Volume 191/Issue 5

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Volume 191/Issue 5

Circulation: One thousand one hundred and eighty-eight. Welcome all!

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MEDIA NEWS:

• From Boing Boing:

~Watch This Tolkien Expert's Master Class on Every Race in Middle Earth
Cory Olsen, aka "The Tolkien Professor," explains how Tolkien's hobbit stories got fused with his earlier mythologic work around languages he created to become the Tolkien universe inhabited by Hobbits, Men, Ents, Elves, Dwarves, and what-not. [More]

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• tolkien_weekly (drabbles) updates:

Contraindications (Aragorn; G) by kortirion

CHALLENGES/WORKSHOPS/AWARDS:

• From tolkien_weekly:

~ Contronyms Challenge 3: Cleave
This week we have Cleave: to adhere or to separate. [ More]

• From silwritersguild:

~ July Challenge: A True Leader
This month, we continue our annual SWG tradition of featuring a challenge with a focus on the many ways that women have improved and enriched the world we live in. This month, we honor those women who served as leaders in varying capacities. Prompts for this challenge will be quotations from women who have served in a leadership role. [ More]

FIC/ART NEWS:

• From AO3 - Archive of Our Own:

- TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
- Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
- The Hobbit - All Media Types
- The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings RPF
- The Hobbit (2012) RPF

DISCUSSIONS OF INTEREST:

• From TOR:

~Fey and Fury: When Noldor Attack!
In Which Fëanor Goes All Fey, Balrogs Open A Can of Whoop-Ass, and the Oath Gets Well and Truly Underway As the Noldor Reintroduce Themselves to Middle-earth. With the Sindar kingdom of Doriath now established in Beleriand and fenced by the power of Queen Melian, and with Morgoth having stuck himself where the Sun don't shine, we hit Rewind once again. In this, the thirteenth chapter of the Quenta Silmarillion, "Of the Return of the Noldor," we go back to the last days just before the first rising of the Moon and the Sun. We also return to Fëanor, who's got Noldorin boots on the ground in Middle-earth. With him are his sons, his troop of loyalists, and his burning quest of vengeance to achieve. What could possibly go wrong? [More]

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RESEARCH AIDS:

• From Ask About Middle-earth:

~Dunedain Naming Traditions
Probably the strongest naming tradition of the Dunedain would be their use of Sindarin names. Or, at least, all the Dunedain we're told about (admittedly, almost entirely of the ruling class) have Sindarin names. And this would make a great deal of sense, culturally. [More]

TRIVIA:

• Tuesday's MOVIE question: Of all the actors and extras who played hobbits, only one person didn't have to wear a wig. Who was it?

Answer: PJ and Fran's son, Billy (credited as "Cute Hobbit Child"), who inherited his father's natural hobbit hair.

addie71, gilli_ann, elwenlj and frolijahfan all answered correctly.

• Today's BOOK question from estelanui: What is the name of the open platform built in a Lórien mallorn as a living-place for the Elves?

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