#all-things-tolkien

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

(source, 11/30/22)

KING

#anti rings of power #rings of power #Bernard Hill #LOTR cast #anti rop #and before anyone says something about how Peter Jackson's movies made money too - yes they did #but at least they were based on books Tolkien actually wrote #the Amazon show is not based on any story Tolkien actually wrote #it's just the haphazard and low quality imitation of a greedy and corrupt company #Bernard Hill is right and he should say it #IT'S NOT THE REAL THING #and also #I think he's saying that the Amazon show is PURELY a money-making venture - which is true #the LOTR films were not purely a money-making venture - in fact they didn't even know if they'd be successful at all #and then they were - but no one predicted it

[manichewitz]

sam and frodo’s relationship is so crazy theyre like what if we had a homoerotic adventurer’s bond that was so strong it overcame the power of supreme evil, saving not just the world but one another, and the only reason we were able to survive the violence around us was through sheer love for each other, and although we’re not canonically lovers our relationship is so much more intimate and tender than acceptable norms for male/male relationships that we transcend easily definable labels and thus become queer irregardless of whether our attraction is platonic, romantic, or sexual…and we were both hobbits

#literally going insane over them #sam/frodo is just so POWERFUL #sorry i just finished return of the king after watching the trilogy for the first time #needless to say its done a number on me emotionally #i blame elijah wood and the heartbreaking love in his eyes when he says im glad to be with samwise gamgee at the end of all things #and i also blame sean astin and the way he says dont go where i cant follow #absolutely stunning brilliant magnificent #the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king #lotr #sam/frodo #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #frodo x sam #jrr tolkien #alex talks #samfro #fav #greatest hits #1k

[linddzz]

Latest idea floating around in my head: a twist on the Hob saving Morpheus from the time-out ball, except that's where they first met each other.

Hob's still immortal, it's just that Death was the one who came and gave him the deal of meeting every 100 years

(is this also bc I'd love Death being Hob's centennial buddy? Her being way less reserved and straight up telling him who she is. Her delight at his delighting over life. The rage in him when Eleanor and Robyn die. Death took them and she wouldn't even say anything to him when she did it. Also I'd like to see him just immediately choke and squirm like a bastard as soon as he starts explaining his new shipping business to her in 1789. Yes and hell yes gimme Hobsie and Death as bros.)

So Hob is trying out new stuff again. He's never tried out being a magus and gets himself in as a member of Burgess' order and eventually an acolyte.

And then he's introduced to the "devil" that Burgess keeps in the dungeon. He's to help study up on strengthening the wards around the sphere and all that. And boy is he deeply, super uncomfortable with the sight of this frail man trapped in a cage.

("Don't let his pretty face fool you." Burgess will tell him, "the thing is a demon who would destroy us all if given half a chance."

To be fair, Morpheus does not help his case at all and his expression clearly says "you fuckin bet I will")

And Hob is Hob. So while he's working on studying up on wards (which so happens to involve a lot of careful, detailed study of the wards around the sphere) he's chatting at the thing in it. He complains about the boss, talks about the War, tells the demon about his day while the demon either glares at him or makes a hilariously big show of not paying attention. Sometimes Hob straight up shirks work (with a winking "you won't tell the boss right?") And just reads books.

And he nearly shrieks in surprise when he's reading some new novel called The Hobbit out loud and looks up to find the demon watching and obviously interested. So of course Hob is gonna keep reading him stories and keep studying those binding spells super closely.

And ok that's where I gotta admit the story doesn't have a solid conclusion in my head yet (besides obviously Hob is gonna bust Dream out and then get kissed a LOT) but I do have one bit where Morpheus first talks to him and of course it's just cryptic weird shit. Because Morpheus has started watching this shit-wizard who won't shut the fuck up back and can tell that something is OFF about him.

So just imagine Hob is yammering away about how he thinks the masters kid and the gardener have something going on, and he nearly shits himself when the "demon" presses a hand against the glass and says

"Death has touched you. I see it now. My siblings marks upon you. Is that what you are here for? To report to them? To let them see how low their family has come? So they do know what has come of me then, and they have sent you to chatter away and truly make it clear that they will do nothing."

