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Today in Middle-earth.
March 7, 3019 (S.R. 1419)
1. The hobbits pass into the fair land of Ithilien.
(not from the appendices)
..."The early daylight was only just creeping down into the shadows under the trees, but he saw his master's face very clearly, and his hands, too, lying at rest on the ground beside him. He was reminded suddenly of Frodo as he had lain, asleep in the house of Elrond, after his deadly wound. Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiselling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: 'I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no....'
...'Sméagol always helps,' he said. 'He has brought rabbits, nice rabbits. But master has gone to sleep, and perhaps Sam wants to sleep. Doesn't want rabbits now? Sméagol tries to help, but he can't catch things all in a minute.'
...Sam, however, had no objection to rabbit at all, and said so....
...Gollum set the pans down, and then suddenly saw what Sam was doing. He gave a thin hissing shriek, and seemed to be both frightened and angry. 'Ach! Sss—no!' he cried. 'No! Silly hobbits, foolish, yes foolish! They mustn't do it!'
...'Mustn't do what?' asked Sam in surprise.
...'Not make the nassty red tongues,' hissed Gollum. 'Fire, fire! It's dangerous, yes it is. It burns, it kills. And it will bring enemies, yes it will.'
...'I don't think so,' said Sam. 'Don't see why it should, if you don't put wet stuff on it and make a smother. But if it does, it does. I'm going to risk it, anyhow. I'm going to stew these coneys.'
...'Stew the rabbits!' squealed Gollum in dismay. 'Spoil beautiful meat Sméagol save for you, poor hungry Sméagol. What for! What for, silly hobbit? They are young , they are tender, they are nice. Eat them, eat them!' He clawed at the nearest rabbit, already skinned and lying by the fire.
...'Now, now!' said Sam. 'Each to his own fashion. Our bread chokes you, and raw coney chokes me. If you give me a coney, the coney's mine, see, to cook, if I have a mind. And I have. You needn't watch me. Go and catch another and eat it as you fancy---somewhere private and out o' my sight. Then you won't see the fire, and I shan't see you, and we'll both be the happier.'"
2. One of Sam's dreams comes true!
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..."To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight, Sam saw a vast shape crash out of the trees and come careering down the slope. Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to him, a grey-clad moving hill. Fear and wonder maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mûmak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth... ...On he came, straight towards the watchers, and then swerved aside in the nick of time, passing only a few yards away, rocking the ground beneath their feet: his great legs like trees, enormous sail-like ears spread out, long snout upraised like a huge serpent about to strike, his small red eyes raging. His upturned hornlike tusks were bound with bands of gold and dripped with blood....
......On the great beast thundered, blundering in blind wrath through pool and thicket. Arrows skipped and snapped harmlessly about the triple hide of his flanks. Men of both sides fled before him, but many he overtook and crushed to the ground. Soon he was lost to view, still trumpeting and stamping far away....
...Sam drew a deep breath. 'An Oliphaunt it was!' he said. 'So there are Oliphaunts, and I have seen one. What a life! But no one at home will ever believe me.'"
3. Frodo taken by Faramir to Henneth Annûn.
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..."'Are the riddling words known to you that Boromir brought to Rivendell?' Frodo replied. Seek for the Sword that was Broken, in Imladris it Dwells.'
...'The words are known indeed,' said Faramir in astonishment. 'It is some token of your truth that you also know them.'
...'Aragorn whom I have named is the bearer of the Sword that was Broken,' said Frodo. 'And we are the Halflings that the rhyme spoke of….'"
..."Frodo had felt himself trembling as the first shock of fear passed. Now a great weariness came down on him like a cloud. He could dissemble and resist no longer.
...'I was going to find a way into Mordor,' he said faintly. 'I was going to Gorgoroth. I must find the Mountain of Fire and cast the thing into the gulf of Doom. Gandalf said so. I do not think I shall ever get there.'
...Faramir stared at him for a moment in grave astonishment. Then suddenly he caught him as he swayed, and lifting him gently, carried him to the bed and laid him there, and covered him warmly. At once he fell into a deep sleep.
...Another bed was set beside him for his servant. Sam hesitated for a moment, then bowing very low: 'Good night, Captain, my lord,' he said. 'You took the chance, sir.'
...'Did I so?' said Faramir.
...'Yes sir, and showed your quality: the very highest.'
