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A Sense of History: Thálatta! Thálatta! While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
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While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
With Gildor Inglorion we finally climb the stairs of Elostirion and look on the view, and what we see appears to reveal a hidden thread in the story of Frodo Baggins. This post reads two annotated translations of two Elvish songs to step through a crossroads in the narrative to arrive at the tower on the margin of the story, wherein is a stone that is a window onto Valinor.
In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.
Bilbo recounts, in verse, the attempt of Gandalf, Beorn, and him to cross the Forest River after the Battle of Five Armies. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition.
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Awww, I’m happy to see Maeglin and Celebrimbor bonding and discussing their experiences with dwarves. I also liked how Celebrimbor explained the idea how the Doors of Durin work and how the Dwarves didn’t understand that the right mindset was also needed. This makes me think that Sauron perhaps knew the password (perhaps Celebrimbor was forced to reveal it), but didn’t have the right mindset so the Dwarves were safe.
I think it would be strange if Sauron never found out the password, either through simply asking, when he was Annatar or later from Celebrimbor. So here there is a trick to it. If you're not a friend, it simply won't work.
Thank you! I think it's sad that they never met in canon. I don't think the dwarves would have let Celebrimbor write the password on the door, if it were as easy as speaking it. So I decided there must be a trick to it 😁
Oh, I so feel for Maeglin, the stuffy air and too-loud voices. And Celebrimbor is very sweet and yet so genuinely interested. And I think I'd prefer Dwarvish dances too.
So those glow-in-the-orc-presence blades are Maeglin's!! And the fact that the password works with a form of osawë too is simply ingenious.
(ETA: ... as is the explanation for Sauron not being able to get into Khazad-dûm, because Annatar would certainly have known the password.)
I really enjoyed so many aspects of this little rich little piece.
I'm not a fan of crowds myself, especially if I don't have anyone to talk to. Luckily for Maeglin Celebrimbor wants to talk to him 😃.
I'm pretty sure the idea that Maeglin made the glowing swords is from another fic, but I don't remember which (I'm a magpie, all the interesting things get incorporated into my own works 😅).
I doubt the dwarves would let Celebrimbor write the password on the door for everyone to see, even if it were peaceful times, if that was all that was needed and I agree that Sauron surely would have taken care to find out the password. But he's not a friend and the door knows it.
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