I know of the Sils, The Rings, The Palantir, The Phial? - I think that's magic because of the Silmaril- But what else is magic? Can include any of his books, not just Middle Earth.
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May 21, 2020
Objects of power in Tolkien's books?
Objects of power in Tolkien's books?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_by_Niggle
I never understood the trip and the two people fussing over him.
@ShireofMiddleEarth You mean the acid trip?
@Thorondor I have no idea what you said but I mean his journey, the one he didn't prepare for and left his backpack on the train.
Objects of power include weapons. Swords seem to be the most common type, but I believe Gil-galad's spear Aeglos probably had an enchantment about it.
Also, let's not forget the cloaks Galadriel gave the Fellowship. They vastly improved their wearers' camouflage abilities.
The cloaks are not magic, just made of a particular substance which makes them seem so.
Each cloak had a hood, was fitted to its wearer, and was fastened by a greenElven brooch. Their colour was hard to define – grey in twilight but green when moved or brown as fields or dusk-silver in the night. While they could not deflect a shaft or blade they acted as camouflage against unfriendly eyes.
On 16 February T.A. 3019 as the Fellowship prepared to depart Lórien the Galadhrim brought the cloaks to the travellers. Pippin asked if they were "magic cloaks". The term confused the Elves but they explained their properties, which seemed magical enough – they would hide the wearers, they were light, and warm or cool as needed.
@ShireofMiddleEarth Sounds to me like an achievement of modern synthetic materials.
The trip in Leaf by Niggle is an allegory of death and the afterlife.
I'd say that Leaf by Niggle has some magic objects, but I can hardly tell what the heck is going on in that book.
True. :) It's a little hard to follow, but I find each time I read it I understand a little more.