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Why Would The Valar Not Accept The One Ring If It Were Sent Over Sea?original ↗

17 Sept 2026

Why Does Middle-earth Feel Deeper Than Other Fantasy Worlds?original ↗

15 Sept 2026

What Was Durin’s Crown?original ↗

10 Sept 2026

Why Didn’t Sauron Create An Army Of Morgûl-Blade Slaves?original ↗

31 Aug 2026

Why Were J.R.R Tolkien’s Works So Revolutionary?original ↗

28 Aug 2026

Is It Possible To Construct A Plausible Chronology For The Dwarven Rings Of Power?original ↗

24 Aug 2026

Why Did The One Ring Allow Frodo To Hand It To Bombadil?original ↗

21 Aug 2026

What Was Sauron’s True Name?original ↗

17 Aug 2026

What Did Tolkien Mean When He Used ‘Swart’ And ‘Swarthy’ To Describe Elves And Men?original ↗

13 Aug 2026

Why Did The Valar Settle In The West In Flat-world Arda?original ↗

10 Aug 2026

Why Didn’t The Elves Destroy The Three Rings?original ↗

6 Aug 2026

When Does A Tolkien Question Stop Being About Tolkien?original ↗

3 Aug 2026

Why Were Arnor And Gondor Separate After Isildur Died?original ↗

31 Jul 2026

Could The Mouth Of Sauron Have Survived The War Of The Ring?original ↗

27 Jul 2026

Were The Shire Hobbits White-skinned?original ↗

24 Jul 2026

Are Orcs And Elves The Same Race Or Not?original ↗

20 Jul 2026

Could Halbarad Have Spent Time In The Shire Or At Bree?original ↗

16 Jul 2026

If Ents Were In The Shire, How Could Treebeard Not Know?original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Orc Graffiti original ↗

6 Jul 2026

Aragorn vs Elrond: Who Wins?original ↗

2 Jul 2026

Was The Old Forest Road Reopened Before The War Of The Ring?original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Why Didn’t Dwarves Obsess Over Returning To The Grey Mountains?original ↗

11 Jun 2026

How To Pronounce Names In ‘The Lord of the Rings’original ↗

8 Jun 2026

Why Didn’t Saruman Attack Aragorn, Legolas, And Gimli In Fangorn?original ↗

28 May 2026

Did Sauron Actually Worship Melkor?original ↗

25 May 2026

How Far Can Elves See?original ↗

21 May 2026

How Did Faramir And Boromir View Their Shared Dream?original ↗

14 May 2026

Tea And Coffee: The OTHER Anachronisms In Middle-earth original ↗

11 May 2026

Did J.R.R. Tolkien Model Minas Tirith On A Real City?original ↗

7 May 2026

Halls, Houses, And Habitations Of The Elves original ↗

4 May 2026

What Would Have Happened If The Great Plague Never Hit The Westlands?original ↗

30 Apr 2026

The Dancing Bears Of Middle-earth original ↗

27 Apr 2026

Unusual Questions About Sauron original ↗

23 Apr 2026

Little Known Details About Tolkien Elves original ↗

20 Apr 2026

Why Didn’t Middle-earth’s Technology Evolve Or Advance?original ↗

12 Jan 2026

Why Did Mahtan Develop A Beard So Early In Life?original ↗

8 Jan 2026

What Would Have Happened If Gandalf Had Led The Fellowship Over The High Pass?original ↗

5 Jan 2026

2025

What Is The Oldest Town Or City In Middle-earth?original ↗

8 Dec 2025

How Did Gimli Outshine Legolas As A Member Of The Fellowship?original ↗

3 Dec 2025

Where Did Rivendell Get Its Food?original ↗

24 Nov 2025

Where Did J.R.R. Tolkien Say THAT?original ↗

17 Nov 2025

What Was The Eye Of Sauron?original ↗

10 Nov 2025

How Diverse Was Middle-earth In ‘The Lord of the Rings’?original ↗

6 Nov 2025

Are Animals Without Morality In ‘The Lord of the Rings’?original ↗

3 Nov 2025

Did J.R.R. Tolkien Model The Ride Of The Rohirrim On The Battle Of Vienna?original ↗

30 Oct 2025

Did J.R.R. Tolkien Clearly, Definitively Resolve Questions About Noldorin High Kingship?original ↗

27 Oct 2025

Short Questions and Answers Volume 11 original ↗

20 Oct 2025

Why Did Tolkien Use The Name ‘Wilderland’ For The Lands East Of The Misty Mountains?original ↗

