Let's be honest here; we know next to nothing about Eärendil. The chapter within The Silmarillion was mostly based upon the text of the first Quenta Silmarillion, found in HoMe V. This dates to around the 1930s; a good twenty or so years earlier than the material that Christoper used to write just about the rest of the published Silmarillion. The ( Read more... )

This one's less funny and more informative.

Galadriel is supposed to be tied for second greatest of all Elves, but despite that she doesn't ever seem to DO much. She's missing for the entirety of the War of the Jewels, shows up long enough in the Second Age to accept Nenya, and then all but vanishes again until the War of the Ring.

For that reason, I ( Read more... )

This isn't a particularly funny piece, unlike most of the stuff I'm transcribing over to LiveJournal. However, it is fairly informative, so I thought it worth preserving. Edited for spelling, context.

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( The Tale of Years: First Age )