...Faramir smiled. 'A pert servant, master Samwise. But nay: the praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. Yet there was naught in this to praise. I had no lure or desire to do other than I have done.'
...'Ah well, sir,' said Sam, 'you said my master had an elvish air; and that was good and true. But I can say this: you have an air too, sir, that reminds me of, of--well, Gandalf, of wizards.'
...'Maybe,' said Faramir. 'Maybe you discern from far away the air of Númenor. Good night!'"
4. Aragorn comes to Dunharrow at nightfall.
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..."The Lady Éowyn greeted them and was glad of their coming; for no mightier men had she seen than the Dúnedain and the fair sons of Elrond; but on Aragorn most of all her eyes rested…."
..."She smiled on him and said: 'Then it was kindly done, lord, to ride so many miles out of your way to bring tidings to Éowyn, and to speak with her in her exile.'
...'Indeed no man would count such a journey wasted,' said Aragorn; 'and yet, Lady, I could not have come hither, if it were not that the road which I must take leads me to Dunharrow.'
...And she answered as one that likes not what is said: 'Then, lord, you are astray; for out of Harrowdale no road runs east or south; and you had best return as you came.'
...'Nay, lady,' said he, 'I am not astray; for I walked in this land ere you were born to grace it. There is a road out of this valley, and that road I shall take. Tomorrow I shall ride by the Paths of the Dead.'"
5. Shadowfax carries Pippin and Gandalf to the next realm.
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..."'…On Shadowfax! We must hasten. Time is short. See! The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid. War is kindled….'"
...'Sleep again, and do not be afraid!' said Gandalf. 'For you are not going like Frodo to Mordor, but to Minas Tirith, and there you will be as safe as you can be anywhere in these days. If Gondor falls, or the Ring is taken, then the Shire will be no refuge.'
...'You do not comfort me,' said Pippin, but nonetheless sleep crept over him. The last thing that he remembered before he fell into deep dream was a glimpse of high white peaks, glimmering like floating isles above the clouds as they caught the light of the westering moon. He wondered where Frodo was, and if he was already in Mordor, or if he was dead; and he did not know that Frodo from far away looked on that same moon as it set beyond Gondor ere the coming of the day."
6. Merry visits Helm's Deep.
(not from the appendices)
..."Merry slept until he was roused by Legolas and Gimli. 'The Sun is high,' said Legolas. 'All others are up and doing. Come, Master Sluggard, and look at this place while you may!'
...'There was a battle here three nights ago,' said Gimli, 'and here Legolas and I played a game that I won only by a single orc. Come and see how it was! And there are caves, Merry, caves of wonder! Shall we visit them, Legolas, do you think?'
...'Nay! There is not time,' said the Elf. 'Do not spoil the wonder with haste! I have given you my word to return hither with you, if a day of peace and freedom comes again.'"
 
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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Elfmei
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Mar 7 2007, 10:33am
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Am so glad that I am the first one to reply the TIME post.
But gramma, the date in the title....was wrong??
This is Elfmei, disappeared from TORn for almost 4 years and finally found her way home~~
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Mar 7 2007, 11:24am
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*Appears with white coat, holed mirror on forehead +stethocope*
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*Checks gramma's pulse, uses beech tongue depressor to check wiggle thing in back of throat.*
Hmm, just as i suspected. What we have here is a case of suppressed spring fever that loosened. It what we doctors call the bip-boiing effect.
Take a long leisurely look through two sunlight illumined beech leaves with a long deep breath, and take 1 cup of ent-draught, twice every 24 hours and call me in the morning.
"Tolkien, like Lewis, believed that, through story, the real world would become a more magical place, full of meaning. We see its patterns and colors in a fresh way. The recovery of a true view of the world applies both to individual things, like hills and stones, and to the cosmic - the depths of space and time itself. For in sub-creation, in Tolkien's view, there is a "survey" of space and time. Reality is captured on a miniature scale. Through stories like The Lord of the Rings, a renewed view of things is given, illuminating the homely, the spiritial, the physical, and the moral dimensions of the world."
Tolkien and C.S. Lewis- The Gift of Friendship -Duriez
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Mar 7 2007, 12:12pm
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'Gramma, we gotta get back to the future ... Dah dada dah da da dah ...
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Still, so much happened on that day - *phew* Amazing is it not that Mr Tolkien managed to keep all those balls in the air, and at the finish, bring every loose end together? I think so.
