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noWizardme
Half-elven
Jul 26 2013, 12:18pm
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Reading the Thingol and Melian part of the paper made me think about Melian: while in Middle-earth, she is pretty sleeper-like! Having created a sort of psychic duvet of the Girdle of Melian, she snuggles inside, and seems to limit herself to murmuring warnings (which Thingol often ignores). No "Council of Melian" to work out what to do with the silmaril that Beren and Luthien recover, for example. Melian's come in for some stick about this during our current Silmarillion Read-through. next week, of course we reach the chapter in which Thingol and Luthien dies, and Melian abandons her people to their fate. Which is hard to understand - unless the whole thing was pretty dream-like for her, perhaps? Nice essay, glad someone put you up to writing it, telain
Disclaimers: The words of noWizardme may stand on their heads! I'm often wrong about things, and its fun to be taught more.... "nowimë I am in the West, Furincurunir to the Dwarves (or at least, to their best friend) and by other names in other lands. Mostly they just say 'Oh no it's him - look busy!' " Or "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
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TORn AMATEUR SYMPOSIUM Day Six- The Silmarillion topics
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TORn Amateur Symposium
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Jul 26 2013, 7:06am
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Subthread for "Who was the original owner of Orcrist?" by Dark Jackal
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TORn Amateur Symposium
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Jul 26 2013, 7:07am
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Really nice reasoning DJ!
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elaen32
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Jul 26 2013, 10:09am
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I agree - good bit of deduction! //
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noWizardme
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Jul 26 2013, 12:13pm
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I would love to find out how the swords got from Gondolin to the Trolls hoard
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DanielLB
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Jul 26 2013, 5:42pm
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UUT - mithril shirt
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Ardamírë
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Jul 26 2013, 7:01pm
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Thanks for the link Ardamire!
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 7:58pm
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Another one
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Ardamírë
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Jul 26 2013, 8:19pm
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I love this theory!
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Riven Delve
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Jul 26 2013, 8:30pm
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Isn't it great?
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Ardamírë
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Jul 26 2013, 8:39pm
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Commonality in surviving Beleriand
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 8:47pm
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Sounds like that could make for a nice speculative essay next time round, Brethil
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DanielLB
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Jul 27 2013, 3:15pm
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Its a dangerous business, posting on this forum...
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Brethil
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Jul 27 2013, 3:36pm
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Another cool idea ..
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 8:35pm
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Intriguing
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Ardamírë
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Jul 26 2013, 8:45pm
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It not only adds to the mystery
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Riven Delve
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Jul 26 2013, 10:13pm
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That's the one, thank you Ardamírë.
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DanielLB
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Jul 26 2013, 8:10pm
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Agreed
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Ardamírë
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Jul 26 2013, 8:21pm
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I wonder about this too, elaen and Daniel
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Riven Delve
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Jul 26 2013, 7:58pm
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Love the logic of your construct DarkJackal!
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 3:17pm
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A short but sweet paper
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Rembrethil
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Jul 26 2013, 3:29pm
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Beautiful! But -
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sador
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Aug 4 2013, 10:39am
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Subthread for "The Silmarillion as Awakening to the Real World and Adulthood" by Telain
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TORn Amateur Symposium
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Jul 26 2013, 7:08am
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Loved reading this Telain
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elaen32
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Jul 26 2013, 11:01am
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Re waking & sleeping when the hobbits return to the Shire
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noWizardme
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Jul 26 2013, 12:12pm
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bring forth the "beautiful harmonic"!
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telain
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Jul 26 2013, 2:12pm
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regressing and proud of it //
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noWizardme
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Jul 26 2013, 2:51pm
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I shall regress as one of you! //
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 3:52pm
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Frodo's falling asleep
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 3:44pm
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Melian as a sleeper
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noWizardme
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Jul 26 2013, 12:18pm
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Absolutely!
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telain
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Jul 26 2013, 3:26pm
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Melian and Thingol
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 3:51pm
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Asleep in one's lingerie
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CuriousG
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Aug 3 2013, 9:50pm
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about Melian and the silmaril
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elostirion74
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Aug 7 2013, 7:53pm
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So many great examples in the literature
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 3:39pm
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Hanseol and Aretel?
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telain
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Jul 26 2013, 4:29pm
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Sleeping through the ages
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Brethil
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Jul 26 2013, 6:28pm
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Great essay, thank you telain :-)
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DanielLB
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Jul 26 2013, 6:04pm
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I thank you! Ents and morning people...
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telain
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Jul 27 2013, 10:06pm
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Evolution of the Ents
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Brethil
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Jul 30 2013, 4:34pm
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that works for me
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telain
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Jul 30 2013, 10:53pm
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Ents and Entwives
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Brethil
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Aug 3 2013, 3:44pm
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ents, elves and eriador
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telain
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Aug 7 2013, 1:27pm
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Absolutely relevant (and thanks again for that recc!)
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Brethil
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Aug 7 2013, 5:17pm
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Of hiding
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CuriousG
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Aug 3 2013, 9:42pm
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Great points on the Elf strongholds CG
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Brethil
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Aug 3 2013, 10:35pm
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"Dead they looked, and yet it was not so ... Asleep they were."
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squire
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Aug 4 2013, 2:49am
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Another Tolkien theme coming into view?
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noWizardme
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Aug 4 2013, 9:03pm
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Oog
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squire
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Aug 5 2013, 12:13am
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I agree - caution needed about Good and Evil (with caps)
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noWizardme
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Aug 5 2013, 6:47am
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Haemorrheges shrinking without surgery, and the like. //
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sador
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Aug 5 2013, 7:53am
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not hiding, just on the road...
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telain
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Aug 7 2013, 1:40pm
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I finally got to read this.
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sador
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Aug 4 2013, 10:30am
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and I am finally getting to answer!
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telain
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Aug 7 2013, 9:40pm
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One of my favorite Tolkien lines, on this
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squire
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Aug 8 2013, 1:09am
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oh, nice quote
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telain
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Aug 9 2013, 10:00pm
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