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  2. A Elbereth Gilthoniel - Wikipedia

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    It is not translated in the main text where it is first presented. The poem, written in iambic tetrameters, has been likened to a Roman Catholic Marian hymn. Among the musical renderings of the poem, the earliest is Donald Swann's, published in his song cycle The Road Goes Ever On, while The Tolkien Ensemble recorded four different renditions.

  3. The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen - Wikipedia

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    "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" is a story within the Appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.It narrates the love of the mortal Man Aragorn and the immortal Elf-maiden Arwen, telling the story of their first meeting, their eventual betrothal and marriage, and the circumstances of their deaths.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 November ...

  6. 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.

  7. Gil-galad - Wikipedia

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    Gil-galad is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the last high king of the Noldor, one of the main divisions of Elves.He is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, where the hobbit Sam Gamgee recites a fragment of a poem about him, and The Silmarillion.

  8. Sound and language in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Untranslated, but still appreciated: [6] the long version of "A Elbereth Gilthoniel," written in Tolkien's Tengwar script The linguist Allan Turner [ 7 ] writes that "the sound pattern of a language was the source of a special aesthetic pleasure" for Tolkien. [ 8 ]

  9. Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    The presence of sexuality in The Lord of the Rings, a bestselling fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, has been debated, as it is somewhat unobtrusive.However, love and marriage appear in the form of the warm relationship between the hobbits Sam Gamgee and Rosie Cotton; the unreturned feelings of Éowyn for Aragorn, followed by her falling in love with Faramir, and marrying him; and Aragorn's ...