Thanks so much for posting all of this, {{gramma}}
**** Far over the plain Éowyn saw the glitter of their spears, as she stood still, alone before the doors of the silent house. ***
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Mar 7 2007, 1:16pm
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*looks at date* "Do not spoil the wonder with haste"
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to quote a certain Elf; a bit of silneldor's "remedy" might be in order, gramma! 
The Ring held off Frodo's aging - but it could not hide it from Sam's eyes. He can be as perceptive as a Wizard at times.
One of my favorite lines from Tolkien's letters, this one to Christopher on 24 April 1944: "At this point I require to know how much later the moon gets up each night when nearing the full, and how to stew a rabbit!". This part of his Letters, where Tolkien describes what he's been writing, or more like what he's been discovering, is dear to me! The next letter, 30 April: "A large elephant of prehistoric size, a war-elephant of the Swertings, is loose, and Sam has gratified a life-long wish to see an Oliphaunt, an animal about which there was a hobbit nursery-rhyme (though it was commonly supposed to be mythical)...On the whole Sam is behaving well, and living up to repute." And on 4 May: "A new character has come on the scene (I am sure I did not invent him, I did not even want him, though I like him, but there he came walking into the woods of Ithilien): Faramir, the brother of Boromir..."
Ack, I'm getting carried away, here! 
"...for I walked in this land ere you were born to grace it" - anyone picking up on this for the first time must be thinking, "how the heck old is this guy?"! But the idea that he's her own age plus at least a couple of decades doesn't seem to deter Éowyn at all!
Gimli and Legolas give Merry a tour of Helm's Deep - love little moments like this!
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Mar 7 2007, 2:18pm
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Sam drew a deep breath. 'An Oliphaunt it was!' he said. 'So there are Oliphaunts, and I have seen one. What a life! But no one at home will ever believe me.'"
In Sam's heart he still believes he is coming home. How can you not love him? Faramir was right when he said the praise of the praiseworthy was above all rewards. ..."She smiled on him and said: 'Then it was kindly done, lord, to ride so many miles out of your way to bring tidings to Éowyn, and to speak with her in her exile.'
...'Indeed no man would count such a journey wasted,' said Aragorn; 'and yet, Lady, I could not have come hither, if it were not that the road which I must take leads me to Dunharrow.'
We can see the diplomatic side of Aragorn here. He manages to be courteous to Eowyn without giving her false encouragement. It's no surprise she doesn't like what he says. Thanks, gramma. Your TIME posts take me right back to Middle-earth.
I wish you could have been there
When she opened up the door
And looked me in the face
Like she never did before
I felt about as welcome
As a Wal-Mart Superstore--John Prine
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Mar 7 2007, 3:05pm
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OH! BWahaahahah!!! What the heck was I thinking!? *thunks noggin* //
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Mar 7 2007, 3:05pm
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Gold stars to those who were paying attention ;) It was my plan all along *kaff*//
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Mar 7 2007, 3:07pm
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the only reason I can come up with. The snow this morning is sparkly and soft, so it's almost acceptable. I'm SO TIRED of being cold... *shiver*
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
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Mar 7 2007, 3:08pm
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No... I'm sure somewhere in the universe it's the 27th ;P //
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Mar 7 2007, 3:14pm
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It certainly applies here. Tolkien discovers Faramir... what a delight to see him discover the world along with us! *sigh*
I just added that part of Sam seeing the Oliphaunt this morning when I was getting ready to post. I just HAD to have Sam's moment in there. What cracks me up about cooking the rabbit is that Sam keeps calling them coneys and Smeagol keeps calling them rabbits. I also like how Frodo refers to Mt. Doom as those in the Shire call it... the Mountain of Fire. Our hobbit of the Shire.
I think this moment of Sam seeing Frodo as he sleeps and Tolkien's description of what he sees and actually says along with seeing the Star later on are two of his most magical moments.
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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Mar 7 2007, 3:17pm
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Sam and Faramir appreciating each other
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is wonderful. One of my favourite exchanges. "Did I so?" Lovely :)
Sam is still on his way home the long way 'round, isn't he? :) Love that hobbit. But I always crack up when he berates himself or shoots himself down right in the next breath after discovering something. "No one at home will ever believe me." Poor Sam...
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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Mar 7 2007, 3:25pm
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Take care of yourself under that cold....
This is Elfmei, disappeared from TORn for almost 4 years and finally found her way home~~
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TIME - March 8 EIGHT! Number VIII.
