This weekend, Hall of Fire will turn to how Tolkien uses colour as a language to describe the visual and the non-visual in his works, The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, and if relevant, any other of his works. Many people are drawn to and captivated by Tolkien’s attention to detail and wonderfully visual descriptions of dramatic landscapes, but this is by no means the sole attraction of his writing. [More]
Category: Barlimans
Frodo and Sam make their escape from Cirith Ungol. Not a moment too soon as the Nazgul appear and the alarm sounds. But have they simply leapt from the frying pan into the fire? What follows is a gruelling trek through the Morgai and across the Plains of Gorgoroth. [More]
Readers who venture beyond the material published while Tolkien was alive, are quickly faced with ambiguity: what is the right version of a story? What is the ‘correct’ history of Galadriel? What is the ‘correct’ background of the orcs? [More]
Since Barliman’s Chat has been hosting languange classes for the past several weeks, I thought it would be appropriate to post this excellent article revealing how Tolkien went about creating his languanges. [More]
Secondly, there are great resources out there to assist anyone interested in learning Quenya and Sindarin. Highly recommended are the following sites:
Gwaith-I-Phethdain
Sam wakes up by the Under-gate to the orc stronghold in Cirith Ungol. He leaves Shelobs lair and makes his way up the cleft towards the tower. Crossing over the highest ridge of the Ephel Duath he is treated to his first fearful view of the Land of Shadow.[More]
Elvish experts Golrab (Kris Nelson) and Annatar (Paul Dunne) have been conducting lessons on Quenya and Sindarin for the past few weeks on our IRC Server irc.theonering.net. Here’s a transcript of lesson five. Look out for a transcript of lesson six soon! [More]
The link for lesson three seems to have gone MIA. Here it is again. [More]