#the nature of middle-earth
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
New book, The Nature of Middle-Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien
50 notes
·
View notes
Text
"[Sauron] sees that he has met his match (or at least a very serious adversary) in Galadriel; he dissembles his wrath, and gets round Celebrimbor. The Noldorin Smiths under Celebrimbor admit him and begin to learn from him (so in a sense the story of Feanor is repeated)."
The Nature of Middle-earth
(video source)
#to all those people saying the Galadriel-Sauron conflict wasn’t in the books#jrr tolkien#the nature of middle-earth#the silmarillion#things i like#tv shows#books#the rings of power#trop s2#rop s2#lotr#quotes
22 notes
·
View notes
Text
My Tolkien shelf gives me serotonin just looking at it 🥰📚
Featuring: The Fall of Numenor, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Nature of Middle-Earth – all deluxe illustrated slipcase editions.
16 Hill Lane (Halloween Edition) hobbit hole model from Weta.
The Lord of the Rings: Black Gate Little People Collector 4 figure set – Lurtz, Saruman, Sauron and Gollum.
#jrr tolkien#j r r tolkien#weta#lotr#the lord of the rings#the hobbit#the fall of Numenor#the silmarillion#the nature of middle-earth#bookblr#bookworm#lurtz#saruman#sauron#gollum#shelfie#mine#about mx#reading#bookish 📚#hobbit hole
33 notes
·
View notes
Text
After a discussion about the fertility of elven women, I found in The Nature Of Middle-Earth the following:
Elves lived in life-cyles? sc. birth, childhood to bodily and mental maturity (as swift as that of men) and then a period of parenthood (marriage etc.) which could be delayed for a long time after maturity
This "cycle" proceeded until all children of the "first period of parenthood" were grown up. Then there was a youth-renewing.
Though it is later said that with their "fading" in middle-earth the cycles worked less and less. This has several interesting implications:
elves age! but then they apparently get younger again from time to time
elves can have children again after their first sets of children are grown up. I've never seen examples of that, and it doesn't really fit with the few children they usually have
elves apparently mature as swift as men. This, as far as I remember, directly contradicts what is written in the Silmarillion about Nellas and Turin
elves can get younger again?
fertility seems to be tied to several factors. It seems to happen not necessarily once, but elves are still not always fertile. Marriage, previous children and age/fading/exhaustion play an important role
elven fertility is or becomes less in middle-earth; it sounds as if the elves there at least after the first age didn't renew
My original question - do elven women menstruate - was unfortunately not answered, but there's definitely a few hints to build a theory, and things to think about.
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
A footnote in the Nature of Middle-Earth says the talking eagles were Maiar and it's rocking my whole understanding of the world haha
#idk if it's also suggested elsewhere#i haven't yet examined the History of Middle-Earth or whatever it's called#but i def thought there were just kind of giant versions of animals#mumakil being giant mastodons#thranduil's irish elk thingy#giant eagles#lord of the rings#jrr tolkien#the nature of middle-earth
1 note
·
View note
Text
I got some books in the mail today.
I'm not doing very well on my goal to read more fantasy that isn't just Tolkien or Tolkien-adjacent.
#j. r. r. tolkien#the lord of the rings#the nature of middle-earth#the fall of númenor#unfinished tales of númenor and middle-earth#books#fantasy#well there's also howard's conan stories#and i read asoiaf#but it's mostly been lord of the rings
0 notes
Text
Journey through Middle Earth
#artists on tumblr#original photographers#original photography#hiking#pacific northwest#nature#washington#pnw#nikon#orofeaiel#middle earth#landscape#mist#fog#moody landscape#tolkien#mount rainier national park#goblincore#naturecore#mountains
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.
#lotr#lord of the rings#aragorn#gandalf#middle earth#the shire#the hobbit bilbo#the hobbit#gimli#hobbits#elf#lotr elves#mirkwood#legolas#legolas greenleaf#tolkien elves#nature#this is so funny#i love him so much
14K notes
·
View notes
Text
Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.
