#mathom

[mrsallnut]

I'm feeling seen by Mr. Tolkien. Are my ancestors actually hobbits?

[alicebeckstrom]

[The Gaffer, cont.] “ ‘But they do things proper at Bag End. Our Sam says that everyone’s going to be invited to the party, and there’s going to be presents, mark you, presents for all – this very month as is.’ “ ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (Art: “A Tolkien Mathomium" by James Dunning) 

[notallsandmen]

@mathomhouse-e for @dreamlingforukraine gave me the opportunity to write an epilogue to Putting Out Fire With Gasoline — this time, inspired by Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence, and taking place on June 7th, 1990.

And I will yet again leap at the opportunity to share @mathomhouse-e ‘s stunning artwork for this fic, specifically The Bratty Bow

[lady-merian]

BIRTHY HAPDAY!!!!!!!!!

WE’VE HAD ONE NIGHTWING BIRTHDAY WISH, WHAT ABOUT SECOND NIGHTWING BIRTHDAY WISH

scheduling it for my half birthday because I don’t want to confuse people and I sat on this for way too long, but here’s a mathom from the margins of a notebook I’d used for plotting. I think I had the sea serpent from Voyage of the Dawn Treader in mind.

[arianaofimladris]

Guess I'm not yet over making tiny Christmas mathoms. It's card-size and will most likely be used for cash/voucher attached to a Christmas gift for my younger cousin. Might make more.

[laurelins-light]

LOTR Fandom I need help!

Help me decide on a name for my home, I like all of these names, and I just can't decide on which to actually use. I plan to basically call my home "(NAME) House" or "House of (NAME)" but I am kinda paralyzed for choice!

For reference - my cats, and my car all have names that start with M, but I'm not set on using that letter anymore

[code-dy]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if during the time Thorin worked as a blacksmith, he ended up marrying Bilbo for his money but Bilbo ended up agreeing to the marriage because the blue mountains is prime mushroom farming estate and the dwarrow just doesn't see the value to it? Like, they're both golddiggers who thinks the other is their sugardaddy or something and they both feel really guilty for only marrying the other for their material possession.

A slow burn fic where they slowly fall in love with one another but feels supper guilty in doing so.

Bilbo, who probably has gift-giving as his love language, keeps on buying things for Thorin and Thorin being super guilty about taking advantage of Bilbo's generosity and is now panicking that maybe Bilbo will stop supporting him financially when Bilbo finds out that he only married him for his money.

Thorin, who probably has acts-of-service or quality time as his love language, spends more time with Bilbo doing menial tasks and just is always there and Bilbo being super guilty that he's taking advantage of Thorin's "genuine feelings" to get access to those mushrooms that made all the other hobbits green with envy and is now panicking that maybe Thorin might stop his mushroom gathering privilegea once Thorin picks up on the real reason that he said yes to him.

Also dwarrow and hobbit cultural difference and miscommunication on what they value the most (dwarrow thinking that mushrooms as a courting gift is just scandalous, while hobbits thinks that giving money is akin to buying someone's affection or something)

[guardian-angel12]

Nathan: Blood loss? I know where it is. It's on the floor back at the warehouse

David: The blood is supposed to be inside you

Toby: Mine's inside me

David: You have internal bleeding. That's not good

Gaius, concussed: But you said the blood is supposed to be on the inside

Fey: You're impossible to please

David: *exhausted sigh*

[magpiemathoms]

The very first mathom I’m posting on this blog... is not technically a mathom. lol Mathoms are specifically useless but beloved objects. And this is my crochet kit: it is very definitely useful!

I only recently started crocheting again after a year-long break, and I couldn’t find any of my ergonomic crochet hooks or my yarn needles, so I decided to buy a crochet kit. I got this one on Amazon. (There are similar kits with different fabric bags.) It contained yarn needles, a set of ergonomic crochet hooks, and a small bag of stitch markers, and it was surprisingly cheap! The only thing I needed in a kit that it didn’t have was scissors, so I also bought some yarn snips. Now my kit is complete, and I’m really happy with it! It’s so compact.

(Essie is less than thrilled; she wants to know why the heck I’m posing her with my crochet kit. It’s cause you’re cute, Ess! ...Also, kitty for size comparison.)

[ghostboyjules]

about me

omg tagged first by @mathomhouse-e and then right as I was abt to post this @wordsinhaled tagged me too!! so delighted and honored to be in this wonderful group of mutuals, y'all make my heart warm 💖🥰

Nickname: Jules, I guess, counts? other than that I don't really have a current one... @weirdfishy has been calling me ghostie tho, which I absolutely adore 🥺💕

Sign: Aquarius Sun, Aries Moon, Gemini Rising (Cap Mercury, and if y'all wanna talk astrology my dm's are always open lmaaoo)

Height: 5'7 or 5'8 on a good day (a.k.a when my sciatica isn't elbow dropping me to death)

Last thing I googled: "piercing places" and before that, "images of a shrimp" which I'm including because I thought that was very funny

Song stuck in my head: surprisingly I don't have one up there right now?? well.. I guess kinda,, but it's like a mix of a couple. All Up In Your Mind by Beyoncé, Genghis Khan by Miike Snow, Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac, and In a Week by Hozier.. weird combo of songs but they're kinda cycling through my brain like a weird spirit box-esque radio station

Number of followers: 713 (😳, most of these are like, weird bots or deactivated blogs but still woah..)

