#Witch King

[mcnostril]

The Witch King's very bad day continues.

#mcnostril #comics #lord of the rings #witch king #eowyn #meriadoc brandybuck #fanart #bad words #stabbing #decapitated head

[strange-house-art]

𝖂𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝕶𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝕬𝖓𝖌𝖒𝖆𝖗

#dark art #gothic art #fantasy art #dark illustration #horror #dark fantasy art #gothic #character design #horror art #black metal art #art #drawing #digital art #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr fanart #witch king #witch king of angmar

[young-astro]

highlights from the martha wells larry j. ringer public library event today

Murderbot (the TV show)

Ms. Wells has been promoted from a creative consultant to a consulting producer yeehaw!

6 episodes were originally planned but Apple wanted more (never thought I'd be publicly thanking Apple for anything but here we are) so they added a cool new subplot

FILMING WILL START IN A FEW WEEKS in Canada

Does she want to meet any of her characters?

I *think* she said Murderbot wouldn't want to meet her haha

If Kai (from Witch King) had to come save you you'd be "really up the creek" so no

Which character does she relate to the most?

Murderbot ftw

Real TV show inspirations for the serials in the books

Sanctuary Moon = How to Get Away with Murder

Worldhoppers = Stargate Atlantis

Cruel Romance Personage = any telenovela where everyone's obsessed with a hot person even though they're really mean

Timestream Defenders Orion = Legends of Tomorrow

#the murderbot diaries #witch king

[autistook]

March 15th

The Witch-King of Angmar is slain by Éowyn and Merry

A sword rang as it was drawn. 'Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.' 'Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!' Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed.... 'But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.'

#lotr #on this day #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #merry brandybuck #meriadoc brandybuck #éowyn #eowyn #witch king #witch king of angmar #the witch-king of angmar #rotk #the return of the king #lotr gifs #lotr edit #tolkien #jrrt #Middle-Earth #tolkien gifs

[vashti-lives]

The new Martha Wells book-- Witch King-- is fucking delightful if you like slightly complex fantasy that doesn't hold your hand. This is a book that never ever commits the sin of explaining stuff to a character that should already know about it for the sake of the audience. Exposition only happens in ways that are natural and logical, which sometimes means stuff just isn't explained.

It's not as obviously accessible as The Murderbot Dairies is-- it's plot is a little more opaque, there's more moving pieces, it's less directly comedic-- but man I like it and Kai is in someways a similar protagonist to Murderbot. Powerful but vulnerable and often just a little out of his element. Lonely in the face of a lot of people who are afraid of him.

Its very much a found family story. Like, literally. The book goes back and forth between the past and the present. The parts of the narrative that are set in the past are about Kai meeting the people who become his family, and the parts of the narrative set in the present are about him going to find members of that family that have gone missing. Family is a theme that's always there.

In spite of the swap in narratives there was never a moment where I was listening to one half of these stories wishing I could get back to the other one-- they were woven together very well and I found them equally compelling.

Anyway I am very certain there are people who saw there was a new Martha Wells book, then saw it wasn't Murderbot and decided to peace out. Some people probably won't but I think it's worth trying. Tor released enough excerpts that you can get a feel for what it's like and decide if you'll like it or not. The mystery is fascinating and, like Murderbot, it's casually queer in a really good way. Martha Wells clearly loves her a lesbian power couple.

#i listened to the audibook and the narrator is also very good #martha wells #witch king by martha wells #witch king #god i hope this is the first in a trilogy #reviewing partially because i saw someone be shitty this isn't a murderbot book and this offended me #writers can and SHOULD do new things #deal with it

[artcher-artwork]

Witch King Toad

#art #artcher-artwork #fantasy #artists on tumblr #digital art #dnd #dungeons and dragons #lotr #lord of the rings #witch king #toad #frog #frogs #toads #frog lover #cute #cute art

[kultofathena]

#Kult of Athena #KultOfAthena #Halloween #Halloween Costume #Halloween Costumes #Witch King #Lord of the Rings #LOTR #Crocs #Meme #Memes #Meme Monday

[velvet4510]

Just think of how many times Faramir must’ve drawn attention to the fact that it was his wife who took down the Witch-king of Angmar. He never left a room until he was certain that its occupants knew and respected his wife for what she did. He was just the proudest husband in all of Middle-Earth.

He heard someone on the street telling the story of the great siege of Gondor. He stayed silent through all the parts with him in it. But when it got to the part where the Witch-king was finally killed, he interrupted the story to say to the listeners, “That was my wife. My wife did that. She did that and then she chose me, of all men.”

He told the story himself to their children and made sure they knew and remembered, “That was your mother. Your mother did that.”

