I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned this yet, so... I would like to wish my fellow wikians a very happy hobbit day!
Are any of you doing anything special to celebrate?
Beautiful!
I realize this doesn't have anything to do with the post, but thank you for posting. It is good to see this post today. <3
To clarify, if you look on the artist's website that HiddenVale linked, the title of the artwork will tell you that it is a picture of Ancalagon in the War of Wrath (so not any specific battle, just the war in general).
Nice one with the Gorath Braolath though - I got a good laugh out of that. XD 🤣🤣
He didn't.
Nice, thanks for sharing! I hadn't thought about the Trees and the Lamps as artifacts, but it certainly makes sense.
Okay, let me clarify. If you were to make a list of the top most powerful artifacts which have ever existed in Middle-earth, at any point in the timeline of Middle-earth, what would your top ten look like?
Now I'm curious... if we were to include The Silmarillion, what would your new list look like?
Actually I did come across an Elvish dictionary (I forget which dialect it was for, might have been both) once a long time ago. For an incomplete language, it was a pretty good dictionary, too.
(And before anyone asks, I don't remember where I found it, sorry.)
I'm not a Quenya expert, but here's my two cents.
I don't know if there is any word that exactly translates as "hello" in Quenya. However, a greeting phrase that can be used is "elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo", which translates to "a star shines on the hour of our meeting".
More cool art! Whoohoo!
I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned this yet, so... I would like to wish my fellow wikians a very happy hobbit day!
Are any of you doing anything special to celebrate?
I was recently discussing LOTR with a friend, and this friend expressed that after reading the book, she was disappointed with the lack of character development. I don't think that, of course, but how would you have answered this question?
I'd vote, but I don't really know any of these except Peter Jackson's version, and I don't think PJ's version is the best depiction - we never even get to see Sauron, he's just shown as this giant burning eye.
Presumably, they would have made you the richest person in all the world. But they're still corrupted. I wouldn't want them for myself or any friends of mine, not for the whole world and everything in it.
I don't think the Arkenstone is the Silmaril, for several reasons, but logistically, the Lonely Mountain is a long ways away from Beleriand of the First Age. I doubt that Maedhros would have carried the Silmaril that far. Interesting observation, though!
Well, now I do. It just took me a few minutes to understand. XP I don't presume to know what Eru would or wouldn't do, but I guess it's a fair theory.
Sauron was already immortal. Still is, as a matter of fact. When the Ring was destroyed, Sauron didn't actually die, he was just rendered completely powerless.
All right, so the premise here is that the One Ring is not destroyed, but Sauron is somehow unable to get it back?
I think that Sauron's next moves would be to slowly gather an army, build up his own strength, and prepare to take over the world again. He wouldn't be as powerful as he would be if he had the Ring, but he's still plenty powerful.
In other words, I don't think his agenda or plan would change; the lack of the Ring would just make it harder for him to accomplish his plan.
When they were basically non-existent in the major events of Middle-earth (as far as we know)? I doubt it. If they were interested in helping, we would surely have heard more about their work in canon.
No one was safe in the quest. Just ask Boromir. XP
I think that if Gandalf was never resurrected, things would have been quite different.
Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli would have continued to pursue Merry and Pippin in the forest, and either found them or gone on to Gondor without them.
With no Gandalf to free Wormtongue from Théoden and no Théoden to lead the people, Rohan would have fallen. They certainly would not have come to Gondor's aid.
The Rohirrim were perhaps Gondor's biggest allies in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Even if the Dead still came to Minas Tirith's aid, I don't know if Minas Tirith would have survived.
I think, perhaps, Frodo and Sam might still have destroyed the Ring in this alternative universe, but things afterwards would be very different. Both of them likely would have died right afterwards, assuming that no eagles would be coming to rescue them. Even if they managed to make it back out of Mordor, they would come back to a very war-ravaged, if not completely destroyed Gondor and Rohan. There's a fair chance that all the rest of the Fellowship would be dead. They would win, but only to come back and mourn for everyone else. It would be a very bitter victory.