Hi, can you make a list of all the elves we know that refuse to return from Mandos and their reasons? Thank you so much!

Miriel, at first because she was too tired, and then later so that Finwe could re-marry Aegnor, because he doesn’t want to live in a world without Andreth Finwe, so that Miriel could return to the living I think that’s it… let me know if I missed someone!

Multicultural Elvish Marriages

An interesting question! Difficult to answer, because our examples are few and often affected by strange circumstances. Below is a chart of cross-cultural marriages among the elves (let me know if I forgot one) (They’re color-coded by culture: red=Noldor, purple=Vanyar, blue=Teleri/Sindar, grey=Avari, green=multicultural) As you can see, in most of these relationships the wife goes…

tolkienreadalong:

Okay, I know that several of you re-readers mentioned that the influx of names in this week’s chapters have stumped you in the past, so in the interest of helping with that I’ve made the above infographics (I even wrote a limerick – suck it, poetry!)

I couldn’t think of anything for Finarfin’s kids, but I’ll keep working on it – and let me know if there’s another group of names you find especially confusing, and I’ll see if I can come up with anything.

((EDIT: Forgot to mention that this is all based solely on the information included in The Silmarillion, since it’s meant to help first-time readers of that book. So if you’ve read Tolkien’s other works and notice some details that are kind of… off (*cough*Orodreth*cough*), that’s why.))

It suddenly occurred to me that, even though I made these for the Silmarillion Read-Along, they’re technically educational enough for this blog (certainly more education than Azog Jesus, at least.) Part 2 will be up in a few hours.

Middle Earth Without the Children of Indis

It would have been way worse! Okay, first of all I’ve got say that I don’t think a lot of the major events leading up to the exile of the Noldor would have been all that different – Feanor still probably would have made the silamrils, ‘cause making awesome things was basically what he did.…

My Opinion on Finwe’s Second Marriage

There are a couple different directions I could go with this question, so I’m going to very briefly address several of them, lol. What is my opinion on Finwe wanting to remarry? I think his reasoning was pretty fair. His situation after Miriel’s death was pretty depressing – not only was his wife dead, who’d…