#Lost Road

[aureentuluva70]

I like to make fun of Melkor but at one point in the Lost Road Melkor's true name is given as Alkar the Radiant, which I can't help but find just. incredibly tragic. He really started out as one of the best, brightest and most beloved of them, eldest and greatest of the Ainur...but then he fell, becoming Morgoth the Dark One. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer son of the morning indeed...

[mfelewzi]

•Art by Wolfeyes.

By Facebook page Nyéni

•From the French version of the Lost Road, translated in English.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧

« Men were more frail, more easily killed by weapons or by accident, and less able to heal; prone to illness and ailments; and they grew old and died. What happened to their spirits after death is unknown to the Elves. Some say that they also go to the Halls of Mandos; but that their waiting place there is not that of the Elves; and that only Mandos apart from Iluvatar, and from there Manwë, knows where they go after their period of contemplation in these silent halls by the Western Sea. They are not reborn on earth, and no one has ever returned from hell, except Beren son of Barahir, whose hand had seized a Silmaril; but he never again addressed mortal Men. The fate of Men beyond death perhaps does not rest in the hands of the Valar; and not everything has been revealed in the Music of the Ainur. »

[fingonvaliant]

Lost Road is so fascinating and I really wish more people talked about it.

First of alll, it's JonRon Tolkien writing a time travel novel, which just on it's face is kind of nuts to think about. Second of all, both it and the associated Notion Club Papers are him doing a bit of self-parody and critique of Oxford don culture (which is SUPER nuts for him to be doing.)

Tolkien is rarely thought of as a modernist author, and I think justly so, but Lost Road..... complicates that. Dreams blending with reality, not so much nightmarish as just profoundly unsettling? this ostensible millenia-long family chain only consists of families that are a father and one son? This 15-year-old boy is self-taught in Latin, Greek, Old English, Old Norse, Welsh and Irish, loves the taste and savor of words and language, but struggles to describe his feelings? the Island of Numenor is in a brewing civil war? Oppressive state powers? Wait is Sauron meant to be like a dictatorial figure here, arresting dissenters? When was this written..... oh 1936 huh?

It's not a modernist novel (or I guess novel fragment) but it is..... different.

[scienceandfandoms]

With all this Wicked talk reminder that in the Oz books the rightful ruler of Oz was actually a trans girl named Ozma who explicitly named Dorothy a princess of Oz and considered her a "constant companion."

Also, this art from "The Road to Oz"

[ionomycin]

Low tide

[yuyuvasya02]

Just read jojolion I like gappy so much 😭

I almost forgot how to draw normal skin color (Last one looks like a scene from lion king… from jojo lion I mean)

[tolkien-povs]

Reading The Hobbit has a warm, cozy feeling to it, like sitting by a fireplace and downing a warm mug of hot chocolate. There are times when you want to cry, times when you want to laugh, times when you want to fight alongside Thorin’s Company. But at the end of the story, you realise that you will never experience that, because The Hobbit is fictional in reality, but so real in the heart and mind.

Reading The Lord of The Rings has a cool feeling, neither warm nor cold, but a comfortable one; it’s as if you’re sitting by a window, staring into the rain, and wishing you could go outside and relish in the rain but you can’t because it’s cold. There are times when you want to laugh, cry, dine with the Fellowship, fight with the Fellowship. But you can’t, because The Lord of The Rings is only a figment lodged in your heart, tucked away in a cozy spot.

Reading The Silmarillion has the feel of sitting in an enormous library almost abandoned, and fishing out an old, dusty book from a nook long forgotten, written about the history of the world. There are cases when you want to delve into that world and explore it, revel in it, fight it, love it, yell at the people in it. But you can never do that, because it is a history long past, existing only in the minds of very few.

Reading the old stories narrating the entire history of Arda has the feel of travelling back in time to the Library of Alexandria, reading and studying all the library can give. There are times when you want to cry, mourn, grieve, celebrate, laugh, revel in the world. But you can never, as that world, those people, are all part of your heart and mind, tucked away into the most precious part of you.

Reading the legendarium doesn’t make you want to be a part of that world because you love it. It makes you want to be a part of that world because the characters are normal people, like you, who got roped into an unlikely adventure, forever narrated in song, poems, ballads and laments.

They are simple stories, of simple people, in a simple world, where if you existed, you could have been one of those souls both fortunate and unfortunate.

Reading the legendarium makes you want to be part of it, because it makes you think you can survive it.

And certainly, if you have read this amazing mythological masterpiece, you absolutely can survive it.

[mother-lee]

farmhouse 02

[thistransient]

same place different season

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)

[opalprincess]

~☀️~

[aureentuluva70]

Earien's whole arc as being one of Elendil's children and yet leaning towards the cause of the Kingsmen reminds me a lot of a story in the Lost Road about Elendil talking with his young son Herendil, who seemed ensnared by the thought of obtaining immortality by entering Valinor. With this in mind I can't help but wonder if she was deliberately based off of Herendil's character.

[southern--downpour]

deer in headlights

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

[oksurethisismyname]

Zosan coffee shop AU where zoro works at Namis coffee shop to pay off a debt (he broke her tv or some shit)

From Zoros perspective: every time Sanji comes in, he orders a new drink and zoro thinks he’s just being a dick by changing it up so often but jokes on Sanji because he has a little binder with the different recipes. Curly is always smirking when he gets his drink so Zoro KNOWS he’s doing good.

From Sanjis perspective: the first day he ordered a latte but zoro made a mocha. The next time he comes in he orders a mocha but zoro makes a macchiato. It’s so different that it HAS to be intentional. Every time he orders, zoro makes the wrong drink and sanji just orders that the next time. He thinks they’re playing some sort of game / flirting.

2 weeks in zoro realizes he’s been making the wrong drinks the whole time because Nami finally sees him make a cappuccino when Sanji ordered a drip coffee (literally how did he fuck it up this bad) and zoro is just more confused as to why Sanjis been smiling when he gets the wrong drink