Hob's just like. "WHAT?? SIBLINGS?! You TALK??! Hang on you know Death???!" But Morpheus already is back to curling in on himself in a furious pissy sulk

#dreamling #fic cooking #i imagine after Dreams outburst theres a lot more talking going on #idk if i have this fleshed out enough to fully write i just liked the idea of Hob reading Tolkien to the thing in the ball #and Morpheus being wooed with stories #the tension is ruined by me knowing that all it took was smearing the circle kdjfkd #maybe Hob purposely falls asleep to let Morpheus get out via his dreams

[steddielations]

Flight of Icarus lore dump part 2:

Part 1 | Character List

- Wayne has a green thumb. He reads Gardener’s Weekly magazine. It doesn’t say what he grows, but it says he buys vegetables from the store so I’m going to say that gruff old man Wayne has the prettiest petunias in the whole trailer park.

- Eddie sneaks into the Hawk with his best friend Ronnie to watch action movies and thinks Snake Plissken, Han Solo and Conan the Barbarian are cool.

- Eddie talks for hours about the intricacies of Elven politics in Tolkien.

- Eddie read comics as a kid and hid them all over the house "like a little squirrel" under the bed, behind the nightstand, under the rug. Wayne found his Uncanny X-Men in the freezer between stacks of tv dinners. Also, "Hellfire Club" comes from these X-Men comics.

- Floor time! There's a part where Eddie is literally just lying on his back on his bedroom floor counting down from a million. When Wayne comes home, Eddie army crawls on his belly to the doorway to see him.

- Eddie reads Gormenghast paperbacks, gothic fantasy novels. It mentions that Wayne saved them from the house fire along with Eddie’s guitar. It never says how/when Eddie originally got his guitar.

- Eddie says lots of cc’s original songs have D&D references. It's implied that he writes them. One is called “Fire Shroud” after a spell

- Eddie is called Freak King at school and Munson Junior or just Junior around town and he hates all of it

- Eddie talks about having anxiety a lot and it's implied he has had panic attacks in the past

- Eddie is the lead singer and guitarist of cc. He started the band with Ronnie specifically because it was required to participate in the school talent show.

- Neither Wayne or Al graduated high school. When Eddie (temporarily) drops out, Al celebrates.

- Eddie doesn't cook. He doesn't even own a spatula. The smell of cooking in their house actually shocks him and gives him a deep longing for family meals, which Al uses to manipulate him

- Eddie jokes about being into Saturday Night Fever and strikes the pose a couple times.

- Eddie knows how to hotwire and how to pick locks. Al taught him this at the age of ten. Eddie is "disgusted" with himself any time he does either of those things.

- Eddie "drives like a monster" when he's upset about something.

- Eddie smokes cigarettes occasionally. Weed is mentioned a lot in the book but it never says anything about Eddie smoking it or doing any drugs. He either doesn't smoke much or he hasn't tried anything yet in the book. Also, he’s just now meeting Rick. But It’s pretty clear after everything he went through why he would start

- There's lots of mentions of PBR and Bud Light. Though Eddie says he doesn't like to drink after his shifts at the Hideout (where he's a barback). He mostly drinks off-brand Big Buy soda in the book (he calls it "pop")

- Eddie's parents were married on March 12th, 1966. The date is inscribed on the bottle of their wedding wine. Eddie asks what kind it is and Al says they only had 'red or white' kind of money

- Al breaks out the wedding wine (to manipulate Eddie, you guessed it) it's red wine and Eddie really, really likes it

- Eddie went to War Zone with his dad for supplies for the truck heist (spike strips, coveralls, etc)

- Eddie's band played Exciter by Judas Priest at the talent show. The song was only approved because they emphasized the "priest"

- There was another (?) talent show in Winter of 1981 where Eddie's band played "Prowler" and they were kicked off stage halfway through because the song was considered Satanic, and the PTA visited all their parents for trying to convert everyone to Satanism.

