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 | | The First Emperor ruled the land of Arda under a concept of The Mandate of Virtue, which linked him to the hearts and minds of his people. | | | Consulting with his Immortals, the Emperor forged the Sword of Virtues from the magic of the Earthblood, and gave it the power of each of the Virtues that the peoples of Arda lived by. | | | The First Sovereign Emperor of Arda, created the Codex of Virtue, and set about the rules for living a good life. |
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http://home.att.net/~spcibarich/games/sov/history/sovhistory.htm
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| | History & Evolution of Arda |
| | The Curse or Doom of Mandos works out in tragic events throughout the history of the First Age in Middle-earth, in, for example, the tale of Beren and Lúuthien the Elf-maiden. | | | After the First Age of the Sun, there was a remnant of that race of Men called the Edain who allied themselves with the Elves in The Ware of The Jewels against Morgoth. | | | The historical context of J.R.R Tolkien's tale of Middle-Earth and the Undying Lands is so vast and complex that I have had to divide them into sixteen separate pages. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/vt/VortexTom/Infinite.Arda.html
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| | Arda |
| | Arda's principal part is the earth (Ambar or Imbar). | | | This idea will be fulfilled by Ilúvatar in the end, either by healing Arda, or by making a new Arda. | | | Through the Veins of the World, tunnels going from the Outer Sea below to the surface of the earth, Ulmo refreshed the waters on the surface and kept himself informed on what happened. |
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http://www.vangor.de/mittelerde/arda_1.htm
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| | Nenya and Ancalagon - Debate - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | In the darkness of Arda already the Dwarves wrought great works, for even from the first days of their Fathers they had marvellous skill with metals and with stone; but in that ancient time iron and copper they loved to work, rather than silver or gold. | | | Depending on the event itself we can determine the lasting impact on history, there is no denying that the creation of Laurelin and Telperion is the single most significant event in Arda's History. | | | Depending on the event itself we can determine the lasting impact on history, there is no denying that the creation Laurelin and Telperion is the single most significant event in Arda's History. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=7449
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| | Allinet.info :: The Silmarillion |
| | The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroisim of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy. | | | The title Silmarillion is shortened from Quenta Silmarillion, "The History of the Silmarils," the three great jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illumined Valinor, the land of the gods. | | | If, however, you want to read a book ABOUT "The Lord of the Rings" and the history of that created world, this is THE book for you. |
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http://www.allinet.info/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0618391118
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| | Contingencies of Doom |
| | That is why the history of Middle-earth is different from earlier epics, from Greek heroism to the tragic leading roles in the Nibelungenring. | | | Now all of this is not to deny that destiny and doom play indeed a maior role in the history of Middle-earth. | | | When we state that an inhabitant of Arda was apparently doomed, we still have to explain why. |
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http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/papers/destiny.htm
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| | GamerGod |
| | They value communication highly, which is illustrated in the name they gave themselves--Quendi-- which means ‘the speakers.’ Their greatest achievement in communication was teaching the Ents (the fierce tree creatures who crushed Saruman) to speak. | | | However, their strong points are valuable: they are extremely ambitious, and they have the Gift of Men: death, which will get them off Arda, the earth, to heaven. | | | ”Yet the history of Arda is one of the rise of Men (...) and by the Fourth Age, the Dominion of Men, they were the dominant race of Middle-earth.&; |
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http://meo.gamergod.com/races.cfm
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| | Valaquenta.com : The Silmarils |
| | But not until the End, when Fëanor shall return who perished ere the Sun was made, and sits now in the Halls of Awaiting and comes no more among his kin; not until the Sun passes and the Moon falls, shall it be known of what substance they were made. | | | All who dwelt in Aman were filled with wonder and delight at the work of Fëanor. | | | And Varda hallowed the Silmarils, so that thereafter no mortal flesh, nor hands unclean, nor anything of evil will might touch them, but it was scorched and withered; and Mandos foretold that the fates of Arda, earth, sea, and air, lay locked within them. |
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http://www.valaquenta.com/silmaril.php
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| | The History of Middle-Earth |
| | Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are, accepting the marring of Arda, and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no farther evil, it came but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow. | | | For the evil and the grief of Death are in mere severance and breach of nature which is alike in both (or Death is not their name) ; and both occur only in Arda Marred, and accord with its processes. | | | Andreth asserted such an opinion to be false and the product of the Enemy’s lies, because it implied a sinful disregard for the body, whereas in every incarnate creature body and soul love one another mutually. |
