J.R.R. Tolkien or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, if you prefer his full name, was much more than a quaint Professor of Anglo Saxon at a stuffy English university with three initials for a first name.Read more here
Love The Lord of the Rings and balloons? Not as much as this man does.
Ringers with a taste for pork pies and coney stew may soon be able to transport themselves to the world of Frodo, Merry, Sam and Pippin with the help of a J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired cookbook. Try some of these recipes.
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From the first article:
Many of the characters in the Lord Of The Rings film trilogy delivered their lines in Quenya, Sindarin, and Khuzdul, the vile language of the evil Lord of Mordor, Sauron.
I think this article is just badly edited but it sounds like they’re saying Khuzdul is the “vile language of Mordor”. Maybe they just missed leaving out the ‘and’?
Whenever I read the quote by Tolkien after Edith died, about not being able to plead before Mandos, it always goes straight to my heart.