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For questions about the trilogy of movies or books, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'The Two Towers' and 'The Return of the King'. Always use in conjunction with the [tolkiens-legendarium] tag and, for movie questions, the relevant movie tag, e.g. [fellowship-of-the-ring].
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Why is that ravens and eagles considered helpful while crows are bad news?
There's two answers here. One debunking the use of "Stormcrow" as to mean that crows are bad, and another to explain why crows are bad.
Stormcrow means "bringer of the storm", and as in the quote, Th …
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What did Hal see on the North Moors?
As mentioned by Ancalagon The Black in the comments. These are likely to be "Huorns", which are ancient trees that are capable of animation and communication with Ents.
There are many speculative th …
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How did Legolas and Aragorn first meet?
Well, there's nothing canon to suggest the exact point that they first met, however we can do some deduction.
Aragorn delivered Gollum to Thandruil after capturing him in TA3017. It seems entirely li …
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Who gave life to the dragons of Middle Earth?
We have a small amount of back story of the Giant Spiders, who were descendants of Umaiar (Fallen Maiar), but not for the want of looking I can't find anything relating to the origin of Dragons. We kn …
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Why would Gandalf (as ring-lord) be worse than Sauron?
I've just come across a point that I've thought about before, and thought it would be good to get some other stances on it. See this letter, emphasis mine:
In the 'Mirror of Galadriel', 1381, it a …
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Why does Gandalf say "the West that is forgotten"?
The "West that is forgotten" is the Undying Lands. I imagine that over the years, the idea of a place where the Elves rest for eternity would retreat into legend since Elves became more introverted am …
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What would've happened had Melkor won?
I'm interested to know if there were any notes on what would've happened has Melkor successfully overthrown the other Valar and assumed complete control of Arda.
Obvious answers like "He'd kill ever …
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Why was Gandalf so emotional?
This is relating to the movie. Frodo finally relinquishes his desire for the ring, and it melts in the fires of Mount Doom. The next scene shows the eruption of Mount Doom and the destruction of Barad …
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Was there any (significant) technological development during the Third Age
Adding to Lexible's very concise in-universe answer, there are clear themes that Tolkien depicted evil as technology throughout his works. So let's have a look at a few factors that would sit inline w …
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How large were Saruman's and Sauron's armies?
As noted by Richard in the comments, there isn't any definitive figure for Sauron's army, but we could guess anywhere upwards of 50,000 due to this bit of text, taken from Richard's link here:
Mordor …
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Why didn't Elrond or Círdan take the ring from Isildur by force and destroy it?
There's one misconception that I think the film gives, which probably gives this question more interest than it really should. Isildur doesn't visit Mount Doom with Elrond in the books, he was only "c …
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