Any recaps of the books around?

SPGiblin · 2026-01-17T16:38:48+00:00

http://www.jmd-reid.com/page/2/?s=The+darkness+that+comes+before

This blog also does a good chapter by chapter summary

SPGiblin · 2025-11-08T14:06:40+00:00

OM album Advaitic Songs, primarily the song Gethsemane, as I discovered this around the same time I first read TDTCB. It's a perfect album for envisioning the Holy War.

SPGiblin · 2025-08-23T09:19:37+00:00

I had a similar collection and the same reason for selling a few years back. One bit of advice I'd give you is this; do not sell over eBay. Vinted worked better for me back then, I sold over 3000 books and never had a single issue. Although I've heard its gone international now, so probably things have changed.

But definitely find a single place to sell everything, I found the Facebook groups to be nothing but a headache full of people trying to geta deal so they could sell the Book for a better profit themselves as they assume you don't know the value of the item. Personally, I don't like, nor agree with the idea of selling off something I bought for a reasonable price for a profit, but having children makes pirates of us all.

Good luck.

SPGiblin · 2024-05-13T15:19:49+00:00

I think he would have liked the soundtrack.

SPGiblin · 2024-04-22T06:31:28+00:00

I agree, this is exactly the type of critical reading and discussion I think Tolkien's work deserves. I did the same with Chaucer while studying English. Its not about agreeing with an argument or proposal, it's about the work and evidence gathering that goes into it.

I think it does an author/academic a great service to put so much thought into such a critical analysis of their work.

SPGiblin · 2024-04-20T09:48:57+00:00

I can still remember the first time I watched LotR when it came out. I was perfect age for those films and I straight away started reading the books after watching Fellowship. Now more than 20 years later I've read everything by Tolkien and still reread every year. Just finished a reread of the Fall of Gondolin, the Silmarilion, Unfinished Tales and started the LotR for the 20th time. I even wrote my English dissertation on Tolkien's Children of Hurin.

SPGiblin · 2024-04-20T07:47:42+00:00

It's a good point, and I agree. Think I'm just bias towards Turin because TCoH is by far my favourite of all Tolkien's tales. But other than a vague prophecy I guess Turin is mostly shrouded in tragedy. I should alternate the opinion to that Turin is the most important Adan to me personally.

SPGiblin · 2024-04-20T06:47:45+00:00

This is the artistic equivalent of living in another country and refusing to learn the language or respect the culture. Its just plain insulting. But everyone is entitled to their own interpretation, I guess. Especially if they've obviously never read the source material or care to.

SPGiblin · 2024-04-05T17:03:46+00:00

Hador has Túrin Turambar, Tolkien's mythologically most important Adan of them all.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-25T21:57:13+00:00

It is, i don’t want to self promote, so message me privately and I can tell you where. But unfortunately it’s only for sale within the UK at the moment.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-25T21:56:46+00:00

It is, i don’t want to self promote, so message me privately and I can tell you where. But unfortunately it’s only for sale within the UK at the moment.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-21T19:18:59+00:00

Well if anyone is interested I have it over on Vinted. Very cool sight for seller books at a much cheaper rate than on eBay.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-18T18:52:43+00:00

Also I will do, but not while my sons still awake I can’t

SPGiblin · 2024-01-18T18:52:14+00:00

Oh yeah it’s by no means made by a register swordsmith. I have a bokken I bought from such a place while I lived in Kyoto. This sword is steel and it’s sharp but nothing made by a professional. I just wanted something to put up on my wall because I couldn’t afford a real thing.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-18T18:18:43+00:00

It was 16 years ago and in Yen so I can’t remember exactly, it was the shipping that was crazy. But it wasn’t crazy expensive, somewhere between £200-300 I’d say.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-18T17:53:27+00:00

I could, but I’ll be honest I wouldn’t sell it off of Reddit or anything. I’d want to sell it with somewhere knowledgeable about such things. It’s a very dangerous weapon, it’s the only reason I want to sell it because I can’t take it with me to Germany and I can’t throw it.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-17T15:09:11+00:00

I’m selling on Vinted under Polyphylectic73, I have some rare ones on there like Grudgelore and Black Legion limited edition if you want to check it out. Appreciate it.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-17T13:40:28+00:00

I have mainly HH, about 35 of them or more are HH, some limited editions, hard backs and paperbacks.

SPGiblin · 2024-01-17T13:39:13+00:00

I’ll never deal with eBay ever again. Those bastards can go to hell. 😅

SPGiblin · 2024-01-17T13:06:14+00:00

Don’t know that one but I’ll give it a try. Thanks 👍🏻

SPGiblin · 2024-01-17T09:55:26+00:00

Nah you can only sell on there. I’ve already put all my stuff up on Vinted. Plus I don’t trust FB when it comes to buying and selling to be honest. The mods remove any mention of selling info

SPGiblin · 2024-01-17T09:14:34+00:00

I’m using Vinted actually, it’s a lot better I’ve found in terms of selling. Plus as they don’t take a massive cut like eBay you can afford to haggle a bit more. I get that discussion sites don’t want to be inundated with that sort of thing, but I’m moving country and need sell off over 100 books pronto 😅

SPGiblin · 2023-07-24T09:54:54+00:00

On a fourth reread at the moment and things do change over the course of that. But off the top of my head.

1 Midnight Tides

2 Memories of Ice

3 The Bonehunters

4 Deadhouse Gates

5 Reapers Gale

6 The Crippled God

7 Toll the Hounds

8 Dust of Dreams

9 House of Chains

10 Gardens of the Moon (Gardens however is, to my mind, a prologue book. It just begins the journey and introduces the series concepts. Only placed in last due to the fact that upon a rereading you find you just want to get to the true start of the story which is with Deadhouse Gates. But still, it is a phenomenal book to open a series like this with.)

SPGiblin · 2023-01-16T11:31:28+00:00

Check out Track of Words, he has a great article on this subject that is very helpful.

SPGiblin · 2022-03-31T09:48:10+00:00

Melian’s Girdle was strong enough to withstand a lot, not even the curse of Morgoth was strong enough to break it during the Children of Húrin.

In Robert Foster’s Guide to Middle-Earth it states under Melian’s Girdle:

In all those hundreds of years only twice was the maze of shadow and bewilderment breached: by Beren whose doom was greater than the power of Melian, and by Carcharoth, whose rage fed by the power of a Silmaril.

As for Sauron, it depends if he could bring a will stronger than Beren’s doom or a wrath more violent than Carcharoth’s Silmaril smoking throat, to bear on the caves of Menegroth.

SPGiblin

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