references to norse mythology to the lord the rings the two towers?
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Everything. Pretty much. Dwarves. Rings. Kings. Epic saga of trial and loss. Etc. and Etc. Just open up to any page and land a finger on a line. Then think Norse.\n\nYou need to post this in "homework help" or in a Literature category, to get more answers.
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1.Foundation of stone-Foundation of Stone ch.1\n2.The taming of Smeagol-The taming of Smeagol-ch.2\n3.The riders of Rohan-The burnign of the Westfold ch.5,The riders of Rohan ch.9,The banishment of Eomer ch.6\n4.The passage of the Marshes-The passage of the Marhes ch.12\n5.The Uruk-hai-The Uruk-Hai ch.3\n6.The king of the Golden Hall-The king of the Golden Hall ch.16\n7.The Black Gate is closed-The Black Gate is closed ch.15\n8.The evenstar-The Evenstar ch.25\n9.The White Rider-The white Rider ch.13\n10.Treebeard-Fangorn Forest ch.14\n11.The leave taking-The story foreseen from Lorien ch.31\n12.Helm´s deep-Helm´s deep ch.27\n13.The forbidden pool-The forbidden pool ch.33\n14.Breath of life-The grace of Valar ch.29,Arwen´s fate ch.30\n15.The Hornburg-Where is the horse and the rider ch.37,The host of the Eldar ch.38,The battle of the Hornburg ch.39\n16.Forth Eorlingas-Forth Eorlingas ch.48\n17.Isengard Unleashed-Aragorn´s return ch.34,The breach of the deeping wall ch.41,Retreat to the Hornburg ch.43\n18.Samwise the brave-The tales that really matters ch.50\n19.Gollum´s song-End credits ch.53\nThe numbers of the chapters(ch.)aren´t from the extended version...
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Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end.
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My great-aunt once wrote an entire book about Greek mythology in a sort of story-telling form. It was a very informative book, and it helped me stay aware of Greek and Roman references more often. People (including me) often speak of the weather as being "hotter than Hades" as a more polite way of saying "hotter than hell." Hades was the Greek god of the underworld, which would be compared to a Christian concept of hell. Companies still use these references even today in shoes (like Nike), sporting equipment, technological equipment, flowers (think FTD Florist using Hermes as their symbol), and cleaning supplies (think Ajax). As an English major, I wrote at least two poems with mythological references. I love the musical "My Fair Lady" which is related to "Pygmalion" and the old myth of the man who created his ideal woman. If you watch Disney's "Monsters Inc." there is one part where the little one-eyed monster Mike is contemplating how to smuggle the little girl Boo back into the company, and he uses a Greek reference to the Trojan horse, but dismisses it as "Too Greek!" Children would probably not understand what he said, but those of us who have studied mythology would. I do not use mythology as a replacement for religion, but it helps to understand historical references and symbolism around us.
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Forests of Beleriand \nNan Elmoth\nNeldoreth\nNimbrethil\n Nivrim\nRegion\n Taur-im-Duinath\nTaur-nu-Fuin\n \nForests of Middle-earth \nBindbole Wood\nChetwood\nDimholt\nDrúadan Forest\nDwimordene\nEast Bight\nEntwood\nEryn Lasgalen\n Fangorn Forest\nFirien Wood\nFirienholt\nForest\nForest of Fangorn\nGolden Wood\nGreenwood the Great\nGrey Wood\n Mirkwood\nOld Forest\nTaur-e-Ndaedelos\nTaur-nu-Fuin\nTawar-in-Drúedain\nTrollshaws\nWood\nWood of Greenleaves
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The Spear of Longinus! Note, as follows:Our Nordic ancestors grew strong amidst the ice and snow, and this is why a belief in a world of ice is the natural heritage of Nordic men. It was Austrian, Hitler, who drove out the Jewish politicians, and another Austrian, Horbiger, (who) will drive out the Jewish scientists. By his own example Hitler has shown that an amateur to give us a thorough understanding of the Universe. \n\nHitler's fatal confidence in the success of his troops on the Russian front during the 1941 - 2 winter is generally believed to have been a result of his misplaced faith in Horbiger's weather forecasts. Despite such setbacks, the Welteislehre managed to thrive even after the war. The popular speculations of Immanuel Velikovsky derive in part from Horbiger. In 1953 a survey conducted by Martin Gardner showed that more than a million people in Germany, England, and the U.S. believed that Horbiger was right. \n\nThe Horbigerian cosmology posited an early epoch, some fifteen million years ago, during which a hugh moon moved across the sky very near the earth. Its gravitational attraction gave rise to a race of our ancestors, the giants. These giants, which appear in the ancient Norse and Icelandic sagas, sleep, yet they are alive. To the Nazis, they were Supermen. In one set of myths, contained in the Nibelungenlied, they lived beneath Teutonic mountains. In another they were prototype Aryans from the East, inhabiting vast Tibetan caverns. \n\nThree other books that investigate hidden influences on Gerald Suster's Hitler: The Occult Messiah; Jean-Michel Angebert's The Occult and the Third Riech and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's The Occult Roots of Nazism. \n\nSuster's book largely rehashes Pauwels and Bergier. Angebert (actually a pen name for two French writers) interestingly links Hitler to an ancient dualist tradition he traces from Manichaenism in Persia through the Essenes, Jesus's Palestinian forebears, to the Cathars in the south of France in the Middle Ages. It's