Interesting Links for 19-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. This is my new favourite Lord Of The Rings theory

(tags:lotr fandom )

Comments

[calimac]

I could argue against both the plausibility and the necessity of this, but it would be pointless and killjoy to do so.

[andrewducker]

Oh absolutely. It's very silly. And I'm sure that there's already been plenty of discussion of every detail of Lord of the Rings

[poshmerchant]

Is one of your old favourite Lord of the Rings theories here? http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/theories.htm

[andrewducker]

Probably this classic
https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html

[andrewducker]

But thank you for those!

[melchar]

One extremely quibbling comment ^_^ [quoting]:

Do Tolkien’s Elves and Hobbits have pointed ears?

Yes, they do. Tolkien doesn’t often dwell on describing the minute physical details of his characters, so it is possible to read The Lord of the Rings and his other writings without noticing that either Elves or Hobbits have pointed ears. However, in a 1938 letter (No. 27, p. 35) to his American publishers Tolkien says Hobbits have “a round, jovial face; [with] ears only slightly pointed and ‘elvish.’” From this it is clear that Elvish ears were more obviously pointed. This was confirmed when The Lost Road was published in 1987. In the Etymologies under the first definition of ‘LAS’, which is the element in lasse meaning ‘leaf’, there is this note: “The Quendian ears were more pointed and leaf-shaped than [?human]” (p.368).

[page references: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1981 & 2006; The Lost Road, 2002 UK paperback]

[andrewducker]

Thank you!