AJoyMorePoignant

All things Tolkien and imaginatively adjacent

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@DigitalTolkien Though both at Oxford during overlapping windows of time, I’m not aware of any meeting or connection ever being described anywhere.

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@Windmillfighter @TolkienWonder Great recommendation

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Hmmm

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@ringswrapup @TheRingsofPower Honestly looks like a step up from last season in cohesive vision, cinematic quality, and pacing. I’m genuinely optimistic. I also think their vision and approach into Tolkien is coming into focus… I’m seeing more references to his letters, deeper themes, and subtle elements.

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“Banners”

[Rings Of Power Era @RingsOfPowerEra]

Amazon: "This season features the long-awaited Siege of Eregion, a definitive battle in J.R.R. Tolkien’s history of the Second Age of Middle-earth, from which not everyone makes it out alive. The banners are raised, and the devastating war against Sauron is just beginning."

[Rings Of Power Era @RingsOfPowerEra]

Elrond at the Council of Elrond:

"The Barrow-wights we know by many names; and of the Old Forest many tales have been told...In those lands I journeyed once, and many things wild and strange I knew. But I had forgotten Bombadil, if indeed this is still the same that walked the woods and hills long ago, and even then was older than the old...He is a strange creature."

#TROPspoilers

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Did you see the possible Watcher in the Water @tolkienprof ? My mind went straight there after your recent Exploring the Lord of the Rings podcast via @SignumU 😃 (realize it’s prob not, but super snakey!)

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.@prancingponypod @ShawnEMarchese Some of this was news to me! How about you? Pretty great: https://t.co/PMYeGzaWLY

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@TeawithTolkien Or “purple stuff”

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@TeawithTolkien @whitecachalot We demand the extended editions! (please)

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@Phusaza What if it was rings

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@TolkienTube It’s an Iron Giant reference, and I’m not sure it’s as dumb as people want to think.

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@sIickslack @LOTRonPrime Could you imagine if they released extended editions of each ep? In keeping with tradition

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@TolkienWonder I can see it… but that door wasn’t so shut in the ep. Maybe it could be by the third age, and that’s their point.

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@theoneringnet 7.5

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@sIickslack Perhaps at least more subtlety

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@TolkienWonder Or even just doing the tree/lie… that’d be great

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@TeawithTolkien @HalfAsWellPod Guessing we will with men and dwarves? Not sure

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@TolkienWonder Nicely done

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@MrMillerSci @DigitalTolkien @Katherine_Sas Many zombie/vampire movies have situations where people try and hide the fact they are bitten/infected. Something like that?

I guess Theo’s arm/wrist kind of functions like that. Of course there’s the whole “mark of Cain” concept which is a bit different.