'The Rings of Power' Episode 5 Deep Dive | House of R
The Ringer-Verse
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What Happens When You're Trying to Bend Something to Your Will?
Tolkean tolking was a philologist, a lover of language. He loved the mediaeval. And so when he started to make his grand trilogy, which he didn't consider atrilogy, but when he decided to make this grand story of lord the rings, he used a bunch of songs and verses that he had already written That he sort of put in there and then bent the story to accommodate the songs and verses,. i think is interesting. When i was a kid, like first reading lor the rings, i would often skip. Did you ever skip the verses of the songs? Cause you were like, eadiota, i don't need to know about
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