[JameRetief]

Your Daily Tolkien Ping!

Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!

[Charlie OK]

The "reformed" Sauron at first wanted only to help heal the earth he had originally help to damage. Tolkien notes that "his motives and those of the Elves seemed to go partly together: the healing of the desolate lands." (Letters, No. 131) But Sauron's intentions changed, and in time he decided that he could best "heal" the lands by directing the Elves' efforts, and this ultimately evolved into a desire for domination over the Elves (and through them, Middle-earth)

See, even JRRT knew that environmentalism and socialism go hand in hand.

[Illbay]

So we know something about the Three, and of course quite a bit about the Nine. But is there any information about the Seven? Were the Dwarves simply smart enough to get rid of them down some deep, dark, dank chuck-hole so their descendants wouldn't be tempted?