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Demosthenes
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Nov 25 2012, 3:08pm
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The whole point of the article was that it /wasn't/ a hummingbird, but could be a thrush.
I still think this could be a pointer for Erebor and that there will be a thrush On The Doorstep.
Regardless we'll know for certain in a couple of weeks, because Elrond will either mention the thrush when he deciphers the map ... or he won't.
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Faenoriel
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Nov 25 2012, 3:09pm
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Hummingbirds are very American
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while thrushes are cosmopolitan (and more generic). We of course can always say "Númenorians did it!", but the general audience might be buzzled by a non-Old World animal in a supposedly Medieval fantasy world.
Btw, does anyone still remember the "what animal is accompanying Radagast in the concept art seen in a vlog?" discussion? Many suspected it was a vallaby, and questions arose of whether this would be accpetable or not. Well, the same concept art was seen in high-res in the leaked Hobbit art book scans... and the animal was one his giant rabbits.
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Faenoriel
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Nov 25 2012, 3:10pm
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Too small and too delicate. //
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Finrod
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Nov 25 2012, 3:15pm
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I've never seen an American Robin in flesh, only European thruses; mostly blackbirds, song thruses and redwings. The bird in the trailer immediately reminded me of a redwing, expect that redwings have red only on their sides, not extending over their belly.
I, also, thought of a (European) redwing, as that has the right size and shape, although not quite the right color breast. But individual turdids have quite a bit of variation in the spottiness. Even an American Robin has a spotty breast as a young bird, which fills out as it matures.
Be warned that like robin, the common names redwing and even blackbird, do mean something else in North America than they do in Europe.
In North America, the most likely thrush you’ll find hovering is Swainson’s Thrush or one of the Bluebirds.
Here is a decent comparative view of a bunch of members of the Turdidae family.
…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.The Silmarillion, pp 150-151 while Felagund laughs beneath the treesin Valinor and comes no more
to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
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dave_lf
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Nov 25 2012, 3:15pm
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To be strict about it, it's not any type of bird--it's a CG creation. So you're probably right; it could well be an imaginary amalgamation of various thrushes that looks (to me) very much like an American Robin, aside from being a little smaller than normal and not moving correctly (and I accept your point about the tail length upon careful inspection). I guess if they did it right, everyone will see the type of thrush that's most familiar to him.
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Faenoriel
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Nov 25 2012, 3:21pm
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Damn pioneers and their lack of imagination
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while naming the new animals they encountered!
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DarkJackal
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Nov 25 2012, 3:37pm
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I would have said this looks like what I see most days in the backyard, an American robin. The yellow beak and subtle white markings around the eye make that particularly obvious (and the red breast, of course). But I did not know robins were considered thrushes before this discussion, so it makes more sense now.
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Finrod
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Nov 25 2012, 3:42pm
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I would have said this looks like what I see most days in the backyard, an American robin. The yellow beak and subtle white markings around the eye make that particularly obvious (and the red breast, of course). But I did not know robins were considered thrushes before this discussion, so it makes more sense now.
Thrushes are members of the Turdidae family, one of whose genera is Turdus, which comprises the true thrushes and of which the American Robin is just one example out of 65. Even bluebirds are thrushes (read, from the same family), although of a different genus.
But Turdus migratorius is too big to hover, and his tail is too long to be this bird.
…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.The Silmarillion, pp 150-151 while Felagund laughs beneath the treesin Valinor and comes no more
to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
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Fardragon
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Nov 25 2012, 3:43pm
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with European robins, who used to be considered thrushes, until they got thrown out of the family (probably for being drunk and disorderly).
A Far Dragon is the best kind...
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Demosthenes
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Nov 25 2012, 3:50pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM_dTFMTvzk
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dormouse
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Nov 25 2012, 4:25pm
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..... unless this is an exotic species of purse. The New Zealand white-throated (I made that bit up) flying purse, perhaps.....
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Faenoriel
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Nov 25 2012, 5:11pm
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And prone to vigilantism with emo bats
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against corrupt sherifs.
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hamlet
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Nov 25 2012, 5:13pm
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Thanks for the bird info. And I love the fact that "the lover of birds" connection has been made with Radagast. Cool.
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Nov 25 2012, 5:31pm
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Ah yes, that looks more like it.
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Similar coloring to the American Robin, but different body type. But in looking at bird sites, I see that there are actually quite a few species of thrush with red breasts from around the world.
All of this makes me hope that the Lonely Mountain thrush is not of this type, as we can see that many people would see the movie and think "robin" instead of "thrush". I know that robins are in the thrush family, but most people think of them as distinct and in their own category.
I know when I read the book, I always pictured the Lonely Mountain bird as something like the Song Thrush, with a streaked breast instead of a red one.
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Silverlode
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Nov 25 2012, 5:36pm
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American robins are larger, and too heavy to hover. 
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DanielLB
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Nov 25 2012, 5:37pm
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Yes, I too imagined the Thrush as a Song Bird
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And Song Birds are commonly known to eat snails, compared to other species of Thrush.
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Finrod
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Nov 25 2012, 5:46pm
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And Song Birds are commonly known to eat snails, compared to other species of Thrush.
Um, don’t you mean Song Thrush, not Song Bird? A songbird is a somewhat generic term. Here’s your thrush:The Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) is a thrush that breeds across much of Eurasia. It is also known in English dialects as throstle or mavis. It has brown upperparts and black-spotted cream or buff underparts and has three recognised subspecies. Its distinctive song, which has repeated musical phrases, has frequently been referred to in poetry.
…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.The Silmarillion, pp 150-151 while Felagund laughs beneath the treesin Valinor and comes no more
to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
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Faenoriel
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Nov 25 2012, 5:46pm
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Aragalen the Green
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Nov 25 2012, 5:54pm
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Sort of hovering (American robin)...
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http://fahrmannphoto.photoshelter.com/image/I0000nE5OUGknTkY
Frito groaned. "I wish I had never been born," he said.
"Do not say that, dear Frito," cried Orlon. "It was a happy minute for us all when you were born."
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Eleniel
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Nov 25 2012, 10:46pm
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Quite likely too, since that is how Tolkien describes it...
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"an enormous thrush, nearly coal black, its pale yellow breast freckled with dark spots"
Michael Martinez has a great article on Tolkien's thrush here
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dormouse
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Nov 25 2012, 11:11pm
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... thanks for the link!
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Nov 26 2012, 2:15am
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Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Bridgekeeper: Huh? I... I don't know that. Auuuuuuuugh!
Sir Bedevere: How do know so much about swallows?
King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
-Tim came by. Tim! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale.
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Aragalen the Green
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Nov 26 2012, 2:29am
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The swallow may fly south with the sun,
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or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land."
Frito groaned. "I wish I had never been born," he said.
"Do not say that, dear Frito," cried Orlon. "It was a happy minute for us all when you were born."
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