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Today in Middle-earth.
March 8, 3019 (S.R. 1419)
1. Aragorn takes the 'Paths of the Dead' at daybreak; he reaches Erech at midnight.
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..."But Arod, the horse of Rohan, refused the way, and he stood sweating and trembling in a fear that was grievous to see. Then Legolas laid his hands on his eyes and sang some words that went soft in the gloom, until he suffered himself to be led, and Legolas passed in. And there stood Gimli the Dwarf left all alone. His knees shook, and he was wroth with himself. 'Here is a thing unheard of!' he said. 'An Elf will go underground and a Dwarf dare not!' With that he plunged in. But it seemed to him that he dragged his feet like lead over the threshold; and at once a blindness came upon him, even upon Gimli Glóin's son who had walked unafraid in many deep places of the world.
...Aragorn had brought torches from Dunharrow, and now he went ahead bearing one aloft; and Elladan with another went at the rear, and Gimli, stumbling behind, strove to overtake him. He could see nothing but the dim flame of the torches; but if the company halted, there seemed an endless whisper of voices all about him, a murmur of words in no tongue that he had ever heard before.
...Nothing assailed the company nor withstood their passage, and yet steadily fear grew on the Dwarf as he went on: most of all because he knew now that there could be no turning back; all the paths behind were thronged by an unseen host that followed in the dark.
...So time unreckoned passed...
...[Aragorn] cried, turning back and speaking to the whispering darkness behind. 'Keep your hoards and your secrets hidden in the Accursed Years! Speed only we ask. Let us pass, and then come! I summon you to the Stone of Erech!'
...There was no answer, unless it were an utter silence more dreadful than the whispers before; and then a chill blast came in which the torches flickered and went out, and could not be rekindled. Of the time that followed, one hour or many, Gimli remembered little. The others pressed on, but he was ever hindmost, pursued by a groping horror that seemed always just about to seize him; and a rumour came after him like the shadow-sound of many feet. He stumbled on until he was crawling like a beast on the ground and felt that he could endure no more: he must either find an ending and escape or run back in madness to meet the following fear...
...'The Dead are following,' said Legolas. 'I see shapes of Men and of horses, and pale banners like shreds of cloud, and spears like winter-thickets on a misty night. The Dead are following.'"
..."To that Stone the Company came and halted in the dead of night. Then Elrohir gave to Aragorn a silver horn, and he blew upon it; and it seemed to those that stood near that they heard a sound of answering horns, as if it was an echo in deep caves far away. No other sound they heard, and yet they were aware of a great host gathered all about the hill on which they stood; and a chill wind like the breath of ghosts came down from the mountains. But Aragorn dismounted, and standing by the Stone he cried in a great voice:
...'Oathbreakers, why have ye come?'
...And a voice was heard out of the night that answered him, as if from far away:
...'To fulfil our oath and have peace.'"
2. Frodo leaves Henneth Annûn.
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..."The hobbits' packs were brought to them (a little heavier than they had been), and also two stout staves of polished wood, shod with iron, and with carven heads through which ran plaited leathern thongs.
...'I have no fitting gifts to give you at our parting,' said Faramir; 'but take these staves. They may be of service to those who walk or climb in the wild. The men of the White Mountains use them; though these have been cut down to your height and newly shod. They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor, and a virtue has been set upon them of finding and returning. May that virtue not wholly fall under the Shadow into which you go!'
...The hobbits bowed low. 'Most gracious host,' said Frodo, 'it was said to me by Elrond Halfelven that I should find friendship upon the way, secret and unlooked for. Certainly I looked for no such friendship as you have shown. To have found it turns evil to great good...'
.....He embraced the hobbits then, after the manner of his people, stooping, and placing his hands upon their shoulders, and kissing their foreheads. 'Go with the good will of all good men!' he said.
...They bowed to the ground. Then he turned and without looking back he left them and went to his two guards that stood at a little distance away. They marvelled to see with what speed these greenclad men now moved, vanishing almost in the twinkling of an eye. The forest where Faramir had stood seemed empty and drear, as if a dream had passed."