#zutara#atla#zuko#avatar the last airbender#katara#atla fanart#atla art#prince zuko#zutara au#kintsugi au#kintsugi#fire lord zuko#katara x zuko#zuko x katara#katara fanart#katara art#katara of the southern water tribe#zutara fanart#zutara art#Lore update!#Despite adopting Kintsugi as their official practice to promote cultural superiority; Kintsugi is not inherently Fire Nation#The other nations practice Kintsugi as well. Though ever since the War started it's much more uncommon to see outside of the Fire Nation#The Earth Kingdom seal their scars in bronze. The high nobles consider it to be unbecoming so it's much more common in the middle classes.#Kintsugi is much more well received in the SWT than it is up North. The NWT believe it to be barbaric. A foreign practice adopted by the...#...less civilised South. You can imagine the outrage and scorn Katara received when arriving North with a quite noticeable silver scar.#It is the seal of a Southern Warrior. She got hers during the same raid that took Kya. Hakoda himself has quite a few...#While Sokka tried to give himself a Kintsugi scar (it did NOT go well)#The Air Nomads didn't practice Kintsugi! Theirs was a naturalist approach. Your body is yours to cherish and protect just as it naturally is#These ideas were shared with me by some amazing people! If you have any headcanon or idea regarding this (or any) of my AUs let me know!#It makes me so happy to inspire you! Even if it's just a little. I'd love to hear all your thoughts and rambles!!!
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
“Tolkien wasn’t good at writing women” well explain this
#the fact that he mentions this in two *seperate* essays#just bought NOME from my local bookstore#silmarillion#the silmarillion#tolkien#j.r.r. tolkien#lord of the rings#silm#nature of middle earth#silmposting#tolkienposting#jrr tolkien#lotr#middle earth#tolkien memes#silm memes#lotr memes#numenor#literature#literature memes#bookblr
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
see here's the thing about Adar...
MY MAN JUST KEEPS WINNING!!
Sauron at the beginning of the Second Age? STABBED.
Orodruin? ERUPTED.
Eregion? SIEGED.
The Ring of Power? SECURED.
Like ffs, if the elves had just DONE WHAT HE ASKED, my man would have dealt with Ost-in-Edhil's Sauron infestation by LUNCHTIME.
JUST LET HIM COOK.
#this man could singlehandedly fix middle earth with logistics i am convinced#he covertly developed a complex tunnelling system across an entire realm#he stealthily migrated an ENTIRE URUK ARMY halfway across the world complete with a hill troll and massive siege weapons#he has superior strategic knowledge of how to bend nature to meet his ends#adar#rings of power#rings of power spoilers#baddydaddy#i love him so fucking much it is actually insane#dear sauron middle earth doesn't need a king middle earth needs a DAD
295 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Ent This absolute stunning veteran oak tree hidden away in Cannock Chase is one of the most stunning trees I've ever seen. A true Tolkien Ent if ever i've seen one.
#alexmurison#ent#forest guardian#lord of the rings#lotr#tree#forest#woodland#ancient woodland#wander#wanderlust#wilderness#adventure#walk#explore more#woods#hiking#walking#nature#wildlife#flora#fauna#tolkien#middle earth#jrr tolkien#explore#lensblr#autumn#fall#nature photography
227 notes
·
View notes
Text
I don't know if this is what Tolkien intended, but whenever I picture Maglor's Gap I picture it in the spring; a meadow in full bloom, with colorful flowers and gentle bumblebees. While Himring is icy for much of the year, the lower plains around it are warm and welcoming for a good few months in the spring and summer, and have much milder falls and winters.
I feel like it's important for Maglor's Gap to be not just a strategic choke point, but a genuinely beautiful piece of Beleriand that Maglor and his followers loved dearly. Somewhere they thought of as a home. Somewhere they eulogized in songs long after it was destroyed.
Maglor sings of the Gap, in the Noldolante, but the only part of it remembered there is the part where it was scorched into nothingness.
But he also told Elrond and Elros about his old home; keeping its better memories alive. Elrond, as Gil-Galad's minstrel in the Second Age, often sings songs about the wildflowers and songbirds of the Gap in Spring. Not many know that's what he's singing about, but he does, and that's enough.
#silmarillion#silm headcanons#elrond#elrond peredhel#elros#maglor#maglor's gap#beleriand#geography and nature of middle-earth my beloved#fluffy middle earth bumblebees could fix me actually#I feel like Maglor and Elrond are two very different kinds of memory#we need more minstrel Elrond also#it's very thematically interesting
194 notes
·
View notes
Text
𖦹⋆✧°.🫧magical earth, sea and sky🧚🏽⋆。˚
#naturecore#earth#middle earth#new zealand#watercore#forestcore#sunset#sunsetcore#greencore#blue water#landscape#beautiful#sky#beach waves#sand beach#seacore#the sea#paradise#nature aesthetic#wild and wonderful#pretty#planet earth#nature#vibrant colours#fairycore#earthcore#cottagecore#scenery#land and sea#water magic
159 notes
·
View notes
Text
Fun fact: Imrahil of Dol Amroth is only ever described in LOTR as Denethor and Faramir's "kinsman", with no distinction ever made between how he's related to Denethor vs to Faramir. It's only later, when Faramir briefly thinks of his long-dead mother, that she is called "Finduilas of Amroth" and we can deduce that the family connection was likely between Denethor's wife and Imrahil, making him an in-law of Denethor but blood relative of Faramir. We're still not told exactly how Imrahil and Finduilas were related, though.
