#Lotr book

[sigmakia]

Gay people do love glitters

art • commissions

[illegally-blind-and-deaf]

pippin is not dumb, nor is he purely for comedic relief

i will die on this hill

[nina-silvertuin]

"He rose and looked at Gandalf. The others gazed at them in silence as they stood there facing one another. The grey figure of the Man, Aragorn son of Arathorn, was tall, and stern as stone, his hand upon the hilt of his sword; he looked as if some king out of the mists of the sea had stepped upon the shores of lesser men. Before him stooped the old figure, white, shining now as if with some light kindled within, bent, laden with years, but holding a power beyond the strength of kings."

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Chapter V: The White Rider)

[elphabalathropp]

"Well, im back"

[nervousloveheart]

I think one of the most interesting things I've read so far in the lord of the rings books, is how Frodo didn't expect the big folk to not be stupid. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he said something along the lines of, ''I only ever expected the big folk to be kind and stupid, or cruel and stupid.''

And I suspect the rest of the story will be proving him wrong, will keep you updated. (please correct me if I'm wrong by showing me the source material.)

[must-be-mr-boggins]

Taking a 5-second break from the Bagginshield angst to bring you this meme I created after an all-nighter, enjoy.

[norloth]

Since late 2021, I had been working on illustrating a Chinese version of The Hobbit. The book was published in August 2024.

After all these years, a dream came true. ❤️

[dungeon-vault]

[ynnu-64]

brave hobbit

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

[nina-silvertuin]

"For many hours they rode on through the meads and riverlands. Often the grass was so high that it reached above the knees of the riders, and their steeds seemed to be swimming in a grey-green sea. They came upon many hidden pools, and broad acres of sedge waving above wet and treacherous bogs; but Shadowfax found the way, and the other horses followed in his swath. Slowly the sun fell from the sky down into the West. Looking out over the great plain, far away the riders saw it for a moment like a red fire sinking into the grass. Low upon the edge of sight shoulders of the mountains glinted red upon either side. A smoke seemed to rise up and darken the sun's disc to the hue of blood, as if it had kindled the grass as it passed down under the rim of earth."

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Chapter V: The White Rider)

[silme-lorien]

my favorite thing about elves vs hobbits is their names. elves will be named things like “maiden with the moonlight woven in her hair” and then hobbits are straight up like oh yeah my names domble bingus rumbubo

[neonknight]

The Lord of the Rings acrylic paintings (70s) by Tim and Greg Hildebrandt

[velvet4510]

It took the Ring two seconds to make both Isildur and Gollum claim it as their own.

It didn’t take much longer for it to make Bilbo do the same, as he kept it as the key “trick up his sleeve” during the Quest for Erebor and never considered harming it.

But in 17 full years and 6 months, it couldn’t make Frodo claim it. It took being inside Mt. Doom, the place where its power was absolute and drowned out all othere, to get Frodo to claim it.

Inside Mt. Doom, no bearer can resist the Ring. They will inevitably claim it there. But literally ALL of the other Ring-bearers who ever claimed it did so outside of Mt. Doom.

The Ring never needed to apply its utmost, Cracks-of-Doom-level pressure to make any previous Ring-bearer claim it. Frodo was the only one who resisted it so long and so well that it had to force itself upon him and break him just to get him to regard it as his own.

Frodo Baggins is the strongest mortal in the Third Age of Middle-Earth and no, I am not accepting questions at this time.

(Remember our beloved Samwise Gamgee never claimed the Ring, and didn’t have it long enough for it to really sink its teeth into him as deeply as it did into everyone else. I’m talking about those who actually claimed the Ring at some point in their lives.)

[must-be-mr-boggins]

Me to my parents over the holidays.

[coveredinsun]

when you’re watching fellowship of the ring with your friends it is 100% vital to point to the screen when the balrog shows up and say “in the books this is when legolas starts screaming”