#Tolkien reading day

[hobbitinnumenor]

Love this SO MUCH. Tolkien may not have written many women, and neglected to name some, but the ones who were prominent? Straight FIRE.

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! Drew some of the lovely women of Lord of the Rings for this year’s theme, Fellowship and Community 📚🧝‍♀️✨

[chaunguyenj]

Try drawing Éowyn for the first time

[khorazir]

Lineart of my first FTH artwork (of three). Hope to finish the watercolour version and a little ficlet to accompany it in time for Tolkien Reading Day on Tuesday.

[sotwk]

Happy Tolkien Reading Day!

March 25, 2025

I'm just gonna cut to the chase and send random (hopefully fun) Tolkien-related Asks to some fellow Tolkien-loving Mutuals.

If you engage with this post within the next 24 hours, you are most certainly getting an Ask (mutual or not).

[glorf1ndel]

Okay, Tolkien fandom. It’s time. Fellowship assemble. March 25th is the day Frodo and Sam (and Gollum) destroyed the One Ring! Sorry, Sauron, but it just wasn��t working out. Happy Destruction of the Ring Day! 💍 🔥 🦅 ✌️ It’s also Tolkien Reading Day, so be sure to leaf through your favorite Tolkien book today. 📚

[solmarillion]

❝The joy of that feast was long remembered in later days of sorrow; and it was called Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting.❞ Maglor performs for the crowd at Mereth Aderthad, representing the House of Fëanor.

In honor of @feanorianweek, here's a new cosplay photo of Maglor for Day 2! With this shot, I wanted to depict a scene of him performing and being in his element, a brighter moment in Maglor's life.

Today is also Tolkien Reading Day! The theme this year is "Fellowship and Community," and I feel this quote perfectly captures the theme. Not much is said about the feast, but it's nice to see all the elves put aside their differences for a while.

Photo: @camcammeii, taken at Dragon Con 2024. Banner made by @nothing2c.

Character design by me, costume made by @knights-of-beleriand. Please support them, they were recently kicked out of their home and need help.

[thescrapwitch]

Tolkien Reading Day 2025

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! Since the theme for this year is Fellowship and Community, I thought I would recommend a few fics that I feel reflect it:

Tend to the Flame by @maglor-my-beloved

The Fëanorians, returned at last, move to Formenos and turn the ruined fortress into a city of crafts and creation, a place of second chances and a home for those who do not know where they belong. Their family grows over the centuries, and Míriel's last work is in time completed. (Or, what if all my blorbos were friends and lived in a cool city together and bonded over an arts&crafts project)

Department of Song and Craft Safety, Review, and Approval by @icryyoumercy

there is a plan to prevent the re-embodied Fëanorians from once again engaging in questionable behaviour or craft. strangely, it doesn't work

White Water Flowing by @starspray

In Valinor and homesick for Imladris, Celebrían decides to build a new one.

The Last Spring by @clothonono

"Perhaps they've had another baby," said Lalwen. "How many are they up to now, five?" "They cannot possibly have had another baby," said Findis. "Can they?" "Perhaps he's coming to visit," said Finarfin. His siblings all glared at him.

to speak, to scream and laugh with the echo by @clockworkcrabofea

In which Maedhros once told Maglor that Angband’s government was very might-to-right so, upon waking up in the past after haunting the shores through the Fourth Age, he decides that he could probably beat up a balrog or two and marches his ass across the Ice to bitch slap Sauron. Sauron finds himself unexpectedly okay with this.

Songbird by @tanoraqui

It was not with heavy heart that Paladin Took approached the Bird's Nest. But his ribs might've been weighty and his liver positively annoyed, and not just from the many fine ales and finer wines he'd consumed throughout his life. It was that damn Lotho again, Lotho Sacksville-Baggins from up Hobbiton way with his air and his Big Men—well, two could play at that game! And if anyone was going to be calling themselves "Chief" in this day and age, it would be the right and proper Thain of the Shire! His blood up, he knocked rather hard on the oversized door. "Maggie! Are you in there? Open up!"

