Volume 192/Issue 6

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Volume 192/Issue 6

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

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MEDIA NEWS:

• From Kotaku:

~Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth is Being Remade by Fans, and it Looks Fantastic
Back in 2018, we first got word that a group of Lord of the Rings fans were remaking the cult classic Battle for Middle Earth in Unreal Engine 4. If you were expecting that to be the last you heard of the project, sorry, two years later there's now a very comprehensive gameplay update, and it looks so good. [More]

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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:

~An Affair To Long Remember: Beren the Mortal and Lúthien the Elfmaid
In Which the Son of Barahir Meets a Girl, Accepts An Impossible Quest To Marry Her, Gets Himself Thrown In the Slammer (of Sauron), and Witnesses the Demise of the Greatest Elf In Arda. Chapter 19, "Of Beren and Lúthien," is the most famous love story of the First Age, even of Tolkien's entire legendarium. It is the original adventure romance between a mortal Man and an immortal Elf-maid, the legend of which Aragorn and Arwen's own tale is an echo in The Lord of the Rings. [More]

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RESEARCH AIDS:

• From Ask About Middle-earth:

~Melkor vs. Morgoth
In the beginning, Morgoth went by the name Melkor, which meant "He Who Rises in Might." As the strongest of the Ainur, it was a fitting name. But after he killed the Two Trees, murdered Finwe, and stole the silmarils, he was given a new name. Feanor (who, being personally affected by most of these acts, felt a special enmity towards Morgoth), called him Morgoth, which meant "Black Foe of the World."
[...]
Most of Tolkien's characters have at least two names, if not more, so the Melkor/Morgoth thing wouldn't stand out at all, if not for the interesting fact that, among the elves, the name "Morgoth" completely replaced "Melkor." [More]

TRIVIA:

• Tuesday's MOVIE question: Who does Theoden order to summon all able-bodied men to Dunharrow?

Answer: Gamling.

frolijahfan was absolutely correct!

• Today's BOOK question from elanorgardner: Who had a solitary grave in the shadow of the Hornburg?

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• HAPPY BIRTHDAY, araeariel and feather_silver!

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