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  1. Q: How Did Faramir And Boromir View Their Shared Dream?

    ANSWER: I received the following questions in May 2025:

    Concerning the dreams of Faramir and Boromir, in which a voice from the western sky asked them to seek the Sword that was Broken, do you think those characters attached a spiritual dimension to their dreams?

    For example do you think they considered the dreams were sent by Manwë or […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/how-did-faramir-and-boromir-view-their-shared-dream/
  2. Q: How Did Faramir And Boromir View Their Shared Dream?

    ANSWER: I received the following questions in May 2025:

    Concerning the dreams of Faramir and Boromir, in which a voice from the western sky asked them to seek the Sword that was Broken, do you think those characters attached a spiritual dimension to their dreams?

    For example do you think they considered the dreams were sent by Manwë or […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/how-did-faramir-and-boromir-view-their-shared-dream/
  3. Q: How Did Faramir And Boromir View Their Shared Dream?

    ANSWER: I received the following questions in May 2025:

    Concerning the dreams of Faramir and Boromir, in which a voice from the western sky asked them to seek the Sword that was Broken, do you think those characters attached a spiritual dimension to their dreams?

    For example do you think they considered the dreams were sent by Manwë or […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/how-did-faramir-and-boromir-view-their-shared-dream/
  4. Q: How Did Faramir And Boromir View Their Shared Dream?

    ANSWER: I received the following questions in May 2025:

    Concerning the dreams of Faramir and Boromir, in which a voice from the western sky asked them to seek the Sword that was Broken, do you think those characters attached a spiritual dimension to their dreams?

    For example do you think they considered the dreams were sent by Manwë or […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/how-did-faramir-and-boromir-view-their-shared-dream/
  5. Q: How Did Faramir And Boromir View Their Shared Dream?

    ANSWER: I received the following questions in May 2025:

    Concerning the dreams of Faramir and Boromir, in which a voice from the western sky asked them to seek the Sword that was Broken, do you think those characters attached a spiritual dimension to their dreams?

    For example do you think they considered the dreams were sent by Manwë or […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/how-did-faramir-and-boromir-view-their-shared-dream/
  6. J.R.R. Tolkien made Middle-earth such an immersive experience for readers that many people asked if it was based on real history. The details one finds in the stories extend everywhere from specific types of plants to ridges of hills, to mountain passes, to iconic river vistas, and more.

    Even so, readers also recognize several anachronistic plants in the stories. Those most often brought to my […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/tea-and-coffee/
  7. Just watched a YouTube video on all LOTR / Middle-Earth games ever made and now I feel I might finally be ready to play the Battle For Middle-Earth games? I missed the original hype but they might be pretty cool 🧝‍♂️

    #lordoftherings #lotr #middleearth #tolkien #pcgaming #gaming #rtsgames

  8. A wizard in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a Ring. Free League release Hands of the White Wizard (The One Ring) and Trials of Saruman (LotR 5e) on June 2nd, six adventures each set before Isengard turns.
    #RPG #LOTR #TheOneRing #MiddleEarth #TabletopRPGs #FreeLeaguePublishing #LordOfTheRings
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/fant

  9. Chapter XVI in The Nature of Middle-earth is titled “Dwellings in Middle-earth”. It begins with a linguistic discussion of various Elvish words used to describe types of dwellings. A dwelling could be as simple as a place where the Eldar slept in the wild, such as a temporary “hall”-like structure.

    The concept of a “dwelling place” evolved through different uses, eventually describing […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/halls-houses-and-habitations-of-the-elves/
  10. Q: Unusual Questions About Sauron

    ANSWER: These are not questions anyone submitted directly to me, although I kind of wish they were. I found these questions on social media platforms. Some of them were asked facetiously (as mocking rebuttals to things other people said), so I don’t want to give the impression that every question was intentionally serious.

    But I thought they were all […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/unusual-questions-about-sauron/
  11. In The Nature of Middle-earth there is a chapter titled “Note On Elvish Economy”. In years past I wrote a great deal about the economies of Middle-earth. But I didn’t have access to NoME in those days. So I thought I’d catch up a little bit on the trivia about Elves and agriculture.

