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http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked/Letter_257&feed=atom&target=Letter_257 Tolkien Gateway - Changes related to "Letter 257" [en] 2013-05-20T04:22:11Z Related changes MediaWiki 1.17.0 http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=The_Hobbit&diff=230099&oldid=prev The Hobbit 2013-05-20T00:01:30Z

<p><span class="autocomment">Translations: </span> </p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 00:01, 20 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 74:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 74:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''[[Wikipedia:Icelandic language|Icelandic]]''': ''Hobbit'' (1978); ''Hobbitinn, eða, Út og Heim Aftur'' (1997)<ref name=AHT/>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''[[Wikipedia:Icelandic language|Icelandic]]''': ''Hobbit'' (1978); ''Hobbitinn, eða, Út og Heim Aftur'' (1997)<ref name=AHT/>  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''Irish''' (2012)<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{fact}}</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Wikipedia:</ins>Irish <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">language|Ireland]]</ins>'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'': ''An Hobad</ins>'' (2012)  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''[[Wikipedia:Indonesian language|Indonesian]]''': ''Hobbit'' (1977)<ref name=AHT/>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''[[Wikipedia:Indonesian language|Indonesian]]''': ''Hobbit'' (1977)<ref name=AHT/>  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''[[Wikipedia:Italian language|Italian]]''': ''Lo Hobbit, o, La riconquista del tesoro'' (1973)<ref name=AHT/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* '''[[Wikipedia:Italian language|Italian]]''': ''Lo Hobbit, o, La riconquista del tesoro'' (1973)<ref name=AHT/></div></td></tr>  </table>

98.116.172.24 http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Letter_165&diff=229982&oldid=prev Letter 165 2013-05-17T18:32:27Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 18:32, 17 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Tolkien felt that he was more of a Suffield.<ref group="note">Suffield was his mother’s maiden name.</ref>  When he was young his mother taught him and infused in him his taste for philology and romance.  He was a West-midlander at home only in counties bordering the Welsh Marches.  Both descent and opportunity made Anglo-Saxon and Western Middle English a childhood attraction and his main professional sphere.  Welsh he found particularly attractive and he constructed [[Sindarin]] to resemble the language phonologically (and related to High-elven in the same way as British is to Latin).  All names and languages in his books are constructed rather than being at random.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Tolkien felt that he was more of a Suffield.<ref group="note">Suffield was his mother’s maiden name.</ref>  When he was young his mother taught him and infused in him his taste for philology and romance.  He was a West-midlander at home only in counties bordering the Welsh Marches.  Both descent and opportunity made Anglo-Saxon and Western Middle English a childhood attraction and his main professional sphere.  Welsh he found particularly attractive and he constructed [[Sindarin]] to resemble the language phonologically (and related to High-elven in the same way as British is to Latin).  All names and languages in his books are constructed rather than being at random.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Wikipedia: Alliterative verse|Alliterative verse]] Tolkien wrote for pleasure, fragments of which had appeared in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.  He also used it in his poem, "[[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth]]", and in a yet unfinished poem, "[[The Fall of Arthur]]".<ref group="note">"The Fall of Arthur" was never published.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Wikipedia: Alliterative verse|Alliterative verse]] Tolkien wrote for pleasure, fragments of which had appeared in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.  He also used it in his poem, "[[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth]]", and in a yet unfinished poem, "[[The Fall of Arthur]]".<ref group="note">"The Fall of Arthur" was never <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">finished, but it has since been edited and </ins>published <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by [[Christopher Tolkien]]</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Another "fallacious fact" was his birth in [[Bloemfontein]], [[Wikipedia:Orange Free State|Orange River Free State]], fallacious because he was shipped to England in 1895 and had lived in Birmingham and Oxford for most of 60 years thereafter (except for 5 or 6 years in Leeds at the university there).  Tolkien said that he was untraveled.  He knew Wales, he had visited Scotland (south of the Tay) often, and knew something of France, Belgium, and Ireland.  Although he had spent a good deal of time in Ireland, his first visit was not until 1949, after ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' was completed and he found Gaelic and Ireland wholly alien.  Tolkien mentioned that in Liège, Belgium in October 1954 he had received a degree and was astonished to be welcomed in French as "le createur de M. Bilbo Baggins".</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Another "fallacious fact" was his birth in [[Bloemfontein]], [[Wikipedia:Orange Free State|Orange River Free State]], fallacious because he was shipped to England in 1895 and had lived in Birmingham and Oxford for most of 60 years thereafter (except for 5 or 6 years in Leeds at the university there).  Tolkien said that he was untraveled.  He knew Wales, he had visited Scotland (south of the Tay) often, and knew something of France, Belgium, and Ireland.  Although he had spent a good deal of time in Ireland, his first visit was not until 1949, after ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' was completed and he found Gaelic and Ireland wholly alien.  Tolkien mentioned that in Liège, Belgium in October 1954 he had received a degree and was astonished to be welcomed in French as "le createur de M. Bilbo Baggins".</div></td></tr>  </table>

