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Tolkien's Ring

Tolkien's Ring is a book written by David Day about the origins of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings story and the origins of Middle-earth in general.


Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Michael D. C. Drout's "Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects", featured in the academic journal Tolkien Studies, published by West Virginia University Press, analyses Tolkien's writing style and deduces influence from and parallels with King Lear.

Bishop Ring

Bishop's Ring, a type of atmospheric effect that causes a colored halo around the sun

Bottlinger's ring

A Bottlinger's Ring is a type of halo that is elliptical, instead of circular as the 22° halo or the 46° halo.

Because it is so small however, it is usually seen around the Subsun.

Christopher Tolkien

In the years following his father's death, Christopher Tolkien worked on the manuscript and was able to produce an edition of The Silmarillion for publication in 1977; his assistant for part of this work was the young Guy Gavriel Kay, who would later become a noted fantasy author.

Dáin II Ironfoot

This name and a similar description (not appearing in Tolkien) are also used in the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings Table Top game, and the axe has its own set of rules.

Dark elf

Moriquendi, a fictional race of elves in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium

Elvenking

Thranduil, a character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

Eriol

Ælfwine of England, a character of J. R. R. Tolkien that the Elves call Eriol

Eru Ilúvatar

Ilúvatar was also the only name of God used in earlier versions — the name Eru first appeared in "The Annals of Aman", published in Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth.

Finn and Hengest

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

Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector

For Grond, the fictional battering ram from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, see the List of Middle-earth Weapons and Armour.

Great Road

the Great Road, also known as the Great East Road and other names, an ancient way across Eriador in Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth

Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen

Her translation of The Lord of the Rings (1968-1972) was the first to profit from Tolkien's guide to nomenclature for translators.

Istar

Istari, the "wizards" in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world

Jef Murray

stories, poems, and essays appear regularly in Tolkien and Inklings-oriented

La Compagnia della Forca

The text, instead, is a strange delirium that mixed Max Bunker's style, Tolkien, medieval history, classical Northern European and Middle Eastern tradition, and personal travels (for example, Magnus' travel to Croatia with his wife).

Laburnum anagyroides

The writer J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by the laburnum for his creation of Laurelin, one of the two mythological trees in The Silmarillion, and Tolkien's description of it is strongly influenced by Thompson's verses.

Lardner's Ring

Its title is presumably a tribute to the writer Ring Lardner, Jr., who was among the writers of the 1950s BBC television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Longshanks

An alias of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Marc Zender

Dr. Zender is also known for teaching a class in the summer of 2009 about the languages of The Lord of the Rings under the name of "Tolkien as a Translator" at Harvard.

Memories of Middle Earth

The album was released two years after the band saw much success with its song "Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)" from the album Songs of the Muse.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

"Not all those who wander are lost", a line from the poem All that is gold does not glitter, written by J. R. R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings.

On Fairy-Stories

Tolkien on Fairy-Stories, by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson: "A new expanded edition of Tolkien's most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form..."(2008) ISBN 978-0-00-724466-9.

Pauline Baynes

In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him.

Quest of Erebor

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

Sador

Originally Tolkien conceived Sador as a common man of Dor-lómin, presumably of the Folk of Hador, and this is presented in the narrative of the Narn i Chîn Húrin.

Stonyhurst

The area is also criss-crossed with public footpaths, in particular the Tolkien Trail, a walk around some of the areas thought to have inspired the author during his stay at the college in the late 1940s.

Taliska

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

Ted Nasmith

In October 1996, Nasmith was asked by Tolkien's publishers to provide the artwork for the first illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, during which time Ted developed a strong working relationship with Christopher Tolkien.

Teleri

In the early versions of Tolkien's mythology (see: The History of Middle-earth), they were known as Solosimpi ("Pipers of the Shores"), while the name Teleri was given to the clan of Elves known in the published version of The Silmarillion as Vanyar.

The Armageddon Rag

Lynch had managed several bands, including the legendary rock and roll group, the Nazgûl (named for the demonic creatures in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings).

The Consolation of Philosophy

Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some “Boethian” remarks from Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond.

The House of the Wolfings

In a December 31, 1960 letter published in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, (p. 303), Tolkien wrote: 'The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains.

The Lays of Beleriand

There is an inscription in the Fëanorian characters (Tengwar, an alphabet Tolkien has devised for High-Elves) in the first pages of every History of Middle-earth volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book.

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (ISBN 0-618-05699-8) is a selection of J. R. R. Tolkien's letters published in 1981, edited by Tolkien's biographer Humphrey Carpenter assisted by Christopher Tolkien.

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion

Reprinted for the first time since 1980, and corrected and expanded, is Tolkien's Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings (previously referred to as Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings), an index of persons, places, and things designed to aid the translator in rendering Tolkien's work into foreign languages.

The Road to Middle-earth

The book discusses the sources of Tolkien's inspiration in creating the world of Middle-earth and the writing of works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

The second edition included discussion of the 12-volume History of Middle-earth which was compiled and edited by Tolkien's son Christopher Tolkien as a companion piece to the works of his father.

The Sea-Bell

Although "Looney" was composed long before Tolkien began work on The Lord of the Rings, the 1962 version is subtitled "Frodos Dreme".

Three Rings Design

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.

Tolkien's legendarium

The Middle English South English Legendary is an example of this form of the noun.

Tom Shippey

Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien (Zurich and Berne: Walking Tree Publishers, Cormarë Series 11, 2007, ISBN 978-3-905703-05-4)

Toos van Holstein

But she is also inspired by as well medieval writings as the Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) by the Italian Dante Alighieri and the Germanic Edda found on Iceland as the more modern writers like Garcia Márquez and Tolkien.

Tuor

Unfinished Tales contains the start of a more mature and complete narrative, which Tolkien began after finishing The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s.

Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum

This gallery exhibits the classical experiments like Oersted's experiment, Barlow's wheel, Faraday's ring, etc.

Wormtongue

Gríma Wormtongue, a fictional character by a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

Yarabi

Some Yarabi songs are sung in the Sindarin language (one of Tolkien's Elvish languages): "Yarabi", "I Amar" ("I Amar prestar aen/Han mathon ne nen/Han mathon ne chea/A han noston ned gwilith") and continuing with stories full of mystery and magic in the song "Otilka".


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