* Tolkien fandom

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Tolkien fandom is an international, informal community of fans of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially of the Middle-earth legendarium which includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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The term is also used in Tolkien fandom to promote, discuss and debate the idea of a consistent fictional canon within a given subset of Tolkien's writings.

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For example, ringers for " fans of The Lord of the Rings " is used primarily by fans of the Peter Jackson films ( see also Tolkien fandom ).

In the 1939 lecture, Tolkien introduced the term " fantasy " in a sense of " higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so ( when achieved ) the most potent ".

This concept, which shares much in common with phenomenology, Tolkien calls " recovery ," in the sense that one's unquestioned assumptions might be recovered and changed by an outside perspective.

" To achieve a resonant sense of the lost past, the now-legendary time of a peaceful alliance of the Horse-lords with the city of Gondor, Tolkien has adapted lines of the Old English poem The Wanderer.

The Elvish form Nírnaeth Arnoediad ( pronounced ; in this case the digraph oe denotes a rounded variant of the sound, more or less like German ' ö ') comes from Sindarin, one of the languages invented by Tolkien, and translates to Tears Uncountable: nîn means ' tear ( s )', in compound nírnaeth ' tears of woe '; prefix ar-bears the sense of ' beyond ' and the root nod-means ' count ', with o umlauted to œ by the following i. J. R. R. Tolkien often omitted the accent over the first vowel ( due to haste or neglect ), and this spelling was introduced into the published Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien ; in editorial text within later writings, as The War of the Jewels, he used the accented form.

One drawing by Tolkien, if to scale, would have made Thangorodrim 35, 000 ft high, and the statement that it lay 150 leagues ( 450 Númenórean miles ) north of Menegroth puts it too far away for some of the action in The Silmarillion to make sense ; a distance of 150 – 200 miles would have been more consistent.

Trees were of special importance to Tolkien — in his short story " Leaf by Niggle ", which in a sense was an elaborate allegory explaining his own creative process, the protagonist, Niggle, spends his life painting a single Tree.

Since the degree of narrative consistency that might be expected from a series of novels is not always found in Tolkien's work, Flieger attributed the need on the part of some readers to find consistency within the stories to the sense of reality that Tolkien strove to instil in his work, although the search for a definitive fictional canon has been seen as ultimately irrelevant to appreciation of his tales.

Though not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by Owen Barfield ( and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis ) and Richard Tarnas.

Many of the thematic and stylistic differences arose because Tolkien wrote The Hobbit as a story for children, and The Lord of the Rings for the same audience, who had subsequently grown up since its publication.

" Because we grew up on comic books and the Tolkien trilogy, one of the things we're interested in is bringing serial fiction to cinema ," Lana has said.

Arkenstone was influenced by writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien and Ian Fleming, and grew up listening to bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple and Yes, as well as listening to classical music.

Tolkien worked on it up to his death in 1973.

Tolkien wrote that he gave up his mission as one of the Wizards by becoming too obsessed with animals and plants.

When writing The Lord of the Rings Tolkien continued many of the themes he had set up in The Hobbit.

Tolkien was also aware of the name's Germanic cognates ( Old Norse Aurvandill, Lombardic Auriwandalo ), and the question why the Anglo-Saxon one rather than the Lombardic or Proto-Germanic form should be taken up in the mythology is alluded to in The Notion Club Papers.

Gildor's ancestry appears to be a loose thread that Tolkien never properly tied up.

In 2003 the BBC carried out a UK survey entitled The Big Read in order to find the " nation's best-loved novel " of all time, with works by English novelists Tolkien, Austen, Pullman, Adams and Rowling making up the top five on the list.

The paintings are believed by some to have influenced the young J. R. R. Tolkien, then growing up in Birmingham.

In some texts, Tolkien suggests that after the fall of Morgoth, some of his Orcs set up petty kingdoms of their own.

In 2003 the BBC carried out a UK survey entitled The Big Read in order to find the " nation's best-loved novel " of all time, with works by English novelists Tolkien, Austen, Pullman, Adams and Rowling making up the top five on the list.

Tolkien suggests that Sauron settled on Dol Guldur as the focus for his rise during the period before the War of the Ring in part so that he could search for the One Ring in the Gladden Fields just up the river.

While Tolkien wrote that the Orcs were already demoralized before Gandalf arrived, the film encounter is somewhat more dramatic with the Orcs forming up an organized sheltron against the charging Rohirrim horseman but at last minute the Orcs ' line falters after they are dazzled by sunlight.

Tolkien originally described that Eä, the World, was bounded by the Walls of Night, and that the space above the surface of the Earth up to the Walls was divided into three regions ; common birds could keep aloft only within the lower layer, while the Eagles of Manwë could fly " beyond the lights of heaven to the edge of darkness ".

* " The Quest of Erebor ", a story by Tolkien on Gandalf's dealings leading up to the quest

Tolkien read the word as Jutes, and theorized that the fight was a purely Jutish feud, and Finn and Hnæf were simply caught up by circumstance.

Tolkien wrote that the later Ages lasted about 3, 000 years, though this duration was not fixed and he felt that the Ages ' sped up ' over time.

The Hungry Hobbit cafe, located in Birmingham near where J. R. R. Tolkien grew up, was also threatened with legal action in 2011.

Tolkien in 1971 stated that he remembered making up the word himself, admitting that there was nothing but his " nude parole " to support the claim that he was uninfluenced by similar words of the hobgoblin family.

: " For the moment this is held up, because I am having the matter of the etymology: ' Invented by J. R. R. Tolkien ': investigated by experts.

The company is named after the Three Rings of the Elves in Tolkien mythology, and the names of the Three Rings show up in various places throughout Puzzle Pirates such as in the name of the developer flag, Narya.