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The Vǫlsungs were certainly exceptionally heroic, but it's less clear that they, as a family, could be described as entirely 'good' - Norse literary aesthetics seem to have placed less emphasis on...

Btw, for those who haven't heard the news: Tolkien's unfinished alliterative poem The Fall of Arthur was released yesterday. I haven't quite finished the main poem (the book also includes some...

Very nice!

(Minor pedantry: the lines 'Arthur's Fall' and 'Boon's bringer' are each a syllable short (or rather, a metrical position short). Maybe 'In ardour waiting / for Arthur's Fall' and...

I've got my copy, and have read the first canto and a bit. I'm a bit brain dead (it's the middle of a four day rowing regatta right now, so I'm kind of wiped), so I think I'll have to finish it...

Incidentally, I was recently re-reading the Vǫlundarkviða shortly before I went to see the new Star Trek movie. It occurred to me that if they ever made a movie of Vǫlundarkviða, then Benedict...

Interpretation of the Vǫlundarkviða can be pretty difficult, but the phrase 'vísi alfa', 'prince of elves' occurs several times and seems to be a formula genuinely associated with Vǫlund. In the...

If anyone's got an idea for the Classical tradition in Tolkien (or fantasy generally), there's a volume in the works looking for essays on the subject:
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There's a bit more information known than what's on that page - Ardalambion as usual has a pretty decent page: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/orkish.htm

There are also some fairly informative notes by...

I finally got around to watching the new episode - I have to say, I thought it was the first thoroughly enjoyable episode of the show I've seen in a good long while. Easily the best episode of series...

I've read both Ender's Game and The Hunger Games, and while the latter was a perfectly alright adventure story, I think Card's novel is the stronger by a good long ways. (Much better than The Speaker...

They've announced the winner: http://library.wisc.edu/news/2013/04/10/and-the-winner-of-book-madness-is/

Interestingly, the total voting numbers were relatively low - 872 votes total in the last...

Btw, if anyone is wondering about the redirect in Ad Lore, the new forum lets us put in expiring redirects. So we can move a thread, and it will leave behind a link in the original forum for a while...

Yes, Saranna is perfectly right - I'll move this over to 'Books'.

As for the topic itself, if I had any time to spare for reading over work, I would gladly do so, but I'm already behind on...

Yeah, some sort of collection would be a really great book. Though it would presumably have to be an edition of his shorter poetry, or else be a rather substantial work.

I was also relieved to see that Pride and Prejudice beat out Twilight rather handily in the first round.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison is running a 'book madness' competition (inspired by the whole March Madness basketball thing) where they've been pairing off popular or classic books and...

I'd imagine Forochel is indeed the coldest inhabited region (at least the coldest one that's ever featured). But Middle-earth is basically supposed to be our earth in an 'imaginary time', and the...

Moriel, *Yog-Sothoth? Apparently this is actually so, but this name only occurs outside the TV show itself. It definitely caught me off-guard to see a Lovecraftian name in a Doctor Who context! I...

Hmm, yesterday's episode was fairly enjoyable, but also a bit clunky and lazy in a few ways. I'm definitely looking forwards to next week when we get to see a new writer, since I feel like the show...

Yeah, that seems roughly right to me. Obviously they are fairly different types of cities (Cortirion having been on an inland hill, Avallónë a coastal port).



It almost certainly was...

When I said Cortirion 'ceased to exist', I meant within Tolkien's imagination. Think of it as a series of drafts for The Silmarillion. In earlier drafts, Tol Eressea has a city called Kortirion, but...

Welcome to the Plaza, Herenya - this is certainly a fine place for this topic :thumbsup:

This is actually a fairly complicated little topic. Tolkien wrote the first version of Kortirion among the...

Looks like a good year for Tolkien stuff: Arthur, Vinyar Tengwar, Parma Eldalamberon, Roverandom - and also a book of Jenny Dolfen's art (not exclusively her Tolkien stuff, but it will be one of the...

Lilu, while there were certainly a lot of connections between Germanic speaking peoples and Celtic speaking groups (of many sorts: common linguistic and cultural heritage, as well as repeated and...

So I want to start this thread by saying that the connection I'm outlining here is probably a coincidence, but I'm posting it anyway :tongue2:.

My fiancée is writing her thesis on mediaeval...