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Any theories on how the Mayor of the Shire was elected? How was the election held? All we know is that the Mayor was elected every seven years on Midsummer's Day ( Read more... )

The image that Tolkien gives us of Minas Tirith during the war, and in the years just prior to it, is a city that has fallen largely into desolation. Abandoned houses, more than half the citizens gone, empty streets ( Read more... )

What would hobbits call cookies? Biscuits?

Yule cookies? Yule biscuits? Yule cakes?

Thank you!

We know that Bilbo carried the Ring for decades before it really seemed to get Its hooks into him at the end ( Read more... )

Got a question: when the hobbits are sleeping in the house of Tom Bombadil, Frodo and Merry and Pippin dream. Frodo has a prescient dream of Gandalf being rescued from the tower at Isengard. Pippin has a dream based on the day's experiences in which the house is not a house, but Old Man Willow, and he is again trapped inside. Merry has a dream of ( Read more... )

Who wrote the genealogies and commentaries? Was it Frodo? Bilbo? Sam? In the Thain's Book on Tuckborough.net, it mentions that "... Undertowers a fifth volume of genealogies and other notes and commentary was compiled. These were preserved in the library of Undertowers for future generations along with other historical books and records." Could it ( Read more... )

I have been considering the nicknames given to the Masters of Buckland (Brandybuck of Buckland Famiily Tree), and I am wondering about Saradoc's: Scattergold ( Read more... )

I would like to include in a story some details of Stoorish River-life and how it would it have differed from that of Shire-dwellers. The Gladden Fields sound like nothing but marshes and irises and I don't know how the inhabitants would compensate. Can anyone tell me about River-folk in our world?

If I wanted to name a man "man of books" would it be Perfadan? Perf is books (parf is singular) and adan being man.

Thanks!