#orthanc

[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

Gandalf rides to Isengard to meet Saruman 4k

[autistook]

ON THIS DAY - July 10th

Gandalf gets imprisoned in Orthanc

"Over all his works a dark smoke hung and wrapped itself about the sides of Orthanc. I stood alone on an island in the clouds; and I had no chance of escape, and my days were bitter."

[gnomescarfcomics]

Saruman wanted to be Sauron so badly

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Orthanc by Cliff Cramp

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

[mask131]

Tolkien trivia of the day: While in The Lord of the Rings, after Saruman's defeat Isengard becomes part of the domain of the Ents, in his various drafts Tolkien entertained various other ideas for who would get to replace Saruman as Isengard's "keeper".

Before he settled on the Ents, Tolkien thought Dwarves should rather take over Orthanc and Isengard after Saruman ; and before Dwarves, Tolkien's original idea was for Radagast to actually become the new Wizard of Isengard.

[theworldsoftolkein]

The Road to Gondor - by Breath-Art

[mariajoseignacia666]

[dartxo]

"The Two Towers"

2022

A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful... But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better, as he thought, being deceived–for all those arts and subtle devises for which he forsook his former wisdom, and which fondly he imagined were his own, came but from Mordor; so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child’s model or a slave’s flattery, of that vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength.

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien

2022 was the 20th anniversary of The Two Towers.

Though the whole trilogy are collectively my favorite films of all time, the second installment is definitely my least favorite of the three, ironically in part for the same reason a lot of people love it: Helm's Deep. I find the battle is unnecessarily overblown, in importance, length, and stakes in comparison to the book, to the point that it takes away from other important story points, and somewhat diminishes the impact of the later Siege of Gondor and Battle of Pelennor Fields, which is a much bigger and much more narratively significant battle in the War of the Ring. Nevertheless, it was fun to revisit some of my favorite scenes from the film, as I did in 2021 with Fellowship of the Ring.

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO The Lord of the Rings:

The Tower of Orthanc

Set: 10237

2013

Pieces: 2359

[mid-gaurdian]

The Tower of Orthanc, Isengard Lordmof the Rings wip by me.

[autistook]

MARCH 5TH

Pippin steals the Palantír, looks into it, revealing himself to Sauron

[gnomescarfcomics]

[tenth-sentence]

'Go and fetch Saruman, since you have become his footman, Gríma Wormtongue!' said Gandalf.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" - J.R.R. Tolkien