#Middle-earth

[moosalicious]

#lotr #silmarillion #silm #tolkien #lord of the rings #middle earth #middle-earth #tom bombadil #memes

[foedhrass]

While the previous photos of my newest Tolkien cosplay (Ndani-tharo/Denethor of the Nandor) showcase the colors of the costume, this edit is closer to how it probably would have looked, since Ndanitharo lived and died before the Sun and the Moon first rose. I imagine the elves would have been able to see better than we do in a moonless night, so I didn’t edit everything just grey or excessively dark. ;)

Cosplay & edit: Foedhrass

Photo: little_solnyshka

#tolkien silmarillion #Ndanitharo #Denethor #denethor cosplay #denethor of the nandor #nandor cosplay #nandor elves #Nandor #silmarillion #tolkien #silmarillion cosplay #tolkien cosplay #middle-earth #the silmarillion #cosplay #lord of the rings #elves #Ossiriand #Beleriand

[autistook]

#lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #lotr shitpost #incorrect lotr #incorrect lotr quotes #except its pretty much correct #gandalf #lotr meme #lotr memes #jrrt #tolkien #Middle-Earth #frodo baggins #fotr

[prokopetz]

Okay, so a thing about Tolkien's Middle-Earth is that, for elves and other beings of comparable metaphysical stature, the "distance" between an act of will and its tangible result is shorter than it is for mortals. The universe is just more inclined to play along with how they want it to work, which is why they're not lying when they claim not to know what magic is even though the products of their craftsmanship are by any reasonable standard supernatural – they just make stuff, and it works the way it does because that's how they intended it to.

This has a number of fun worldbuilding implications, like inventors having tangible authority over things crafted using their techniques, regardless of who does the actual crafting, because they literally willed the principles which allow those techniques to work into being, or the fact that when powerful beings die, sometimes stuff that depends on techniques they invented stops working. However, there's a bigger implication that that's generally gone unaddressed:

Elves can't do science.

Like, it's straight up impossible. A Tolkien elf cannot construct and carry out a meaningful experiment of any sort – it'll always works the way they expect it to, but only for that particular elf. Confirmation bias is an insurmountable barrier.

I want to read a story about the elf who figures this out and it bothers them terribly.

#media #literature #lord of the rings #lotr #middle-earth #tolkien #j r r tolkien #elves #worldbuilding #science #death mention

[lotrlorien]

"They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to Middle-Earth.” ― George R.R. Martin

#lotredit #tolkienedit #lotr #the hobbit #tolkien #middle-earth #scenery #mine #gif* #last post of the year 2023 #happy newyear folks<3

[artist-issues]

I also would like people to give more appreciation to the great thematic unity in all of The Lord of the Rings. The idea is “do what good you can with what you are given.” Usually your abilities and your chances seem horribly small, even though your responsibility is so enormous. The minutes, the little decisions, the days, the small towns, the small characters, matter the most. The fate of the whole big world of good and evil and languages and races and heroes and villains all hangs on what’s done by a little scholar and his gardener.

#It’s every bit as complicated and uncomplicated as that #Tolkien might be obsessed with little details like history and languages for every region of his made-up world #but that’s because he knew that little details matter in life and in literature because they make up reality. #the lord of the rings #lotr #lord of the rings #the shire #Mordor #Aragorn #Frodo #middle-earth #Sam gamgee #Sméagol #one ring #Sauron #Gandalf

[oldschoolfrp]

Saruman the White ponders his palantír. "You are the trusted apprentice to one of the greatest Wizards in all Middle-earth" in A Spy in Isengard (Angus McBride cover art for Middle-earth Quest gamebook #1 by Terry K Amthor, Iron Crown Enterprises, 1988). McBride has been memed more than once.

#pondering my orb #wizard #Angus McBride #orb #Saruman #LotR #A Spy in Isengard #Middle-earth #palantir #Saruman the White #Middle-earth Quest #middle earth quest #JRR Tolkien #Tolkien #Terry K Amthor #game book #istar #istari #lord of the Rings #The Lord of the Rings #middle earth #palantír #mage #magic user #crystal ball

[middleearth-polls]

#LOTR #The Lord of the Rings #The Silmarillion #Middle-earth #Tolkien #tumblr polls #middleearth polls #(more or less) #category: pick something #this is very random #bc the basic idea is the type of poll my partner comes up with

[sotwk]

We don't talk about Eryn Galen enough.

I think the fandom might not always consider or imagine how BEAUTIFUL Eryn Galen must have been in its prime (Second Age 750 to Third Age 1,000). In its true, natural state, before the Necromancer invaded and spiders and filth settled in.

Have you checked a Middle-earth map lately?

Do you see anything in Middle-earth bigger than Greenwood the Great? It is a magical forest inhabited and kept by Elves who are essentially the best wildlife experts of that world. Think of the thousands of different, gorgeous plant and animal species that must have lived and thrived there! The little streams and ponds and glades and dells and cottages and dwellings!

