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Thank you so much for drawing her! It was such a joy following your process and I am absolutely giddy looking at her!! <3

Cassie, Lîneth

Commission for @lilies-of-thevalley - you can read about her on AO3 here; "if I can change the stars, if I can outwit fate"

As I already said, I truly enjoyed drawing her with all her hair and the flowers <3

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i’m watching two towers extended and I just realized that samfrodo sleep facing each other when it would probably be safer to sleep facing out and I’m gonna cry 

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Dear Friends in the Tolkien Fandom:

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day. Who wants to band together in making March, Tolkien Fanfic Reading Month?

For one month, let's exert a little more effort in showing our Tolkien writers some love! They put so much time and work and love into expanding Tolkien’s world and stories for us. There's no better way to celebrate Tolkien Reading Day!

This is only a pseudo-event. Nothing formal or fancy. No invitation or registration required. No requirements or deadlines.

Simply gorge yourself on some Tolkien fanfic all throughout March. And PLEASE COMMENT if you can. It's the best way to guarantee we get more quality stories from our favorite writers!

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I'm actually so obsessed with cassie it's indescribable. my fun time girl. my silly little rabbit.

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no matter how fucking sad I am, any AO3 email never fails to makes my day a little brighter

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Captain of The Rangers of Ithilien

Faramir for @eclipsed-raven from Ko-Fi as a monthly supporter with their own design :) a joy finally getting to draw him in the green he has as a ranger as well as trying other designs for him!

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[talking shit about a guy] he could not earn the trust of a horse

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Also: I think Aragorn gets a bad reputation now because so many lesser franchises have tried to imitate his archetype without understanding why he works. In the original movies he’s just a big gentle sad guy with a sword, who knows he’s not the real hero of the story and dedicates himself to supporting those gay little hobbits. The aragorn knockoffs are not his fault

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Which Tolkien character is your roommate?

Spin the wheel to see whether you'll enjoy your time as a roommate. 🤣

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It’s easy to forget JRR Tolkien was a fairly prolific academic translator with an interest in early medieval literature and philology. It’s so inspiring that he found time to write The Hobbit while fighting for his life over Beowulf.

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Gil-Galad was an Elven king / Of him the harpers sadly sing / But you don't really care for music do you

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It feels like this every time I write a fic

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my one and only dream & hope for the hunt for gollum movie is as much ranger!aragorn competence porn as can be squeezed out of it. and make it weird okay. I want that man sniffing grass. I want him talking to birds. I want him sleeping in trenches. I want a drawn out close up of his boots and you can tell they smell like something died in there. please god I have wanted this for years. I have wanted this since the moment I read the phrase "greatest hunter of this age" at eight years old and drew hearts around it in my first copy of fellowship. please don't take it away from me.

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Mummy portraits of Egyptians from the Roman period, 1st-2nd centuries AD

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The study of the humanities is a training ground for the mind and the development of critical thought, self-knowledge, a deeper understanding of one’s own ethical values, and an appreciation of the shared humanity of those removed from oneself by either temporal or geographical distance. These are not idle theoretical fripperies: they are the foundation of curiosity, compassion, and responsible citizenship.

<piss on the poor>There are indeed many pathways to this knowledge. Yes, go to the library and the museum. No, not everyone needs to get a degree in medieval literature. Everyone SHOULD study at least some history and literature in high school and college.</piss on the poor>

The fact that the serious pursuit of humanist studies has been deliberately made *economically inaccessible* to something like 95% of the human population, and entirely generations of people have been deliberately trained to consider these subjects laughable and worthy only of mockery and disdain (and the first subjects to remove from formal curricula) is a catastrophic injustice on a planetary scale.