My LHP Mother Felt Like I Needed This

[Lady_Eva]

@C.Kendall

It has some strange writing on it to which I don’t recognise

Looks like Elvish, from Lord of the Rings: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tengwar.htm

Good post about this:

Tolkien mythology

I know that I am very late in replying to this, and I apologize for that. I have actually been mulling this over since you first posted it, @treyguinn. It has been niggling at me, so I finally decided to answer it. I am a big Middle Earth fan, so I am going to first address your question from the Tolkien standpoint, as then add a few bits and pieces about Merlin (who is very similar to Tolkien’s wizards, anyway, at least in how magic goes). I’m a fan to the point that I would totally write a …

And another:

Lord of the Rings

Llaurentieu–I’m going to take a crack at this, because I am a huge LOTR fan, and have been all of my life. NOt only that, I have worked the dieties from that mythos in the past. I am guessing from your answer, Asbjorn, that you haven’t read the books (which is fine), but for those of us who love Middle Earth, the movies are absolute trash compared to JRR Tolkien’s writing. A little history: Tolkien wrote LOTR to give the Anglo-Saxons a mythology. Most of the Anglo-Saxon myth…

Needs confirmation though.