#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.

[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

[la-pheacienne]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[i-am-pinkie]

Beautiful 😍❤️

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[sakasakiii]

started off as me redrawing some of my initial mairon designs and ended up going on an rpg tangent 😭 i really wish i could have done the portraits in a pixel art style to better fit the aesthetic but my canvas wasnt the right size!!! i ended up changing annatar completely (im still contemplating how much i prefer this one compared to his old one however...!) and adjusting post-numenor sauron a bit when compared to their old 2022 sketches! im probably gonna do more redraws in the months to come cause of all the stuff i wanna change when i look back to some of my old designs haha 😳

bonus: void delusions (nebula background designed by Freepik)

i like to think each 'form' sauron takes eventually has different mannerisms and likes/dislikes the longer he stays in them without shapeshifting into something else, but one thing they all have in common is being predisposed to nagging melkor 😎