13 Oct 2025

Why Did Faramir Get The Message Dream More Than Boromir?original ↗

2 Oct 2025

Questions About The Rangers Of Eriador original ↗

23 Sept 2025

Was J.R.R. Tolkien British, English, or A South African?original ↗

18 Sept 2025

What Happened To All The Rings Of Power?original ↗

15 Sept 2025

What Is The Oldest Reused Phrase In ‘The Lord Of The Rings’?original ↗

8 Sept 2025

What Is The IQ Of Elves?original ↗

1 Sept 2025

How Could Dragons Consume Rings Of Power?original ↗

25 Aug 2025

Why Didn’t Butterbur Trust Aragorn?original ↗

15 Aug 2025

Can Normal Animals In Middle-earth Speak?original ↗

11 Aug 2025

What Were The Spirits Of The Watchers Of Cirith Ungol?original ↗

4 Aug 2025

Did The Rightful Kingship In Gondor Pass To The Line Of Isildur?original ↗

1 Aug 2025

What Was Thorin And Gandalf’s Original Plan For Smaug?original ↗

28 Jul 2025

What Did Theodred’s Dying Words Mean?original ↗

10 Jul 2025

Does Nienna Have A Personality?original ↗

7 Jul 2025

Questions About Galadriel original ↗

26 Jun 2025

Why Doesn’t Galadriel Fight In Lord Of The Rings?original ↗

23 Jun 2025

How Were The Istari Supposed To Help Defeat Sauron?original ↗

20 Jun 2025

Did Dale Have A More Advanced Culture Than Rohan?original ↗

16 Jun 2025

Did Tolkien Hobbits Really Have Big Feet?original ↗

12 Jun 2025

What Was Gandalf’s Plan For Getting The Ring Into The Fire?original ↗

9 Jun 2025

Did J.R.R. Tolkien Model Beleriand On Doggerland?original ↗

29 May 2025

Would Dwarves Have Lived And Worked In The Shire?original ↗

26 May 2025

Did Turin Fight In The Nirnaeth Arnoediad?original ↗

22 May 2025

Are Peter Jackson’s Movies ‘Fan Fiction’?original ↗

19 May 2025

Could Radagast Have Taught Skin-changing To The Beornings?original ↗

15 May 2025

What Is The Name Of The River In Lindon?original ↗

12 May 2025

What Are The Special Abilities Of Balrogs?original ↗

8 May 2025

Why Didn’t Sauron Keep The One Ring After His Second Death?original ↗

5 May 2025

How Did Merry And Pippin Know That Frodo Would Need Their Help?original ↗

1 May 2025

When Did The One Ring Begin To Influence Frodo?original ↗

28 Apr 2025

Where In The Wild Is Gildor Inglorion?original ↗

3 Apr 2025

Politics: Just Politics original ↗

27 Mar 2025

The French Connection original ↗

20 Mar 2025

What Do We Know About The Dwarves Of Dunland?original ↗

17 Mar 2025

Hobbitry-in-Armchairs: Philandering Tolkien’s Philology original ↗

13 Mar 2025

Pedo Barbarians A Minno original ↗

6 Mar 2025

Questions About Tharbad original ↗

3 Mar 2025

Waiting for a King Like You original ↗

27 Feb 2025

How Did Middle-earth Realms Fund Their Governments?original ↗

24 Feb 2025

Did Glóin Imply He Had Met Legolas?original ↗

20 Feb 2025

Why Didn’t The Dwarves All Arrive Together In ‘An Unexpected Party’?original ↗

17 Feb 2025

Why Did Elrond Stay In Middle-earth After The Second Age?original ↗

13 Feb 2025

What Professions Did Tolkien’s Dwarves Actually Practice?original ↗

10 Feb 2025

Why Would Galadriel Have Allowed Sauron To Stay In Eregion?original ↗

6 Feb 2025

If Sauron Controlled The Orcs, Why Didn’t They All Get Along?original ↗

30 Jan 2025

Was J.R.R. Tolkien Woke?original ↗

27 Jan 2025

Why Didn’t Gandalf’s Return Cause A Big Stir?original ↗

23 Jan 2025

Why Didn’t Amazon Get Rights To Use Silmarillion Material?original ↗

20 Jan 2025

What Might Have Happened If Isildur Survived?original ↗

16 Jan 2025

Are These Myths About Tolkien Elves True?original ↗

13 Jan 2025

Were There Any Cultural Melting Pots In Middle-earth?original ↗

9 Jan 2025

Were The Dead Men Of Dunharrow Gondorians?original ↗

6 Jan 2025