Category: Council Courier

How did you find CoE? I think through a search engine, once when I was looking for images of LOTR. What are your favourite areas of the site? I tend to visit mostly the gallery, wallpapers, news, fan art and forum. How often do you visit CoE? At least once a day usually! It always…

How did you find CoE? I did a Google search on LOTR and it was one of many sites that popped up. I pretty much checked most of them out but kept coming back to CoE. It was friendly and easy to move around in so I signed up and have been here ever since.…

How did you find CoE? Hmm I was frequenting another site and the folks there who were discussing the books, were so very unkind, so off I went in search of another, more friendly place, where good, intelligent, non-confrontational discussions could be had concerning the books. Then, as I looked around, I was completely sucked…

Born to Saradoc Brandybuck and Esmeralda Took in 2982 of the Third Age, he was an only child. Normally known as Merry, he was called ‘Master Holdwine’ in Rohan, and was later known as ‘The Magnificent’. He was part of the Fellowship of the Ring. At the breaking of the Fellowship, he and Peregrin were…

Meriadoc Brandybuck is a Hobbit. Enough said, really, according to Peter Jackson’s movies. Despite his importance, bravery, cool head and quick wit in Tolkien’s epic books, his on-screen character is somewhat reduced to [borrowing a line from Cassie Claire’s Very Secret Diaries] ‘indiscernible background hobbit’. Alongside Pippin, Merry stumbles from one adventure (stealing from Farmer…

November’s edition of The Council Courier is now available and this month’s featured realm is the Realm of Vairë. You can view the newsletter here.

Mae govannen, mellon, minno a pedo! Well met, friend, enter and speak! The Sindarin sentence above could serve as the motto for our very own Language Section here at the Council of Elrond. This article will serve to introduce this section to all the council members who have yet to discover this very useful part…

Perhaps Faramir is best recognized as the character portrayed by David Wenham in Peter Jackson’s rendition of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Yet just as there are other shades to Faramir’s personality, there are also many different images and representations of this man of Gondor. In this article, you will catch a glimpse of…

Leaf by Niggle‘A Leaf by Niggle has a charm of its own’ (The Second Voice) Among Tolkien’s non-Middle-earth related works, Leaf by Niggle has always had a special place, allowing its readers to acquire a very personal insight in the Professor’s thoughts at the time of the writing of The Lord of the Rings. It…

‘What’s in a name ?’ It is a well known fact that Tolkien had a lifetime passion for creating stories or even entire mythologies starting from words or expressions with obscure etymologies. Therefore when trying to ‘explain’ the history and meanings of the word Atalantë (‘Downfallen’ in Quenya), he drew upon the rich Greek literary…