#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...

[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.

[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. »

[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)

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Yellow and Gray ~

[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

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)

[vestaignis]

Заброшенный отель Gletscher Belvedere в Швейцарии.

Отель «Бельведер» на Фурка - самый известный отель на перевале в мире. Был построен в 1882 г. сем��ей Зайлер из Вале на повороте новой дороги, откуда открываются лучшие виды на Альпы и в близости от главной достопримечательности - ледника Ронегг.

Потом ледник отступил , его уже стало не видно из отеля. Но Бельведер стал популярным объектом съемок . Сам Джеймс Бонд в 1965 году промчался по Фурке на своем Aston Martin, миновав Бельведер.

В период своего расцвета в конце XIX века, отель вмещал до 90 путешественников. Гостиница расширялась.

В 1920-х годах автобусы и железная дорога, привозили гостей на ледник. Поездки были рассчитаны с ночевкой. С появлением легкового транспорта они превратились в однодневные поездки туда и обратно. Гости, которые раньше оставались на ночь, теперь успевали посетить знаменитый ледник Рона с его восхитительным гротом, а в отеле лишь пообедать или просто выпить чашку чая. Да и сам ледник, из-за глобального потепления настолько удалился и потерял свою привлекательность, что желающих увидеть необычную красоту уменьшилось.

В 1988 отель купила семья из Брюгге. Поддерживать старинное здание в рабочем состоянии было тяжело и в 2015 году они закрылись. Отель выставлен на продажу.

Abandoned Gletscher Belvedere Hotel in Switzerland.

The Belvedere Hotel on the Furka Pass is the most famous hotel on the pass in the world. It was built in 1882 by the Sailer family from Valais at the turn of the new road, offering the best views of the Alps and close to the main attraction - the Ronegg Glacier.

Then the glacier retreated, it was no longer visible from the hotel. But the Belvedere became a popular filming location. James Bond himself raced along the Furka Pass in his Aston Martin in 1965, passing the Belvedere.

In its heyday at the end of the 19th century, the hotel accommodated up to 90 travelers. The hotel expanded.

In the 1920s, buses and the railway brought guests to the glacier. The trips were designed with an overnight stay. With the advent of passenger transport, they turned into one-day trips there and back. Guests who used to stay overnight now had time to visit the famous Rhone glacier with its amazing grotto, and only had lunch or just a cup of tea at the hotel. And the glacier itself, due to global warming, has become so remote and lost its appeal that there are fewer people wanting to see the unusual beauty.

In 1988, the hotel was bought by a family from Bruges. It was difficult to maintain the old building in working order, and in 2015 they closed. The hotel is up for sale.

Источник: /www.tripadvisor.ru/Attraction_Review-g1096348-d314802-Reviews-Furka_Pass-Oberwald_Canton_of_ Valais_ Swiss _Alps.html, /vk.com/@s0zertsay-zabroshennyi-otel-gletscher-belvedere-v-shveicarii, /dzen.ru/a/Zw-oZOTb8142pRv8, //dzen.ru/b/ZOJJzqX8cxBBD3KJ.

[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.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Get Lost: Project Safari, 2025. A restomod series 1 Lotus Elise that has been reimagined as a high-riding safari-style rally car. Features include a custom roof scoop with spare wheel carrier, bespoke rectangular headlights, and a completely redesigned interior. Aside from the addition of a limited-slip differential the project retain's the Elise's mid-engine/rear wheel drive configuration. Get Lost: Project Safari is the first vehicle from Get Lost, with customer builds due to start later this year.

[thistransient]

same place different season

[opalprincess]

~☀️~

[southern--downpour]

deer in headlights