Avui, llegint el capítol sobre les caigudes d'imperis i les edats de la #terra, m'ha vingut al cap que la #guerra de #Troia potser va ser una font d'inspiració per #Tolkien a El Senyor dels Anells, però aquí els herois d'Hómer són els defensors de la ciutat de #MinasTirith
Thanks, you lovely people, for reminding me I needed to write this 
#Tolkien References Project: Marvel
(not Marcel, damn it! 
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Woah, this is pretty trippy. In Saxo, Hamlet's dad is named Horwendillus. This is directly cognate with Eärendil in #Tolkien.
#Tolkien drew upon the Icelandic Sagas for "Fall of Gondolin": he uses the characteristic switch between past and present tense when there's action, and he mentions a "housecarle".
I really enjoyed this wonderful post by @dr_dimitra_fimi : https://open.substack.com/pub/dimitrafimi/p/on-tolkiens-letter-131-1-capturing?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about "timeless Elvish enchantment", #Tolkien 's letter 131 and Lothlorien.
Thanks to @thetolkienist who recommended it !
The Silver Million
Orc is not a later term than goblin, although only goblin occurs in "The Hobbit". Both are used synonymously in "Fall of Gondolin" (1917). The orcs ride inside metal dragons, obvious contemporary references to WW1 tanks. The first orcs were German soldiers.
#Tolkien was also a skilled calligrapher (below an image of one of the manuscripts done by J.R.R. Tolkien).
He taught medieval #paleography at Oxford University.
@HansLWernitz Die Frau und ihr Verhältnis zum Madman erinnert mich irgendwie an den #HerrderRinge.
Dort ist es ja Grima Schlangenzunge, der dem von Saruman umnachteten und zur Marionette gemachten König Theoden übelste Ratschläge gibt.
Aktuelle Rollenverteilung: #Loomer als Grima, #Trump als Theoden und natürlich #Putin als Saruman.
Ich sage ja immer, man kann alles aus den Werken von #Tolkien ableiten. Großartig!
There's a strange preoccupation with underground rivers in the first version av The Fall of Gondolin. First Tuor travels down one of them to get out of Dor-lómin. Then after a huge aimless detour he travels up another one to get into Gondolin.
Has anybody made a timeline of which year #Tolkien 's countless fictional characters are first mentioned in writing?
I can't get over the fact that the writing process that led to The Lord of the Rings started 30 years earlier with a completely aimless and pointless story about Tuor hiking.
Middle Earth is my go-to escape from reality. But it’s not only escape: I feel that it’s written to strengthen and aid the reader for life, just like Gandalf’s purpose was to encourage men, elves, and dwarves to resist Sauron.
It's pretty neat in Tolkien's mature work how when characters and events from the 1st Age pop up in the 3rd Age, they're not just revenants from Middle-Earth's youth. They're also callbacks to material written in Tolkien's own youth. Like the ancient swords in the troll den in The Hobbit. Like the Balrog in LotR.
L'exposition "#AubussonTisseTolkien" actuellement au #CollègeDesBernardins est accompagnée de nombreuses animations.
Il y a notamment plusieurs concerts autour de #Tolkien qui auront lieu vendredi et samedi prochains !
Retrouvez notre récap : https://www.tolkiendil.com/tolkien/sur-tolkien/exposition_bernardins
#Tolkien 's earliest Middle-Earth fiction again from 1917:
Melko hears that there's this one guy hiking along the river Sirion. He responds to this by sending "a mighty army of spies" to look for the guy. Huh?
In "The Fall of Gondolin", #Tolkien informs us that the fountains before the doors of the king's palace shot 27 fathoms into the air, that is, 49.4 metres. This suggests an earlier version of the text where the fountains were 50 metres tall, and that Tolkien *calculated* how many fathoms this was when he switched to an older unit of measurement.
The #Tolkien book I'm reading is named "The Phallus of Gondwanaland" or something such.
Este fin de semana hago cosas tolkienianas en Barcelona.
#Tolkien #SmialSTE #LuisBermejo