3. Merry and the Rohirrim make their way to Dunharrow.
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..."He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
...He was very tired, for though they had ridden slowly, they had ridden with very little rest. Hour after hour for nearly three weary days he had jogged up and down, over passes, and through long dales, and across many streams. Sometimes where the way was broader he had ridden at the king's side, not noticing that many of the Riders smiled to see the two together: the hobbit on his little shaggy grey pony, and the Lord of Rohan on his great white horse. Then he had talked to Théoden, telling him about his home and the doings of the Shire-folk, or listening in turn to tales of the Mark and its mighty men of old. But most of the time, especially on this last day, Merry had ridden by himself just behind the king, saying nothing, and trying to understand the slow sonorous speech of Rohan that he heard the men behind him using. It was a language in which there seemed to be many words that he knew, though spoken more richly and strongly than in the Shire, yet he could not piece the words together. At times some Rider would lift up his clear voice in stirring song, and Merry felt his heart leap, though he did not know what it was about."
4. Shadowfax flies across the fields of Gondor.
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..."Pippin woke to the sound of voices. Another day of hiding and a night of journey had fleeted by.... Shadowfax stood steaming with sweat, but he held his neck proudly and showed no sign of weariness....
...Gandalf was speaking to the men that barred his way, and as he listened Pippin became aware that he himself was being discussed.
...'Yea truly, we know you, Mithrandir,' said the leader of the men, 'and you know the pass-words of the Seven Gates and are free to go forward. But we do not know your companion. What is he? A dwarf out of the mountains in the North? We wish for no strangers in the land at this time, unless they be mighty men of arms in whose faith and help we can trust.'
...I will vouch for him before the seat of Denethor,' said Gandalf. 'And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. He has passed through more battles and perils than you have, Ingold, though you be twice his height; and he comes now from the storming of Isengard, of which we bear tidings, and great weariness is on him, or I would wake him. His name is Peregrin, a very valiant man.'
...'Man?' said Ingold dubiously, and the others laughed.
...'Man!' cried Pippin, now thoroughly roused. 'Man! Indeed not! I am a hobbit and no more valiant than I am a man, save perhaps now and again by necessity. Do not let Gandalf deceive you!'
...'Many a doer of great deeds might say no more,' said Ingold. 'But what is a hobbit?'
...'A Halfling,' answered Gandalf. 'Nay, not the one that was spoken of,' he added seeing the wonder in the men's faces. 'Not he, yet one of his kindred.'"
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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Mar 8 2007, 10:28am
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Am I quoting the prof. correctly dernwyn?
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Wasn't there also this passage in Tolkien's letters regarding his creation of Middle Earth? Professor Tolkien is quoted something to the effect of: "It came to me, somewhere not of invention."
That quote always struck me as magical and wonderful.
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I know I've seen that phrase also, somewhere in Letters. I couldn't find exactly that, doing a quick browse through the Index (I'll look again later), but it did bring me to this, from the famous Letter #131 to Milton Waldman:
"...yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'."
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Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and their company are, in a way parallelling Frodo, Sam, and Gollum's journey at this point: the former walking the Paths of the Dead, the latter beginning their walk to the Morgul Vale: both groups willingly traversing those dead places.
I love how Tolkien gives to Merry the same delight in hearing an ancient but similar language, that he himself has.
The valiant Man Halfling! Do rumors spread quickly - it's clear that Faramir's (and Boromir's) dream was no secret. But then, it was probably well-known that Boromir had headed out on the quest to find "Imladris".
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Mar 8 2007, 3:03pm
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Boromir was their captain. I love how Faramir and Boromir each has their loyal followers.
Great catch on the two factions enduring the dead lands at the same time!
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Um, gramma, all your posts have bugs... :-O /
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NOT REALLY! But I'm trying this out to help me keep track of the posts gives me a point of reference. The dyslexia I have makes it hard to look over for my nick and follow the line back across to where the subject lines begin. I know it's weird... but it's made it hard for me to navigate. I was thing of using something other than the bugs... they probably have another purpose I haven't caught up with yet. I'll be creative ;)
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Mar 9 2007, 10:16am
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I mean... OH! A Bull!! ;) Great picture :D
I agree! What a great image it creates! I have to say I love Tolkien's army of the Dead and how Aragorn kept them under his will. Wonderful!
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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dernwyn
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Mar 9 2007, 12:05pm
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Got it! But for a while, I was beginning to worry...
Too bad there's no little "Stings" or "mallorn leaves" or Tolkienish things like that, which could be used for icons - sort of like having a "subject line avatar".
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Still 'round the corner there may wait
A new road, or a secret gate...
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Even HE was amazed by this tale :) //
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