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Arda Botanica by Alma Sairina

+ bonus: Smaug & Rosgobel`s bunny

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Oh, it's funny in the game I did, the city state of Rosgobel beat up Isengard and turned it into a puppet

Radagast sick of Saruman's bullshit

(Please understand that this may be the only time I've seen a city state capture a player, and especially capturing their capital killing them)

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Tolkien Tag 2018

1.  What's your favorite Middle-earth story/book?

My! Such a hard question, like all of these, really.

I would have to say The Lord of the Rings, despite I love The Hobbit with all my heart too and it was my first Middle-earth story, as I think it should be.

Both stories never fail to make me feel at home but the first time I read Lord of the Rings I found a solace in it that was very much needed at that time and I read it with such love and enthusiasm, I had a wondrous time. I mean, I loved The Hobbit too but I read it before I really got into Tolkien so I didn’t have this passionate love for it yet, nonetheless I still enjoyed it a lot and it’s definitely up there with Lord of the Rings. Also, every time I read The Hobbit, I can’t help but miss Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin and the rest of the Company, while Bilbo is in Lord of the Rings too, so I don’t have to miss anybody when I read it.

2.  Do you have a favorite subplot?

Does the part from where Frodo, Sam and Pippin set out for Crickhollow and reunite with Merry until they all leave Tom Bombadil’s house and reach Bree, including their adventures in the Old Forest and the Barrow-downs, count? If so, that one.

3.  What's your favorite theme in Tolkien's books?  (Can be in one specific story, or overall.)

I would have to say the importance of home and hearth and a jolly good time, I mean, isn’t that what we all truly need? The part where Thorin says that if more people valued home and food over gold and treasures the world would be a better place resonates a lot with me, because he’s totally right.

I also love the theme of pity, I think it is very important in such a hard world as the one where we live.

4.  Do you have a favorite weapon from Middle-earth?

Sting, ‘nuff said. :)

Though I also especially love Elvish blades in general, Legolas’ Galadhrim bow, Andúril (who wouldn’t?) and Rohan swords.

5.  Would you like to be a hobbit?

Are you kidding me? I would say it is my biggest wish right now. I just ADORE hobbits: their customs, lifestyle, their homes, their clothes, the Shire, basically everything about them. My own sister even says it’s as if the Shire was my home (and I was like “it is indeed”).

I was playing The Fellowship of the Ring PS2 videogame (based on the book) she brought for me the other day and marveling at the fact I could explore the Shire and it was wonderful. When you got near the houses, the names of their owners were shown and I knew all of them so well my sister was surprised. She was glad I was having such a great time living my dream in the game. ^^

Ah, what I wouldn’t give to live in a hobbit hole in Hobbiton and truly be acquainted with all my friends, take long walks in the Eastfarthing woods, read their fascinating books, visit the Green Dragon Inn and Ivy Bush Inn, Tuckburough, Buckland, the Old Forest, Frogmorton, you name it; get to know all about the most important hobbit families and even the less important ones, explore the Farmer Maggot’s crop, Brandy Hall and Michel Delving with all the curious mathoms, enjoy their wondrous parties with stunning displays of Gandalf’s fireworks...

My other biggest wish probably would be to be able to attend Bilbo’s 111th and Frodo’s 33rd Birthday Party.

6.  Do you have a favorite romance/couple?

Sam and Rosie, I’m second in command of their ship with Frodo at the lead as its captain. ;)

Though I also love especially Pippin and Diamond, Merry and Estella, Primula and Drogo, Mirabella and Gorbadoc, Paladin and Eglantine, Esmeralda and Saradoc, Hamfast and Bell, Belladonna and Bungo (despite we don’t know much about them), Éowyn and Faramir, Aragorn and Arwen, Beren and Lúthien, Elrond and Celebrían, Galadriel and Celeborn and Thingol and Melian.

Wow, I hadn’t realized just how many good couples there are.

7.  What's your favorite Middle-earth creature?  (Can be "real" or "imaginary.")

I would say the Ents, I LOVE the Ents, and the Eagles, Radagast’s Rosgobel rabbits, Bill the Pony, Brego, Shadowfax...

But I think the Ents are my favorite. ;)

8.  What character do you look the most like?

Oh, gosh, I have no idea. I’m told I look like Galadriel because my skin is very pale in contrast to that of most people around me so I’ve been nicknamed “Lady of Light” at times. But I don’t have the blond hair or blue eyes and I probably don’t look that much like her, even if I do, I don’t consider myself worthy of being compared with the Lady of Lórien.

I’m always told I have Elvish looks and I’m like “No, I’m a hobbit!”, and I don’t really believe it honestly, I mean, Elves are just too beautiful. My beauty is more plain, so I like to think I’m a hobbit with Elvish looks like Frodo and Elanor.

9.  Are there any books about Middle-earth or Professor Tolkien (but not written by him) you recommend?

Any you can get your hands on (that’s my philosophy) but the ones I would recommend in particular are The Complete Guide to Middle-earth by Robert Foster and The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad. From my experience, works by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond are very good too.

10.  List up to ten of your favorite lines/quotations from the Middle-earth books and/or movies.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit, not a nasty dirty wet hole full of worms and oozy smells. This was a hobbit hole and that means good food, a warm hearth and all the comforts of home.

He doesn’t approve of being late. Not that I ever was, in those days I was always on time, I was entirely respectable and nothing unexpected ever happened.

My dear Sam, you cannot always be torn in two, you will have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be and to do. Your part in the story will go on.

It is special. It’s a little bit of home.

Courage, Merry, for our friends.

I think you have strength of a different kind and one day your father will see it.

It was a compliment and so, of course, not true.

I love him. He’s like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.

I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales. What? I wonder if people’ll ever say “Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring”, and they’ll say, “Yes, it’s one of my favourite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn’t he, dad?” “Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits and that’s saying a lot“. You left out one of the chief characters, Samwise the Brave, I want to hear more about Sam. Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam. Now, Mr. Frodo, you shouldn’t make fun, I was being serious. So was I. Samwise the Brave.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered, full of darkness and danger they were and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those are the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something. What are we holding on to, Sam? That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo and it’s worth fighting for”.

Many thanks to Hamlette for hosting this wonderful party! ^^

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Lifespan: Immortal

Height: Unspecified

Notable Locations: Orthanc, Rosgobel, the East

Also known as the Istari, there were five immortal beings sent down to Middle Earth to help protect it from Sauron, although they were not allowed to match him in power. They were assigned colors that were displayed by their robes and while the meaning of the colors aren’t known, white was reserved for the leader of the Istari. Despite their powers and their gifts, the Istari were also susceptible to all the downfalls of man, experiencing hunger and pain, weak to corruption, and even capable of dying if wounded. While there are five wizards sent down in canon - Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast, and two blue wizards who disappear into the east - for the sake of this story, there are five more Istari that are sent to help keep the free people safe after Isildur cuts Sauron down.

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benedict has revealed my secret we sacrifice our villagers and use their blood to water the flowers

that's why we have such an abundance