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Elves leaving for Aman by the Fourth Age, while bound to the world and its fate
Aman was detached from the world itself by Eru Ilúvatar after the Númenóreans tried to invade it, and, in a sense, it is a place in another dimension; so elves moving there permanently while still ...
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What are all the prophecies in The Lord of the Rings?
I'm looking for a definitive list of all of the prophecies* that have been made within the world of The Lord of the Rings.
The only one I can think of (off the top of my head) is when Glorfindel 2.0 ...
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What happened to Pelmar and the originally sketched Arda?
I’m currently reading through The Silmarillion, and there is this map's discrepancy that I cannot get my head around.
First, there was this sketch of Arda with a central landmass Pelmar, the west and ...
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Were Dior, Eluréd, and Elurín given the same choice as the other Peredhil?
At the end of the First Age, the surviving Half-Elven were given the choice to be either fully Elves or fully Men.
Elrond chose Elven-kind and Elros chose Mankind. It appears that Elrond's children ...
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Why does Isildur claim to have defeated Sauron when Gil-galad and Elendil did it?
It is well-known that Isildur cut the Ring from Sauron, as in The Fellowship of the Ring, The Shadow of the Past Elrond says:
It was Gil-galad, Elven-king and Elendil of Westernesse who ...
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Are the Silmarils and the Rings of Power the same basic thing? [closed]
To my understanding, this question roughly translates as: Are fëa (souls) compositionally the same as "holy light" (e.g. from the Two Lamps, Two Trees, Silmarils, etc.)?
In the same way that ...
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How are Orcs so prolific in Tolkien?
The question as to how Orcs reproduce is one that has come up many times, and the answer is basically, as they are just corrupted Elves they do it in the traditional fashion.
For the Orcs had life ...
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Who made the ring of Barahir
In JRR Tolkien's work the Ring of Barahir (RoB) was one of the key heirlooms of the Heirs of Elendil.
There is a relevant passage I recall, (I think it is from "Appendix A" of LotR, but my ...
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What has appeared in Rings of Power S1 that is outside Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, but still in Tolkien's writings?
While people are quite, and even singularly, focused on things that appear in The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power that aren't in Tolkien's writings anywhere, what I find interesting are things that ...
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Why shouldn't Angrod have forgotten that his father was a lord of the Noldor?
In the XIII chapter of the Silmarillion, Caranthir addressing Angrod says:
“But Caranthir, who loved not the sons of Finarfin, and was the harshest of the brothers and the most quick to anger, cried ...
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Did a dragon ever attack the lands of Rohan or Gondor?
I would like to know if there is anything mentioned in LOTR canon that mentions that a dragon had once attacked the lands of Rohan and/or Gondor, either during the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Age.
Did a dragon ...
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In "The Silmarillion", why did not all the creatures living in total darkness become evil/deformed?
Large stretches of time pass in The Silmarillion with there being no Sun. And when it comes, it's like a little "prop" that just looks nice on the sky.
Does this not meant that all the Elves ...
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Why do the Dunedain wear Fëanorian stars?
Why do the Dunedain wear Fëanorian stars? Is it because of their Noldorin descent through Ëarendil?
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Are there any battle speeches given by Elven commanders in Tolkien's legendarium?
I am looking for battle speeches like the one Théoden gave prior to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in The Return of the King:
Arise! Arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall ...
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Where has Tolkien's Second Age material been published?
A new Tolkien collection, The Fall of Númenor, is due to be published in a few months. It will contain all of the second age material. I believe this will all be reprints. Aside from The Silmarillion ...
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Why didn't Morgoth corrupt the other races of Middle Earth?
I am aware that it is a hotly debated topic on what the true origins of Orcs are. However, assuming that Morgoth did create Orcs by corrupting Elves; why didn't he do the same thing for the other ...
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Would Gandalf know Sauron personally?
The thought just occurred to me that the two had co-existed for eons. Even not taking the music of the Ainur into account, wouldn't they have had ample opportunity to interact with each other on Arda ...
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Why did Tar-Calion listen to Sauron and become so evil?
Around the beginning of his rule, Tar-Calion the Golden was a dear friend to Amandil the Lord of Andúnië, despite Amandil being leader of the Faithful, and he let him be a member of the Council of ...
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Why could Melkor's forces not detect Gondolin by flying around?
If I understand correctly, Gondolin was not protected by any magical or godly means hiding it from Melkor and his forces.
Now, the Echoriad mountains were pretty far up North, and also not that far (...
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What do the family relations between the Valar mean?
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Some of the Valar are described in the Silmarillion as husband and wife, and others are described as siblings. But it seems that the Ainur don't procreate, and it's unclear what marriage means ...
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Why didn't the Valar make a Ring of Power?
Sauron made the One Ring to rule them all by transferring some of his essence into it as a power amplifier.
Morgoth also did this in a different way, using the whole of Arda as a Ring.
Why didn't the ...
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Is there any solid evidence that Sauron was originally called Mairon?
It's common knowledge now that Mairon was a smith of Aule and one of the greatest smiths to be known before he became corrupted and commonly known as Sauron. I want to know if anyone knows any ...
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Are elves born in Valinor after the year of the trees Calaquendi?
Calaquendi are the group of elves in Tolkien’s Legendarium that beheld the light of the two trees in Valinor. It consists of the Vanyar, Noldor, Falmari, and Thingol out of all Umanyar.
Can the status ...
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Which did Tolkien create first, Utumno or Angband?
In the First Age, Melkor had two fortresses, first Utumno and then Angband. Utumno was the older and greater fortress, but it was destroyed by the Valar in the War for Sake of the Elves. Later, ...
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Is the Timeless Void the same Void outside Eru's Timeless Hall?
Is the Timeless Void the same as the Void outside Eru's Timeless Hall before the creation of Eä? Or are they connected as a continuous empty Space?
In the Silmarillion, it is said that Valar thrust ...
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What (if anything) do we know about the orcs who fought against Sauron?
So, in this question, I saw that it was mentioned that all the races of Middle-earth, save the Elves, fought both for and against Sauron during the War of the Last Alliance.
The Silmarillion states:
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Do we know anything at all about Hobbits in the First or Second Age?
From "Prologue: Concerning Hobbits":
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they ...
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How old is Círdan at the end of the Third Age?
It seems likely that Círdan is the oldest living Elf at the end of the Third Age, see here.
Can we estimate how old he is?
I don't think we can get an exact figure, since we don't know when exactly he ...
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Did Tolkien intend to expand the Ents' role in The Silmarillion?
It seems that Tolkien came up with the Ents as he was writing The Lord of the Rings, and then inserted them into his work on the Silmarillion.
In the published form of The Silmarillion, the Ents' role ...
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Did Tolkien come up with the Ents as he was writing Lord of the Rings, or before?
Ents play a pretty important role in The Lord of the Rings. However, they existed as far back as the First Age.
I expected them to have a pretty big role in The Silmarillion when I started reading it. ...
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