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User:MJBlockhead

2026-03-07T19:16:55Z

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2026-03-07T19:15:40Z

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2026-03-07T19:04:35Z

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House of Elwë

2026-03-07T19:01:26Z

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| founder=Elwë Singollo
| location=The woodland kingdom of [[Doriath]]
| race=[[Sindar]]
| destroyed=First destroyed in [[F.A. 503]], it was restored by [[Dior]] for three years before its final end in [[F.A. 506]]
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The '''House of Elwë''' [[Thingol|Singollo]] was the royal family that ruled the land of [[Doriath]] for millennia.

==History==
===Origins===
The ancient line was started by '''Elwë''' Singollo (also known as [[Thingol|Elu Thingol]]) in the [[Year of the Trees 1152|Y.T. 1152]], when upon waking from his trance he appeared before his people (the [[Sindar]]) with [[Melian]] and gathered them together to form [[Doriath]], the mighty woodland kingdom in [[Beleriand]].<ref>{{AA|74}}</ref>

===Death of Thingol===
Thingol, after being given the golden necklace ([[Nauglamír]]) by [[Húrin]], employed skilled dwarven smiths of [[Nogrod]] to restore the necklace to its former magnificence.<ref>[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Christopher Tolkien]] (ed.), ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', "''[[Quenta Silmarillion]]'': [[Of the Ruin of Doriath]]"</ref> But the [[Dwarves]], being enamoured of the beautiful treasure and the [[Silmarils|Silmaril]] it contained, sought to have it to themselves. After completing their work they refused to hand Nauglamír over, claiming he had no right to the craftsmanship of the dwarves. Thingol, perceiving that they wanted the Silmaril, bade them leave his land without payment. But the smiths slew him, took the mighty jewel, and fled towards the mountains.

==Genealogy==
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User:MJBlockhead

2025-09-11T14:53:24Z

MJBlockhead:

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User:MJBlockhead

2025-04-17T09:53:12Z

MJBlockhead:

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User:MJBlockhead

2025-04-17T09:51:08Z

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User:MJBlockhead

2025-03-12T10:57:23Z

MJBlockhead:

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User:MJBlockhead

2025-03-12T10:53:47Z

MJBlockhead:

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User talk:Unireverse

2025-03-12T10:45:34Z

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2025-03-12T10:44:39Z

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User:MJBlockhead

2025-03-09T16:51:35Z

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User:MJBlockhead

2025-01-17T14:15:30Z

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User:MJBlockhead

2025-01-16T10:00:12Z

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The Hobbit (1968 radio series)

2024-11-03T15:19:37Z

MJBlockhead: Flipped the days and the months around on the Episodes table. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

{{cleanup}}{{disambig-more|The Hobbits|[[The Hobbit (disambiguation)]]}}
'''''The Hobbit''''' is a [[1968]] [[BBC|BBC Radio]] adaptation of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s [[The Hobbit]].

The series was adapted by Michael Kilgariff and produced by John Powell in eight half-hour mono episodes for BBC Radio 4.

==Story==
The radio series follows the [[The Hobbit#synopsis|plot]] of the second edition very closely, except for the addition of The Tale Bearer, a narrator whose account of the story is often interrupted and embellished by the protagonist [[Bilbo Baggins]] in the role of secondary narrator.

Bilbo, a stay-at-home [[Hobbits|hobbit]], is approached by the [[wizard]] [[Gandalf]] to undertake a dangerous adventure, and despite his initial reluctance he soon finds himself accompanying [[Thorin]] and his party of [[dwarves]] on a long and difficult quest to recover the dwarves' treasure from [[Smaug]] the [[Dragons|dragon]], encountering [[trolls]], [[Orcs|goblins]], [[Gollum]] (acquiring a [[The One Ring|magic ring]] near Gollum's cave), [[wargs]], [[eagles]], giant [[spiders]], [[elves]] and [[men]] along the way. In the process Bilbo is transformed from a clumsy, timid and rather comic figure into a dignified and occasionally heroic everyman.

===Episodes===
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
!Episode!!Air date
|-
|An Unexpected Party||[[29 September]], [[1968]]
|-
|Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire||[[6 October]], 1968
|-
|Riddles in the Dark||[[13 October|13 October]], 1968
|-
|Strange Lodgings||[[20 October]], 1968
|-
|Barrels out of Bond||[[27 October]], 1968
|-
|A Warm Welcome||[[3 November]], 1968
|-
|The Gathering of the Clouds||[[10 November]], 1968
|-
|The Clouds Burst||[[17 November]], 1968<ref>[http://www.britishdrama.org.uk/lotr.html J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings], BritishDrama.co.uk</ref>
|}

===Influences from ''The Lord of the Rings''===
Although the script is closely based on the original novel, Kilgariff incorporates a few names and phrases from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' that did not originally appear in ''The Hobbit''.
*In an early scene at [[Bag End]], Gandalf originally tells Bilbo, "Great elephants, you're not at all yourself today". In the radio version this is changed to "Great [[oliphaunts]]", the form used in ''The Lord of the Rings''.
*After killing the Great Goblin, Gandalf makes a light by saying the spell ''Naur an edraith ammen''.
*At the beginning of the [[Battle of the Five Armies]] Gandalf says, "Upon victory depends not just the treasure, nor only our lives, but the whole future and well-being of [[Middle-earth]]". The name Middle-earth is not used at all in the original novel.
*During the battle the Elvenking uses his name, [[Thranduil]], as a battle-cry.
*In the same battle Thorin uses the dwarves' battle-cry, "[[Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!]]"

