So that's why the inscription is in Elvish,Īnd that's why the command word was in Elvish,īecause it was designed to be the elves private entrance,īasically, into the kingdom of the dwarves. Their next door neighbors, in Eregion, right there,īetween the dwarves of Moria and elves of Eregion. Moria was the greatest of the kingdoms of the dwarves. The Elvish word for friend is, in fact, mellon. Isn't the Elvish word for 'friend' Mithrandir? Still around Frodo's neck, to Mount Doom.īut he can carry Frodo and the ring with it. So Sam does, of course, himself convey the ring, He carries Frodo who's carrying the ring, on his back. In the last stages of the journey, of course, He found Frodo again and returned it to Frodo.Īnd therefore clearly could have carried it. He only bore it for a short time before, of course, Thinking that he was going to have carry it When he though Frodo was dead, he took it from Frodo's body, Lord of the Rings question I'm too lazy to research, It is willing to take any master who claims it,Īnd as it seems to have done with Isildur. So that it can fit any hand that takes it up. You don't have to know that it's a ring of power You have to take the ring and intend to keep it. That's the way that Tolkien kind of constructed the whole.Īfter he decided that the ring was ring of power.Ī 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' situation? So that manifested body doesn't become invisible, You are actually going with your whole selfīecause mortals are being drawn into Sauron's world.Īnd he's chosen from that world in which he lives, Or the way light reflects off you, or something like that. It's not like you're affecting people's vision, So when you put on the ring, you're not just magically made. They can interact with the physical world,īut they no longer really have physical bodies anymore.Īnd more and more, as they are dominated, In the sense that they can hold objects, right? That there's nothing at all left of them. The Ringwraiths have been scraped over so much bread Remember Bilbo says that he feels like butter Who were drawn into the Wraith-world, basically. They don't necessarily interact with the physical world. There's the physical world, and there's the spiritual world.Ĭan go around the world invisibly, right? He kind of retcons the invisibility thing,Īnd he decides that the invisibility is actually gonna be When he decides that the ring is a ring of power,Īnd in fact, it has more and different powers That's kind of the way that he understands it, right?Īnd of course, when Tolkien wrote the story, Is that he doesn't have a body in the normal way. The reason it doesn't turn Sauron invisible Why does the ring not turn Sauron invisible? To why the eagles don't take them into Mordor.Īnd he could personally get to Mount Doomīut most importantly, it would be a pretty bad story. So, no, they don't intervene in the world at all times Who operate under the command of the Lords of the West, I would add, Gandalf can't summon eagles.Īnd indeed, there are some implications in the text, Why didn't Frodo just hop a ride to Mount DoomĪnswer, because that would be an incredibly boring story. They can feel the anger of the ancient elves, So the orcs won't think that all elf weapons glow blue, With their own anger against the goblins, The old smiths from Gondolin filled their weapons Is what is infused into those old swords from Gondolin. The elves and their passionate, cold hatred of the OrcsĪnd their opposition against everything the Orcs stand for, The biggest example of this is Sauron and the ring,īut I don't even mean on that kind of level. To infuse of their own spirit or will into what they do. Great craftsmen, great and powerful craftsmen,Īre able to invest the things that we make It's not just an automatic property of Elvish weapons,īut one of the things that we see in Tolkien is that Hi, this is Corey Olsen, the Tolkien professor, That just doesn't really make any sense to me. Through the Mythgard Academy, a Signum institution, Corey offers weekly explorations of The Lord of the Rings and other opportunities to discuss speculative literature and adaptations. Why can't Frodo ride an eagle all the way to Mount Doom? Would the battle at Helm's Deep gone differently if it hadn't rained? How much time passes between "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Return of the King"? Cory answers all these questions and much more.Ĭorey Olsen, also known as The Tolkien Professor, is the Founder and President of Signum University, a nonprofit higher education institution dedicated to affordable and accessible online learning with a special focus on promoting the humanities. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, and all the associated lore. The Tolkien Professor, Cory Olsen, once again uses the power of Twitter to answer the internet's burning questions about J.R.R.
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