#king of wood

[cerberus253]

Oh man I— *sweats nervously*

I wonder who left this giant-ass dragon on the white board at college!

Man, they must have driven all the way here, found out the only class they had was cancelled, then decided to do something worthwhile since they were already here. Ha ha, wouldn’t that be funny?????

[mistandshcdow]

lotr behind the scenes

[spoopdeedoop]

very very late to the party on the lost in the woods somewhere beeduo fae au by @hellenite but i am here now and it is taking over my brain like a very fast growing moss of some sort

[condohavenoking]

The Hobbits | Fellowship of the Ring + Return of the King

[crockpotthief]

[woodxstone]

RAJA KAYU

Scientific name: Agathis alba syn. Agathis dammara

Other names: King of wood, Dragonblood wood, Red agathis, Amboina pine

Agathis dammara is an evergreen tree belonging to the family Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammara. It is a medium-large conifer up to 60 metres in height, native to Sulawesi, the Maluku Islands and the Philippines, growing in tropical rainforests from sea level to very high mountainous regions where it becomes extremely stunted.

Agathis dammara belongs to the southern hemisphere family Araucariaceae, widespread throughout the entire Mesozoic, emerging about 200 million years ago. This tree is a source of dammar gum, also known as cat-eye resin.

Agathis dammara from Wikimedia Commons, by Franz Eugen Köhler.

Agathis species are distinctive, highly sought and exploited for their valuable timber, and Agathis dammara is listed as vulnerable.

In Southeast Asia, the tree is called raja kayu and it's wood is considered to have magical properties; in Malaysia, the indigenous people have long used wood from the raja kayu for powerful protective charms and amulets. Raja kayu is also used to make Buddhist prayer beads.

Once the raja kayu wood becomes saturated with resin, it gains a lovely reddish orange colour and becomes chatoyant, having a changeable luster/color. The resin-rich parts also gain translucency, allowing light to pass through. High-quality raja kayu will sink in water.

Translucency of raja kayu. Image from IndonesiaExotic (Etsy), who have some nice raja kayu beads for sale.

🔴 Agathis dammara in the Gymnosperm Database

🔴 Agathis (kauri) genus in the Wood Database

Wood info masterpost

[wakingupthetrees]

i like to headcannon that legolas' habit of randomly bursting out into song and dance was one thranduil absolutely encouraged when he was younger

and from that I like to imagine baby lego with his ada visiting rivendell and absolutely terrorising elrond

Elrond: now, for this meeting i was hoping we could discuss-

*Tiny legolas bursting out into a song about a bird he saw. Thranduil smirking proudly and not bothering to stop him*

Elrond: oh fuck. there's two of them now

[asmogorna]

life is too short. turn your random favorite musicians into vampire high schoolers from an early 2000s cartoon series. make them friends. have fun with it

As you could guess I couldn't get THE vampire trio drawing out of my head .. had to do something about it .. because I like having fun

Bunny, Gee and Sunny !! Look how fun

A thing me and @saturday-byte were thinking about for the past couple days !!

@bellasboneyard also tagging you in this miss Bella, since you reblogged my other post on the topic 😸

Sunny and Gee are only photogenic when they don't know there's a camera on them

[cinematicmasterpiece]

the lord of the rings: the return of the king (2003)

[pastel-clown-friends]

"Cause my insides are red

And yours are too

And the red on my face

Is matching you

And goodness, you're bleeding

What a wonderful feeling

You're down, and you're pleading

My head is just reeling-"

"The Red Means I Love You~"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

@mellozheist

You have no idea how much that animatic changed the ACTUAL CHEMISTRY OF MY BRAIN!!!!

Thank you for inspiring me so much, and I hope you like the fan art!

[seanastinhopeunquenchable]

Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood, and Dom Monahan pay tribute to Bernard Hill, who passed away unexpectedly early Sunday morning. Bernard had been scheduled to appear at Comic Con Liverpool.

[todayontumblr]

Monday, December 18.

Willkommen.

History was made on this day, twenty years ago. The last installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, was released in cinemas. It grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of all time. It won all eleven Oscars for which it was nominated, including Best Picture (the first fantasy to do so), at the 76th Academy Awards. The sequel to 2002's The Two Towers, and the completion of the story started by The Fellowship of the Ring, it was a cinematic landmark and a pop culture behemoth. Like its two predecessors, the film was widely acclaimed by critics and loved by audiences across the globe. But they were, all of them, deceived—for another film was made.

In 2004, Dominic Monaghan, the actor alias used by renowned German film critic Hans Jensen, interviewed the trilogy's star, Elijah Wood. In these nine bracing minutes of footage, Mr. Jensen probed his interviewee on the matters of the day: losing time within yourself, kicking balls, dolphins, and the wearing of wigs. It makes for quite remarkable viewing almost two decades later.

[mistandshcdow]

behind the scenes of lord of the rings & the hobbit

[missescalientee]

Learning and Playing games

Continuing this thing that is to say finally lining old art XD

Hide and Seek is their favorite game especially since it helps teach Lief how to blend in and hide from critters bigger than he is

Also Lief will only listen to his mama, she knows everything after all.

This is before they get Rhonda so they've mostly been hiding out in abandoned buildings, in the trees, and in underground burrows

Once they get Rhonda they have a mobile home, and a best friend for life 💗

@spjs

[condohavenoking]

The Hobbits returning home — Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

[olympain]

They are calling from across the distant shore.