- Eddie imagines hitting his dad twice. Once with a glass bottle and once with a metal wrench. (He should've- oops who said that)

- The only hug Eddie gets in the book is when his dad first comes back, Eddie knows it's the first step in his cycle of showing up, using Eddie and leaving, but Eddie still accepts the hug and feels guilty for enjoying it.

- It's implied Eddie gets close to tears a couple times in the book, but the only time they actually spring up is when his mom's favorite song (from Muddy Waters) comes on in the truck radio while Eddie is doing the heist with his dad and feeling awful about it. Eddie has several flashbacks of dancing with her to this song, it seems like his happiest memory that he always returns to.

- Whenever Eddie is doing what his dad wants (hotwiring, charming a person into their plans) he puts on what he calls his "best Al Munson smile" and he's terrified that it will eventually take over his whole face. There's a part at the end where Eddie is sitting in a jail cell and says "All I want to do is tear my face off. If a new one grows in it's place, maybe it'll make me a different person. Someone who isn't such a complete fuckup."

#eddie munson the nerd that you are #steddie writers eddie recites tolkien purposely to be annoying so write that down #these always get progressively sadder oh boy #eddie munson #flight of icarus #wayne munson #al munson #ronnie ecker #stranger things #i'm gonna do one more of all the places name dropped and then a deep dive into eddie's d word issues #mp

[nailsinmywall]

ah yes, maglor's grammy winning record Noldolantë

#oh the youtube elfs series was one of the funniest things ive ever drawn i had so much fun #i have posted these before but i was randomly thinking about them and really wanted to see them all together and make a compilation post #maglor #crablor #silmarillion #noldor #nails silm comix #tolkien #how to tag everyone *SWEATS* #feanor #maedhros #sons of feanor #maglor's thigh gap #finrod #curufin #fingon #turin #ambarussa #beleg #this is one of my magnum opuses

[luckylucyart]

#The end of all things #I know they kissed #lotr #tolkien #hobbits #frodo baggins #frodo and sam #sam gamgee #my art #samfro

[libraryscarf]

frodo in jrr tolkien’s series lord of the rings is happy in those books maybe twice. he is happy twice at the very beginning and then it’s just shit shit hell misery all the way to mount doom except for the frequent and necessary gay sex he was having with his gardener on the way there. he takes this burden to the end of the world because he is the only one who can do it and the only one who won’t utterly fuck it up, and at the end of it all despite his victory he is hollowed, eaten away, bleeding from wounds not even the elves can see. he leaves his loved ones, his old companions who know him best, because in order to preserve the world for them he had to kill it for himself. now if that isn’t fucking tragic.

#scarftalks #lotr #my tolkien renaissance has arrived. frodo baggins and samwise gamgee. they #here at the end of all things

[thelien-art]

Nerdanel, the wise

#tolkien #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #nerdanel #i love her okay #shes strong shes big shes wise shes the man in the relationship #shes everything #i think she did a good job with her sons it was just the sudden situation they fell into that went wrong #and no that was not necessarily feanor fault #i think he was a good enough dad although towards the end he did some weird stuff #where some of it can be excused for all the things that just happen on top of each others #i think i found the braids for royalty that can match my noldor braiding system #its the ones on top that will be the one symbolizing royalty and then its just worn differently at times but same concept of a crown like s #im not sure if thatll be something that princse and princsesses wear too or only the eldest if that makes sense #silm art #tolkien art #digital art #my art #shes going to be a part of the dtiys which ill soon open

[claraisanerd]

Just embarrassing for you tbh 🤷‍♀️

#nerdy girls #sexy nerd #nerdy chicks #hot nerd #nerdy babe #lord of the rings #lotr memes #lotr books #tolkien #nerdy things #one ring to rule them all #girls in sneakers #lovely legs #nerd girl #glorfindel #gil galad #ready to mingle #first date #tshirt

[potatoobsessed999]

Finrod Felagund. "Philosophic discourse regarding the enmity of Orcs with Elves." The Philosophy of Finrod Felagund. 2nd ed., edited and translated by Vardamir Nólimon, Armenelos, S.A. 130.

