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Post by Eyalan on Jul 22, 2006 10:57:32 GMT -5
Exuse me for my rudeness, but I adjusted the font size a little, so now my eyes won't get all weary while reading it... That was a beautiful piece, El!
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Jul 22, 2006 20:26:25 GMT -5
And that is how the frig they lost the Entwives. Thank you, El. I am not exactly TTT expert. But you are! So Every Ent question that I can think of I shall ask you!
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Post by Elnimara on Jul 23, 2006 1:52:16 GMT -5
Hah, good thinking Eya, it was very straining before. Beautiful it is, but that's the Professor's doing, not mine. I merely typed the whole... bloody... thing... Lol, I shall teach you everything I know Mil, you have only to ask me. *tries to look smart and teacher-ish-like* *falls over*
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Jul 23, 2006 11:37:56 GMT -5
*rushes to help her up* I'm trying to think of another ent question. *strains her brain* Okay, who was the last ent child?
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Post by Elnimara on Jul 29, 2006 1:12:53 GMT -5
Ai, a challenge! I don't recall if it ever said. But the last Enting would be the youngest Ent. And I (once again don't remember, all speculating) thing Quickbeam would be a safe bet for youngest Ent. Young = hasty. I'll do more research and get back to you though.
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Post by Eyalan on Jul 29, 2006 8:43:16 GMT -5
Good theory, El!
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Jul 31, 2006 19:20:09 GMT -5
yesh i shall exalt both of you because I feel like it
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Post by Luthien on Aug 23, 2006 16:09:20 GMT -5
I think it's one of the saddest things ever. To go on living and living for such a long time, knowing that somewhere your true love is doing the same thing (or is dead) and that you'll likely never meet again. Poor Enthusbands...
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Post by Eyalan on Aug 29, 2006 4:40:15 GMT -5
Yes! It's a word now! People are using it It is indeed a sad story, Luthien. And I'm sure they'll meet again some day. But it think Tolkien just didn't get to write that part anymore..
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Post by alcarin on Sept 18, 2006 0:54:13 GMT -5
For the Dwarf-Women:
Description of dwarf-women:
The Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike. They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf Men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart. Their womenkind cannot indeed be discerned by those of other race, be it in feature or in gait or in voice, nor in any wise save this: that they go not to war, and seldom save at direst need issue from their deep bowers and halls. [HOME XI: Of Dwarves] They seldom walk abroad except at great need. Their resemblance to male dwarves has given rise to the foolish opinion among Men that there are no dwarf-women, and that the Dwarves 'grow out of stone'. [LOTR: Appentices]
Why do they look like the male dwarves?
It is said that to each Dwarf Ilúvatar added a mate of female kind, yet because he would not amend the work of Aulë, and Aulë had yet made only things of male form, therefore the women of the Dwarves resemble their men more than all other speaking races. [HOME XI: Of Dwarves]
Scarcity – Marriage:
It is said that the dwarf-women are few, and that save their kings and chieftains few Dwarves ever wed; wherefore their race multiplied slowly, and now is dwindling. [HOME XI: Of Dwarves] Gimli said they were no more than a third of the whole people.It is because of the fewness of women among them that the kind of the Dwarves increases slowly, and is in peril when they have no secure dwellings. For Dwarves take only one wife or husband each in their lives, and are jealous, as in all matters of their rights. The number of dwarf-men that marry is actually less than one-third. For not all the women take husbands: some desire none; some desire one that they cannot get, and so will have no other. As for the men, very many also do not desire marriage, being engrossed in their crafts. [LOTR: Appentices] Also they are never forced to wed against their will (which would of course be impossible). They join their husbands' families. But if a son is seen to be 110 or so years younger than his father, this usually indicates an elder daughter. The sentiment of affection for sister's children was strong among all peoples of the Third Age, but less so among Dwarves than Men or Elves among whom it was strongest. [HOME XII]
The only known dwarf-woman:
They are seldom named in genealogies. Dís was the daughter of Thráin II. She is the only dwarf-woman named in these histories. She is named simply because of the gallant death of her sons Fili and Kili in defence of Thorin II. [HOME XII]
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Post by Eyalan on Sept 18, 2006 1:05:18 GMT -5
A bit off topic perhaps , but thanks for this usefull information, Alcarin! Now we know all about dwarf women!
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Sept 21, 2006 19:33:53 GMT -5
We already started a topic about dwarf women didn't we? Or was that the old forum?
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Post by Eyalan on Jun 15, 2007 17:42:16 GMT -5
Wow the old forum... that was long ago About the Entwives, I read somewhere they didn't like to live in the forest, but I forgot where it was. Does anyone know anything about that matter?
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