Well, that's not really the reason. It had more...
Well, that's not really the reason. It had more to do with the fact that each successive Emperor (or King of the Germans, since several couldn't be bothered to go to Rome and have the Pope crown... |
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Forum: The Books
06-20-2024, 12:52 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,008
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you...
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. |
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Forum: The Books
06-12-2024, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 7,932
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
'Conspiracy' plot hole
This one has bothered me for decades. At Crickhollow when Merry spills the beans, he says that it began the previous April when ":things got serious", and names Sam their "chief investigator" and... |
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