There are even a few that are specific to Hobbitish or Buckland lore. Bilbo wrote about "Dumbledors" - huge bees in a poem called "Errantry" for example.
@@John-Sierra oh yes! and Will-o'-the-wisp are referenced by Frodo when describing Gandalf’s staff in Moria. I don’t think they actually existed in world.
Regarding the location of Utumno: While we don't know, there is a popular fan theory out there that the remains could be under or near the Bay of Forochel. According to the theory, this is why that area is so cold.
One thing about being my age is that we read The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit before the movies, or before the internet. Yes these was the goofy Hobbit and Return of the King cartoons, and there was the Ralph Bakshi animated [incomplete] Lord of the Rings adaptation, but in general, one had to visualize these stories purely through imagination. The only descriptions of that world could only be garnered through the words of the books themselves. One tended to reread the different novels after, say, reading The Silmarillion, or The Hobbit, and vice versa. To understand the interconnection between the books, reading them again and again became an imperative. There wasn’t much of a community-at least for me-that one could fall back on to answer the kinds of questions you often see. The problem with having no dedicated community specifically for something like Tolkien’s works is that even misguided or wrong theories about the legendarium become more ingrained. Perhaps it is a concept of “I read the books before you, so I am more of an authority,” or something similar. I have read the Lord of the Rings maybe a half dozen times over forty years, The Silmarillion (which is my favorite) at least a dozen, but The Hobbit perhaps as few as three times. I’ve read The Children of Hurin, and I have The Fall of Gondolin, but I haven’t dove in to these stories as much. I like this channel, and a few others, because you guys give me insights that I might not have otherwise arrived at on my own. Indeed, I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings when I was a teenager in the early 80s, but that makes me no greater or less an authority than someone new to Tolkien in general. The movies granted me great definition to the Middle Earth scenery and it’s characters; still, like the dearth of imagery concerning The Silmarillion, it is nice to use one’s imagination.
I also read them in early teens in early eighties, and I find myself, when I reread LOTR, still imagining the landscapes and interior spaces that I did way back when ~ which is unfortunate, since my imagination was a little stunted (and I hadn't traveled much). Long story short, the movies were at least helpful for augmenting imagination and somewhat grasping the scope and scale of Middle Earth. (I do mentally *fix* Rohan, however, which is described as a verdant prairie and not the bleak high plains desert represented on film)
I know we’re not overly fond of attributing real world languages into Tolkien but the word ‘incanus’ can mean ‘white/grey/hoary’ in Latin. And if you split it differently the ‘cano’ part means ‘to sing’, which is where the term ‘incantation’ comes from and can be applied to ‘prophecy, foretelling’. These seem pretty appropriate descriptors for Gandalf the Grey cloaked, white bearded wizard no?
@@John-Sierracheck out her Tom Bombadil vid. She does a great job studying Tolkien as a person. Also does delightful readings. She says she’s not a scholar but we all know she is.
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Perfect replay to “do faeries exist in Tolkien works”! I love the idea of mythical creatures that may or may not exist in a mythical world.
There are even a few that are specific to Hobbitish or Buckland lore. Bilbo wrote about "Dumbledors" - huge bees in a poem called "Errantry" for example.
@@John-Sierra oh yes! and Will-o'-the-wisp are referenced by Frodo when describing Gandalf’s staff in Moria. I don’t think they actually existed in world.
Regarding the location of Utumno: While we don't know, there is a popular fan theory out there that the remains could be under or near the Bay of Forochel. According to the theory, this is why that area is so cold.
One thing about being my age is that we read The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit before the movies, or before the internet. Yes these was the goofy Hobbit and Return of the King cartoons, and there was the Ralph Bakshi animated [incomplete] Lord of the Rings adaptation, but in general, one had to visualize these stories purely through imagination. The only descriptions of that world could only be garnered through the words of the books themselves. One tended to reread the different novels after, say, reading The Silmarillion, or The Hobbit, and vice versa. To understand the interconnection between the books, reading them again and again became an imperative. There wasn’t much of a community-at least for me-that one could fall back on to answer the kinds of questions you often see.
The problem with having no dedicated community specifically for something like Tolkien’s works is that even misguided or wrong theories about the legendarium become more ingrained. Perhaps it is a concept of “I read the books before you, so I am more of an authority,” or something similar. I have read the Lord of the Rings maybe a half dozen times over forty years, The Silmarillion (which is my favorite) at least a dozen, but The Hobbit perhaps as few as three times. I’ve read The Children of Hurin, and I have The Fall of Gondolin, but I haven’t dove in to these stories as much. I like this channel, and a few others, because you guys give me insights that I might not have otherwise arrived at on my own. Indeed, I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings when I was a teenager in the early 80s, but that makes me no greater or less an authority than someone new to Tolkien in general. The movies granted me great definition to the Middle Earth scenery and it’s characters; still, like the dearth of imagery concerning The Silmarillion, it is nice to use one’s imagination.
I'm glad you don't have Jeff Bezos' imagination. 😅
I also read them in early teens in early eighties, and I find myself, when I reread LOTR, still imagining the landscapes and interior spaces that I did way back when ~ which is unfortunate, since my imagination was a little stunted (and I hadn't traveled much). Long story short, the movies were at least helpful for augmenting imagination and somewhat grasping the scope and scale of Middle Earth. (I do mentally *fix* Rohan, however, which is described as a verdant prairie and not the bleak high plains desert represented on film)
The three kings on the last ship might be Cirdan, Celeborn, and Thranduil.
We three kings of middle-earth are…
Círdan was not a king
Arguably neither was Celeborn, though that's something Tolkien wavered on a bit.
I know we’re not overly fond of attributing real world languages into Tolkien but the word ‘incanus’ can mean ‘white/grey/hoary’ in Latin. And if you split it differently the ‘cano’ part means ‘to sing’, which is where the term ‘incantation’ comes from and can be applied to ‘prophecy, foretelling’. These seem pretty appropriate descriptors for Gandalf the Grey cloaked, white bearded wizard no?
Ask a Tolkien question, get a Tolkien answer.😉
Exactly.
How about a collab with part time hobbit 'Jess of Shire' ?
I'm not familiar with Jess of Shire, I'll have to look into the channel.
@@John-Sierracheck out her Tom Bombadil vid. She does a great job studying Tolkien as a person. Also does delightful readings. She says she’s not a scholar but we all know she is.
Jess of the Shire does some great content.
You and Jess are two of my 3 current go Tolkien channels.