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  2. A Elbereth Gilthoniel - Wikipedia

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    The hymn is not translated in The Lord of the Rings, though it is described: "the sweet syllables of the elvish song fell like clear jewels of blended word and melody. 'It is a song to Elbereth', said Bilbo", and at the very end of the chapter there is a hint as to its meaning: "Good night! I'll take a walk, I think, and look at the stars of ...

  3. The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen - Wikipedia

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    Workman quotes Brooks's statement that "all narration is obituary" and states that it is in that conception that Tolkien valued Arwen's fate: it is Arwen's "mourning gaze that allows for the transmission of Aragorn's memory", [15] or in Tolkien's words which she quotes, "And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in ...

  4. Aragorn - Wikipedia

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    Aragorn (Sindarin: [ˈaraɡɔrn]) is a fictional character and a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.Aragorn is a Ranger of the North, first introduced with the name Strider and later revealed to be the heir of Isildur, an ancient King of Arnor and Gondor.

  5. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien was a scholar of English literature, a philologist and medievalist interested in language and poetry from the Middle Ages, especially that of Anglo-Saxon England and Northern Europe. [1] His professional knowledge of Beowulf, telling of a pagan world but with a Christian narrator, [2] helped to shape his fictional world of ...

  6. Song of Eärendil - Wikipedia

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    The longest poem in The Lord of the Rings is the "Song of Eärendil", also called Eärendillinwë in a different version. [1] This poem has an extraordinarily complex history. [2] Long before writing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote a poem he called "Errantry", probably in the early 1930s, published in The Oxford Magazine on 9

  7. List of weapons and armour in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    The two shards, acquiring the additional name the Sword that was Broken, remained an heirloom of Isildur's heirs throughout the Third Age, and were thus inherited by Aragorn. Elvish smiths re-forged the sword for Aragorn before the Fellowship of the Ring began their quest; Aragorn renamed it Andúril (Quenya: Flame of the West).

  8. The absolutely unexpected and hilarious song behind Reba ...

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    They say you get what you give, and my gosh, she gives so much love to so many! She is deserving of all the love and success along with happiness in her life! Come back next year, Reba, please!!!!!”

  9. The word was popularized in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, [4] in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you don't know what to say". The Sherman Brothers , who wrote the Mary Poppins song, have given several conflicting explanations for the word's origin, in one instance claiming to have coined it themselves ...