#j r r Tolkien

[tybimmit]

I would love to have animated books based on the Silmarillion that is true to the writing style. That would be beautiful.

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.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[wizardarchives]

Gandalf and Bilbo by Tim Kirk (1974)

[marmota-b]

My reason is mainly "because I was an avid reader who would try reading anything that caught my eye." My uncle is a big Tolkien fan and got us into it, and the old Czech edition of The Silmarillion that he had had a really really cool holographic (?) tree jewel on the cover, and so it caught my eye and I just started reading somewhere in the middle and it happened to be Beren and Lúthien and I got hooked. I didn't read it in one reading at all, more like snatching excerpts here and there until I managed to collect the whole thing.

[lackadaisycal-art]

Smaug <3

[vildo]

Just for the record

[ayaosguqin]

“Grieving”

No parent should have to bury their child

[marmota-b]

As Tolkien intended.

rereading The Hobbit, getting quietly devastated about the loss of the great forests of Middle Earth, as one does.

[storkofyore]

Maglor, world’s okayest dad.

I haven’t posted art for you all in a while, so have this little sketch thing that I made today.

[red-umbrella-811]

cmon guys

[prokopetz]

You know what just occurred to me?

When the United States switched its copyright duration from the older first-publication formula to the newer life-of-the-author formula, it elected not to make the change retroactive, so there are effectively two copyright regimes in place: one for works published in 1976 and earlier, which use the first-publication formula, and one for works published in 1977 and later, which use the life-of-the-author formula.

This means that, barring any authorship fuckery, The Silmarillion, which was published in 1977, and thus uses the "life of the author plus 70 years" formula, will enter the US public domain in 2044.

However, The Lord of the Rings, which was published in 1954, and thus uses the "date of first publication plus 95 years" formula, will enter the US public domain in... 2050.

In the United States and only in the United States, there will be a period of six years during which The Silmarillion is public domain, but The Lord of the Rings is not.

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien.

[andallshallbewell]

[thyinum]

Happy birthday, Professor 💛🍃

[eternal-fear]

Reading this in Lord of the Rings and knowing how silmarillion got to be printed is an experience.

[aksiris]

Daeron