I beat my first Nazgul today! I'm only 73 and it was horribly laggy so I mostly stood back and buffed, but it's nice to have one down and get an account wide title. I did get the buggy stuck sky tho, so I had this view while I gathered some new stables
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In the green fields of Lebennin!
Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea
The white lilies sway,
And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin
In the green fields of Lebennin,
In the wind from the Sea!
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âThere [in Lebennin] dwelt a hardy folk between the mountains and the sea. They were reckoned men of Gondor, yet their blood was mingled, and there were short and swarthy folk among them whose sires came more from the forgotten men who [once] housed in the shadow of the hills.â
(ROTK, âMinas Tirithâ)
âTo his amazement, as he listened Frodo became aware that it was the Elven-tongue that they [the Rangers of Ithilien] spoke, or one but little different; and he looked at them with wonder, for he knew then that they must be DĂșnedain of the South.â
(TTT, âOf Herbs and Stewed Rabbitâ)
Of all the peoples of Middle-earth ... these are my peak faves.
...okay, still thinking about the DĂșnedain adaptation:
- I really want to see Lebennin. The Elves still sing songs about how beautiful it is and itâs sadly underappreciated. Also, Pelargir could be awesome. Also, thereâs a substantial population of heroic, short, dark, mainly non-NĂșmenĂłrean, resilient Gondorians in Lebennin who are completely ignored outside the text and itâd be good to bring them forward IMO. The book just says theyâre the descendants of the âforgottenâ people who lived there before the NĂșmenĂłreans came, which itself could be interesting, esp combined with the importance placed on rescuing the coast.
- Weâd get some establishing moments for Minas Tirith itself as a sort of character: itâs before the evacuation, so while thereâs guarded tension with Mordor looming beyond it and vacant and/or decaying buildings, thereâs also a considerable amount of city bustle in marketplaces and the like, and a glamour of size and ancientry. And we get to see how fertile and prosperous the general location is.
- Re: sizeâTolkien said that the DĂșnedain of Gondor were notable for their love of constructing enormous things, so Iâd like a sense of just ... bigness, with the bonus contrast between the actual living people and the looming shadows of these absolutely gigantic statues, mosaics, buildings, etc of the past. The contrast with the young Rohan is stark.
- Re: the city bustleâwe see glimpses of people with different occupations, different classes, different backgrounds, different languages, living their daily lives. Despite the weight of legacy and the pressures of war, it should be clear that Gondorâs culture is diverse and vibrant. There might be a contrast with the Northern DĂșnedain here as well, as theyâre a much smaller and more homogeneous population.
-Â The Northern DĂșnedain would need ... like, a plot or something to bring them in before theyâre summoned to help Aragorn. We need a sense of what their deal is, both where itâs connected to Gondorâs on the DĂșnadan level and where itâs separate. Maybe this doubles as our introduction to hobbitsâwe first see them from the perspective of the DĂșnedain protecting them.Â
- I mentioned this in a reply, but I would (regretfully) lower the register of the DĂșnedain charactersâ dialogue to a somewhat more accessible level for central charactersânot modern casual by any means, but not quite so high-diction as the book.
- Itâs dreamland, so Iâd get linguists who could not only handle neo-Sindarin, but neo-Sindarin with dialectical differences. Even in âEnglish,â thereâd be different accents between, say, the Northern and Southern DĂșnedain, even if itâs not very pronounced (and definitely between e.g. Rivendell Elves and Boromir).
- (I am very set on Boromir using Sindarin at least once. Iâm pretty sure that I lose a year off my life every time I see people assuming he canât.)
- Iâm really looking forward to the âthe Sword that was Brokenâ dream. I mean. I would be, if this was actually, you know, a thing.
- I have a headcanon that Ivriniel accompanied Finduilas to Minas Tirith way back in the day, studied with the healers, and just ... never left again, until Denethor evacuated her before the battle. My more tentative headcanon is that LothĂriel has been with her for some time, mostly due to escalating Corsair raids, so if I went with that, we could get three whole canon female characters in MT and have some sense of LothĂriel beyond her familial/marital connections.
(Bonus: the expanded headcanon is that Denethor and Ivriniel got on super well, but she was enraged when he sent her off in the evacuation, and they had a bitter fight about it before she left. Of course, she never sees him again.)
- Tolkien remarks in UT that Denethor was not only driven by personal pride but by his love for Gondor and the burden of being selected to lead his people through a desperate time. This should be really clear, esp when it comes to his use of the palantĂr. (I donât think that would be a secret to the audience. Probably. If anything, we might even experience some episodes of his use of it with him, culminating in his sanity finally snapping.)
- Gandalf is a major recurring character in both âhalvesâ of the story. Maybe we get his line to Faramir about who he truly is and are eventually given enough information to understand what it means? Not sure how deep into Middle-earth cosmology we want to get, but itâs ... kind of important. At any rate, we would see his affinity with both Aragorn and Faramir, and Denethorâs resentment of Faramirâs affection for Gandalf would have some context.
- In my most perfect world, Gandalf and Denethor would actually be framed in similar ways at points, obviously enough to see them as related, parallel figures per Pippinâs observation.Â
- Weâd get some glimpses of the Elves, if not more, via the Northern DĂșnedain, though the ânorthernâ focus would probably narrow in on Aragorn as the plot closes in on FOTR. At the very least weâd meet Elladan and Elrohir and get an idea of their quasi-eternal bromance with the Northern DĂșnedain and undying hatred of orcs.
- Itâs a lot, but Iâm imagining some of these things as quite brief in terms of actual screen time spent on them (not all, of course). Definitely TV rather than film material, though.