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Tolkien

Tolkien. Thomas Honegger t.m.honegger@gmx.de. http:// www. db-thueringen.de/ content/top/ index.xml. Caradhras Angry. The Gates of Moria. The Gates of Moria. The Gates of Moria. Ennyn Durin Aran Moria: pedo mellon a minno. Im Narvi hain echant: Celebrimboro Eregion teithant i thiw hin.

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  1. Tolkien Thomas Honegger t.m.honegger@gmx.de

  2. http://www.db-thueringen.de/content/top/index.xml

  3. Caradhras Angry

  4. The Gates of Moria

  5. The Gates of Moria

  6. The Gates of Moria • Ennyn Durin Aran Moria: pedo mellon a minno. Im Narvi hain echant: Celebrimboro Eregion teithant i thiw hin. • Problem: Why does Celebrimbor (SA) use Moria and not Hadhothrond?

  7. The Gates of Moria

  8. The Watcher

  9. Dwarrowdelf

  10. Fool of a Took

  11. Balin‘s Tomb (2994 TA)

  12. Balin‘s Tomb

  13. Balin’s Tomb • BALIN FUNDINUL UZBADKHAZADDUMU • [Here lies] BalinSon of FundinLord of Moria

  14. Khuzdul • names of places (Barazinbar = Redhorn = Caradhras; Bundushathûr = Cloudyhead = Fanuidhol; Zirakzigil = Silvertine = Celebdil) • Gimli’s war-cry: Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu! (LotR 557) • ‘Axes of the Dwarves! Dwarves upon you!

  15. Khuzdul • true (‘inner’) names not known to non-dwarves • ??what about Balin and Fundin in the Khuzdul inscription on Balin’s tomb??

  16. Khuzdul & other languages • Quenya = High-Elvish; based on Finnish, with Greek and Latin elements • Sindarin = Wood-Elvish; based on Welsh • Khuzdul = Dwarvish; intended to sound like Hebrew

  17. Book of Mazarbul

  18. Book of Mazarbul

  19. Book of Mazarbul

  20. The ASC • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a historical model for the Book of Mazarbul? • ASC begun ca. 890 AD (reign of Alfred the Great of Wessex) • Year by year entries (sometimes from the creation of the world) down to the most recent events. • Copies sent all over England and kept up to date locally. • Last Peterborough Chronicle entries shortly after 1155.

  21. The ASC Sample Entry • 449. Here Martianus and Valentinian succeeded to the kingdom and ruled 7 years. In their days Vortigern invited the Angle race here and they then came here to Britain in three shipy at the place Ebba’s Creek. The king Vortigern gave them land in the south-east of this land on condition that they fought against the Picts.

  22. The ASC Sample Entry • 1127. […] Soon afterwards many men saw and heard many huntsmen hunting. The huntsmen were black and huge and loathsome, and their hounds all black and wide-eyed and loathsome, and they rode on black horses and on black billy-goats. This was seen in the very deer-park of the town of Peterborough, […].

  23. Leaves from the Book of Mazarbul

  24. The last page of Beowulf

  25. The Book of Mazarbul • We drove out the orcs from the great gate and guard[r]oom and took the first hall: we slew many in the br[i]ght sun in the dale: Floi was killed by an arrow. He slew the great chiefta[in] ……… Floi under grass near Mirrormer[e] ………. • Balin is now lord of Moria.

  26. Book of Mazarbul

  27. Book of Mazarbul

  28. The Book of Mazarbul we cannot get out. we cannot get out. they have taken the bridge & second hall. fraar & lóni & náli fell dhere bravely while dhe rest retreated to mazarbul. we still hold the chamber but hope [i]z fading now. óins party went 5 days ago but today only 4 returned. the pool [i]z up to the wall at westgate. the watcher in the water tók óin ---- we cannot get out. the end comes són. we hear drums drums in dhe dép.

  29. Angerthas Moria • Name given to the Alphabet of Daeron sometime after this runic system had become more closely associated with the Dwarves of Moria than with the Elves of Beleriand who had originated and developed it.

  30. The Bridge of Khazad-dûm

  31. The Balrog

  32. The Balrog

  33. The Balrog

  34. The Balrog

  35. The Balrog

  36. Gandalf vs. the Balrog • “You cannot pass. […] I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.” (LotR 348)

  37. Gandalf vs. the Balrog • Secret Fire = the divine Life-force of the World and of Ëa, the Universe. • Anor (Sindarin; Quenya Anar): The Sun. • Udûn = Sindarin The Pit (Quenya Utumno); name given to the first Realm of Morgoth in the Far North of Middle-earth

  38. Balrog • fallen Maia • Tolkien modelled the Balrog upon the Old Norse fire-demon Surt • cf. his paper (1932 & 1934) on the OE term Sigelwara land (usually translated as the Land of the Ethiopians)

  39. Balrog • Tolkien: *sigel-hearwasigel = sun, jewelhearwa = soot • => sigelhearwa = a kind of fire-giant • => lost name for the sons of Múspell

  40. The Balrog

  41. The Balrog

  42. The Balrog • Why must Gandalf die? • Why must he die fighting a Balrog?

  43. On the other side • Mirrormere = • Kheled Zâram (Khuzdul) in the vale of Azanulbizar • Durin I the Deathless (the eldest of the 7 Fathers of the Dwarves) looked into it and saw a crown of 7 stars around his head

  44. On the other side

  45. Lothlórien

  46. Lothlórien

  47. Galadriel

  48. Galadriel • Sindarin for ‘Radiantly-garlanded [crowned]-maiden’; from Quenya Altariel • Noldor princess of Tirion • leader of the Noldor who forsook the Blessed Realm towards the end of the First Age • at the time of the War of the Ring the mightiest of the Eldar remaining in ME

  49. Galadriel

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