Tolkien related video's.

He left out the Elendilmir and the sceptre of Annuminas.

Havn't watched it, but might be interesting.

{{If youve never had a chance to hear the BBC radio adaptation of LotR's I highly recommend it, not perfect but close. Though I really dislike the opening and tend to skip to where it gets to the Shire- apart from that though mainly gold. Enjoy!}}

Loved Tom Bombadil vid

{{Its also in the 'Tales from the Perilous Realm' one along with dramtisations of Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wotton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. And if you are a fan of the LotR dramitisation its a nice touch that the narrator is Sir Michael Horden who played Gandalf in it. }}}

holy crap - 7 hours! Good for a drive across the country I suppose.

Reading the book is no doddle either

I like the narrators for that series. I wish the "exploring middle earth" series had hired an actor for narration.

eArendil?

You got glorfIndel right... same with earEndil... the Second haS 4 SyllableS but the Scenario with the Second to laSt Syllable iS eSSentially the Same...

... sufferin succotash somebody say something suitable so serious sometimes silly statements seem satisfactory [send].

eArendil sounds right. 4 syllables. GlOr-findel. 3 syllables, stress (?)on the first syllable. Quenya course on PT err DarkPlanet back in the days. Telleri rhymes with celery, I hate that fact and therefore can't forget about it...

I agree with Elthir on eaRENdil (okay, somewhat), but with Amarie on GLORfindel. No, Telleri should not rhyme with celery.

And it's amaRIe, not aMArie, though fat chance I have of convincing certain key players of that.

Gandalynn...Feyanor... More-gath... Tour-gone? Umow? no, can't listen to that. May-glenn. No.

Though if it's GLORfindel it should be ELendil, not eLENdil. I can't stomach the first one. GLORfindel and eLENdil is proper no matter what anyone says. Rules be damned, I'll call'em as I see'em.

halfwise wrote:I agree with Elthir on eaRENdil (okay, somewhat),...

Huzzah. I think we fully agree, I'm just marking stress with the vowel (like Tolkien does in Appendix Somethingorother)

but with Amarie on GLORfindel. No, Telleri should not rhyme with celery.

 

Boo (in one sense)!

In my younger less grey days I said glOrfindel like that, and tellEri, but according to the stress rules (damn them or not), it should be glorfIndel and tElleri.

And it's amaRIe, not aMArie, though fat chance I have of convincing certain key players of that.

Me for one

It's muchly about the second to last syllable (the penult) in Quenya or Sindarin. Here the rule calls for amArie. The penult is short, so the stress moves to the left, like in lEgolas (not legOlas).

In The History of Middle-Earth the name has a long vowel: Amárie. I don't know why it appears with a short vowel in the 1977 Silmarillion (in my early editions at least).

Wait, explain the rule for 3-syllable Telleri going as TELleri while Glorfindel goes as glorFINdel.