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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8075448" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>It's not, but I find it hilarious that people think it is (you're not alone). Any actual scholar of Qenya, Sindarin, Ñoldoli, Mithrin, Doriathrin, Telerin, etc would probably be offended if I claimed it was any sort of proper Sindarin formation. It comes from a child me creating a name that sounded vaguely similar, decades ago. Thanks. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I disagree about singing (it's not so constant, when the Hobbits are singing in Book I, they're usually admonished by fate for doing so and/or were in a safe place, and when anyone else is singing throughout the series, it's in a very reasonable place). Song is used in the bardic sense - to encourage, inspire, grant fortitude and the ability to keep on going.</p><p></p><p>About lack of female characters, I agree with you wholeheartedly for Hobbit & LotR, though they're abundantly present in his Silmarillion Great Stories. Probably because Tolkien was writing based on his experiences in WWI, marching over the Alps and hunkered and bunkered down in the trenches.</p><p></p><p>I love the Rankin-Bass cartoons fyi, as cheesy as they are, for the gorgeous proto-Ghibli artwork. But this is a big reason why Tauriel was added to the Hobbit trilogy, to the nerdrage of millions, as well as why Arwen's role was expanded to the LotR trilogy, to the nerdhots of millions. You can't win always.</p><p></p><p>I agree he should have resolved a lot in his books. He was tinkering with them to the end of his life. Silmarillion, Hobbit, and LotR form a cohesive super-text, but Silmarillion is a frankenstein's monster since Tolkien never settled on major questions like do Orcs have souls and free will, and if so, does that make his heroes racist? So he never finished it, and Chris asked a popular writer to help fill in the gaps and few were the wiser until Christopher did the History of Middle-earth.</p><p></p><p>In any case, Tolkien himself would say the works have numerous flaws and inconsistencies that he wished to reconcile, if he was still alive. Few authors are satisfied with their works, even when they get them to the published state. George Lucas was the same with Star Wars…</p><p></p><p>Speaking of American Fantasy giants.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8075448, member: 6803643"] It's not, but I find it hilarious that people think it is (you're not alone). Any actual scholar of Qenya, Sindarin, Ñoldoli, Mithrin, Doriathrin, Telerin, etc would probably be offended if I claimed it was any sort of proper Sindarin formation. It comes from a child me creating a name that sounded vaguely similar, decades ago. Thanks. :D I disagree about singing (it's not so constant, when the Hobbits are singing in Book I, they're usually admonished by fate for doing so and/or were in a safe place, and when anyone else is singing throughout the series, it's in a very reasonable place). Song is used in the bardic sense - to encourage, inspire, grant fortitude and the ability to keep on going. About lack of female characters, I agree with you wholeheartedly for Hobbit & LotR, though they're abundantly present in his Silmarillion Great Stories. Probably because Tolkien was writing based on his experiences in WWI, marching over the Alps and hunkered and bunkered down in the trenches. I love the Rankin-Bass cartoons fyi, as cheesy as they are, for the gorgeous proto-Ghibli artwork. But this is a big reason why Tauriel was added to the Hobbit trilogy, to the nerdrage of millions, as well as why Arwen's role was expanded to the LotR trilogy, to the nerdhots of millions. You can't win always. I agree he should have resolved a lot in his books. He was tinkering with them to the end of his life. Silmarillion, Hobbit, and LotR form a cohesive super-text, but Silmarillion is a frankenstein's monster since Tolkien never settled on major questions like do Orcs have souls and free will, and if so, does that make his heroes racist? So he never finished it, and Chris asked a popular writer to help fill in the gaps and few were the wiser until Christopher did the History of Middle-earth. In any case, Tolkien himself would say the works have numerous flaws and inconsistencies that he wished to reconcile, if he was still alive. Few authors are satisfied with their works, even when they get them to the published state. George Lucas was the same with Star Wars… Speaking of American Fantasy giants. [/QUOTE]
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