Tolkien Streamlore : Gollum

Un petit mot pour signaler que mes streams sur Tolkien ont repris sur ma chaine Twitch, avec une session sur Gollum ! Le replay est disponible sur la chaine ICI. Et j'espère trouver le temps d'écrire un petit récapitulatif pour ce blog ! A bientôt !

Happy Halloween !

Je vous retrouve à 16h sur ma chaîne Twitch pour célébrer Halloween en parlant des créatures des ténèbres en Terre du Milieu ! I'll see you on my Twitch channel this afternoon at 4 pm (CET) to celebrate Halloween with a talk about the creatures of the Dark in Middle earth !

Happy Hobbit Day!

Today is Bilbo and Frodo's birthday and I'll be celebrating this very special event on my Twitch channel, starting around 6.30 pm (CEST). Feel free to join whenever you want for a drink and a few laughs, I'll be speaking both French and English and there will be a few surprises! Aujourd'hui nous fêtons l'anniversaire …

Les Cartes de la Terre du Milieu – Réédition !

Grâce à l'association Tolkiendil, vous savez tout ! Il y a quelques mois, les Éditions Christian Bourgois m'ont confié une très belle mission : mettre à jour les traductions (initialement de Jacques Georgel) des cartes, et des livrets qui les accompagnent, du Hobbit et du Seigneur des Anneaux. Ces cartes ont été dessinées par John …

Back to the Orcs

Version française ici Not so long ago, I completed my last post about Orcs with a stream session (which I like to call “streamlore”) on my Twitch channel. Here are the main subjects we tackled, and the main elements I gave to answer various questions during the stream. Let’s start with the basis: The Orcs; …

Orcs and free will in Arda (Part II)

[Version française ici] {This post must be read more like a global meditation on this complex matter than like a demonstration based on some irrevocable stand of mine} This is supposed to continue the exploration of the topic at stake in this previous post, and to complete it with an attempt at answering the following question …

Free will in Arda (Part I)

[Version française ici] Do they Elves in Arda have free will? Or are they inevitably destined to serve the Light, just like the Orcs who are the eternal slaves of Darkness? This question was submitted to me a few months ago, but back then, I only partially and privately answered, and I'll try here to …

The corruption of Sauron – Timeline(s)

[Version française ici] We all know that Sauron was not evil in the beginning ; he was a Maia, created before Arda itself, and was involved in its creation first during the Music of the Ainur, and then during the Shaping of Arda. But we also know that he was corrupted by Melkor at one …