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Genandra of Mirkwood · 06-02-2002, 02:18 PM

Gayahithwen, well I was going to suggest The Hobbit but then I saw you been there done that. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] So...there are frustratingly few detailed references that I have found. Some description in the Sil in the section on the Rings of Power. Also some info in appendices to the chapter about Galadriel and Celeborn in Unfinished Tales. These are "The Silvan Elves and Their Speech" and "The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves." Here's a sampler:
"The Silvan Elves hid themselves in woodland fastnesses beyond the Misty Mountains, and became small and scattered peoples, hardly to be distinguished from Avari; but they still remembered that they were in origin Eldar, members of the Third Clan, and they welcomed those of the Noldor and especially the Sindar who did not pass over the Sea but migrated eastward...Under the leadership of these they became again ordered folk and increased in wisdom. Thranduil father of Legolas of the Nine Walkers was Sindarin, and that tongue was used in his house, though not by all his folk."
I wonder if there is an example somewhere in myth or legend of a forest kingdom that Tolkien drew upon? I can't think of any off the top of my head but if there is one it might give creative inspiration.

[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: Genandra of Mirkwood ]

06-02-2002, 02:18 PM	#11
Genandra of Mirkwood Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 22	Gayahithwen, well I was going to suggest The Hobbit but then I saw you been there done that. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] So...there are frustratingly few detailed references that I have found. Some description in the Sil in the section on the Rings of Power. Also some info in appendices to the chapter about Galadriel and Celeborn in Unfinished Tales. These are "The Silvan Elves and Their Speech" and "The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves." Here's a sampler: "The Silvan Elves hid themselves in woodland fastnesses beyond the Misty Mountains, and became small and scattered peoples, hardly to be distinguished from Avari; but they still remembered that they were in origin Eldar, members of the Third Clan, and they welcomed those of the Noldor and especially the Sindar who did not pass over the Sea but migrated eastward...Under the leadership of these they became again ordered folk and increased in wisdom. Thranduil father of Legolas of the Nine Walkers was Sindarin, and that tongue was used in his house, though not by all his folk." I wonder if there is an example somewhere in myth or legend of a forest kingdom that Tolkien drew upon? I can't think of any off the top of my head but if there is one it might give creative inspiration. [ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: Genandra of Mirkwood ]