I always had the impression of a certain degree of tension between Imrahil and Denethor, and also of Imrahil being particularly concerned for Faramir, but his exact relationships with them are quite vague in the narrative. A lot of the names, dates, and family connections among the members of the house of Dol Amroth that we now accept as a matter of course are mainly from a separate document published in Peoples of Middle-earth that explains the most probable origin story for the house of Dol Amroth and has an attached family tree. IIRC the entire existence of Faramir and Éowyn's son Elboron is based on his inclusion in the Dol Amroth family tree in POME and he's never referenced in LOTR (and possibly not in anything else, actually?).
Tolkien definitely did imagine Imrahil and Finduilas as siblings regardless (e.g. I think he mentions it when observing that Denethor's natural beardlessness as an Elrosian Dúnadan would be reinforced in Boromir and Faramir by their additional Elvish heritage through Imrahil's sister), but he didn't actually say it in LOTR.
I do think it's important, though, because it's with this later information that Imrahil taking charge of Faramir's fallen body is conclusively revealed to not be simply a prince rescuing a vague "kinsman" of political/military importance, but specifically a man carrying his dead sister's last surviving child from a battlefield.
(No wonder he and Éomer bonded so much, honestly!)
#thinking about imrahil finding faramir dying on the battlefield and carrying him on his horse and then presumably on foot to the tower#faramir is like six and a half feet tall. this is not a light task.#in any case imrahil's 'your son has returned. lord. after great deeds' remark to denethor definitely always seemed icily cutting#i don't think contemptuous really—that's not the impression i get at all—just very courteously seething#esp given the publicity in the book of denethor and faramir's last bitter conversation#speaking of stirring the poison in the cup denethor made for himself: faramir may be unconscious but imrahil is here to KEEP IT GOING#but imrahil meeting éomer right after this and being like 'hi we're distant cousins and you seem super cool in battle#by the way have you noticed your sister is still alive?'#the fact that /imrahil's/ sister is truly dead and he just dragged her last remaining child from the battlefield hours earlier#and that son is currently dying of a mysterious wasting mordor illness just like she did AND imrahil's the one to save éowyn#after éomer found her apparently dead body and lost his shit ... i mean. a natural pair to bond with each other really.#(also fun fact: the whole 'death! death!' cry is not standard badass shouting; the rohirrim normally sing in battle#the 'death!' battle cry is /éomer's/ cry in his grief and horror over éowyn's apparent death)#anghraine babbles#imrahil#éomer#lord of the rings#legendarium blogging#denethor#faramir#finduilas of dol amroth#peoples of middle earth#anghraine's meta#house of dol amroth
127 notes
·
View notes
Text
Here's another Nature of Middle-Earth quote that I keep thinking about:
"[Years of the Trees:] 2223. The "Ambassadors" return. Great Debate of the Quendi. A few refuse even to attend. Imin, Tata, and Enel are ill-pleased, and regard the affair as a revolt on the part of the youngest Quendi, to escape their authority. None of the First Elves (144) accept the invitation. Hence the Avari called and still call themselves "the Seniors"." (NoME 96)
I think that's super interesting! Tolkien gives multiple potential versions of this whole sequence, when the Three Ambassadors return to Cuiviénen, so this is only one of them, but it's kind of my favorite. I like the idea that the Three Ambassadors sort of usurped the leadership of the Three Fathers, and that Imin, Tata, and Enel are potentially still out there, and may have a grudge against those three descendants of theirs.
Imin especially is a pretentious asshole, as he claims to be the "Father of all Quendi", and seems to want control over all the Elves. I want to write a fic where Morgoth or Sauron ally with Imin, maybe they tell him they can help him regain his authority over the Elves? It would certainly be an interesting premise if the Three Fathers showed up at Valinor or Beleriand one day, with the intent of taking back their kingship.
It's also always been bizarre to me that Fëanor was so worried about Fingolfin usurping the throne when Finwë was king in a place where kings do not die, and do not really need heirs (theoretically). But if Finwë was a usurper before Fingolfin was, then Fëanor's fears have a bit more ground, I think, especially if Fingolfin had the greater love from their people. It's happened before, Fëanor would think, therefore it could happen again. Elves seem to follow who they prefer as a king rather than who technically has the most claim, which is shown both in the Three Ambassadors vs the Three Fathers, and also with Fëanor vs Fingolfin during the Flight.
#tolkien#the silmarillion#ingwe#finwe#elwe#imin#tata#enel#feanor#fingolfin#nature of middle earth#cuivienen#the avari
269 notes
·
View notes