Boromir With No Heir?

You’d think, politically, that it would make sense for Boromir to have an heir, right?  But if his lack of wife and child was a problem, it was never mentioned as such.  Rather, Tolkien considered Boromir’s lack of family as an aspect of his character/personality.  In fact, he specifically addresses it in Appendix A, saying: …

Gandalf and Thranduil in tBotFA

Their relationship actually felt pretty true to canon to me. (Of course, since we never actually see them meet, all we can do is speculate, but speculate we will.) To be honest, the only leaders who ever seem happy to see Gandalf are Elrond and Galadriel/Celeborn. For comparison, here was Gandalf’s greeting from Theoden (sure,…

Pippin: Prince of the Halflings

(A response to this post, if interested.) So, when Pippin arrives in Minas Tirith with Gandalf, both Denethor and Beregond make some sort of comment about the strangeness of hobbit-speech. They don’t really specify what about Pippin’s speech is so strange, just vaguely referring to accent. And that could just have been a regular comment…

Gondor During The Hobbit

They didn’t know it, of course, but 2941 was sort of Gondor’s Last Summer, if you’ll excuse the WWI reference. Because by the end of The Hobbit, the White Council has driven Sauron out of Dol Guldur, and right back to his old stronghold in Mordor, which basically started a period of ongoing warfare with…

Pippin’s Song in the tBotFA Trailer

(I haven’t heard anything about this unseen LotR footage – if you could link me to the interview, maybe the exact wording would give me some ideas as to what he’s talking about? And it looks like elvish archers behind Gandalf – they must be either from Lorien fighting at Dol Goldur, or from Mirkwood…