#professor tolkien

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

Oh dear, I just made myself a little 😟❤️‍🩹

I've been watchingThe Return of the King, and it finally occurred to me just why Tolkien numbered the Hobbits in the Fellowship at four. He was saving his own friends; the three who went to WW I with him, but never returned home. Oh my heart!

Not only that, but JRR is Frodo. Returning to the Shire, changed to his core. His dangerous service saved the most beautiful place in his world--Home--but Frodo could never feel at peace. But for Tolkien, at least, he found that as a husband & father, and in the work of a brilliant storyteller.

[elmendea]

Laitië hantaleyë! Alassëa nostarë!

[gogandmagog]

A 1945 invitation, sent out by J. R. R. Tolkien and his wife Edith, to family and friends, asking them to attend the 21st birthday of their son, Christopher Tolkien.

[lenbryant]

LOTR in real life...

[i-am-evilsylveon]

Middle Earth University PT: 3

Gollum

Gollum is still payed by his original actor, but his voice is still shrill and scratchy. He’s your local drug dealer and black market seller. He lives within the dark alleys of the city and sometimes breaks into the campus to steal some of the rare equipment and sell them.

He carries the One Ring a.k.a Professor Tolkien’s ring. With a shit ton of money with an inscription inside in an unknown language(Elvish). Gollum has taken the ring when he found it inside a dumpster bin a few miles away from a large tower.

The ring is the only thing Gollum has that’s worth anything. However, Gollum doesn’t know that. He does his best to keep it clean and wears it as a necklace.

The only way you’ll ever get him to give something up without paying is to answer his riddles. If you manage to stump him, then he’ll give you what you’re asking for. If you fail, you’ll have to give something to him.

So far, Bilbo was the only one to ever stump him. But that’s a different story for another time.

[ggungabyfish]

Ugh, a day late but...

To the Professor!

[the-eternal-captain-harlock]

"Who shall see the clouds gather, the heavens bending upon crumbling hills, the sea heaving, the abyss yawning, the old darkness beyond the stars falling upon fallen towers?" 

- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Markirya Poem

[ggungabyfish]

Turned this into something positive. Well done.

[pitoframbling]

[frigidreads]

Surprise Tolkien video! In all honesty, I'm a long-time fan of the professor, and as many of you likely will figure out I enjoy talking about his work. I hope you enjoy.

[elmendea]

The Professor! Laitië hantaleyë! 

[i-am-pinkie]

Beautiful 😍❤️

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[wroniec]

Melkor teaching the Noldor in Valinor

Now in his heart Melkor most hated the Eldar(...). Therefore all the more did he feign love for them, and sought their friendship, and offered them the service of his lore and labour in any great deed that they would do. And many of the Noldor, because of their desire of all knowledge, hearkened to him and took delight in his teaching.

Morgoth's Ring

[lenbryant]

Here's a "Jesus-y" theological seminary lens approach to studying Tolkien. The lecturer is kind of a dork, but it's always good to hear stories of Professor Tolkien. (Just ignore all the giant crosses on the walls behind him.)

[tolkienillustrations]

“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, foreword to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, October 1966

[lenbryant]

Hobbits know how to live, and eat. Enjoy life like a Hobbit.

Today I’m thinking about hobbits.

For all the criticism that can be levied against Tolkien’s work and the LOTR movies based on it, there’s something that occurred to me just recently that I find strangely refreshing.

The hobbits eat. They are a culture that revolves to a large degree around food—bountiful food, frequent food. They are not, by and large, a skinny folk, but tend to carry weight with them. Hobbits are stout.

And the narrative does not say they’re bad for this.

They get hungry more often than humans, and eat many more meals in a day.

The narrative shows that this clashes with a questing life, but it does not say they’re bad for this. When Merry and Pippin moan about second breakfast, the joke isn’t “ha ha hobbits are gluttons” so much as it’s “ha ha culture shock/these yokels are out of their depth because they’ve lived a relatively very easy life, entirely unlike Strider”.

They eat large amounts at a time. Their larders are the size of living rooms and their everyday meals are feasts.

And the narrative does not say they’re bad for this.

So just this once, we have an entire culture of some-degree-of-fat people who eat big and eat often and have something of a fixation on food, and while the narrative does show that these ingrained habits are the result of a life of comfort and security that they must, with difficulty and understandable complaint, leave behind when they go on their journeys beyond their own borders for entirely practical reasons, it does not judge them as lazy, fat gluttons who were Wrong About It and must become human-grade health nuts in order to be worthy of heroism, or use them as a well of fat jokes.

Bilbo tricked a dragon while sporting a paunch.

It’s not every day you get a story like that.