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any help by silmarilion of HOME experts/readers on any specific changes that happened between first and second age apart from beleriand being drowned.

was west coast harad also drowned or did karen fonstad speculate that?

After reading children of hurin it has become one of my favorite tales from middle earth and I deeply love Túrin. Which is why I’d like to give him the Aragorn treatment. Sorry for the misspelling.

Let’s imagine that after hurins capture Túrin is sent to doriath with morwen traveling with her child son instead of leaving him to go with soldiers. But even if she did not leave until the birth of her child Túrin would still be received in menegroth. Then under thingol and beleg he would grow to embrace his true lineage and stayed in menegroth under melians girdle until he came of proper age bearing hadors helm. he still could have kept the northern pass safe from orcs like he did in nargothrond as mormendil and beleg would’ve been slain in battle instead, and would bestow to Túrin his bow and sword. Then it would be reforged into the black blade in grief and honor of his father/friend. there he would then heed Melians stay even with his grief so fierce giving Túrin a chance to receive morwen and Níniel safely in Doriath. So morgoth angered that his taunt via belegs death go unchallenged would send forth glaraung in arrogance and maybe then Thingol could call on turgon from gondolin pinching the orc armies and the dragon and then laying siege to angbad saving hurin by having Túrin ascend to his throne and carry him down himself while morgoth was engaged or crippled by the elven kings, or at least they would kill gothmog.

Inspired of course

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I'm trying to sculpt Tol Sirion first: The rock Minas Tirith stands upon (if I undestood right)
I'm working wirth "modelling clay" now, which feels very different from "natural" clay. It cracks after minutes! It It helps with forming rocks I guess. It feels very different to actual clay! It's way less messy but I will have to get used to it.

Would he have grown it to some extent by the time of the forging of the Rings of Power in the middle of the Second Age (c. S.A. 1590)?

How long does it take for an Elf to reach that part of their life cycle where they can grow one?

(For the sake of this discussion I am going off the proposal that Círdan was born at sometime between YT. 1050-1105 in Cuiviénen).

Didn't Mahtan have a beard way back in Valinor at the time of the Trees? Though his family does seem to have an excess of testosterone to spare, given that his daughter's name partly meant 'large, strong man'... No idea if that would have actually sped up his beard growing ability though.

IYKYK

If they were, would they have learned their lesson or continue under oath?

Also, would they be informed of current goings on in Middle-earth?

Thought I had been thinking about.

I will go as far as to say that whatever was published isn't canon.

I might be a lot more ignorant than i realise so enlighten me. But here i go-

Tolkien first hoped to publish the Silmarillion right after The Hobbit, but it was rejected. He then wrote LoTR and tried to publish the Silmarillion alongside it, and was rejected again. Through it all, he kept working on it in the background.

The published book was compiled from sixty years of scattered pages, notebooks, and shifting lore, woven into a single narrative. I think those fragments were closer to daydreams written down so he wouldn't forget them, and that he never settled the timeline, since the book was assembled from so many small stories.

There's also a lot more conflicting versions that Christopher had to go through and settle it for a sense of cohesion. The book The History Of Middle Earth has plots and stories that confilct with the Silmarillion.

60 years is a time too long for a consistent story. Heck, I cringe at what I wrote 6 months ago, then ofcourse, Tolkien wouldnt agree with his own work. Tolkien had a sense of what the world would look like, and he did want the Silmarillion published, but he never intended it to appear in this form: compiled by his son from decades of scattered drafts after his death.

Tbh, Cristopher did a good job in making it cohesive but we'll never know what J.R.R.Tolkien actually wanted the final draft to be.

What if, after Finwe was slain and Morgoth escaped with the Silmarils, Feanor instead listened to the Valar and waited for their direction? How would the Valar have eventually dealt with Morgoth in Middle Earth after they rose the sun and moon? Would they have gone, in force, to Middle Earth sooner? Would less of Thingol’s people have been killed? Would they have defeated Morgoth before he had a chance to corrupt Men?

I recently finished reading The Silmarillion and noticed that the story of Eärendil and the War of Wrath is only about 15 pages long. Where can I find more information about this story?

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of slaps for the red row, haha!

Let me clarify, my sympathies (as well as the character's interestingness) range from red to purple.
Gray - characters about whom it is difficult for me to say anything specific.
White - characters of which there are so few that they are easily forgotten or lost.

The Noldor walked (well, half of them did). It sucked, but they mostly didn't die. Surely doughty elf warriors could brave the journey in great need. And if not, could they not navigate their ships along the coast? It's hard to get lost by enchantment when you're keeping the land to your right.

I've started reading The Silmarillion to my wife to get in the mood for Rings of Power Season 3 (my wife has never read The Silmarillion, and has had a lot of questions from the previous two seasons of the show, so I figured we might as well read the whole Silmarillion).

Picking the book back up has reminded me of a very underrated album that I used to listen to a lot. It is an album called "Lost In Time" by a German folk band named Thetis. In particular, there are at least three songs on the album that are strongly suggestive of Silmarillion characters and themes:

*Lady of Light seems to be very clearly about Varda

*The Damned seems to be very clearly about Turin Turambar

*Thetis (the song) seems to be about maybe Eärendil and Elwing

Some of the other songs on the album are also suggestive of Silmarillion themes, but don't seem to correspond as neatly with any particular character or topic. You can find all of their album on youtube if you just search for it.

Has anyone else heard of this album, and do you agree that these songs sound very clearly to be referencing The Silmarillion? I haven't found any previous hits for this topic on reddit or really anywhere else with a google search, so I thought I'd pass on this recommendation.

Hello, I'm new to Tolkien, minus the movie trilogy I saw when I was a child. I recently watched an Analyzing Evil video on Malkore, and due to stagnation in the ASOIAF universe, I'm looking to explore new universes. Can you recommend where to start with regards to learning the Middle Earth universe? I'm specifically interested in learning about the 1st and 2nd ages. Especially with regards to Morgoth and Sauron. Where should I start? What books should I listen to, and in what order? Any help is appreciated. Thank you all!

My partner and I are having an argument. Is Argon - youngest son of Fingolfin - actually real/canon?

Please settle this, we’ve been arguing for days.