#j r r Tolkien

[kinsey3furry300]

Sorry, but surely Gandalf is the token Texan.

1, always armed for no apparent reason.

2,very polite but mildly deranged.

3, shows up uninvited at your birthday party with illegal fireworks, drinks all your beer and smokes all your weed, gives you good life advice, steals you jewellery and gives it to your nephew and then just fucks off with no explanation.

4, strangers only know them for thier comicly big hat and weird manner of speaking.

5, is several years into a project before he thinks to mention it to his boss.

6, finds out his boss is a narc, punches him, jail.

7, escapes jail.

8, turns up several weeks late to an important group project because he just escaped jail.

9, organises hiking trip with an unstable bunch of heavily armed weirdos rather than ask the government for help.

10, would rather climb a mountain than take a short cut.

11, fucking dies punching Satan in the dick.

12, comes back with new threads and a fucking horse. But not just any horse, the king of horses! 🐎

13, admits that the group project has gone sideways and it is his fault, but insists it can be fixed by more dudes with horses.

14, meets the King of the horse dudes. Greets him by punching him.

Follow up:

Facts are facts. @ladycloud @esmesqualor-not-esmecullen

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[shadesfalcon]

J. R. R. Tolkien: no, my books aren't about the war I experienced. It's just a story

J. R. R. Tolkien's works: you cannot go home, war ends entire bloodlines, you are mourning the death of your brother alone, you dug into the earth and permanently scored the land, you cannot explain what you have been through, you cannot go home, "that wound will never fully heal. He will carry it the rest of his life", leaving the women behind does not save them, the young die first, you cannot go home, the parent will bury their child, you have lost the wives and you will never connect with them again, "how shall any tower withstand such numbers and such reckless hate?", you are not the same, you cannot go home, you can never go home, your father will only side with those he sees as worthy bloodlines and you cannot change his mind, it is more meaningful Not to kill, sometimes your sacrifice accomplishes nothing, you cannot go home

[prokopetz]

I think a lot of people are getting the wrong idea when they call Tolkien a freak because he invented this elaborate framing device whereby the Red Book of Westmarch was actually written by Bilbo and Frodo (with some addenda by Sam) and he, Tolkien, was merely an editor and translator. Throughout history it's actually been a very common literary device for an author to represent their work as having been written by a character who appears in the story, with the author themselves variously positioned as a translator, editor, and/or literary executor. At the time that Tolkien was writing, such a device would have been seen as somewhat old-fashioned, but certainly not eccentric. Like, Tolkien was definitely a freak, but not for that reason.

[happy-mokka]

Oh. My. Gaaawd.

This beautiful.

The Rabbit in color !

[metamorphesque]

These lines (first from the films, thereafter from the books) taught me something profoundly essential about how to be there for a friend, a lover, or a loved one when they are consumed by despair, weighed down by grief, or overwhelmed by the weight of mental torment. It taught me that some burdens are sacredly personal; untransferable tasks that each of us must face in our own time and way.

Yet, while we cannot take their pain or carry their burden for them (no matter how much we wish we could), there is something else we can do. While we cannot lift their burden, we can lift them. We can carry their weary body, their weary heart, as they bear the weight of their pain. In doing so, we offer them a sanctuary — a place of care and safety, where they can begin to confront their hurt without the fear of being alone in its gaze.

While the pain may be theirs to bear, the journey through it need not be traveled in solitude.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, I love you.

[wizardarchives]

Gandalf and Bilbo by Tim Kirk (1974)

[dean045ae]

new sketches :)

[vildo]

Just for the record

[enchantedbook]

'Letters From Father Christmas' by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1920.

[lackadaisycal-art]

Smaug <3

[frodosrings]

is now a good time to share my tolkien collection?

everything on this shelf (including the shelf itself) was bought second hand! so, thrift stores, used bookstores, and marketplace, hence why many sets are incomplete!

[ayaosguqin]

“Grieving”

No parent should have to bury their child

[red-umbrella-811]

cmon guys

[prokopetz]

I need to live another twenty years purely to see what kind of bullshit the Tolkien estate gets up to with respect to The Silmarillion in 2044.

[hailturinturambar]

Happy Birthday John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 - Setember 2, 1973)

“It is rather as if some strange spirit had taken on the guise of an elderly professor. The body may be pacing this shabby little suburban room, but the mind is far away, roaming the plains and mountains of Middle-Earth.”

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter