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Guia de Leitura das Obras de J.R.R. Tolkien, 2024

Este guia não pretende impor uma ordem de leitura às obras de JRRT, e sim apresentar as que foram... more Este guia não pretende impor uma ordem de leitura às obras de JRRT, e sim apresentar as que foram publicadas em língua portuguesa (em Portugal e no Brasil) até outubro de 2024. O infográfico mostra cada livro agrupado com outros de caráter semelhante; as micro-descrições fornecidas servem para guiar o leitor no traçado de seu próprio curso por esse vasto território sub-criado.

Namárië - Tengwar e Transcrição

O poema "Namárië" é o mais longo trecho em quenya (alto-élfico) em "O Senhor dos Anéis" de J.R.R.... more O poema "Namárië" é o mais longo trecho em quenya (alto-élfico) em "O Senhor dos Anéis" de J.R.R. Tolkien. Uma transcrição pode servir de paradigma para escrever esse idioma usando tengwar.

A Tolkien Reading Chart

"A Tolkien Reading Chart" is not meant to impose a reading order on JRRT's works, but rather to s... more "A Tolkien Reading Chart" is not meant to impose a reading order on JRRT's works, but rather to serve as a map showing each book grouped with others of similar character. The micro-descriptions provided are intended to guide the reader in plotting his or her own course through this vast sub-created territory.

Songs for the Philologists, 2023

"Songs for the Philologists" is a booklet containing thirty poems and songs, some of which are wr... more "Songs for the Philologists" is a booklet containing thirty poems and songs, some of which are written by E.V. Gordon and J.R.R. Tolkien, others are folk songs from various traditions. It is perhaps the rarest and most difficult to find Tolkien related book, as it was printed privately in 1936 and has never been reprinted since.

The verses are written in a number of languages, including Modern English, Middle English, Old English, Old Norse (Icelandic and Swedish), Latin, and Gothic.

[ The preceding abstract is from the Tolkien Gateway website <https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Songs_for_the_Philologists>, accessed on 2023-07-05 ]

The text of this publication has been revised and edited by Ronald Kyrmse. Corrections of Tolkien's poems are based on Appendix B in T.A. Shippey, "The Road to Middle-earth".

A principal fonte de informações sobre os calendários da Terra-Média é o Apêndice D da tradução d... more A principal fonte de informações sobre os calendários da Terra-Média é o Apêndice D da tradução do Livro Vermelho do Marco Ocidental feita pelo Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien. Foi dali que se extraíram estas citações, para obter uma concordância entre nossa contagem dos meses e dias por um lado, e por outro lado os cinco sistemas que se sabe terem sido empregados pelos Eldar, pelos Hobbits e pelos Homens na Terceira e Quarta Eras.

The prime source of information about Middle-earth calendars is Appendix D to Prof. J. R. R. Tolk... more The prime source of information about Middle-earth calendars is Appendix D to Prof. J. R. R. Tolkien's translation of the Red Book of Westmarch. Thence have these quotations been extracted, in order to achieve a concordance among our reckoning of months and days on the one hand, and the five systems known to have been employed by the Eldar, the Hobbits and Men in the Third and Fourth Ages on the other hand.

Mount Dolmed (from Sindarin dol + med "wet head") rose in the First Age above an import... more Mount Dolmed (from Sindarin dol + med "wet head") rose in the First Age above an important pass through the Blue Mountains, between Beleriand and Eriador. The great dwarven cities of Gabilgathol [Nogrod in Sindarin] and Tumunzahar [Belegost] were built in its vicinity, to the southeast and northeast respectively. The Blue Mountains [Ered Luin] were partially destroyed during the War of Wrath, causing – according to some – the disappearance of Mount Dolmed. But something different may have occurred...

Livros de J.R.R. Tolkien publicados no Brasil até agosto de 2020

An analysis of Tolkien's writing dynamics based on a video of him writing in tengwar

These runes are known to us only from a slip of paper written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The analysis i... more These runes are known to us only from a slip of paper written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The analysis is in English and Portuguese.

A partial analysis of the Lay written by JRRT in Elvish characters

O paradeiro do manuscrito de "Doworst" por Tolkien é desconhecido. Este artigo reproduz o que se ... more O paradeiro do manuscrito de "Doworst" por Tolkien é desconhecido. Este artigo reproduz o que se conhece do texto e comenta sobre sua história.

The whereabouts of the manuscript of "Doworst" by Tolkien are unknown. This paper reproduces what... more The whereabouts of the manuscript of "Doworst" by Tolkien are unknown. This paper reproduces what is known of the text and comments on its history.

Different styles of Elvish handwriting from the pen of J.R.R. Tolkien

Polynemas are the topologically distinct ways, in the plane, to join straight edges at their ends.

Academia Letters, 2021

Independent Tolkienian scholar I believe every reader of Tolkien will agree with me when I say th... more Independent Tolkienian scholar I believe every reader of Tolkien will agree with me when I say that the world created by him is uncommonly credible, fascinating and absorbing. Indeed we should not speak about creation, but rather about sub-creation. One text from the Professor that sheds some light on how he himself viewed the craft of a fantasy author is the talk "On Fairy-stories", given by him at the University of St Andrews on 8 March 1939, which was later published in book form together with other texts (The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays). In this essay Tolkien distinguishes between Creation of the Primary World, the one we live in, the work of a supernatural Creator, and sub-creation of a Secondary World. This last is the product of an author's imagination, and we often see its like in fairy-stories. Another explanation is due here; It is not necessary for a fairy-tale to be about fairies. This is only a convenient label for all works of fiction that approach or use a Secondary World for its characters to live adventures in. Not any secondary World: science fiction has created plenty of worlds for us without fairy-stories being the result. It is necessary, in the genre that interests us, that the secondary World be within or on the boundaries of what Tolkien calls Faërie: The Perilous (or enchanted) Realm. Not even Tolkien himself, in an essay written expressly to talk about fairy-tales, wanted (or was able) to define them. For him, as he said in his talk, Faërie "cannot be caught in a net of words; for it is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptible". The Secondary Worlds we, who are enchanted by his work, deal with contain many narrative modes: fantasy, satire, allegory, moral tales… But they are typified mainly by Magic. Not, says Tolkien, artificial and scientific magic (Arthur Clarke, the author of 2001 and other science-fiction works, says that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic), but rather a magic diametrically opposed to it. But, although magic is part of the Secondary World, we must believe in it, seriously, as a parcel of that world's laws. Still quoting Tolkien, "one thing must not be made fun of, the

Drafts by Ronald Kyrmse

Canonical Polygons are plane polygons defined on a square lattice with limitations on length of s... more Canonical Polygons are plane polygons defined on a square lattice with limitations on length of sides. The smaller sets are enumerated, and metrical and non-metrical properties are defined and calculated.

Teaching Documents by Ronald Kyrmse

A Tolkien Reading Chart v.2023-07b, 2023