#Author: JRR Tolkien

[pers-books]

Saw this on the Thames while out bagging postboxes the other morning.

[ID A red barge with the name Silmarillion above a green and yellow badge and Frouds Bridge below the badge.]

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

silm fans are really like "god i love the silm but you can really see how sexist tolkien was. anyway here's reason 3478283493 why this male character's awful actions are this female character's responsibility. why do we never talk about how much death and suffering she caused by pushing him to do what he did :(((("

[apoloadonisandnarcissus]

W.H. Auden review of “Return of the King” (1956): “evil loves only itself”

Tolkien reply (Letter 183): look, pal, that’s a very narrow and basic view of good vs. evil. I don’t agree with that, at all. I’m not a simple-minded adolescent. I don’t deal with absolute evil in my work, by the way. I’m going to write an entire essay politely telling you to f*ck off.

Tolkien/RoP fandoms for the next decades: evil loves only itself!!!

Tolkien in the afterlife, probably:

[drsunshines]

Did a watercolor portrait of Tolkien :3

[rptv-tolkien]

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Tolkien's Beautiful Yuletide Illustrations🧵

Tolkien produced some charming winter and Christmas illustrations, mostly for his children.

Caves

Tolkien developed a mythology for his children surrounding Father Christmas and the geopolitics of the North Pole.

Here, we see some of the caverns beneath the North Pole.

Silly Polar Bear

A recurring character in the Father Christmas letters is the silly polar bear.

Here, Tolkien portrays the clumsy animal tripping down the stairs whilst carrying a stack of presents. Haste makes waste.

Christmas Celebration

Tolkien depicts the beautiful lighting of the Christmas tree at the North Pole in 1934.

Northern Lights

This striking image evokes emotion through the beautiful lights.

Busy Year

The polar bear is acting like an ent.

The Roof

That silly polar bear is up to his old shenanigans.

True Fatherhood

Tolkien set a beautiful example on fatherhood for all of us.

He developed his children's imaginations and sought to lead them to the truth. May we follow his model in our own lives.

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

[weirdlotiel]

[sapphire-deity]

If anyone ever tries to tell you to write something other than exactly what you want to see, direct them to J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved series The Lord of the Rings.

[strange-gender-of-the-day]

Today's Gender: A Lil Hobbit

Bilbo Baggins, as illustrated by Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson, creator of The Moomins

[lalaloobzy]

We need to go back to dealing with our trauma like early-mid 20th century male authors that fought in WWI or WWII

(by writing an epic novel hiding the trauma behind metaphors/fantasy/absurdism and characters that are a little insane)

[zeizeizeizei]

Ramblings of the Clueless Duo Pt 1

Celebrimbor: “You swing that sword like a farmer cutting wheat.”

Talion: “And yet, I’m still standing.”

Celebrimbor: “Yes, because I keep you alive. You’re welcome.”

Talion: “Funny, I thought it was me wielding your hammer’s work that kept you relevant.”

Celebrimbor: (smirking) “Ah, so you do admire my craftsmanship.”

Talion: “No. I’m saying my strength makes it effective.”

Celebrimbor: “Admit it, Ranger. Without me, you’d be hacking away with a dull blade and zero finesse.”

Talion: “Finesse? You’d probably engrave flowers on a sword and call it ‘deadly.’”

Celebrimbor: “And yet, it would still outclass your brute stick.”

Talion: (grinning) “Careful, Celebrimbor. You’re starting to sound impressed by my ‘brute stick.’”

Celebrimbor: (haughtily) “Hardly.”

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

wait i thought i’d seen the full extent of the silm fandom’s misogyny but i guess the silm fandom can always hate female characters more because apparently?? people believe indis the manipulative malicious bitch came onto and cajoled and stalked finwe until he relented and married her all while specifically aiming to make it so that miriel could never come back and she could have finwe's dick for all of eternity and abuse poor helpless feanor to her black shriveled heart’s content??? apparently that is a take that exists and has shooters??? yall are truly smoking that good stuff

[veryrealauthorthings]

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Lion-jesus bless you.

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

All things considered Lúthien was an exceptional girlfriend.

[functioningwizard]

Me: I should read more new books this year.

My brain: Time to start Tolkien's collective works again.