#JRR Tolkien

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[chaos-of-the-abyss]

thingol as melian's own one ring, into whom she poured her spirit and power and divinity, is such a heartrendingly romantic concept

[astral-aromance]

I am now officially subscribed to the Erestor son of Caranthir and Haleth theory

[thelien-art]

December; the 21st

Yule Game: Tilion x Arien

Where is the fruit and flower of Laurelin & Telperion? - extra point for naming which fruit and flower they are based on

Happy Winter Solstice and happy first Yule Day!! I thought this two would fit perfect!

Join the Advent and Yule calendar to win a drawing - rules here and all the other drawings here

[isaacsapphire]

The veneration of the Inklings among American Evangelicals is both a bit ironic, and a lifeline, a virtue of hypocrisy, a crack where the light gets in, the imperfectly sealed windows that keep you alive when the heater malfunctions.

Or at least, that’s what they were to me.

For all their flaws, they were different flaws than that of the American Religious Right; they were loyal subjects of the British crown, veterans of the Great War, Oxford academics, Christians in a country with a State Church, and members of the international intelligentsia during the rise of Hitler.

The Discourse was different then of course, and these men were participants in it.

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

[elena-kukanova]

Turin finds Nienor

"The Children of Hurin"

watercolor on cotton paper, 50*31 cm

[tolkien-povs]

POV:

An elf tells you to get off of his lawn, so you kill his dad and steal his most precious works while sitting on a spider.

[tolkienrulez54321]

I NEED MORE 🙏

If JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis could text:

[eye-of-mordor]

He came in secret, as has been told, to his ancient kingdom of Mordor beyond the Ephel Dúath, the Mountains of Shadow, and that country marched with Gondor upon the east. There above the valley of Gorgoroth was built his fortress vast and strong, Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower; and there was a fiery mountain in that land that the Elves named Orod-ruin. Indeed for that reason Sauron had set there his dwelling long before, for he used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and in his forging; and in the midst of the Land of Mordor he had fashioned the Ruling Ring. There now he brooded in the dark, until he had wrought for himself a new shape; and it was terrible, for his fair semblance had departed for ever when he was cast into the abyss at the drowning of Númenor. He took up again the great Ring and clothed himself in power; and the malice of the Eye of Sauron few even of the great among Elves and Men could endure.

[legolas-fan-blog]

As of today The Fellowship of the Ring (movie) is 23 years old!

[epicallyepicepilogue]

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[whiteladyofithilien]

"don't the great tales ever end?"

The endless carry over from the ancient history of Middle Earth (Silmarillion etc) to the last place Tolkien brings us in the story of the lands is always mind-blowing. You always find something new that's actually very old and some other connection to the past.

The fact that Frodo and Sam using the phial of Galadriel to fight Shelob is just a continuation of the story of the Silmarils. For Shelob's mother was Ungoliant who poisoned the trees, the trees whose light was held in the Silmarils. The light that ended up in the sky on Earendil's ship. The light of Earendil that is in the phial used to ward off the child of the monster that slew the trees.

The sword that smites the Balrog of Moria is found by chance in a troll hoard. But it was forged in Gondolin when Balrogs were much more of a concern. Any lesser sword would have failed to slay the Balrog.

Just like any lesser dagger than Sting would have failed to wound Shelob and cut through her webs.

There's dozens of moments like this throughout the works of Tolkien where the pattern of history in his world weaves in an essential piece from the past of his world. The great tales never truly end.

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

orome's tolkien wiki page having zero mention of celegorm while celegorm's page has eight entire mentions of orome is kind of sending me. like i full well know realistically it's just because some elves tend to have one quasi-"patron" valar whose domain their talents lie heavily within, while there would be no such limitation on the valar, but my brain is conjuring up some lopsided dynamic that's like orome going "yes celegorm and i were close, unfortunate how things broke down :(" meanwhile celegorm in beleriand has mental breakdowns every few fiscal years about how he's deserted his values as a follower of orome and he knows in his heart how far he's fallen and a part of him hates orome for what he (knows he) irrationally perceives as abandonment and he just goes through extremely Not Normal feelings about his severed connection with the vala of the hunt on a semi-regular basis

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Working on a super long analysis of the lotr parallels in stranger things, anyone interested on it?