As with his fiction, Tolkien revised and refined Quenya and Sindarin up until he died in the early ’70s. He changed his mind often and left behind a mess of notes for scholars to untangle.
THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...
First, Tolkien's description of Pharazon's ascension to the throne is pretty gross by modern standards. As written, when Miriel's father dies, Pharazon breaks Numenoran law and forces her to marry ...
A Palmdale man died after his truck overturned on Highway 58 near Mill Street in Tehachapi around 4:50 a.m. Thursday, according to the California Highway Patrol. The unidentified man was 31 years old ...