[Ed. note: Private papers of Finrod Felagund. Written in his own hand. Dated to the season of Firith in the year 455, shortly before the Dagor Bragollach.]

Fact: According to the lore of our people from the days of Cuiviénen, the Enemy fashioned Orc-kind by his torture and slow corruption of Elven captives.

Question: How did our people learn this lore? Can it be that any ever escaped from the depths of Utumno to serve as witness?

Fact: In the lore we got of the Valar there is to my knowledge no teaching regarding the origins of Orc-kind.

Conjecture: It may be that our lore is not reliable on this point.

Fact: There are a few among us who dwelt at Cuiviénen, and others of their number abide yet in Aman; none of them have to my knowledge disputed the accuracy of our lore on this matter.

Fact: The fëar of Elves and Men have their differences from one another, but none so fundamental as the distinction between the fëar of the Eruhíni and the spirits of the non-speaking creatures. The spirits of non-speaking creatures cannot properly be called fëar, as the distinction in question is one of kind and not of degree. (Indeed fëar cannot be spoken of at all in terms of degree or size, as each fëa is itself indivisible.)

Fact: The lore we got of the Valar tells us that the fëa cannot be destroyed by any means.

Fact: Also of that lore, we know that the Enemy cannot truly create, only twist in mockery what has been created.

Fact: Also of that lore, we know that the Dwarves have their fëar of Ilúvatar alone, and not of Aulë. Before the granting of their fëar they could not speak, nor had they any will of their own, but could only obey the will of Aulë.

Fact: Orcs speak, and there is sense behind their words.

[continued on Ao3]

#finrod #finrod felagund #silm fanfic #silmarillion fanfiction #silm #silmarillion #the silmarillion #tolkien #tolkien fanfic #tolkien fanfiction #my writing #my fic #in which finrod is a NERD and also a very good heart #in-universe philosophy as angst is after all his Thing (as well as andreth’s) #finrod is my son and i give him my orc emotions. i do this because i love him

[radjerda]

I love Glorfindel at the Council of Elrond.

And, I mean, if they went with it, it wouldn’t have been the first time someone tossed a highly sought after artifact into the sea

#lord of the rings #lotr #Glorfindel #Elrond #Council of Elrond #glorfindel of the golden flower #elrond peredhel #fotr #Tolkien #there are many good arguments about why they should not just toss it in the sea #but I still find it endlessly entertaining that of all things that's what Glorfindel suggests they do #and so you all get a doodle #Radj Doodles #Radj Draws #gonna start tagging my doodles now so they can get filtered out if anyone (read: mainly me) needs to at some point

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Faramir, elf enthusiest: so, Legolas! I have some questions about elven culture if i can ask them!

Legolas, silvan (dark elf), has a vague idea of how the noldor/sindar (light elf) realms in middle earth function but not really that knowledgeable about it, which is presumably what faramir does know. Also, certified little shit: sure, lay it on me.

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Idk, i hink it’s be funny if faramir was fanboying about being able to ask an actual elven prince about elven things, only for legolas to have like 5% knowledge of the elven realms under noldor/sindar rule, which is what faramir has learned about. And then deciding to mess with him anyway.

Don’t worry, legolas eventually tells the truth and offers faramir volumes worth of knowledge about the silvan and avari elves that have faramir vibrating with excitement.

