Tolkien's ?Mistake? - Page 2

me9996 · 01-13-2005, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by elvishfaerie3088

I think Tolkien might have made a mistake in his books...i can't remember which paticular book so i'm just posting this here.

Remember how Tolkien tells us that Hobbits don't recieve gifts on their birthdays instead they give gifts to their friends and family members who come to celebrate? Well then how come Smeagol and Deagol fight over THE Ring doesn't Deagol say he's already given Smeagol his birthday present and that this is his? Did Tolkien contridict himself or did i misread something?

No you didn't, Smeagol was a hobbit like thing called a stoor.

me9996 · 01-13-2005, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Telcontar_Dunedain

Another 'MISTAKE' that I've found is at Helms Deep Gimli says he has had nothing but wood to chop since Moria whereas when Legolas and Gimli found Aragorn and Boromir on Parth Galen Legolas said that they had hunted and killed many orcs but were more needed here. Anyway Tolkien was writing this for over 16 yrs. Can't he make a few mistakes?

They where fighting uruk-hai! I can see why Gimli thought he was choping wood!

Forkbeard · 01-14-2005, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by me9996

They where fighting uruk-hai! I can see why Gimli thought he was choping wood!

How do you know this was Tolkien's "mistake" and not Gimli's?

Lefty Scaevola · 01-14-2005, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Radagast The Brown

Actually, it was more like 600 years.

I was refering to the time that their ancestors went different dirrections, not to the time Deagol lived.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 01-14-2005, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by me9996

No you didn't, Smeagol was a hobbit like thing called a stoor.

stoors were not hobbit-like things,
the stoors were one of the 3 races of the hobbits
please read prologue I: Concerning Hobbits
Harfoots, Fallohides and Stoors were the three races.

me9996 · 04-03-2005, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

stoors were not hobbit-like things,
the stoors were one of the 3 races of the hobbits
please read prologue I: Concerning Hobbits
Harfoots, Fallohides and Stoors were the three races.

Oh, sorry... I guess the tradishons were diffrent for stoors then

Jon S. · 04-05-2005, 10:31 PM

"The most critical reader of all, myself, now finds many defects, minor and major, but being unfortunately under no obligation either to review the book or to write it again, he will pass over these in silence, except one that has been noted by others: the book is too short." (LoTR I, 9-10)

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04-05-2005, 10:31 PM	#27
Jon S. Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 455	"The most critical reader of all, myself, now finds many defects, minor and major, but being unfortunately under no obligation either to review the book or to write it again, he will pass over these in silence, except one that has been noted by others: the book is too short." (LoTR I, 9-10)