My Favorite of the Race of Men

Okay, so in no particular order, my 10 favorite humans: Tar-Ancalime: Numenor’s first ruling queen, Tar-Ancalime is probably the best thing I got out of reading The Unfinished Tales (and that’s saying something, because I freaking love that book.) And I’ve written before about how much I relate to her (except for the whole monarch…

Okay, another CRUCIAL question: who is more beautiful, Galadriel or Arwen? Galadriel got Feanor enamored with her (sort of…) and saw the Trees and her hair inspired the silmarils… But Arwen is supposed to look like Luthien who is the fairest being ever. So?

It always comes down to the hair for Tolkien: ‘Gimli Glóin’s son, have you your axe ready?’  ‘Nay, lord,’ said Gimli, ‘but I can speedily fetch it, if there be need.’  ‘You shall judge,’ said Éomer. ‘For there are certain rash words concerning the Lady in the Golden Wood that lie still between us. And…

Tolkien’s Most Beautiful Relationships (Third Age Edition)

(Here’s the original First Age edition, for those who haven’t seen it.) The Second Age is difficult for this, since Tolkien didn’t write much about it (which makes me so sad because there are some great stories from that era that I would love to see fleshed out more.) Just assume that my favorite relationships…

Marshals of the Riddermark

Traditionally, Rohan’s army had three chief commanders: the First, Second, and Third Marshals of the Riddermark, in descending rank. The First Marshal was always in charge of the military based in Edoras. The Second and Third Marshals were assigned territory depending on the situation (so, for example, during the war with Saruman, the Second Marshal…