To Live in the Undying Lands by @tathrin

A smattering of snippets set throughout the (im)mortal lives of the remaining members of the Fellowship on the other side of the Sundering Sea.

Anastasis by @chthonion

"Forgive me,” Frodo says in his accented Quenya, the syllables strange in his ears. “I—I have an old wound. It troubles me still, sometimes." "It is I who must ask your forgiveness," says the stranger. "I believe I may be the one who put it there." In Aman, Frodo and Celebrimbor and Finrod forge a friendship, talk about trauma, and deal with the fact that Sauron's ghost is haunting Celebrimbor.

Old bonds remade by @deadqueernoldor

“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited” Or Maglor is in banishment as decreed by the Valar, but it seems he is the only one who remembers that ‘banishment from elven society’ means that he is supposed to be alone

I forced myself to stick to nine recommendations (to match our favourite Fellowship) but PLEASE add more fics to this list! There are so many amazing Tolkien fics so make sure to reblog this with your own favourites.

Have a lovely day!

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day to honor the literary prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) author of acclaimed high fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has shared that the seeds of inspiration for his novels came from his childhood fascination and experimentation with constructed language and a 1911 Summer holiday hiking through Switzerland. Roughly fourteen years after his Swiss adventure, Tolkien would write The Hobbit and the first two volumes of Lord of the Rings while teaching in Oxford.  

Stepping slightly away from Tolkien’s novels, today we’re digging into our broadside collection and sharing Bilbo’s Last Song (At Grey Havens), a poem about leaving Middle-Earth. It first appeared, as seen here, as a poster published in 1974 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., the original English publisher of his famous novels, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), who illustrated many of Tolkien's publications. Chronologically, the poem takes place at the end of the last volume of Lord of the Rings, however it was never included in the series. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[athrabeth-me-ah-also-me]

My illustration for Tolkien Reading Day 2025 - one of the trees of my childhood, a sweet cherry growing in the garden of my family home, with which I have many pleasant memories.

I made this one initially for a competition on one local tolkienian fanpage (The results will be posted tonight), but I think it still fits my blog here. Happy TRD, everyone! Aurë Entuluva!

[threegoblinart]

Tolkien Reading Day

I have some art for that.

[echo-bleu]

I never have anything prepared for the events but I've been doing these little studies lately so today seemed like the perfect day for this one.

[mgcoco]

“Thus [Círdan] forfeited the fulfilment of his greatest desire: to see the Blessed Realm and find again there Olwë and his own nearest kin. Alas, he did not reach the shores until nearly all the Teleri of Olwë's following had departed.”

Tolkien Reading Day 2024, Service and Sacrifice

[figbythistle]

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! Here's an older sketch I did of Nienna:) I tried to use tear-drop shapes in her design because of her association with grief and compassion, but I also tried to convey a sense of quiet strength in her expression, because she's also associated with courage. She's one of my favourite of the Valar.

[khorazir]

“Charles, you are distracting me. If you want me to read on, you must stop this.”

“Do you really want me to stop?”

“Well ...”

“Knew it. Do keep reading, though. I love when you do the voices. Especially Gollum.”

“I shan’t do Gollum with you doing ... that.”

“Please.”

“Oh, very well. You really are impossible ... my preciousss.”

Happy Tolkien Reading Day, and happy 11 months of Dead Boy Detectives. This is also my first (of three) Fandom Trumps Hate 2025 pieces. It’s for Angie who asked for some domestic Payneland.

[glorf1ndel]

I have a dilemma, y’all. I’m making a Sam and Frodo playlist in honor of Tolkien Reading Day / Destruction of the Ring Day! 💚 Which photo should I use as the cover? 🤔

[dancerinthestorm]

„The wolf that one hears is worse than the ork that one fears.“ [said Boromir.]

„True!“ said Aragorn, loosening his sword in its sheath. „But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls.“

(J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring)

Had no memory at all of book Aragorn and Boromir being such comedians. But rediscovering it I am absolutely scandalized we were robbed of it in the movies! ^_^