philosophy in which, in its Nazi incarnation, solar forces of light represented by blond, fair-skinned Aryans strive against the evil forces of darkness, who are of course dark skinned Semites. \n\nBoth books, but especially Suster's are written in prose that stops just this side of tabloid journalese. This is too bad for two reasons. One, the authors diminish some important material by this kind of presentation. Two, the lessons we have to learn about mass psychopathology and about the history of fascism are too important to be trivalized in this way. \n\nGoodrick-Clark's is a serious and compelling historical look at ariosophy, a dangerous amalgam of Aryan racism, pan-German nationalism, and occultism that flourished in Austria and Germany from around 1890 well into the era when Himmler's Death's Head SS was organized. Himmler is said by Pauwels and Bergier to have taken the Jesuits for his model, and to have installed a regular hierarchy ranging from lay brothers to father superior, and to have used this Black Order in horrific rites.8 \n\nThe Occult Roots of Nazismidentifies wide circle of proto-Nazi philosophers, previously almost unknown, who saw in the chaos that beset Germany after the Treaty of Versailles the working out of ancient Aryan prophecies. Among them was Rudolf John Gorsleben, who interesting career Goodrick-Clarke sums up in a sentence: "on the basis of the runes, occultism, and the Edda, Gorsleben created an original racist mystery-religion which illuminated the priceless magical heritage of the Aryans and justified their spiritual and political world-supremacy." \n\nGorsleben was active in right-wing politics in Bavaria in the years Hitler was forming his political convictions there, and he lectured to the Thule Society, a Munich club thought to have greatly influenced Nazism in its infancy. He also edited a weekly newspaper called German Freedom; in 1927 he changed th
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Odin's name is related to óðr, meaning "excitation," "fury" or "poetry," and his role, like many of the Norse pantheon, is complex: he is god of wisdom, war, battle and death. He is also attested as being a god of magic, poetry, prophecy, victory, and the hunt.\n\nThe Norse did not view their gods as "good" or "evil", but rather as teachers and testers.
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No because Tolkien really meant the characters of the hobbits to represent children. That's why there actions in the the rings books/films are so Innocent.
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Well, duuhh...\n\nFirey the angels fell,\nDeep thunder roll'd around their shores,\nBurning with the fires of Orc. \nThis is a paraphrase of William Blake's America: A Prophesy: \nFiery the angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd\nAround their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc. \n \nTouche, I think?...
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In my religion of Asatru our end story is called Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in "Norse mythology(as non-heathens would call it)". It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end. \nThe wolf Skoll will finally devour the sun, and his brother Hati will eat the moon, plunging the earth [into] darkness. The stars will vanish from the sky. The rooster Fjalar will crow to the giants and the golden rooster Gullinkambi will crow to the gods. A third rooster will raise the dead. \n\nThe earth will shudder with earthquakes, and every bond and fetter will burst, freeing the terrible wolf Fenrir. The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury as he makes his way toward the land. With every breath, Jormungand will stain the soil and the sky with his poison. The waves caused by the serpent's emerging will set free the ship Naglfar, and with the giant Hymir as their commander, the giants will sail towards the battlefield. From the realm of the dead a second ship will set sail, and this ship carries the inhabitants of helheim, with Loki as their helmsman. The fire giants, led by the giant Surt, will leave Muspell in the south to join against the gods. Surt, carrying a sword that blazes like the sun itself, will scorch the earth. \n\nMeanwhile, Heimdall will sound his horn,Gjallar(ringing horn) calling the sons of Odin and the heroes to the battlefield. From all the corners of the world, gods, giants, dwarves, demons and elves will ride towards the huge plain of Vigrid ("battle shaker") where the last battle will be fought. Odin will engage Fenrir in battle, and Thor will attack Jormungand. Thor will victorious, but the serpent's poison will gradually kill the god of thunder. Surt will seek out the swordless Freyr, who will quickly succumb to the giant. The one-handed Tyr will fight the monstrous hound Garm and they will kill each other. Loki and Heimdall, age-old enemies, will meet for a final time, and neither will survive their encounter. The fight between Odin and Fenrir will rage for a long time, but finally Fenrir will seize Odin and swallow him. Odin's son Vidar will at once leap towards the wolf and kill him with his bare hands, ripping the wolf's jaws apart. \n\nThen Surt will fling fire in every direction. The nine worlds will burn, and friends and foes alike will perish. The earth will sink into the sea. \n\nAfter the destruction, a new and idyllic world will arise from the sea and will be filled with abundant supplies. Some of the gods will survive, others will be reborn. Wickedness and misery will no longer exist and gods and men will live happily together. The descendants of Lif and Lifthrasir will inhabit this earth.
