Going back to the subject of the orcs being made out of elves through torture and torment, I doubt that under the cosmology all orcs are permanently and irrevocably fated to evil. It seems to me that individual […]

I don’t see anything here about “The Hobbit.” I read a book last month called “The Spiritual World of the Hobbit” by James Stuart Bell. I learned a lot, although I didn’t write down anything. The book was […]

I had completely forgotten about Gundabad orcs!

nienna2, hi and my apologies for a late reply…sometimes I get so busy and just don’t have the time to “dwell” here as much as i would like to …

Your question about the , in my words “missing […]

I think that it is just part of the evolution of his thinking the elves. But @Joseph Bradford would know more than I. :)

speaking of Morgoth’s Ring….anyone have any insight into why Tolkien in the manuscripts making up this book sometimes appears to call the Noldor  ”Gnomes”?  I think of Gnomes as being little garden statues so […]

@theViking It’s cause Morgoth’s Ring is phreakin sweet.

I need to get Morgoth’s Ring! It keeps getting referenced all over the place.

then I have that to look forward to…..a friend gave me Morgoth’s Ring for Christmas and I have been working my way through it since. When I first read Tolkien (meaning LoTR ) years ago, I thought it was great […]

The Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth actually introduces the idea that Iluvatar may one day become incarnate to make all things right (i.e., the Incarnation of Christ).  Since Tolkien’s world is a fictional prehistory […]