Maybe it's a good thing Silvan Elves were seen as "dangerous", because it's a wonder other races didn't just straight up try to invade it. Sauron knew what was up, and so he targeted it.

Just saying, I think Greenwood the Great (not just Mirkwood) remains criminally underappreciated. It's sad that not even Professor Tolkien told us much about it; he who could wax on about trees for an entire chapter. We can probably use more fics and artwork for Eryn Galen.

#we dont talk about eryn galen enough #greenwood the great #woodland realm #mirkwood #lotr #the hobbit #thranduil #tolkien #middle-earth

[saurongorthaur9]

This month, I got to go on my dream trip, the adventure I'd longed to go on since I was a thirteen-year-old watching the LOTR movies for the first time. I got to spend two weeks in Aotearoa/New Zealand, home of Middle-earth, and visit many of the filming locations.

I spent one day at Tongariro National Park on Te Ika-a-Maui (North Island) and visit "Mordor" and "Mt Doom". I brought my little Sauron action figure along for the trip and felt he deserved to visit his Land of Darkness.

The snow-capped volcano in the background of the photo is Mt Ruapehu, which was where the Mt Doom scenes were filmed.

Ash nazg durbatuluk!

#I just got back a week ago #it still feels surreal that I actually went to Middle-earth #personal #new zealand #aotearoa #sauron #mairon #middle-earth #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien #jrr tolkien

[tolkiens-middleearth]

You're invited to tag other unresolved questions, I'd love to do another round and then with questions people actually think about!

#LOTR #The Silmarillion #The Lord of the Rings #Middle-earth #Tolkien #tumblr poll

[eldamaranquendi]

Legendarium by  Rene Gross

1. Eru Ilúvatar

2. Creation of Melkor and Manwë

3. Wedding in Valinor

4. Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor

5. Eärendil Sails to Valinor

6. Wedding in Lothlórien

#tolkien #jrrt #jrrtolkien #jrr tolkien #the silmarillion #silmarillion #middleearth #middle earth #Middle-Earth #eru #iluvatar #eru iluvatar #melkor #morgoth #bauglir #manwe #valar #valinor #elves #Telperion #Laurelin #earendil #The Lord of the Rings #lord of the rings #lotr #lothlorien #lorien #vingelote #arda #endore

[foedhrass]

Caranthir the Dark. Belated post for @feanorianweek

Photos by little_solnyshka (on IG)

#caranthir cosplay #caranthir the dark #caranthir #moryo #tolkien #silmarillion #silmarillion cosplay #tolkien cosplay #middle-earth #the silmarillion #elves #lord of the rings #cosplay #feanorian #feanorianweek #Feanorian week #Feanorian week 2024 #House of Feanor #house of finwe

[autistook]

parallels

#lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #sam and frodo #frodo and sam #samfro #frosam #lotr parallels #lotr parallel #lotr edit #lotr gifs #lotr gif #tolkien #jrrt #rotk #fotr #sam gamgee #tolkien gifs #Middle-Earth

[dduane]

#Tolkien #map #Middle-earth

[mask131]

I love digging into Tolkien lore because it feels EXACTLY like doing research on any other mythology, Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic...

You have all those big media adaptations you have to get out of your head to return to the actual sources.

You have all those epic tales and short stories and other main corpus forming the "certain" part of the text ; with then a flood of unfinished stories, fragments, drafts and other companion-pieces that either form the scholia or the apocrypha of the main texts.

You've got all the cultural parallels and mythological references begging for a mythology comparatist to come in.

You've got the complex theology and its evolution ; you've got entire maps of foreign lands you have to learn about ; you've got complicated family trees filled with characters that range from massively complex and multi-faceted to just one more name in the list.

You've got the dry scholars who enforce stern and biased beliefs ; you've got the weird fanatic groups that reinvent it all for vile purposes ; you've got your Youtube and Tumblr enthusiast who keep making their lore-headcanons ; you've got the intense debates about what is canon and what is not ; you've got people who try to share explanations about it but only massively simplify it all...

You have an entire world that had been built for decades and decades by a brilliant man, crossing all the genres from romance to tragedy passing by the epic and the fairytale ; to the point we have little bits of pieces about obscure corners of this world and some unknown character that never influenced anything in the big scope of things and yet they still have their own story...

You have heavily complex lore and background for entire cities, bloodlines, calendars, customs, laws, landscapes, and yet just as many mysteries and unanswered questions left for the imagination of those that would follow...

And as you keep digging, you find back all the elements from your favorite mythologies (Greek, Norse, Biblical, Arthurian, Finnish) but mixed together in a fresh, inventive, clever way, with tons of new inventions that became so iconic and so culturally people and so archetypally widespread... that it really does feel like you are looking at a mythology.

#this was my random tolkien appreciation post #tolkien #legendarium #lord of the rings #middle-earth #mythology #fictional mythologies #lotr #mythopoeia