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FĂ«anorophobic
Join Date: May 2004
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![]() Lotr and the Sil. are such serious and "grand" works. But through subtle hints here and there you can feel that Tolkien enjoyed a great sense of humor (like with Sam's troll song) and that sense of humor can be seen in some of his letters: he knew someone by the name of T. W. Earp, so he nicknamed him "the original twerp"!
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Advocatus Diaboli
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my favorite humorous moment is with aragorn and the old lady about the kingsfoil in "houses of the healing"... we get to see some classic gandalf and aragorn sarcasm
![]() i think that particular part was put in to lighten the mood after the battle and theoden's death
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Elven Warrior
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Inherent to Tolkien.
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AngAdan
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Sam cousin Halfast (or Half-ast) that sees giant creature waling around in North farthing.
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Head Hollara
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It's largely the book's format... it differs a lot from his other works, which generally had much more dialogue and detailed interaction. The Silmarillion gives us a whole lot of names and places and details in a compressed format.
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if you had spent more time spamming the Welcome new members thread BoP, you would have known
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