#lord of the rings #lotr #silmarillion #the hobbit #lotr elves #legolas #mirkwood #silvans #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect lotr quotes #silm incorrect quotes #avari and silvans are referred to as ‘dark elves’ bc they refuse the light of valinor and the ainur #the noldor/vanyar/teleri/sindar elves are referred to as‘light elves’ bc they accepted the ainur #faramir #legolas tells faramir about all the different silvan and avari things and he is extatic #they bond over this #faramir becomes one of the most knowledgeable humans of the silvan/avari elven cultures #meanwhile epwyn bonds with legolas’s sisters as fellow warriors #legolas and faramir sitting on the sideline discussing silvan dances while eowyn kleoyia and lasgen are sparring in front of them

[spvce-oddity]

when it's missing your husband o'clock

#artists on tumblr #illustration #nerdanel #feanor #silmarillion #feanorians #silm #fanart #silm art #tolkien art #jrr tolkien #elves #fantasy #oof first tolkien art since january lmao i apologize <//3 #it also took me months to finish this cause of all the other things i wanted to do and its not as pretty as i had imagined but it was fun! #got to try a couple new brushes and also the no lineart style <3

[redbootsindoriath]

Apparently in my absence this post had its 1000-notes-iversary.

This time we get to see the culprit responsible for ruining our heroes' lives as well.

I've really missed you guys, by the way. I know I've said that already, but I'm serious. Once or twice this year I've been right on the brink of coming back but schedule stuff always keeps me from letting myself commit to that again, and that in turn has kept me from posting anything at all. But I've been in an unexpected drawing mood lately and so if I can get enough stuff to set up a queue we might pretend I'm back for a month or so sometime this year. Maybe. Hopefully. We'll see. No promises though. That's why I'm hiding this paragraph under the cut.

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[Beren:] "Uhhh...barkeep...I think he's had enough now..." [Tolkien:] "No, I don't think he has...!"

#beren #bilbo #frodo #tolkien #túrin #the man the myth the legends #beowulf except everybody is short #one shiny #three shinies #everyone deserved better except mîm #what's this a happy ending #my trash #is this actually funny or am i just tired #i'm sorry professor tolkien #/end classification tags #túrin keeps becoming a bigger and bigger guy in my drawings and at this rate he's going to be way taller and broader than he should be #canonically he was really tall and broad but i don't think the professor meant like THIS #at least it makes him really distinct i guess #gonna be sufficiently intimidating for the dagor dagorath #but in the meantime he's just making beren look like a schoolkid in this doodle #(and as i'm sitting here writing these tags i suddenly realize i forgot túrin's white hair streaks again) #(tsk tsk shame on me) #(and didn't it say somewhere that beren's hair also turned grey...? i can't remember where it said that though) #(0 for 2 i have failed all of us) #ANYWAY in my absence tumblr apparently changed formatting again which is not cool but whatever #it's nice to draw again #i've had art block for like 9 months straight #and suddenly this month i suddenly was able to write AND draw again as if i never stopped #i've had writer's block since maybe 2021 so that was the most surprising part #weirdest thing ever but i'm not mad about it

[milflewis]

there’s something about watching someone not suffer stoically. not gritting their teeth and setting their jaw and just. taking the pain. taking the hit after hit after hit. but crying and weeping and being unable to bear it and begging for help. please god anyone help. reaching out a shaking hand and there is no one there who reaches back. the awful disgusting human desperation of it all

#going insane !!!!!!!! and god ok okok. this happening in this irish film that is so very irish in its setting and dynamics and mannerisms #and the tragical comedy of it all and the juxtaposition and contrast of this. this culture of repression. of ‘why couldn’t he just push it #down like the rest of us’ with his vulnerability and openess and STRENGTH #that being said. i do have criticisms about the movie and with the title and some of the things they did in it. esp w the civil war but yeah #brilliant #ngl this also applies to #lord of the rings #anything tolkien really. and hmm. smth else #the poppy war #the banshees of inisherin #blessed.txt #film tag

[isilwhore]

I got fixated on Fëanorian lamps today…so I decided Fëanor first made one because little Maglor was afraid of the dark

This is for you, Káno

#idk of all things right? #maybe it’s like prototype silmarils or something #let me enjoy this tragic family for a minute before it all goes wrong #pardon my drawing I’m still learning #feanor #maglor #nerdanel #maedhros #celegorm #silmarillion #tolkien #silmarillion art