Bp – Denethor – TKN

Rc – Tolkien – LotR – – Generous deed

Por |marzo 4th, 2019|

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‘He is not as other men of this time, Pippin, and whatever be his descent from father to son, by some chance the blood of Westernesse runs nearly true in him; as it does in his other son, Faramir, and yet did not in Boromir whom he loved best. He has long sight. He can […]

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Rc – Tolkien – LotR – – Such counsels

Por |marzo 4th, 2019|

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Then suddenly Denethor laughed. He stood up tall and proud again, and stepping swiftly back to the table he lifted from it the pillow on which his head had lain. Then coming to the doorway he drew aside the covering, and lo! he had between his hands a palantir. And as he held it up, […]

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Rc – Tolkien – LotR – For he can afford to lose a host

Por |agosto 24th, 2016|

‘Yet,’ said Denethor, ‘we should not lightly abandon the outer defences, the Rammas made with so great a labour. And the Enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the River. That he cannot do, in force to assail the City, either north of Cair Andros because of the marshes, or southwards towards […]

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Rc – Tolkien – LotR – Gandalf – ‘Stay this madness!’

Por |agosto 23rd, 2016|

‘Stay! Stay!’

cried Gandalf, springing forward to the stone stair before the door.

‘Stay this madness!’

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Rc – Tolkien – LotR – Pippin’s Oath to Denethor

Por |agosto 23rd, 2016|

The old man laid the sword along his lap,
and Pippin put his hand to the hilt,
and said slowly after Denethor: […]

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Jonathan – «Then He Showed His True Nobility» – Why Jackson Doesn’t Get It

Por |enero 4th, 2016|

After spending the wee hours in a darkened theatre,
dragging myself to work, and working up a good lather,
I think I have pinpointed the flaw in Peter Jackson’s TTT.
Nearly all of the nobility of Tolkien’s characters
has been sucked out of Jackson’s postmodern «reimagining.»
Other than Sam, Tolkien’s Faramir is the most admirable character […]

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Dominic Russell – Portrait of Denethor

Por |septiembre 26th, 2015|

Dominic Russell

– Portrait of Denethor

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