The Politics of Middle Earth.

[Tanbark Spanker]

I always thought there was something hidden in the Elven agenda.

Aa' menealle nauva calen ar' malta. Aa' i'sul nora lanne'lle. Tenna' san'.

[John of Phoenix]

As if some of these guys and their Latin isn't difficult enough, then there's Dingo, now we've got Elven.
You're just begging for an immigration fight. ;)

[Vince Brennan]

Nothing hidden.... the Elves can outwait us...

Cuamin linduva yassen megrille!

[Tanbark Spanker]

They always seemed to know something that men and orks didn't know. They were always ready to bail on everybody, like there was an asteroid on the way.

[Donn]

Antolle ulua sulrim.

[Vince Brennan]

And that wind wishes you well, anyway.

[ishmael]

Tolkien was a pip! Head and shoulders above the subsequent writers of fantasy because he really knew northern European languages, the roots in the Norse, could spin them into the tale elegantly.

Ah the elves. Immortal, yet pressed hard by the machinations of men. To the point where they knew their time was over, and they needed to part, over the western sea.Tolkien had an amazing gift of spinning old tales, with their languages and syntax, into something the modern English reader loved, could be enthralled to. All the while keeping up appearances at his English college as a donn.

One disappointment with the films, which on whole did a fantastic job, was the passing over of the nature spirit, Tom Bombadil. First book, that encounter by the hobbits on the road, in extremis, was really important in my first reading when I was fifteen. Bombadil was the trickster, a sprite, and I understand why Jackson didn't tackle him. Difficult to do. But I missed that as somehow central to the original theme.

[John E Hardiman]

It is important to remember that the Quendi were not supposed to be in Beleriand. And it was only by the pride and trechery of Fëanor that any of the light were in middle-earth at all, as that was set aside for men.

Besides, the vainty of calling themselves "eldest"...the dwarves were the first to walk Eä. :rolleyes:

[Vince Brennan]

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo

Just about time for my annual treat...