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J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« on: August 12, 2015, 10:04:00 am »
So I made this thread so I don't detail every other thread with Tolkien talk.

I'm learning Elvish, and have read his more popular books at least twice (LotR, Hobbit, Silmarillion, Unfinished tales)

I'm interested to see if anyone here is as addicted to Tolkien's works as me :P


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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2015, 10:10:33 am »
I like Tolkien's works as well:

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I was going to make the Elvish generator just output random elf words, but if you know elvish, maybe you can help me make it generate sentences that at least make a little sense?



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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2015, 02:38:10 pm »
Just leavin' this here

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But yeah, I watched the movies (except Hobbit 2) and read the hobbit.

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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2015, 07:06:39 pm »
Have you read The Children Of Hurin? What about The Histories of Middle Earth? A long time ago I tried reading unfinished tales, but got bored :P
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2015, 08:18:35 pm »
Yeah, I read the Children of Húrin, was my favorite book until i reread the Silmarillion.

Not the history of middle earth :P
Yet

And I found a few LotR based xkcds :P

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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2015, 08:24:33 pm »
Did you see the one with sorunome at the bar? Ahem ahem I meant Sauron. That one wad the only one I saw, and to me it seemed stupid :P (although the pun was great!)
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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2015, 08:53:39 pm »
Oh yeah

We haven't proved that Soru was a Maia that served Aulë and now serves Morgoth/ is more or less go e until Dagor Dagorath

The doors of durin one's alternate next is nice

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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2015, 12:36:52 am »
sauron + melkor OTP

also, tengwar is fun!

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« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2015, 03:13:50 am »
I haven't start learning Tengwar yet, but I might learn the Quenya mode after learning Quenya

Council of Elrond is a good site to learn Elvish.


EDIT: Does anyone here know Quenya? I read the appendix of the Silmarillion, and there was something about Elvish names. Fëanor's name was originally Fëanáro (Fëa-Spirit, Nár-Fire). I'm wondering if the -o means of, and it's not in the CoE dictionaries.

Yes I'm taking an Elvish name :P
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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2015, 02:38:27 am »
Quoted from codewalrus:
I have no idea how he came up with that tho O.o

From The Silmarillion/ Children of Hurin ;-)

(And warped logic)



Oh, and Middle-Earth was supposed to be around 3000 BC or something like that, I forgot the numbers but I know some of them in terms of ages (LOTR was the third age, Numenor the second, etc)

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3000? Nah.. 10000BC seems more like it. You are talking about the thing where the Tolkien universe is the real universe right? If we say that the fall of numeron was the fall of Atlantis, them we can say that is did not happen 3000bc because if Atlantis sank at that time there would be more traces of it. At least that's my opinion.
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2015, 02:41:16 am »
I know the Elvish part, Quenya right? I don't think it's Sindarin.


I got that info from a Tolkien wiki somwhere :P

But Númenor was the second age, 3000 years before the events of LotR.

But I agree that the SA would be approx 10000BCE

Also: https://xkcd.com/785/

He appears to like Tolkien :P
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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2015, 07:35:09 am »
I've read the Hobbit, Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King, Silmarilllion and Children of Hurin. I gave up on the movies after the second installment to the Hobbit (Peter Jackson- you let me down)



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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien stuff
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2015, 09:22:30 am »
Peter Jackson let everyone down :P

Try to imagine a Silmarillion movie :P 90% would be the Battles of Beleriand :P