Word: elvish
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...bear to see it maladapted, I just mean that listening to the soft, faux-baton crooning of the song, and then seeing this same Joanna Newsom-esque popadry set before a backdrop of shape-shifting, color-altering starscapes and dream sequences, feels sort of like seeing Agent Smith muttering Elvish in a fever-dream to Frodo Baggins. Only sort of, but weird is weird...
...learned the fictional languages Tolkien invented for his imaginary characters. Tolkien finally had to get an unlisted number after he'd been awakened in the middle of the night one too many times by brain-fried Bay Area hippies who just had to sort out the tangled lineage of Elvish Kings. You don't find nerds that dedicated today. Who needs to hallucinate visions of Frodo and his trippy friends when Peter Jackson's vision does it so well on screen? Of course, Jackson spent $300 million on the story?a vastly larger budget than that available to two earlier...
...Frodo Baggins is the reluctant hero of this year's "In" book--a three-volume fantasy called The Lord of the Rings...The hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD. On many U.S. campuses, buttons declaring FRODO LIVES and GO GO GANDALF--frequently written in Elvish script--are almost as common as football letters. Tolkien fans customarily greet each other with a hobbity kind of greeting ("May the hair on your toes grow ever longer"), toss fragments of hobbit language into their ordinary talk. One favorite word is mathom, meaning something one saves but doesn't need...
Richard III is called a "hellhound," an "elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog," "a bottled spider" and a "poisonous bunch-back'd toad...
That is pretty much how things go in this vast Genesis of Middle-earth, the Elvish books of Exodus and Kings, the combined Paradise Lost, Prometheus revisited and revised Bulfinch's Mythology that is The Silmarillion. Tolkien brooded over it for a lifetime but never got it published...