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| *Tolkien Encyclopedia: Stone-land references (examples of monumental architecture - quote from book); names involving stone as seen in the Rohirrim and the Woses; identification of Isildur, Anarion and Elendil with the three main cities (heraldic symbols); White Tree and palantiri; songs (rhyme of lore and "between the mountains and the sea"; Kin-strife and Ruling Stewards and the Return of the King. Real world analogues: Normams, Byzantium, Egypt, Rome (Aeneas-Elendil). | |||
Revision as of 19:59, 26 October 2007
What it says on the tin.
Plymouth memorials
Testing links for articles on Plymouth war memorials.
Plymouth Naval War Memorial
Plymouth Hoe, Plymouth Sound, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, World War I, World War II, Royal Navy, naval memorials to the missing: Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth. Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, Portland stone, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Sir Edward Maufe, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
RAF and Allied Air Forces Monument
Royal Air Force, Allies of World War II, Second World War, Don Bennett, Sir John Curtiss, granite, RAF Bomber Command.
National Armada Memorial
Spanish Armada, Herbert Gribble, Britannia, Tercentenary, Queen Victoria, granite, bronze, Francis Drake, England expects that every man will do his duty, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, He blew with His winds, and they were scattered, John Hawkins, Lord Henry Seymour, Battle of Trafalgar, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Second Boer War Memorial
Second Boer War, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Redvers Buller, granite, Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), William Francis Butler. Battles mentioned: Wagon Hill*, Ladysmith, Bergendal, Colenso, Spion Kop, Monte Christo* (also spelt 'Monte Cristo'), Vaalkrantz* (Vaal Krantz), Pieter's Hill* (Peter's Hill), Laing's Nek, Belfast, Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Wittebergen*, Buteaville (?), Lombard's Kop*, Tugela Heights*, Kimberley, Elandslaagte, Rietfontein*, Driefontein*, Paardeberg*. (See here for list of battles, sieges and incidents in the Second Boer War - red-links with an * are there).
Norwegian churches
Great Sheffield Flood
- details here.
- Great Sheffield Flood already exists.
Gondor
- General notes - 3,240 years old at the time of the War of the Ring;
- Tolkien Encyclopedia: Stone-land references (examples of monumental architecture - quote from book); names involving stone as seen in the Rohirrim and the Woses; identification of Isildur, Anarion and Elendil with the three main cities (heraldic symbols); White Tree and palantiri; songs (rhyme of lore and "between the mountains and the sea"; Kin-strife and Ruling Stewards and the Return of the King. Real world analogues: Normams, Byzantium, Egypt, Rome (Aeneas-Elendil).