    Tolkien wrote this essay on Elvish economy in 1968. The opening paragraph reads thus:

    Arable. The Sindar did […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/little-known-details-about-tolkien-elves/
  12. The Hobbit "A Special Edition of the Fantasy Classic With 50 Illustrations, Maps, and Sketches from J.R.R. Tolkien" Sale: $75 to $2.99 by J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: 4.9/5 (2,096 Reviews) #Hobbit #Tolkien #Fantasy #Illustrated #Collectors #Books #MiddleEarth #BookLove #Reading #Adventure #BookSky

    The Hobbit Illustrated by the ...

  13. The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel: A Graphic Novel Edition of Tolkien's Masterful Fantasy Novel "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" Sale: $14.99 to $1.99 by J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: 4.8/5 (2,468 Reviews) #Hobbit #Tolkien #Fantasy #MiddleEarth #Books #Illustration #Adventure #BookSky

    The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel: A...

  14. Q: What Is The Oldest Town Or City In Middle-earth?

    ANSWER: This is a variation of a question I recently saw on social media. I’m not sure there is a good answer as Middle-earth – being essentially a fictional or mythological representation of our real world – has its own rules. For example, despite numerous migration events, you have essentially the same ethnic groups dwelling in the […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/what-is-the-oldest-town-or-city-in-middle-earth/

  15. Q: What Was The Eye Of Sauron?

    ANSWER: Although it’s been some time since anyone last asked me about this, I recently came across a Tolkien passage that has changed my perspective. One of the frustrating things about J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction is that he often incorporates ideas into his stories and characters for which he doesn’t provide clear in-story explanations.

    One of the best examples of […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/what-was-the-eye-of-sauron/

  16. Q: Are Animals Without Morality In ‘The Lord of the Rings’?

    ANSWER: Someone pointed me to this paragraph in the Wikipedia article Tolkien’s moral dilemma:

    Orcs

    A more serious problem arose for Tolkien, especially with apparently wholly evil beings, especially Orcs, but it applies also to others such as Wargs and Trolls. Since in Catholic theology evil cannot make, only mock, Orcs cannot have […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/are-animals-without-morality-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/

  17. 3/3: Several Lord of the Rings quotes have popped into my mind the past few weeks, so I decided to create art collages using these quotes. Here’s my art with a third one of the quotes.

    #watercolor #painting #collage #PaperCollage #LordOfTheRings #LOTR #TheHobbit #Hobbit #adventure #MiddleEarth #Tolkien #JRRTolkien #Filmstodon #Weta #PeterJackson #Films #Movies #Frodo #Samwise #SamwiseGamgee

  18. 2/3: Several Lord of the Rings quotes have popped into my mind the past few weeks, so I decided to create art collages using these quotes. Here’s my art with another one of the quotes.

    #watercolor #painting #collage #PaperCollage #LordOfTheRings #LOTR #TheHobbit #Hobbit #adventure #MiddleEarth #Tolkien #JRRTolkien #Filmstodon #Weta #PeterJackson #Films #Movies #Frodo #Samwise #SamwiseGamgee

  19. 1/3: Several Lord of the Rings quotes have popped into my mind the past few weeks, so I decided to create art collages using these quotes. Here’s my art with one of the quotes.

    #watercolor #painting #collage #PaperCollage #LordOfTheRings #LOTR #TheHobbit #Hobbit #adventure #MiddleEarth #Tolkien #JRRTolkien #Filmstodon #Weta #PeterJackson #Films #Movies #Frodo #Gandalf

  20. On our live podcast show tonight I realised - once again, I am a tad bit slow on the uptake, at times - that the first ever major musical production based on #Middleearth happened in Germany, in Berlin, before the 2000s, to be exact.

    So yes, I need to write about #LordoftheRings #TheMusical which wasn't LotR but #TheHobbit 😅

    And then we'll have a MUSICAL EPISODE with smalltolk.de 😇

    Here, have a photo of the press brochure