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"The Council of Elrond" is the second chapter of Book 2 of J. R. R. Tolkien's bestselling fantasy work, The Lord of the Rings, which was published in 1954–1955.It is the longest chapter in that book at some 15,000 words, and critical for explaining the power and threat of the One Ring, for introducing the final members of the Company of the Ring, and for defining the planned quest to destroy it.
The Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff writes that Balin is the only Dwarf of Thorin's company whose name does not come directly from the Old Norse poem Völuspá, part of the Poetic Edda. [2] The name appears in Sir Thomas Malory's Middle English prose tale Le Morte d'Arthur, but in Rateliff's view Sir Balin is not nearly as likeable a character ...
A frame story is a tale that encloses or frames the main story or set of stories. For example, in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, the main story is framed by a fictional correspondence between an explorer and his sister; [2] in One Thousand and One Nights, compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, the many stories are framed by a tale that Scheherazade keeps the king from executing her ...
Thus for example in "The Council of Elrond", the protagonist Frodo exclaims "I saw you", explaining to the wizard Gandalf: "You were walking backwards and forwards. The moon shone in your hair." The narrative goes on "Gandalf paused astonished and looked at him.
Gandalf recited the inscription in Black Speech at the Council of Elrond, causing everyone to tremble: [T 5] The change in the wizard's voice was astounding. Suddenly it became menacing, powerful, harsh as stone. A shadow seemed to pass over the high sun, and the porch for a moment grew dark. All trembled, and the Elves stopped their ears. [T 5]
Thus in the ending shot of the Council of Elrond scene, when all nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring are standing together, Rhys-Davies and the four Hobbit actors were filmed first. The human-sized characters (Gandalf, Aragorn, Boromir and Legolas ) were filmed in a second take, and the two shots were composited at different scales to ...
The Rings of Power Season 2 Episode 4, Eldest, catches up with Galadriel, Elrond, Nori, and more, while introducing Rory Kinnear as Tom Bombadil.
The book discusses 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.A recurrent theme is that of Tolkien's detailed linguistic studies (particularly of Old Norse and Old English) and the creation of languages (such as Sindarin and Khuzdul) which feature prominently throughout his works.