He heard his adult children tell the story to their own children in his later years and called out from his lounge chair in front of the fireplace, “Your grandmother did that.”

He read Pippin’s copy of the Red Book that he brought to Gondor, skipped ahead to that part, pointed at the page, and said, no matter if he was with someone or alone in the room, “I’m married to that woman.”

And every time this happened, when they were in their prime, and when they were old and wrinkled, Eowyn always blushed the same blush and said “will you ever shut up about that and let me brag about how my husband resisted the Ring and saved the world?” And Faramir always kissed her and replied, “Never.” It was the only request he ever denied her.

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lotr movies #farawyn #eowyn x faramir #faramir #eowyn #eowyn of rohan #faramir x eowyn #lord of the rings #witch king

[whiteladyofithilien]

I truly think that the greatest of all of Samwise Gamgee's great deeds is the mortal blows to Shelob. Shelob the spawn of Ungoliant. Ungoliant who destroyed the trees in Valinor at Morgoth's bidding. This deed ranks above even Gandalf's slaying of the Balrog as far as sheer badassery goes.

Here is this little Hobbit who's spent his life gardening and just admiring elves as a thing in songs and far above him doing a deed so great that any elf lord in all the history of Arda would bow to him for it. The orcs thought there was a mighty elf warrior in the passage and they weren't too far off. Any ancient hero of elven lore would have ranked slaying the spawn of Ungoliant as one if not the greatest of his achievements.

There may be no more amazing deed of heroism in all the trilogy than this. Shelob the last descendant of the most foul of all creatures brought down by Samwise Gamgee. It's even more epic than Eowyn and Merry slaying the Witch-King for this is a remnant of a far more ancient evil. An evil that never was anything but evil. No tragic seduction by the Dark Lord here. Just the spawn of the light eating wholly evil giant spider who terrified even Morgoth.

#samwise gamgee #samwise the brave #lotr #lord of the rings #shelob #ungoliant #cirith ungol #morgoth #two trees of valinor #valinor #trees of light #lights of valinor #silmarils #Silmarillion #sauron #witch king #witch king of angmar #eowyn #merry brandybuck #gandalf #Balrog #earendil #light of earendil #elves #tolkien #tolkien elves #i do not desire the speech of living men

[sauroff]

"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him"

#eowyn #éowyn #lotr #lord of the rings #the witch king of angmar #witch king #nazgul #my doodles

[beroebluejeans]

In fantasy/sci-fi worldbuilding, I am so delighted when the author takes the opportunity to do some gender fuckery. And the more books I read that do this, the more I’m like, yes of course! You’re making up a whole civilization—why wouldn’t you fuck around with gender?

#witch king #baru cormorant #murderbot

[mcnostril]

I've always disliked the "I Am No Man" moment in Peter Jackson's Return of the King because it fails to capture the fact that when the Witch King threatens Eowyn with horrific unimaginable torment, she responds by making him soil his ghostly britches.

#mcnostril #comics #eowyn #witch king #lord of the rings #bad words

[strange-house-art]

𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙 𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖎𝖑

#dark art #gothic art #fantasy art #dark fantasy art #black metal art #dark illustration #horror #gothic #flail #witch king #lord of the rings #lotr #tattoo design #illustration #digital art

[tolkienillustrations]

Éowyn and the Witch-king of Angmar by Alan Lee

#LOTR #Tolkien #Eowyn #Battle of the Pelennor Fields #Battle Scenes #Eowyn slays the Witch King of Angmar #Witch King #Nazgul #Ringwraiths #Fell beasts #Minas Tirith #Gondor #Alan Lee

[madcat-world]

Witch King of Angmar concept - AnatoFinnstark

#Witch King of Angmar #AnatoFinnstark #Lord of the Rings #Witch King #Nazgul #monsters #fighters #undead #dark fantasy #digital art

[ilovedthestars]

one of my favorite things about witch king is that it starts with the classic fantasy trope of "a wizard awaking an Ancient Horror from a Secret Creepy Tomb, attempting to use it for their own ambitions but accidentally unleashing Terrible Power"

and then the ancient horror turns out to be just some guy who got kidnapped and stuck in there for like, 6 months so he'd be out of the way for a big political summit. like, he's powerful enough that getting him out of the way required a Secret Creepy Tomb designed to hold Ancient Horrors, but it's not like he's been locked there for centuries because of his Terrible Power (as I initially suspected). no, this was literally just to interfere with a political alliance

#witch king #witch king spoilers #stars has thoughts #dragon this is OPEN BAIT for you to add the thing you put on discord. do it it's hilarious