08-19-2003, 03:46 AM | #1 |
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Dale, Woodmen and the Beornings...
Every once in a while, I like to take a different perspective when looking at LoTR and The Hobbit. I am probably in a minority but I wish that more stories could have been written about the northern group of Edain living east of the misty mountains.
We mainly hear about them in The Hobbit (or at least a few references) and a little in LoTR, but not enough to satiate my appetite. In my opinion, although they do not have the noble "history" of the Dunedain, i believe that they probably built a more advanced civilisation than those in Gondor and Rohan, owing to the fact that they were merchants and traders. Does any one else feel as they would liked to have heard more about Dale etc?
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08-19-2003, 07:24 AM | #2 |
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Welcome to the 'moot Durin1.
I agree I wish there were more tales but, I disagree that there culture was higher than that of Gondor. Rohan maybe. The only I could agree on the fomer is if you mean the pre-Dunedain civilization of Gondor.
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08-19-2003, 08:18 AM | #3 |
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I agree in the sense that the Dunedain were obviously more advanced (in the technological sense), but what I mean is that the civilisation of Dale and Esgaroth seem to be more "modern".
To me the Gondorians represent a more archaic way of life (possibly as a result of living in a frontier society), whereas the Dalians seem to have developed a systen of living which is not too far removed from what we would see in real life - inns, fireworks, trade etc. When we get a glimpse of Minas Tirith, for example in LoTR, they do not seem to have incorporated many of these things into their culture. They seem to try to preserve much of the way they had previously lived without moving forward; they appear to me to be very insular. Then again, I may still be totally wrong!
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Good thoughts there Durin1, and welcome to the moot!
However, i think that if we want to compare Dale with Gondor as we know them from TH and LOTR we must be careful. TH tells things as seen by the first hobbit that dared to venture into the great world. As Bilbo wrote his book he probably tended to exaggerate things because he was very impressed by them and wanted to impressed a (possible) hobbit reader.
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08-19-2003, 05:03 PM | #6 |
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Wat is the difference between The beorings and the woodmen? I always thought that after the battle of five armies Beorn became the cheif of all the woodmen hence>>>>> THE BEORNINGS.And why didn't any of the woodmen fight at the battle of five armies?
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What I find interesting is that the Shire and Laketown have elected officals. Beorning had leaders but, I do not know if they were elected or not. Grimbeorn was the son or grandson of Beorn but, I do not know ho he came to power. Dale had a king.
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08-24-2003, 02:56 PM | #8 |
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I finished reading Queer Lodgings to my husband last night, and here's something I find interesting re: the Beornings -- unless I've forgotten, the 14 companions don't see any more bears (aside from Beorn himself) the rest of the journey, nor did they before that. However, in that chapter it details about how many bear tracks were seen around the place the next day, and that they would have come from every direction except from the west. It just struck me as funny that they wouldn't have seen any despite there being so many in the wild lands there (or maybe it just isn't mentioned that they did).
Also, I wonder how all those bears dancing in the moonlight would have looked -- and how did the dances go? Hmmm. Oh, also it describes the honey cakes Beorn gives them as being tasty, lasting a long time, and only needing a little to fill one up -- sound familiar to anyone? So was Beorn making lembas, or just something w/ similar properties? |
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I think that it might be a different version of lembas more like cram though. Man I would love to eat those (lembas and Beorns cakes). That would be so yummy
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09-04-2003, 04:47 AM | #10 |
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Concerning the original question by Durin1, I'd definetely want to hear more about the Dalemen and other Northmen. At least from what I've studied, the Northmen were not really Edain. Edain were only the 3 tribes that crossed the Ered Luin in the First Age. But it does say they were remotely related to the Dunedain, so my guess is that in the beggining of men, they split into Easterling, and Wester(lings?) and then the Edain went over the Ered Luin, and the remaining "Westerlings" became the Northmen.
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I thought some of the Edain refused to journey to numenore.They migrated back over the misty mountains,and mix and mingled with the (westerlings) Northmen>>>>>>> which later became the rohirrim,People of dale,woodmen and beornings.
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09-06-2003, 10:43 AM | #12 |
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That could be true also, I'll have to do my research again.
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About Durin 1's interest in more tales of Dale, what about the end of the Master of Dale and where he was going with the gold?
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Does it say what the old Masters name was? Who knows maybe he killed the real Denethor and took over Gondor . . .
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Originally posted by Thorin II
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by ArwenEvenstar Does it say what the old Masters name was? Who knows maybe he killed the real Denethor and took over Gondor . . . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If so, he did a great job of tricking Boromir and Faramir. _______________________________________________ Of course, that would explain movie Denethor.
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