KingAragorn http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Kalevala&diff=229980&oldid=prev Kalevala 2013-05-17T12:29:10Z

<p>Undo revision 229979 by <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Supplyant" title="Special:Contributions/Supplyant">Supplyant</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Supplyant" title="User talk:Supplyant">talk</a>) Commercial link</p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 12:29, 17 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 29:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 29:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.finlit.fi/kalevala/index.php?m=163&l=2 The Finnish Literary Society: information in English]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.finlit.fi/kalevala/index.php?m=163&l=2 The Finnish Literary Society: information in English]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.kaapeli.fi/maailma/kalevala/kalevala.html Kalevala in Finnish]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.kaapeli.fi/maailma/kalevala/kalevala.html Kalevala in Finnish]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[http://www.abelapublishing.com/the-kalevala_p23332670.htm J M Crawford's English translation paperbacks & e-books]</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{references}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{references}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*<small>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm John Martin Crawford's English translation of the ''Kalevala'']</small></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*<small>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm John Martin Crawford's English translation of the ''Kalevala'']</small></div></td></tr> </table>

Morgan http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Kalevala&diff=229979&oldid=prev Kalevala 2013-05-17T11:36:27Z

<p><span class="autocomment">External links: </span> </p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 11:36, 17 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 29:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 29:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.finlit.fi/kalevala/index.php?m=163&l=2 The Finnish Literary Society: information in English]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.finlit.fi/kalevala/index.php?m=163&l=2 The Finnish Literary Society: information in English]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.kaapeli.fi/maailma/kalevala/kalevala.html Kalevala in Finnish]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*[http://www.kaapeli.fi/maailma/kalevala/kalevala.html Kalevala in Finnish]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[http://www.abelapublishing.com/the-kalevala_p23332670.htm J M Crawford's English translation paperbacks & e-books]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{references}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{references}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*<small>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm John Martin Crawford's English translation of the ''Kalevala'']</small></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*<small>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm John Martin Crawford's English translation of the ''Kalevala'']</small></div></td></tr> </table>

Supplyant http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=E%C3%A4rendil&diff=229962&oldid=prev Eärendil 2013-05-16T07:54:16Z

<p><span class="autocomment">History: </span> </p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 07:54, 16 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 41:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 41:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Hearing of the tragedy that had befallen in Arvernien, Eärendil then sought after [[Valinor]], and he and Elwing found their way there at last. Eärendil thus became the first of all mortals to set foot in Valinor. Eärendil then went before the [[Valar]], and asked them for aid for Men and Elves in Middle-earth, to fight against Morgoth; and the Valar accepted his plea.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Hearing of the tragedy that had befallen in Arvernien, Eärendil then sought after [[Valinor]], and he and Elwing found their way there at last. Eärendil thus became the first of all mortals to set foot in Valinor. Eärendil then went before the [[Valar]], and asked them for aid for Men and Elves in Middle-earth, to fight against Morgoth; and the Valar accepted his plea.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[File:Jef Murray - Earendil.jpg|thumb|left|''Earendil'' by [[Jef Murray]]]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Because Eärendil had undertaken this errand on behalf of Men and Elves, and not for his own sake, [[Manwë]] forbore to deal out the punishment of death that was due; and because both Eärendil and Elwing were descended from a union of Elves and Men, Manwë granted to them and their sons the gift to choose to which race they would be joined (a gift that was further passed to the children of Elrond, who became known as the [[Half-elven]]). Elwing chose to be one of the Elves. Eärendil would have rather been one of the Men; however, for the sake of his wife, he chose to be one of the Elves.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Because Eärendil had undertaken this errand on behalf of Men and Elves, and not for his own sake, [[Manwë]] forbore to deal out the punishment of death that was due; and because both Eärendil and Elwing were descended from a union of Elves and Men, Manwë granted to them and their sons the gift to choose to which race they would be joined (a gift that was further passed to the children of Elrond, who became known as the [[Half-elven]]). Elwing chose to be one of the Elves. Eärendil would have rather been one of the Men; however, for the sake of his wife, he chose to be one of the Elves.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> </table>

Sage http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=J.R.R._Tolkien&diff=229891&oldid=prev J.R.R. Tolkien 2013-05-13T19:34:15Z

<p><span class="autocomment">External links: </span> </p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 19:34, 13 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 282:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 282:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT:Tolkien, J.R.R.}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT:Tolkien, J.R.R.}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Authors]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Authors]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Artists]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Cartographers]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:British people]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:British people]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Inklings]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Inklings]]</div></td></tr>  </table>

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