When the island of Numenor is sunk beneath the seaĪt the end of the Second Age, the world is made round.īut the world is made round at that point. In Tolkien's world are a flat earth mythology. The old version of Tolkien's mythology, the Elder Days Magnetic poles after the Akallabeth that Ryan asks, We have no references to anybody using compasses So Ryan asks, do they have compasses in Middle Earth?ĭoes Arda get magnetic poles after the Akallabeth? In job description for Gandalf, not a rank promotion. What the job description of the gray wizard is.Īll of the wizards get a company-wide promotion. Suggest that going around and encouragingĪnd supporting these different populations of people. Gandalf's remit is not birds and beasts, but people.Īnd the kind of relationships that we see him establishing His remit is clearly birds and beasts, right? It seems that his job as the gray is to go around What is the job description of the gray wizard? Now this leads to a very sensible question. That is what the White Wizard's job description is. The good guys overtly as the enemy of Sauron. This is why when Gandalf returns he's the white,Īnd when he comes back you'll notice he acts like it. The colors of the wizards are a sign of their,Īnd his job was to be the enemy of SauronĪnd to lead the forces of good against Sauron. Here's how I understand the colors of the wizards. To imagine that the wizard's color is a sign of rank When we read about the color of the wizards It would have been tough for Alatar and Pallando Was it just a one-off or was it a company-wide promotion?ĭid Radagast the Brown become Radagast the Gray? He can manifest in a physical body again. His body is killed in the battle and his spirit flees,īut his spirit is greatly weakened by this That's why when he dies, because he's actually slain, He is a spiritual being taking physical form. Some of them, of course, many of them were good. He is not a mortal creature, either elf or human.Ī lot of these sort of, kind of semi divine creatures That is a person named Mars presumably, not the planet.Īs I rewatch the Lord of the Rings movie, That their two characters were developing. Kind of shuffled around in different ways, He was very sensitive to the sound of words. However, you know, Gail having said that, It's like King son of King, son of King, son of King.Īlmost the entire genealogy of the kings of RohanĪnd Denethor is from the Elvish languages. If you go through the names of all of the kingsĪlmost all of them have names that mean king. Who's also an Anglo-Saxon scholar, has pointed out The language of the Rohirrim is essentially Anglo-Saxon.Īnd Theoden in Anglo-Saxon basically means king. Tolkien as always derived the names of his charactersįrom the languages that he was dealing with.ĭenethor comes from his own made up languages, That those two characters parallel each other.Īnd Denethor, who's despair leads him to madness If the syllabic near-reversal of the names This is Corey Olson, the Tolkien Professor Is described in the book as using is his own hands. He is said to have killed Gil-Galad with his burning hands. There is one weapon that Sauron is described as using Follow Corey on Twitter at Īt the final battle of the War of the Last Alliance? Through the Mythgard Academy, a Signum institution, Corey offers weekly explorations of The Lord of the Rings and other opportunities to discuss speculative literature and adaptations. Does Sauron use any weapons? Do compasses exist in Middle-Earth? Is there a Tolkien book about the Goblin and Dwarf Great War? Cory answers all these questions and much more.Ĭorey Olsen, also known as The Tolkien Professor, is the Founder and President of Signum University, a nonprofit higher education institution dedicated to affordable and accessible online learning with a special focus on promoting the humanities. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, and all the associated lore. The Tolkien Professor, Cory Olsen, uses the power of Twitter to answer the internet's burning questions about J.R.R.
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