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My father is a geneologist. He went to scandinavia for info my mom's family. The written record splits when you go far enough back. On one side it concludes with a king Olaf I believe. On the other side the king was kidnapped by Odin for seeking to be a God. Also on this side are references to the king fathering the twins Frey/Freya.
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Yes it is very similar, because the norns and the fates are almost the same people, but there are enough differences in those 2 myths to make it a good comparison.
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It's doubtful, but then, Tolkien _was_ a catholic, so one can never be sure.  If one stretches credulity or is inclined to be anti-semetic (I do neither), one might see a similarity between the orcs and jews.  One of the false accusations hurled for centuries against jews, long before Hitler came along, was that jews killed and ate gentile babies; the cannibalistic behaviour of hook-nosed orcs might have a disgusting undertone to it, but I doubt it.\n\nI myself never saw Tolkien's books as "great literature".  Compared to Tolkien, HP Lovecraft is light reading, and _his_ stories are tedious and wordy.  \n\nTolkien is also partly responsible for his personal fiend - oops, friend - CS Lewis writing that abominable and hateful piece of tripe, "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe".  Even Tolkien himself said it was overdone and poorly written.  The christian "message" in LW&W has all the subtlety of sex in a low budget pornographic movie.\n\nSpeaking of tawdry sex, did you know that JRR Tolkien's eldest son, John Tolkien, was a catholic priest?  Or at least, he was until 2002 when he was convicted of molesting boys.  He's currently in prison, defrocked (and probably deflowered by the other prisoners...).\n\n\n.
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Matrix,Lord of the rings (Return of the King)
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Hi Dotti! I got your message, thanks for contacting me. \nIf you're interested here are some other bits of info I've gathered. The stone of scone is also known as the lia fail which is Irish for the stone of destiny, it's believed that Jeremiah brought it with him to Ireland from Israel before the Irish monks took it to the Scottish island of Iona etc.\nOllamh Foladh was the Irish name given to Jeremiah and is mentioned in several places in the annals of Ireland. Now there are two Scotias mentioned in the Irish annals - one of them was the daughter of the pharoh Hectonibus/Nectonibus so that's just something to watch out for when you're researching. You mentioned the flag, another interesting thing is that in Northern Ireland, okay... how to explain this... Ireland is made up of four provinces, three of them are in the republic of Ireland and one of them, Ulster is ruled from Westminster and is part of the United Kindom. The symbol for the province of ulster is a red hand - remember Zarah and Pharez and the midwife tieing a red thread on the hand of one of the babies? The symbol of Ireland is the harp of David which is also on the queen of Englands coat of arms, at one point the king of England was also the king of Ireland which is why the harp is on their coat of arms. And of course the lion of Judah, symbol of Scotland. One last thing, Scotia is the ancient name for Ireland. In the time of Jeremiah Scotland was a province of Ireland and ruled by the Irish high king in much the same way as Northern Ireland is now ruled from England.The Scots retained the name Scotia when the Romans renamed Ireland as Hiberia. The romans often referred to the Irish as the Scotti. Scotland was also mainly populated by Irish migrants. The native language of both the Irish and Scots is Gaelic, the Scots speak an older version of the language but there are still amazing similarities right up to the present day. Scotland also had a native people called the Picts. I hope you find this helpful and I'll try to dig up some of my old notes and web sites over the next few weeks and I'll get back to you if you like. Gb Esther.
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Very little is actually known about Tyr because by the time of codification of the mythology, he was a faded god.\nThe above is wrong about the hanged men (as hanging is directed always to the gallows - and in some views, god of death - Odin).\nThe sources used there are neo-pagan sites and books that wishfully view the mythology as a codified, unified religion as opposed to a system of local cult religions.
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Oh boy I have never read Beowulf but I am going to give a guess:\n\nIn general caves represent the womb where one is birthed - it can also represent a retreat in the fantastical for what they call a "topsy-turvey" type episode.  \n\nSo either the womb is the mother where one goes perhaps conquers a fear (in the form of a beast)  & then is reborn.