This is a perfect #Jolabokaflod gift! I‘ve had this book of essays about women in the works of Tolkien on my wish list for quite a while and am looking forward to at least choosing one of them to read later this evening while also enjoying some delicious Dove truffles. Thank you to @Light_of_Aether for a great gift and to @MaleficentBookDragon for organizing this wonderfully festive swap!
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I‘ve got two words to share today. This one is actually from the Lord of the Rings Reader‘s Companion rather than LotR itself. Tolkien explains in a letter how Frodo‘s actions at the Crack of Doom had been foreshadowed or adumbrated earlier in the story.
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Not many notes for this chapter, just a lap full of pets who don‘t think I should get up to finish this morning‘s housework or get ready to leave for church.
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For Book 6 Chapter 4 “The Field of Cormallen”
I found this note about March 25, the day the ring was destroyed, and it‘s traditional relevance in Christian history as the date of the Annunciation and Crucifixion interesting. The note also explains its meaning as Lady Day which I had no knowledge of, other than recently noticing it in reading Tess of the D‘Urbervilles.
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From Book 5 Chapter 6 “The Battle of the Pelennor Fields”
This is another place we see just how much interconnection there is between the details of the story. Comments made in Book 1 are relevant to events in Book 5, and the history within the story connects the event back to the Numenoreans.
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From Book 5 Chapter 6 “The Battle of the Pelennor Fields”
Eowyn refers to the Nazgûl as a dwimmerlaik. What a fun word to use at the start of such a momentous scene.
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In this letter from November of 1944 while working on the final chapters of The Two Towers, Tolkien writes to his son Christopher.
“I have got the hero into such a fix that not even an author will be able to extricate him without labour and difficulty.”
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