#The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth

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Faramir, Field Commander

Artist: Dominik Mayer TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Saruman the White

"Sauron's victory is at hand; and there will be rich reward for those who aided it."

Artist: Matt Stewart

[lowcountry-gothic]

Aragorn and Arwen, Wed, by Magali Villeneuve. From The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth.

“Aragorn the King Elessar wedded Arwen Undómiel, and the tale of their long waiting and labors came to fulfillment.”

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Elanor Gardner by Torgeir Fjereide

[refreshdaemon]

A dream come true turns out to be just modestly enjoyable since the prerelease experience was low-effort as usual.

[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.

[mossyteacup]

tea & tolkien for second breakfast

[distinguisheddwarffriend]

Yo I've got another for my by now mixed Tolkien survey series:

(yes, I over-simplified stuff, and had to exclude Tulkas, Melkor & Mandos for lack of answer-options, just comment if you'd have picked them)

[anghraine]

In addition to the I'm Guessing Tolkien Had Some Hang-Ups About Pregnancy post, I also ran over some interesting but even more unrelated factoids in The Nature of Middle-earth that even I couldn't justify including in the main ramble.

So I made a separate post about those, which includes my favorite:

Arwen would have been even more exhausting for Celebrían to bear than a pair of twins because: Arwen was a "special child" of great powers and beauty The beauty I got from LOTR, but—without being dismissive about the banner—I really wish we had a clearer sense of Arwen's unique stature in her own right in LOTR. She's presented so much in terms of Elrond and Lúthien and occasionally Galadriel and Celeborn, but Elladan and Elrohir are Elrond's children and Galadriel's grandchildren just as much as she is. Yet here she's clearly framed as special and powerful in a way they are not and which drew so much from Celebrían's (and possibly Elrond's) spiritual reserves that they couldn't have any more children. That seems like a big deal! Tell me more! Epilogue: he did not tell us more

[reallyhardydraws]

just beyond the far horizon lies a waiting world unknown like the dawn its beauty beckons with a wonder all its own!

my big the lord of the rings: a musical tale piece! tried to include all the principle cast members and their instruments (though many of them play multiple instruments too!) here's a crop of my particular faves, the 4 main hobbits as well:

please full view for details! tysm! ✨💍🌄

🌻commissions open!🌻

[eerieechos]

I bet the Battle of Fornost fucking sucked lol

PartII/Elladan

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Tom Bombadil

Artist: Marko Manev TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Gandalf the White

Artist: Magali Villeneuve

[lowcountry-gothic]

Art by Iga Oliwiak. From The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth.

"The audience all opened their mouths wide for laughter, and stopped short in gaping silence; for the singer disappeared. He simply vanished, as if he had gone slap through the floor without leaving a hole!"

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Smite the Deathless by Alexander Mokhov

[essenceofarda]

An Agonizing and Passionate Eclipse ✨🌑☀️