Amount of sleep: hmm generally I get anywhere from 3-7 hrs, but as of right this moment (10:38pm) I've had 4hrs 36mins of Actual Sleep (from last night to when I woke up for work this morning) and then a 2 hr nap (before I started dinner this evening)

Dream job: Archivist of Some Sort™ in the Library of Congress,,, with a specialty in Thanatology?? I don't really know the specifics yet but something along those lines ig, if at all possible

Wearing: ..... a gray Cowboy Garfield t-shirt with the phrase "when I die I may not go to heaven. I don't know if they let cowboys in." and black underwear (THESE ARE MY PAJAMAS, OKAY? had to include the undies so you would get the Look™, I can't just say I'm wearing a t-shirt and leave it at that obvi... ajdjakfkg)

Movies/books that summarize you: my brain can't decide which way it wants to take this, so I'm just gonna answer with the Books/movies that I feel has shaped who I am as a person, currently. LOTR & the Hobbit trilogies, The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater, the Conjuring (only the first one 🔪), Spirited Away, and The Labyrinth. OH SHIT almost forgot, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

Favorite song: this changes daily 😐 rn tho I think probably Blood Upon the Snow by Hozier and Bear McCreary

Favorite instrument: Pipe Organ, Cello, Bass Clarinet, and the voice

Aesthetic: uh... weird goth gay uncle who is lazy and also a witch? is that anything?

Favorite authors: oof alright, well. Maggie Stiefvater, Neil Gaiman, Nora Sakavic, Gege Akutami, Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), and a handful of Fanfic Authors that I won't list here because I'm terrified of forgetting someone, but know that I am absolutely counting them and will forever remember their names

Random fun fact: I really love playing guitar hero games but I've never once really tried to learn how to play the guitar

thanks again for tagging me, you two 🥺🥰🥰 y'all have already tagged a lot of the peeps I would have tagged in fandom (so if I tag you again, my bad beloved homies just ignore me lmao), but let's see here... @weirdfishy, @watermelon-mafia, @rabooots, @aquilathefighter, @leave-me-alone-doctor, @eel-divinity, @an-asuryampasya, @pacospandora, @rainbowvamp, @runningheadless, and @howlittleweare <3 WHEW no obligation to do this at all obvi, but if you don't, this is just a reminder that ily 😘 if you do tho, I also love you 💖 okay g'night, loves

[virgo-dream]

about me

thank you for tagging me @mathomhouse-e!! 💖

Nickname: virgo

Sign: virgo sun, leo moon, capricorn rising. Yes I am indeed insufferable.

Height: 5'4" (162cm for the people that use an actually useful measuring system! 🥰)

Last thing I googled: Sandman screenshots for that groundbreaking meme I posted yesterday!

Song stuck in my head: Enter Sandman by Rina Sawayama from the Metallica Blacklist album

Number of followers: 174! no idea how that happened

Amount of sleep: [redacted]

Dream job: live in artist for a filthy rich aristocrat in their huge manor making lil gay art

Wearing: Big Shirt

Movies/books that summarize you: i'm either on a Loki (2021) mood or a The Sandman (2022) mood.

Favorite song: you can't ask a musician what their favourite song is!!!

Favorite instrument: the human voice and yes I am biased on this

Aesthetic: fluidity. presenting myself whatever way feels right.

Favorite authors: William Shakespeare and Nelson Rodrigues.

Random fun fact: I have phenomenal breath control

tagging: @softest-punk, @avelera, @littledreamling, @tj-dragonblade, @the-cloudy-dreamer, @aquilathefighter

[pilkypills]

Personally, I think Bilbo was pretty awful at processing his trauma (and the ring certainly did not help)

Bilbo quietly lived next his grief for years but never looked directly at it. He sent the mithril shirt to the mathom house. He watered down his story until it was something palatable for children—and what’s more, made himself as much of a bit player in it as he could get away with. Yes, he was still kind and generous and clever because he’s Bilbo, but he was probably also terribly lonely, surrounded by people who could never understand what he went through and what he saw. The only ones who could are thousands of miles away inside a mountain he refuses to visit because, again, he can’t look his grief in the eye.

[lady-merian]

I am SO tired I can't remember if I said anything. but I love you and i am so thankful you exist.

you did! And then I held on to this hoping to finish the last of the birthday sketches

Well not for a while. But I do have a mathom for you still.

[arianaofimladris]

I really hope mum's friend took correctly the measurements of her husband's phone, or else this is gonna be a fancy handkerchief case 😅

Mum asked me to make an Easter mathom. I've met that guy perhaps three times in my life and exchanged "Guten Tag" with him, so I haven't the faintest idea what to make for him. We settled for a phone case. I hope it won't be too small.

But I managed to test on this case how it would work if I made the front out of two layers of leather glued together. It turns out the case is quite stiff with both the back and the front made of two layers, with just the stripe giving the depth of the case made of one layer. I might apply that to the next belt pouch I make (if I make another one. Let's be realistic here - I will make another one 😅.)

I didn't cut any patterns, I used some leather pieces I didn't like as the inner layer, since no one is going to see it anyway on the side that was glued. That might be actually a good idea to get rid of bits that were scraped or otherwise damaged. The glue stinks, but hey, it's warm enough to open windows now for longer period, so no problem there.

[an-unexpected-sideblog]

So Sméagol wanted the Ring to be given to him as a birthday present, right? He wanted to receive it as a gift and killed Déagol when he refused.

400-something years later, it's common hobbit custom to give gifts on one's birthday instead of receiving them. Bilbo gets special mathoms for his 111th birthday party to give away.

Does this mean an old legend of a murder over a birthday gift lead to this massive cultural shift?? I can't find solid evidence that it's directly related but I mean... Hobbits are known gossipers and a rare murder would be very well-publicized. And it seems in-character for them to avoid the possibility of further birthday gift violence with such a strange, neat little solution of flipping the expectation around.