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TolkienTrewsday: Loss
Denethor at the side of his ailing on
”‘Nay, I will not come down,’ he said. ‘I must stay beside my son. He might still speak before the end.”
[LR 5.04.151]
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TolkienTrewsday:Community

By the estuary of Sirion, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Gondolin.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. (…)

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TolkienTrewsday: Children
- child-refugee from Minas Thrith thinking about his home under siege

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TolkienTrewsday: Stars
- ”Surely that is a Silmaril that shines now in the West”

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TolkienTrewsday: Fire
Strider beating back the Black Riders
“Fire is our friend in the wilderness”
LR1.11.126

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TolkienTrewsday: Air
- Merry resting in the fresh air after being kept in the barrow
[LR 1.08.060]
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@HrBorjesson Är detta den vitt ärade poeten själv jag har nöjet att bli kommenterad av ?
I så fall
Eglerio
Dina diktöversättningar är uteslutande av högsta kvalitet

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TolkienTrewsday:Translation
- Jag ska berätta sagan om Tinuviel…Det är en vacker sägen,även om den är sorglig,som alla sagorna från Midgård

A quote from the Swedish edition (Ohlmarks) that have stayed in my mind ever since the eve I heard it.
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TolkienTrewsday: Birmingham
- A place of of inspiration:
Väinamöinen

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@timboltonuk One of the favourite nuggets from History of Lord of the Rings is the version were Frodo returns from mt Doom and Bombadil notes that he could have done it in a jiffy if they only had asked him.

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TolkienTrewsday: Poetry
- “By that pool long ago I found the River-daughter,
fair young Goldberry sitting in the rushes.
Sweet was her singing then, and her heart was beating!“
LR 1.07.027
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TolkienTrewsday:Oxford
Lowdham turned. The Camera looked vast and dark against the moonlit sky.Wisps of long white cloud were passing on an easterly breeze.For a moment one of them seemed to take the shape of a plume of smoke issuing from the lantern of the dome.
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TolkienTrewsday: Festival/Celebration
-It was a time of festival - or the darkening of Valinor

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TolkienTrewsday:Captivity
- Saruman: A spider in a steel web (LR 3.11.104)

- *One ring to bind them all* -Sauron revealed to the elves

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*Summons*
#Art
#Occult

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TolkienTrewsday: Travels
-Wídfara
“‘(…)‘I live upon the open Wold in days of peace; Wídfara is my name, and to me also the air brings messages. Already the wind is turning.” [LR 5.05.052]

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@timboltonuk Should be: *I actually learned the (first) Swedish version together with another from Tom after citing it for years last week.*

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@timboltonuk I actually learned the (first) Swedish version together with another from Tom after citing it for years.
"Nu börjar sången, sång som oss glädjer. Om sol, måne, stjärnljus, regn, storm och väder. Ljus på bladknopp, daggropp i dunet. Vind över kullarna, klockblom i tunet."

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@BrianWITGuy Thank you :)

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TolkienTrewsday: Visions
-Frodo’s Dreme
-Frodo’s visions in the mirror of Galadriel

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