Hey! I was going through your fancast tags and wanted to ask if you had anyone particular in mind for Dis and Frerin (my friend suggested Gerard Butler for Frerin, with blond hair like Fili’s :D)

Ooh, I really really like Gerard Butler for Frerin!  Dis… I don’t know. I’m not really sure what to do about fancasting lady dwarves, to be honest. I mean, Tolkien makes it pretty clear that, to non-dwarves, they look just like dwarvish men. And as happy as I was to have dwarvish women represented in…

Would Dis be considered Princess Dis or Lady Dis? I’ve seen it used both ways and I am curious if one is more correct than the other.

Tolkien never uses any titles when talking about Dis, so I really can’t tell you. But, personally, I don’t think either were very likely, because it doesn’t seem like the dwarves really used titles that way. Even in The Hobbit, after Thorin has reclaimed the mountain, he is never once referred to as “King Thorin”,…

Tolkien and the Virgin Mary

I automatically want to avoid the word “represents”, because it brings us into dangerous allegory territory (see this post about Tolkien and allegory.) But there are a few characters that I would definitely say are at least partly inspired by the Virgin Mary, and Elbereth/Varda is absolutely one of them. Part of Tolkien’s strong Catholic…