#Tolkien

[verkomy]

treebeard and the hobbits

you can get a print here

[aamuusva]

[mauvearts]

@melestasflight set it up and i shall follow through Fingon and his hunting companion

[tea-in-a-tree]

Yes but also. Religion is not the same as mythology. Religion also includes religious praxis, traditions, philosophy etc. But Religions (and yes, also Christianity) do very much contain Myths and Mythology as a narrative form of conveying religious experiences and worldviews. And I don't mean that derogatorily. A lot, if not most sincere christian theologians pretty much agree that many parts of the Bible need to be understood as mythological and it was in fact intended that way.

So no, God as such is not mythology. But a lot of the stories that tell about experiences with God/existential religious questions eg. the bible or other religious scripts use the genre of mythology to convey their messages. That doesn't make them less true in a religious sense, it just means they were never meant to be read as scientific facts but as human stories about existential/religious experiences. So yea, I'd agree, you can tag Bible stuff with #mythology and still believe the Bible to hold religious truth (I do), it's not a contradiction. Just be aware then that other mythology might also hold religious truth then as well, whether you personally believe in it or not.

Interestingly enough J.R.R. Tolkien did a lot of (really interesting) work on that, I highly recommend reading his essay "On fairy stories"!

dont tag bible stuff as mythology God isnt mythology

hi hello how are you. most if not all story-based religions are in fact considered mythology by definition including the abrahamic religions. god is in fact abrahamic mythos whether you think he’s real or not. im sorry if that upsets you but im assuming this is regarding the post i just reblogged and i have to say im surprised the part you’re upset about is me tagging biblicalia as mythology and not the entire discussion on who tops in jesus/judas ship discourse

[stoadsie]

dear eru please take my devices away

[tuserlivia]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003), dir. Peter Jackson

[neonknight]

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

[i-am-pinkie]

Can we appreciate Aidan's expression and body language in these gifs? Adorable! 🥰😍

“Adam, what is the name of Gandalf’s sword?”

[must-be-mr-boggins]

Me too, Bilbo. Me too.

[bowiebaggins]

Have my first tattoo!! I’m absolutely in love with it and it’s a perfect start to my Tolkien arm ^^

[coraldestinychopshop]

I went a little crazy and wanted to share. This is a family tree staring from the elves and all the human/elves that were descendants that came from each line. Highlighted people are people who ruled. Didn't really highlight for the elves, but mainly did it for the Numenorians to keep track. Lot of my info was from reading the slim or the tolkien gateway websites. This is in no way fully 100% correct because I was doing most of it in random classes so don't come at me for accuracy!

Pls be nice this is my first time on this scary blue app 😗! Love you all!

[godteri-takk]

Auuuhhh QwQ he's soooo cute <<3 oh i just adore how you draw his cute lil face with those curious kind eyes <3 his staff looks really nice too, like a small uprooted tree!

big naturals gandalf was in my dream last night. saw him in the distance in a field

[mrkida-art]

My orc girl now has a friend

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

I have never once wished for Tolkien to still be alive as much as I do in this moment

(Some more clips)

[swordfright]

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.