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Tolkien Ticked

By deebeedee | Published: February 29, 2008
In principle I object as strongly as is possible to the ‘translation’ of the nomenclature at all (even by a competent person). I wonder why a translator should think himself called on or entitled to do any such thing. That this is an ‘imaginary’ world does not give him any right to remodel it according [...]
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Tolkienesque

By deebeedee | Published: November 15, 2006
Someone at Wikipedia must be a big Middle-earth fan. Yesterday’s featured article was on J. R. R. Tolkien. Last October 5, The Lord of the Rings was the featured article. There was news a month before all this that J.R.R. Tolkien’s son, Christopher Tolkien, just completed editing The Children of Hurin, an epic started by [...]
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Another Path

By danieldyl | Published: December 31, 2004
This rainbow came out this morning after rain poured all night long. In Return of the King, as Gondor was seemingly on the verge of being overtaken by the armies of Mordor, Gandalf comforted Pippin with this description of heaven: …the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must [...]
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