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http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/papers/historiesMe.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Tolkien |
| | Considering the history of Arda, for example, I was astonished to find no reference at all regarding the Dagor Dagorath, the final battle of the Gods, when Morgoth the Dark Enemy returns and Arda will be laid to waste... | | | But if your a fan and wish to learn more about middle earth, this is a book for you as it will open your eyes to the first three ages of middle earth. | | | First, the books chapters are about history, geography, sociology, natural history and biografies. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684839792?v=glance
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| | The Silmarillion Book at Shop Ireland |
| | He has managed to create a history of a world in which great truths are made manifest, and in which legend plays its proper role of mirroring our own histories - and our own future. | | | It demonstrates Tolkien's breadth of knowledge in the realms of myth, poetry, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. | | | If you enjoy The Mabinogion, the Norse sagas, Beowulf, the Old Testament, the tales of the Hindu gods, Arthurian myth, the epics of Ancient Greece then this book will appeal. |
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http://www.shopireland.ie/books/reviews/0261102737
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| | Articles - The Lord of the Rings |
| | As his main work, Tolkien began to outline the history of Arda, telling tales of the Silmarils, and many other stories of how the races and situations that we read about in the Lord of the Rings trilogy came to be. | | | The story's titular character is the Dark Lord Sauron of Mordor. | | | The Lord of the Rings began as a personal exploration by Tolkien of his interests in philology, religion (particularly Roman Catholicism); fairy tales, and Norse and Celtic mythology. |
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http://www.lastring.com/articles/The_Lord_of_the_Rings?mySession=87651680aa033a5594ff24970802c2e6
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| | myprecious.co.uk |
| | A Queen of the Valar, the spouse of Mandos, who weaves the tales of the history of Arda. | | | The Earth then saw great upheaval as the rival powers struggled over its destiny (it is thought that the Misty Mountains were raised at this time). | | | 'Valar' is the name given to the fourteen powerful spirits who took physical form and entered Arda after its creation to give order to the world and combat the evils of Melkor. |
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http://myprecious.co.uk/archive/races1/valar.htm
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| | ElvenRunes.com - Niya's Tales of Arda
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| | Today, I will tell you a different kind of story about how Arda as we know it was made and about times so long ago that we can hardly comprehend it. | | | He envied the Elves and Men for the gifts Ilúvatar promised to grant them with and urged to control these children and subdue them to his power. | | | But nor did anything the Valar made ever become exactly as they wanted, because of him. |
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http://www.elvenrunes.com/mume/oldniya/sim1.html
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| | A Speculative History of Music of Arda - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | Perhaps the evolution of music in the Renaissance ought to be thought of as the rediscovery of techniques and practices that were lost with the decline of Men and the departure of the Elves. | | | And it is quite incredible to suggest that such a situation existed not once in our history, but twice - once in the early Renaissance and once far, far earlier, before the rise of Rome or the fall of Troy. | | | In known musical history, there have been two periods that have decent claims to being the "height of polyphony," and two composers that have epitomized polyphony, each in his own way. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=14562
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| | The Sillmarillion or The lays of Beleriand |
| | Since I'm not a history or literature person, I do not plan to read HoME, because I find them to be more like history textbooks, and books about Tolkien's writing process. | | | Some of the HoME are like that too, but the Lays of Beleriand is just beautiful.It's made up of the story of the children of Hurin in alliterative verse, the lay of Leithian (the story of Beren and Luthien) in rhyming couplets, and a few other short poems. | | | I love all of them and if you are interested in the history then it's well worth reading them. |
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http://neb2.gotdns.com:8080/torc/completed_newformat/52274.html
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| | The One Ring For Online Tolkien Fans The Lord of the Rings Source |
| | He arrived in South America a believer in the theory of Neptunism (all rocks are sedimentary in origin) and then became convinced of the correctness of Plutonism (mountains are formed by violent upheaval); some of his descriptions resemble those of Mordor and Mount Doom, written by Tolkien. | | | Similarities are demonstrated between Humboldt's account of his ascent of Chimborazo and the descriptions of the Misty Mountains in The Hobbit (HOB) and the Caradhras in LotR. | | | Von Humboldt's catastrophism is reflected in the history of Arda, where the transition between the Ages is marked by violent upheavals (the fall of the Lamps, the War of Wrath, the collapse of Númenor and the explosion of Mount Doom). |
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http://www.theonering.com/comments.cfm?Item_ID=7577&Item_Type=articles
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| | Tom Bombadil |
