#early Tolkien

[thelien-art]

December; the 8th

Advent Game: Elrond x Celebrían

How many jewelry pieces are they each wearing?

Don´t mind Elrond, he´s trying to match some Sinda and Noldo fashion together, and Celebrían is just letting him have his moment with a quiet laugh :)

Join the Advent and Yule calendar to win a drawing - rules here and all the other drawings here

[shrikeseams]

Silm time travel fixit fic where Curufin is spat out into his younger self fairly early in YoT, and when his efforts to solve the Noldor's political/ Melkor problems bear no fruit... he just fucks off to Alqualonde to apprentice as a ship-builder, because it's a concrete and fixable future problem.

[autistook]

ON THIS DAY, JULY 4th

Boromir sets out from Minas Tirith to Rivendell

'Therefore my brother, seeing how desperate was our need, was eager to heed the dream and seek for Imladris; but since the way was full of doubt and danger, I took the journey upon myself. Loth was my father to give me leave, and long have I wandered by roads forgotten, seeking the house of Elrond, of which many had heard, but few knew where it lay.'

[justyourtypicalwriter]

Clyde brings a certain “wake up mommy I pissed the bed” vibe to the function that Craig and Tolkien don’t appreciate-

[psstwantsomecheese]

Fingon being the only kinslayer in his family the same way Maedhros was the only Feanorian that didn't participate in the burning of the ships ourgh

[anghraine]

While I'm on my disruptive Tolkien opinions kick:

Yes, obviously, he was a conservative Catholic and this was really important to his understanding of the world and pervades his work and so on and so forth.

But I'm a bit "..." about reducing everything he thought and felt about the world to that. Like, yeah, there's a tradition of conservative pastoralism that meant the context of his environmental opinions was not inherently progressive in the way it can mistakenly seem in 2024. Do I think he was Like That about trees because of conservative pastoralism, or his Catholicism, or that the particular form taken by his TREES TREES TREES #OLDMANWILLOWDIDNOTHINGWRONG TREEEEEEEEES ethos much resembles most of his contemporaries' feelings?

Not really.

I mean, he would never have said it, but I kind of doubt whether his very sincere and deeply felt veneration of the actual figures of his religion was truly comparable to how he felt about things like That One Oak on the Corner That I Liked Got Chopped Down by Evildoers. I've read other conservative British writers of this era who have their own forms of pastoralism and most of them are way less intense about it. I truly don't think Tolkien loved trees the way he did Because Catholicism or whatnot. I genuinely think he just really loved trees.

Basically, I can imagine some alternate universe in which alternate Tolkien ends up with really different beliefs about religion, about politics, about all sorts of things. But I can absolutely not imagine a universe in which any version of Tolkien did not take the part of trees against all their enemies.

[whatsupspaceman]

unearthed some lotr doodles

[lyrien-arts]

Can you do a doddle of Turin braiding Beleg's hair🙏

He realized braiding hair wasn't as easy as how Beleg made it look like

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

someone could write pages and pages and pages and pages on elu thingol's life. he could be the protagonist of like five book trilogies each with 600 words per book. he was born in cuivienen where the first non-divine life awakened; he lived through morgoth's earlier attempts to corrupt the elves and very likely lost people he cared about to them; he witnessed the war of the powers; he was among the first of his people to see valinor, having visited it under the invitation of the deities who helped originate the universe; he was the sole flesh-and-blood being in all!! of!!! history!!!! who met, fell in love with, and married a goddess that was there before creation even existed; he and said goddess were the progenitors of a unique bloodline that produced some of the legendarium's most famous figures; he separated from his brother for a very very long time; he was so loved by his people that they refused paradise if he wasn't there with them; he fought battles against morgoth's forces and saw loss as well as triumph during those battles; he was one of the oldest beings and longest-reigning kings in all of beleriand, not to mention he ruled its most ancient and most mystical, otherworldly kingdom; he was the father of two of the most famous heroes in-verse, whose deeds and stories continued to be told millennia after their deaths; he was again the first!! and!!! only!!!! elf-king in all of history to adopt a human as his own son. and throughout it all, he has a cohesive character arc. he grows to respect a people whom he once distrusted and looked down on; he comes to accept the choices of those he cares about even if he doesn't agree with said choices; he has to learn to let go of his loved ones no matter how much it grieves him. if those five trilogies existed i would be reading and rereading every single one obsessively

[nightmares-2]

Once in Maglors gap

Version with a background i hate

[thelien-art]

December; the 24

Yule day 4: Maedhros the tall & Fingon the Valiant

How many colors are used in the glass of the windows?

True blue Pansy; blue Pansy´s symbolize loyalty, honesty, devotion, and trust.

Bluehead Gilia; Bluehead Gilia is an annual herb with a self-supporting growth system. The Gilia has been used to treat blood disease over the years.

Fingon is in the free day clothes Maedhors just came in after some flower picking fully dressed; I also like to headcannon Himring fashion to include a lot of embroidered floral.

[runesinthenight]

It's Tolkien's birthday! Or it was when I made this. Happy birthday to my favorite author

Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror, King under the Mountain. Watercolor and ink.

[autistook]

March 20th - Faramir meets Éowyn in the Houses of Healing

[imakemywings]

It's actually not canon that Feanor was a child when Finwe remarried. In fact, in the chapter "Of Feanor" in The Silmarillion where these things are discussed, Finwe's remarriage is mentioned after Feanor's marriage to Nedanel, suggesting he may well have been an adult when Finwe and Indis got together.

[aureentuluva70]

Seriously why didn't anyone tell me that in early drafts Tolkien wrote the spider of Cirith Ungol not as Shelob but Ungoliant herself??? The same Ungoliant who destroyed the Two Trees and everything??? THE SAME ONE??? And she's been chilling out in Mordor in the East for like, 6000+ years???

Like, what???

[a-ramblinrose]

🍂A Lovely Tolkien Book Haul!!!🍂

The Silmarillion! The Hobbit! The Lord of the Rings!

Illustrated by the Author Special Editions!!!

Okay. Okay. Yes, I was trying to go on a book buying ban to save up for end of year sales. But. Target had all three of these books.

On sale! 30% off and buy 2 get the 3rd Free!

💖Look at them! I am in bookworm heaven! 💖