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  1. Q: Why Would The Valar Not Accept The One Ring If It Were Sent Over Sea?

    ANSWER: I received the following lengthy, thoughtful question in December 2025:

    In the Council of Elrond, when taking the Ring to Valinor for destruction/safekeeping/whatever is brought up, Elrond says the Valar wouldn’t take it and Gandalf says that it’s their (the peoples of M.E.) problem to solve for all time anyway. […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-would-the-valar-not-accept-the-one-ring-if-it-were-sent-over-sea/
  2. Q: Why Would The Valar Not Accept The One Ring If It Were Sent Over Sea?

    ANSWER: I received the following lengthy, thoughtful question in December 2025:

    In the Council of Elrond, when taking the Ring to Valinor for destruction/safekeeping/whatever is brought up, Elrond says the Valar wouldn’t take it and Gandalf says that it’s their (the peoples of M.E.) problem to solve for all time anyway. […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-would-the-valar-not-accept-the-one-ring-if-it-were-sent-over-sea/
  3. Q: Why Would The Valar Not Accept The One Ring If It Were Sent Over Sea?

    ANSWER: I received the following lengthy, thoughtful question in December 2025:

    In the Council of Elrond, when taking the Ring to Valinor for destruction/safekeeping/whatever is brought up, Elrond says the Valar wouldn’t take it and Gandalf says that it’s their (the peoples of M.E.) problem to solve for all time anyway. […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-would-the-valar-not-accept-the-one-ring-if-it-were-sent-over-sea/
  4. Q: Why Would The Valar Not Accept The One Ring If It Were Sent Over Sea?

    ANSWER: I received the following lengthy, thoughtful question in December 2025:

    In the Council of Elrond, when taking the Ring to Valinor for destruction/safekeeping/whatever is brought up, Elrond says the Valar wouldn’t take it and Gandalf says that it’s their (the peoples of M.E.) problem to solve for all time anyway. […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-would-the-valar-not-accept-the-one-ring-if-it-were-sent-over-sea/
  5. Q: Why Would The Valar Not Accept The One Ring If It Were Sent Over Sea?

    ANSWER: I received the following lengthy, thoughtful question in December 2025:

    In the Council of Elrond, when taking the Ring to Valinor for destruction/safekeeping/whatever is brought up, Elrond says the Valar wouldn’t take it and Gandalf says that it’s their (the peoples of M.E.) problem to solve for all time anyway. […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-would-the-valar-not-accept-the-one-ring-if-it-were-sent-over-sea/
  6. A well-written fundraising appeal should strike a tone somewhere between John Sinclair's liner notes for the first MC5 album and Aragorn's Black Gates speech from The Lord of the Rings.

    #lotr #mc5

  7. Q: Why Does Middle-earth Feel Deeper Than Other Fantasy Worlds?

    ANSWER: I was browsing a Tolkien & Middle-earth discussion on social media and someone for what felt like the millionth time, “J.R.R. Tolkien was the father of modern fantasy.”

    I honestly don’t know where this idea came from. When you get down to it, J.R.R. Tolkien wasn’t particularly original in his concepts. His goal was not to […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-does-middle-earth-feel-deeper-than-other-fantasy-worlds/
  8. I occasionally write features for Engineering NZ's quarterly publication, EG Magazine. For the most recent issue, I got to interview three of the team at WētāFX, for an article to mark 25 years since the release of the first Lord of the Rings movie 🤯 (pg16) #nz #vfx #lotr #lotr25 #scicomm

    issuu.com/engineeringnewzealan