| | Tolkien refers to Tom as "a particular embodying of pure (real) natural science: the spirit that desires knowledge of other things, their history and nature, because they are 'other' and wholly independent of the enquiring mind."(16) This desire for knowledge is verbalized in an obscure poem called Once Upon A Time: | | | Once upon a moon on the brink of June | | | This is an account of how corruption came to Arda. |
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http://www-students.biola.edu/~brittany/written/tombombadil.html
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| | The Eleventh Hour |
| | I knew what he had wrought, had seen it in dreams before it ever happened, and felt his malice bearing down upon me when he visited the eve before, smiling and secure in his knowledge that Pharazôn was doomed from the beginning and all of us with him. | | | Had I lived, perhaps you would have heard more of my story, or perhaps not. | | | As both the royal house and the Lords of Andúnië belong to the Line of Elros and have a prior history of intermarriage, it is not inconceivable that Míriel might have married Elendil had she not been forced by Pharazôn. |
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http://www.geocities.com/laura91506/eleventh.html
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| | LOTR Fan Club Links |
| | A Tolkien Dictionary -- taken from the indexes of the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. | | | The Thain's Book -- descriptive entries of the people, places, things and events of LOTR with passage references. | | | Suite101.com -- in-depth essays, discussions and studies on the history and nature of Middle-earth. |
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http://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/links/links.html
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| | Edhel'Arda: Resurrection - A Brief History of Edhel'Arda |
| | The four billion year history of Edhel'Arda, from the time when it came into being to the War of the Divine, is seperated into five major eras, each starting and ending on some major event in history. | | | Before Elves (B.E.), when the planet developed and life began to form on the planet. | | | Lastly, our time, the last thousand years, the years After the Betrayal (A.B.), the destroyed Dark Empire rebuilding and the Valasse gaining strength back unknown in their hidden prison. |
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http://www.avidgamers.com/feac/history.html
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| | Manyaveiel's Member Page |
| | Exploring the history of Arda, astronomy, teaching young elves. | | | It was through this that she developed her interest for the history of Arda, but her love of the forests and night skies remained. | | | Once, east of the Ered Luin, she was waylaid by orcs and would have been slain had her brother not noticed her leave and been following her. |
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http://www.geocities.com/greyhavensalliance/mem_Manya.html
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| | Valaquenta @ www.ezboard.com |
| | Where the souls of the beings await their fates and the tapestries show the history of Arda. | | | Where the grass is evergreen and the flowers appear upon the earth. | | | This is forum where the admins can come to gather and..discuss diffrent matters. |
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http://p221.ezboard.com/bvalaquenta
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| | A Druid Missal-Any, Winter Solstice, RDNA |
| | In my humble opinion, my own Reformed Druidism believes in the cycle of revivals of Nature and the pressing need for a continual discovery of Awareness and Wisdom through introspection and revelation from the gods. | | | Surely the Earth-Mother knows her own, and all our fancy titles won 't bias her relationship with us. | | | Again and again throughout the history of the church God has poured out His Spirit to bring times of refreshing. |
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http://www.geocities.com/mikerdna/newmissal12.html
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| | Shipwrecked - www.ezboard.com |
| | A mere three days after he addressed the Noldor in a speech that would bring curse upon Arda and the Elves but at the same time shape their history. | | | She was a jewel among the Elves; only one, Lúthien Tinúviel, in all the history of Arda was held fairer and only one, Fëanor, was said to hold more fire in his marrow than Laurëlin. | | | Great was her grief in years to come but never did joy leave her, and never did her boldness fade. |
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http://p088.ezboard.com/flindorinandfrm17.showMessage?topicID=4.topic
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| | Lord of the Rings Movies Information TheOneRing.net™ News Archives |
| | We are fortunate indeed to have the Silmarillion chronicling the history of Arda's creation; no doubt Tolkien fans would love to read about the Fifth and Sixth Ages as well. | | | At first blush many may focus on European history, although this is surely only part of the conversation. | | | We will discuss both how Middle-earth's history is similar to ours, and how it is different. |
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http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/5/967163313
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| | Wired 9.10: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| | Martinez himself has woven Tolkien's loose threads into an unpublished, as-yet-untitled 600-page history book, complete with endnotes, citations, and appendixes. | | | The History thickened the reality of Middle-earth all the more, even as the series showed how much Tolkien tinkered with his story along the way (Frodo, for example, was initially saddled with the unfortunate name of Bingo). | | | By not finishing his great picture, he hoped to "leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama." Though Tolkien himself would not have always appreciated the results, those other minds and hands have been keeping busy. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.10/lotr.html?pg=6
