Hobbit talk
Apr. 16th, 2008 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnI just re-read The Hobbit. It left me speculating on how Turgon's sword got from Gondolin to a troll-cave near Rivendell. There's no official explanation, far as I can tell, so I can make up a theory for my own satisfaction.
I'm thinking it was either recovered during the fall of Thangorodrim and passed to some elf-relative or other of Turgon's, who then got mugged, perhaps in the Misty Mountains, on his way to Rivendell or Lorien some centuries later, or alternatively, it got shipped out before the fall of Beleriand and ended up in Angmar, where it would have made a nice bribe, perhaps to some rather dodgy king of Rhudaur.
I don't buy the idea that a gang of orcs carried it all the way from Beleriand. I mean, OK, nice addition to your basic hoard, but I don't suppose they would have wanted to actually use it or carry it long distances without a good reason, what with its scary anti-goblin glow. Likewise, wouldn't have thought it would be the first thing that a dragon fleeing disaster would have taken. Dragons don't seem to be the kind of creature that would carry baggage long distance.
Hey, here's a thought. I wonder if the Moria Balrog was at the fall of Gondolin, and the sword was something he mislaid in his rush out of Beleriand...? I like that thought. Somehow a Balrog with a backpack sounds more convincing than a dragon.
... also, I wonder if hobbits bred smaller breeds of cow, pigs etc? And were Farmer Maggots big scary dogs actually small terriers?
My icons are not really suitable to this post, but I thought this one could reasonably be described as 'Over the land there lies a long shadow'. :-p
I'm thinking it was either recovered during the fall of Thangorodrim and passed to some elf-relative or other of Turgon's, who then got mugged, perhaps in the Misty Mountains, on his way to Rivendell or Lorien some centuries later, or alternatively, it got shipped out before the fall of Beleriand and ended up in Angmar, where it would have made a nice bribe, perhaps to some rather dodgy king of Rhudaur.
I don't buy the idea that a gang of orcs carried it all the way from Beleriand. I mean, OK, nice addition to your basic hoard, but I don't suppose they would have wanted to actually use it or carry it long distances without a good reason, what with its scary anti-goblin glow. Likewise, wouldn't have thought it would be the first thing that a dragon fleeing disaster would have taken. Dragons don't seem to be the kind of creature that would carry baggage long distance.
Hey, here's a thought. I wonder if the Moria Balrog was at the fall of Gondolin, and the sword was something he mislaid in his rush out of Beleriand...? I like that thought. Somehow a Balrog with a backpack sounds more convincing than a dragon.
... also, I wonder if hobbits bred smaller breeds of cow, pigs etc? And were Farmer Maggots big scary dogs actually small terriers?
My icons are not really suitable to this post, but I thought this one could reasonably be described as 'Over the land there lies a long shadow'. :-p
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Date: 2008-04-19 11:32 am (UTC)As for our neighbor's pony, he's pretty shaggy, as well as being short, so perhaps he is a Shetland. I'll ask one of these days, but we don't often see their humans out and about.