#lost road

[aureentuluva70]

I like to make fun of Melkor but at one point in the Lost Road Melkor's true name is given as Alkar the Radiant, which I can't help but find just. incredibly tragic. He really started out as one of the best, brightest and most beloved of them, eldest and greatest of the Ainur...but then he fell, becoming Morgoth the Dark One. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer son of the morning indeed...

[mfelewzi]

•Art by Wolfeyes.

By Facebook page Nyéni

•From the French version of the Lost Road, translated in English.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧

« Men were more frail, more easily killed by weapons or by accident, and less able to heal; prone to illness and ailments; and they grew old and died. What happened to their spirits after death is unknown to the Elves. Some say that they also go to the Halls of Mandos; but that their waiting place there is not that of the Elves; and that only Mandos apart from Iluvatar, and from there Manwë, knows where they go after their period of contemplation in these silent halls by the Western Sea. They are not reborn on earth, and no one has ever returned from hell, except Beren son of Barahir, whose hand had seized a Silmaril; but he never again addressed mortal Men. The fate of Men beyond death perhaps does not rest in the hands of the Valar; and not everything has been revealed in the Music of the Ainur. »

[fingonvaliant]

Lost Road is so fascinating and I really wish more people talked about it.

First of alll, it's JonRon Tolkien writing a time travel novel, which just on it's face is kind of nuts to think about. Second of all, both it and the associated Notion Club Papers are him doing a bit of self-parody and critique of Oxford don culture (which is SUPER nuts for him to be doing.)

Tolkien is rarely thought of as a modernist author, and I think justly so, but Lost Road..... complicates that. Dreams blending with reality, not so much nightmarish as just profoundly unsettling? this ostensible millenia-long family chain only consists of families that are a father and one son? This 15-year-old boy is self-taught in Latin, Greek, Old English, Old Norse, Welsh and Irish, loves the taste and savor of words and language, but struggles to describe his feelings? the Island of Numenor is in a brewing civil war? Oppressive state powers? Wait is Sauron meant to be like a dictatorial figure here, arresting dissenters? When was this written..... oh 1936 huh?

It's not a modernist novel (or I guess novel fragment) but it is..... different.

[ionomycin]

Low tide

[yuyuvasya02]

Just read jojolion I like gappy so much 😭

I almost forgot how to draw normal skin color (Last one looks like a scene from lion king… from jojo lion I mean)

[ovkl]

Hey so surprise Im now homeless in San Diego on the street because I mistakenly moved in with people who refuse to talk to me about me being clearly disordered and memory lapsed (theyve known this for months/years.) and called me a lazy ass for being unable to work due to not even being able to walk to the bathroom without crying in pain before I had my disability diagnosis last year specifically for some reason so um if anyone has any suggestions or a place I can stay even for a few days that would be ideal lest I kick my own chair here. I was affectionately gaslit about it and had been lied to about this until I snapped from the paranoia and found out. I dont have anyone here and I do not have family or a place to live.

https://ko-fi.com/smuppetry

[mother-lee]

farmhouse 02

[southern--downpour]

deer in headlights

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

[aztarion]

vampire the masquerade night road my favourite pg13 romantic comedy

[aureentuluva70]

Earien's whole arc as being one of Elendil's children and yet leaning towards the cause of the Kingsmen reminds me a lot of a story in the Lost Road about Elendil talking with his young son Herendil, who seemed ensnared by the thought of obtaining immortality by entering Valinor. With this in mind I can't help but wonder if she was deliberately based off of Herendil's character.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991)

[oksurethisismyname]

Zosan coffee shop AU where zoro works at Namis coffee shop to pay off a debt (he broke her tv or some shit)

From Zoros perspective: every time Sanji comes in, he orders a new drink and zoro thinks he’s just being a dick by changing it up so often but jokes on Sanji because he has a little binder with the different recipes. Curly is always smirking when he gets his drink so Zoro KNOWS he’s doing good.

From Sanjis perspective: the first day he ordered a latte but zoro made a mocha. The next time he comes in he orders a mocha but zoro makes a macchiato. It’s so different that it HAS to be intentional. Every time he orders, zoro makes the wrong drink and sanji just orders that the next time. He thinks they’re playing some sort of game / flirting.

2 weeks in zoro realizes he’s been making the wrong drinks the whole time because Nami finally sees him make a cappuccino when Sanji ordered a drip coffee (literally how did he fuck it up this bad) and zoro is just more confused as to why Sanjis been smiling when he gets the wrong drink

[icecry]

👤 NEW YORK 🎵 1990'S ⏪ ▶️ ⏩ Come spend a summer in New York. The sun sets a little differently over the Empire State. 

「 Bruno's always been the odd one on his block. He works as a drywaller but has hopes of making a living writing for Broadway. His family is pretty well known around town, but he's always preferred to keep a low profile. Bruno's best friend, Luigi (Super Mario Bros.), runs a plumbing business with his older brother in Brooklyn. They've known each other since they were kids, always being picked last for basketball or bonding over the color green.

Their other best friend is Kuzco (Emperor's New Groove), a rich kid from Upper Manhattan and up-and-coming heir to his family's billion-dollar empire. However, due to his lack of maturity and wild party-boy behavior, Kuzco has been temporarily cut off financially, forcing him to take a job as a Taxi driver.

Despite being cut off, Kuzco still has access to some perks, like the rooftop basketball court of the Sports Club his Dad owns. But Kuzco's not the only one with a hookup.

Audrey Ramirez (Atlantis: The Lost Empire), a chief mechanic engineer, can come and go as she pleases thanks to this being the gym where her Boxing Champion sister trains. She's always with her best friend and roommate, Chel (The Road to El Dorado), who is originally from Colombia and works at The Met.」 For @wdtajn crossover week!

(All backgrounds are photos taken by me in New York from my last visit with my family.) Insta- @icecry1

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[reigen-small-naturals]

OFFROAD GAVE DAOU A RING THE SAME WAY SAN PROPOSED TO VAD