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| | Ingwe's web site : |
| | I decided to post letter #131 to Milton Waldman because in this letter Tolkien gives description of the History of Arda. | | | You may find a few things about the World of JRRT and a few pictures. | | | I also posted biography of Elrond Halfelven that was made by me. And you'll find some useful links :) |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: HI: HIS |
| | History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | | | History of the Jews in England--Maranos in England | | | History of the Jews in England--The Oath of Abjuration |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/H/HI/HIS
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| | ARDA - annual for Arda research |
| | Arda is bilingual: since volume III, each text in it is either in English with a summary in Swedish or other Scandinavian language, or else in a Scandinavian language with a substantial English summary (in volumes I and II always thus). | | | Arda is published by the Arda Society with support from the Forodrim. | | | Arda is an annual for the furtherance and propagation of all discoveries and insights that render clearer the picture of the ancient world that |
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| | Vision and melody - Arda: the fanlisting |
| | "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought..."(from the Silmarillion, Ainulindalë;) | | | The world was made bent (or rounded) and Aman was taken out of the world, only to be reached by the Elves who could follow the straight road that would carry them into the West. | | | Before the waking of the Elves, the Valar (some of the Ainur who had descended to Arda) shaped it in many ways by building - and also destroying as was the intention of Melkor, the first Dark Lord. |
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http://fani.nippu.net/arda/about.php
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| | USS ISANNAH, NCC-14988 |
| | A starfleet science officer, spent 10 years teaching at the academy, until war broke out with the Dominion when he was reassigned to a starship, KIA 2376 during a Jem'Hadar attack. | | | Lived on Trill his entire life, considered to be one of the planets greatest minds he lectured at universities all over trill until the day he died. | | | Male, Second Arda in Strafleet, joined with symbiont 2355. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/talisan/isannah/crew/arda.html
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| | Belthronding Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library |
| | ne of the most famous bows in the history of Arda is Belthronding, the name of the weapon of Beleg Cuthalion (himself named Strongbow). | | | The names derivation can be found with a little search through the "Etymologies" of The Lost Road, in which all of its elements' entries have Belthronding as one of their references. |
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| | The Powers of Arda |
| | The Creator of Eä; (The Universe) and Arda (The Earth) | | | Lesser spirits brought to Arda by the Valar as their helpers and servants. | | | The 'Angels' (Valar &; Valier) from among the Ainur who came to Arda as Guardians to govern it for Eru |
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| | Guns, Germs & Steeled » NH: Ripe for conversion? |
| | The ARDA data showed that in Georgia 27.8% of the people claimed to be adherents of an Evangelical denomination while only 2.5% of Granite staters claimed to be affiliated with an Evangelical congregation. | | | Far from being a religious wasteland, New Hampshire has a long and proud religious history. | | | The ARDA data show that New Hampshirites are not any less “churched” than other states, we just tend to go to different churches than people in some other parts of the country. |
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| | Arda Coat of Arms |
| | There are three terms found in the Domesday Book which were used to express the amount of land held by each manor, and how well that land was utilized, so as to estimate the annual rates of taxation upon each lord. | | | It is hard to say exactly when man first came to the lands that were to become the British Isles, but it can be said with certainty that Paleolithic tribes were flourishing there by 8000 BC. | | | The name Arda is part of the ancient legacy of the Anglo Saxon tribes of Britain. |
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http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/arda-coat-arms.htm
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| | ARDA - American Resort Development Association |
| | This is why a story about portfolio performance might appear in the business section, or ARDA's consumer tips may appear in the lifestyle section of your local newspaper. | | | While spreading the good word about research and other ARDA functions is an important role for ARDA's public relations department, another focus is reaching a larger audience through an aggressive media relations campaign. | | | While the findings of these studies are most effective in reaching the media and consumers, many studies are structured to assist developers in building their business. |
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http://www.timesharetalk.co.uk/arda.htm
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| | [ Daily Tolkien ] Origin and History of the Ents |
| | The history of the Elder Days mentions them only once: An Ent-host crossed the Mountains of Lune to assist Beren who "intercepted a dwarf-army that had descended from the mountains, sacked the realm of Doriath and slain King Thingol... | | | Or – there is left one terrifying possibility, that perhaps has the highest probability of all, but, if true, would pose one of the Dark Lord’s worst crimes in the history of Arda. | | | Perhaps they took revenge and had a part in deciding "the wars of Sauron and the Men of the Sea" (TT) as Treebeard remembered the War of the Last Alliance. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/839913/posts
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