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Story from Middle-earth about the events of "The Lord of the Rings" being a lie
In the early 2010s, I read a book about a group of adventurers in Middle-earth who retraced the steps of the Fellowship of the Ring and Frodo, only to gradually learn that the history of the Ring and ...
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Does Galadriel's phial help win the Siege of Gondor?
The battle of Battle of the Pelennor Fields happens at the exact time Sam rescues Frodo from Cirith Ungol on March 15. In "The Land of Shadow," Sam says:
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How did the men of Gondor and Rohan communicate and join forces during the siege of Minas Tirith?
At the battle of the Pelennor Fields, Gondorian soldiers are trapped inside the city walls with a giant army of orcs and evil men outside the walls.
After the arrival of the Rohirrim, were the men of ...
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How are appendices included in three-volume Lord of the Rings editions?
I used to own a single volume trade paperback Lord of the Rings edition that had appendices at the end which were useful for keeping timelines straight and providing enjoyable additional material.
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Did Bilbo see Gandalf in between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? [duplicate]
I know that in Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring Bilbo greets Gandalf as an old friend that he hasn't seen for many years. That implies that it's the first meeting between the pair since Bilbo returned ...
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Is it important to read The History of Middle-earth in order?
I'm almost done reading The Silmarillion, and I have a few options available as far as what I should read next: Unfinished Tales, the Reader's Companion to LotR, and The Return of the Shadow. This ...
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Is there any evidence that Tolkien thought of Samwise Gamgee as being particularly fat?
In adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, Samwise Gamgee is consistently portrayed as being overweight. In Peter Jackson's movies, for instance, Sean Astin was specifically asked to put on a good deal ...
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Does any of The Hobbit's negative impression of Wood Elves survive in Tolkien's other writing?
In The Lord of the Rings, the only Wood Elf we get to know is Legolas, who is obviously awesome. But in The Hobbit, the image we get of Wood Elves is far less positive. We are told that they "are ...
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Why didn't Tolkien do more with the Stone-Giants?
In The Hobbit, the heroes shelter from a storm in the mountains and see a group of stone-giants throwing boulders at each other.
The Stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another ...
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Was Elrond always supposed to be an Elf?
This passage in The Hobbit puzzled me:
The master of [Rivendell] was an elf-friend... He was as noble and as fair as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king ...
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Which King took possession of the Stone of Orthanc?
In The Return of the King, when the Fellowship finally parts ways, Pippin says that he wishes they each had palantiri so they could communicate with each other over long distances. Aragorn responds:
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What happened to the Rangers of the North after the War of the Ring?
In The Return of the King, Halbarad and at least two dozen other Rangers of the North come to Aragorn's aid. Halbarad, and possibly some others, die in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and it is ...
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Did Elrond want and expect Aragorn to become the King of Gondor and Arnor?
In the books of The Lord of the Rings, unlike the movies, Aragorn never seems to doubt that he will eventually claim the throne, and Elrond never seems to doubt it either. I got the impression that ...
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How many battles occurred in the War of the Ring?
The question is self explanatory: how many battles took place in the War of the Ring, and what were they called?
We only read about a few battles in the main text of The Lord of the Rings - Helm's ...
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What did Aragorn do with his sword between the battles of Pelennor Fields and Morannon?
After the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Aragorn draws his sword Andúril and says:
"You shall not be sheathed again until the last battle is fought."
The Lord of the Rings, The Return of ...
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