==Cast and credits==
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!Actor!!Role
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|Peter Baldwin||[[Glóin]], [[Galion]]
|-
|[[David Brierly]]||[[Fíli]], [[Chief of the guards|Elf Guard]]
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|[[John Bryning]]||[[Master of Lake-town|The Master of Esgaroth]]
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|Wilfrid Carter||[[Ori]]
|-
|[[Heron Carvic]]||[[Gandalf]]
|-
|[[Paul Daneman]]||[[Bilbo Baggins]]
|-
|[[Nicholas Edmett]]||[[Kíli]]
|-
|[[Leonard Fenton]]||[[Thranduil|The Elvenking]]
|-
|[[Brian Haines]]||[[Bifur]], [[Bert]], [[Dáin Ironfoot]]
|-
|Betty Hardy||Spider
|-
|[[Denys Hawthorne]]||[[Beorn]]
|-
|[[Anthony Jackson]]||The Tale Bearer
|-
|[[Alexander John]]||[[Dori]], Elves, Goblins
|-
|[[John Justin]]||[[Thorin]]
|-
|Hilda Kriseman||Spider
|-
|Rolf Lefebvre||[[Óin]]
|-
|Victor Lucas||[[William|Bill]]
|-
|[[Denis McCarthy]]||[[Bofur]], [[Great Goblin]]
|-
|[[Duncan McIntyre]]||[[Bombur]], Elves, Goblins
|-
|[[Wolfe Morris]]||[[Gollum]]
|-
|[[Peter Pratt]]||[[Balin]]
|-
|John Pullen||[[Elrond]]
|-
|Ian Thompson||[[Braga|Herald of Esgaroth]]
|-
|Antony Viccars||[[Nori]]
|-
|[[Lockwood West]]||[[Dwalin]]
|-
|[[Marjorie Westbury]]||Spider, [[Thrushes|Thrush]]
|-
|Peter Williams||[[Bard]]
|-
|[[Francis de Wolff]]||[[Smaug]], [[Tom]]
|-
|[[John Wyse]]||[[Roäc]]
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The music is composed by David Cain and performed by David Munrow with The Early Music Consort.

==Production==
The show's production was complicated by the inclusion of multiple sound effects (often inserted live while recording the actors' performances), songs from the novel, and special sounds and electronic voice treatments created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. All of the trolls, elves, goblins, wargs and eagles have treated voices, as does Gandalf when imitating the trolls.

==Wiping and recovery==
The original master tapes for the series seem to have been wiped sometime during the 1970s. The reason is not clear, although it was rumoured to be due to a dispute with the Tolkien estate (if so, the subsequent recovery and commercial issue of the series proves that the dispute was resolved).

The BBC eventually recovered the series from a domestic off-air FM recording, apparently comprising 90- and 60-minute compilations edited together from the original episodes. The sound quality of these recordings is clear and legible, though it is noticeably inferior to a studio-quality recording and exhibits prominent tape hiss.

For broadcast and home audio purposes the BBC re-edited these compilations back into half-hour episodes, adding a brief snatch of the theme tune at the beginning and end of each. The title ''The Hobbit'' is spoken only at the beginning of the first episode and there are no opening or closing credits. It is quite likely that the credits were never included in the episodes themselves, but would originally have been read by a continuity announcer at the end of each episode.

==Audio release and reference==
There have been several home audio releases of the series on cassette and CD. The [[1997]] CD release includes a bonus CD containing 9 minutes and 45 seconds of additional music in stereo, which evidently ''was'' taken from an unwiped master tape. The 1997 set also contains a "Personal Memoir" by series producer John Powell, from which some of the information in this article is derived.

On [[29 July|July 29]], [[2008]], an edition was published by BBC AudioBooks America; it includes interviews with [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].<ref>[http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/835-Tolkien_Audio_Books_2008.php Tolkien Audiobooks 2008], [[Pieter Collier|TolkienLibrary.com]]</ref>

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User:MJBlockhead

2024-11-02T16:34:57Z

MJBlockhead:

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User:MJBlockhead

2024-11-02T16:30:55Z

MJBlockhead:

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User:MJBlockhead

2024-11-02T15:04:42Z

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User:MJBlockhead

2024-11-01T16:52:34Z

MJBlockhead:

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User:MJBlockhead

2024-11-01T16:46:03Z

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User talk:MJBlockhead

2024-11-01T14:29:48Z

MJBlockhead: /* Angerthas Moria */ Reply

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==Angerthas Moria==

Thanks so much for your recent contribution! Don't be deterred, but I've gone ahead and reverted your changes to [[Angerthas Moria]]. The phrase "During the Second Age, or maybe it's beginning" is not correct, "its" is the correct form[https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/when-to-use-its-vs-its]. "Cirth" is not a term that is generally capitalized (if you have an eBook of Lord of the Rings, you can search it for some examples). When it comes to linking keywords that have articles, only the first instance of the term is necessary to be linked. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it. Great to have you on the team! [[User:Hyarion|Hyarion]] ([[User talk:Hyarion|talk]]) 14:00, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

:Ahhh okay thank you! [[User:MJBlockhead|MJBlockhead]] ([[User talk:MJBlockhead|talk]]) 14:29, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

User:MJBlockhead

2024-11-01T14:27:29Z

MJBlockhead: Me profile heheh

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Angerthas Moria

2024-11-01T13:19:45Z

MJBlockhead: Added some links.

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{{font|[http://www.tolkiendil.com/telechargements/polices/angerthas_et_runes#angerthas_moria Cirth Erebor] by [[Dan Smith]]}}
'''Angerthas Moria''' was a variation of the [[Cirth]] used by the [[Dwarves]] of [[Moria]].

==History==
During the [[Second Age]], or maybe it's beginning, the [[Dwarves]] became accustomed with [[Angerthas]] of the [[Noldor]] ([[Angerthas Daeron]]) and they modified it to suit [[Khuzdul]], their language. This alphabet was spread further wherever the [[Dwarves]] went.

Centuries later, when the Dwarves colonized [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]], the system was further developed and produced the [[Angerthas Erebor]].

[[Balin's Colony]] seemed to have used this old system when they reclaimed [[Moria]]. [[Balin's Tomb]] in the [[Chamber of Mazarbul]] had an inscription in that system:

<center>2calu 
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<center>''[[Balin]] [[Fundin]][[-ul|ul]] [[Uzbad]][[Khazad-dûm|KhazadDûmu]]''</center>

==Characteristics==
The [[Dwarves]] introduced various new [[Cirth]] and some unsystematic minor changes to the values.

The greatest of those changes, which resulted in major reorder, was the switch of the [[Cirth]] for S and H (f and .).

For unknown reasons, the [[Dwarves]] also dropped the cirth $ (ZH), q (J) and for those sounds they substituted R, T, which the [[Elves]] used for the sounds R/RH.

Subsequently for R, the [[Dwarves]] used @ which had the value of N by the [[Elves]]; then for the sound of N, they chose the certh u which the [[Elves]] used for the sound Ñ, useless in [[Khuzdul]].

They also invented the new certh ,, used as an alternative, simplified form of u. Inspired by the visual relation of those two letters, they gave to w the value of Z (used for ''ny'' by the [[Elves]]) to relate better with ., which now had the value S.

We don't know any other [[Cirth]] abandoned by the [[Dwarves]] but much must have been, as there are many that represent sounds not occurring in (at least our published words of) Khuzdul, like ''th, dh, hw'' etc. It is strange also to observe that some of the cirth they introduced represent sounds not occurring in their language, like ''nj, hy, ñ, y-, hy''! Of course, our corpus of [[Khuzdul]] is very limited to judge the necessity or not, of these sounds.

==Table==
{| border="1"
|1
|p
|8
|t
|#
|ch
|e
|c
|i
|kw
|R
|j
|f
|h
|-
|2
|b
|9
|d
|
|
|r
|g
|o
|gw
|T
|zh
|-
|3
|f
|0
|th
|%
|sh
|t
|ch
|p
|chw
|a
|l
|g<ref>This certh is said to represent the clear or glottal beginning of a word with an initial vowel. It seems that it is used in words derived from a consonantal base whose first consonant is a glottal stop.</ref>
|‘
|-
|4
|v
|!
|dh
|
|
|y
|gh
|Q
|ghw/w
|-
|5
|hw
|@
|r
|w
|z
|u
|n
|W
|ñgw
|d
|nd
|h
|ñ
|J
|nj
|-
|6
|m
|
|
|.
|s
|,
|n
|E
|ñw
|
|
|j
|ng
|-
|7
|mb
|-
|l
|i
|;
|y-
|S
|u
|z
|e
|c
|a
|b
|o
|/
|(e)
|V<ref>This sign is to denote aspirate ''kh, th'' etc which were frequent in Khuzdul.</ref>
| +h
|-
|
|
|A
|hy
|D
|ú
|x
|é
|v
|á
|n
|ó
|Z<ref>These cirth where a halved form of z, used for vowels like those in the word ''butter''. When weak they were reduced to a stroke without a stem (>,?). / represented a schwa sound, an unstressed vowel, while Z a sound similar to the schwa, only in stressed syllables.</ref>
|(u)
|B
|&
|-
|
|
|
|
|G
|y
|
|
|
|
|m
|œ
|-
|
|
|
|
|F
|w
|-
|}

==Notes==
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