#j-r-r-tolkien

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[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

[myravingsanity]

Of The Rings of Power and the Second Age #12: “How Fares Your Progress?” (Season 2, Episode 6: “Where Is He?”)

“A dream that some other mind is weaving” The flat-share sitcom I didn’t know I needed. I remain pleasantly surprised by the extent to which the Eregion storyline has consistently been the strongest in the second season. The only real rival is Khazad-dûm, but there the writers are building on a strength of season 1. With Eregion, they not only had to establish the Annatar/Celebrimbor dynamic…

[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.

[stonedcoast]

420 All Month: Mountain Wizard

420 All Month! Today is Mountain Wizard.

SativaModerately High THC (22% – 26%)Flower Mountain Wizard was the first strain (that I’m aware of, at least) for whom I was familiar with both of its parent strains, where all three were not famous, popular, or common already. I’ve had plenty of strains with the likes of Sour Diesel, OG Kush, Girl Scout Cookies, GG4, Wedding Cake, Grand Daddy Purple, Blueberry, Haze, Skunk, and so forth as…

[wizardarchives]

Gandalf and Bilbo by Tim Kirk (1974)

[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.

[enchantedbook]

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

[lackadaisycal-art]

Smaug <3

[vildo]

Just for the record

[ayaosguqin]

“Grieving”

No parent should have to bury their child

[red-umbrella-811]

cmon guys

[illustratus]

Gandalf and Frodo arrive at Bag End by John Howe

[prokopetz]

Yes, your worldbuilding is thorough, your geography meticulous, your plotting elaborate, and your characterisation nuanced, but answer me this: is there a fucked up little guy?

[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

[storkofyore]

Ambarussa art based on The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower by Sir John Everett Millais.