Which Race of Middle Earth Are You?

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[Edited on 11-16-2005 by Contra_Mundum]
 
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I'm the only Hobbit? I feel lonley. :(

Originally posted by Slippery
Originally posted by SharperSword
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so you're a naive peasant :D :D

Or a member of RC Sproul, Jr.'s church! :p
 
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It's the Norwegian in me. :D
 
Unfortunately, Elvish.

I was hoping for "Numenorean" or "man of Rohan" or something.

As much as I *love* the Elves in the Lord of the Rings...

there's a part of me that feels I've just been tagged as a pink-shod San Franciscan.

:banghead:
 
Originally posted by Mudandstars
Unfortunately, Elvish.

I was hoping for "Numenorean" or "man of Rohan" or something.

As much as I *love* the Elves in the Lord of the Rings...

there's a part of me that feels I've just been tagged as a pink-shod San Franciscan.

:banghead:

That's a FAIRY! Different creature entirely!

Gandalf was an elf, he had one of the three rings of the elves. What was Sarunam, though?

[Edited on 11-24-2005 by turmeric]
 
I always knew my nerd-like Brittanic knowledge of Tolkien's corpus would be called upon some day.

Actually my geek-skills are a little rusty, but I'm 99.9999999999999999% I'm accurate here.

:bigsmile:

Gandalf was actually part of the Maiar. "Gandalf" was just a name given to him by some of the men of middle earth, "magic elf", and that probably because, due to his wisdom, magic, and longevity, "elf" was the closest thing to come to mind when they went to classify him.

The Maiar were eternal spirits, a "rank" below the Valar. Well, not eternal, since only Iluvatar-Eru (Tolkien's version of the monotheistic God) was "eternal", but He created the Valar-Ainur and the Maiar prior to anything else. Anyway, the Maiar were "attached" to certain of the Valar, normally.

Gandalf was one of five Maiar that "incarnated" and went into Middle-Earth to combat the rising evil of Sauron; they were sent by the ruling Valar from the West, the Undying Lands. Radagast (the brown wizard from Fellowship) and Saruman (also 2 blue wizards who went to the East and were never heard from again) also came with Gandalf, making the total incarnate Maiar "on the mission" to be five.

Sauron is also part of the Maiar, who followed Morgoth-Melkor (Tolkien's version of Satan, Morgoth was a Valar) in his rebellion against Iluvatar.

Interestingly enough, the balrogs are also part of the Maiar.

So, the Maiar in the LOTR include: Gandalf, Radagast, Saruman, Sauron, and the balrogs. So when Gandalf faced the balrog on the bridge, it was actually two members of that roughly "angelic" order squaring off against each other, not just a wizard versus a big bat-thinga-ma-jiggie.

There.

Now I feel like 372, 475 hours of my life have now been justified. :bigsmile:

P.S. Stil not happy about bein' a Keebler. Cookies anyone?
 
I think technically Gandalf and Saruman came from the Ainur, of the race of the Maiar and of the order of the Istari (Wizards).

Edit: :ditto: to Joshua

[Edited on 11-24-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]
 
Originally posted by Mudandstars
P.S. Stil not happy about bein' a Keebler. Cookies anyone?

:lol:

Yes, I love the "Lord of the Beans" Veggie Tales movie too . . .


Thanks for the excellent Middle-Earth history lesson above, Josh! I definitely need to go ahead and read the Silmarillion. That's the one LOTR book I haven't read yet.
 
Realistically, the Silmarillion enhanced my enjoyment of the actual "Lord of the Rings" trilogy by 300%, and that might be a conservative estimate.

And once I read "everything", I would say that... well, more often than not, when I just do some hit-and-run or random Tolkien reading out of boredom, its the Silmarillion. It almost reads like the Old Testament, as in, its just jampacked with facts & names, and it has a very epic feel.

But its not meaningless, because it puts the LOTR into perspective. You learn more about Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf. You learn why the Noldor (and a few other minor races of elves, but mainly the Noldor) are in Middle-Earth in the first place, and their sad tale. You learn where they're going when they "go west." You learn the origins of the Dwarves, Ents, Trolls, and Orcs. You see why the men of Gondor are so different than the other men... its just an epic saga.

Scrumpdidly-umptious.

:lol:
 
Originally posted by Saiph
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:ditto:
 
Originally posted by Mudandstars
Realistically, the Silmarillion enhanced my enjoyment of the actual "Lord of the Rings" trilogy by 300%, and that might be a conservative estimate.

And once I read "everything", I would say that... well, more often than not, when I just do some hit-and-run or random Tolkien reading out of boredom, its the Silmarillion. It almost reads like the Old Testament, as in, its just jampacked with facts & names, and it has a very epic feel.

But its not meaningless, because it puts the LOTR into perspective. You learn more about Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf. You learn why the Noldor (and a few other minor races of elves, but mainly the Noldor) are in Middle-Earth in the first place, and their sad tale. You learn where they're going when they "go west." You learn the origins of the Dwarves, Ents, Trolls, and Orcs. You see why the men of Gondor are so different than the other men... its just an epic saga.

Scrumpdidly-umptious.

:lol:

You are right. The Silmarillion is much ore than "background" for the LOTR. It is, in my opinion, the last appearance of the epic form. It is in the same line as the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid.
 
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