#edith tolkien

[velvet4510]

I wonder how many, if any, elements of LOTR we have Edith to thank for.

I mean, her husband was writing this stuff throughout their entire marriage, and he must’ve run some of it by her, if not all of it. Plus he based an entire character (Lúthien) on her, which she must’ve known. I wouldn’t be surprised if she looked over an early draft of LOTR and said “honey, come on, put an interesting female character somewhere in here,” a wish he most certainly granted with my girl Éowyn.

I’ve heard rumors that JRR originally intended to pair Aragorn and Éowyn as a couple and then tragically kill off Éowyn, but Edith said “no way you’re making it that depressing” and insisted he change it. I’m not sure if this is true, but if so, thank you, Edith!

Also this may be a stretch - and it probably is - but I wonder if she had something to do with his drastic changes to the Blue Wizards’ story. In the 50s he wrote that they probably fell to Sauron and started evil magic cults; perhaps towards the end of their lives, Edith said “honey, come on, they had to have been more helpful than that.” It was 1972, the year after Edith passed, that JRR wrote his updates to the Blue Wizards saying they were actually successful in turning many Easterlings away from Sauron. Perhaps he did so to honor an idea of hers?

If anyone has any sources mentioning any contribution from Edith, I’d love to hear about it.

#jrr tolkien #edith tolkien #lotr #lotr books #lord of the rings #the silmarillion #tolkien legendarium #blue wizards #luthien tinuviel #eowyn #eowyn of rohan #luthien #alatar #pallando #istari #easterlings #sauron

[iamnotshazam]

"our son made it through the war to come of age, let's fucken party! rsvp only if you're a little bitch who's NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on"

edit: fascinating! the tags are full of two types of people. 1) people who think this is a joke and 2) catholics who fully admit to a bit of cheeky cultural alcoholism just nodding and saying "uh huh"

#tolkien #christopher tolkien #lotr #edith tolkien #vintage #oxford #is this dark academia #drunk academia

[look-a-diversion]

what she says: i'm fine

what she means: j.r.r. tolkien based luthien the fair, THE most beautiful, wonderful, brave, amazing, loved woman middle earth had supposedly ever seen and ever will see, on his wife, edith. dark-haired, gray-eyed edith, who just looked like a person. a regular person. she was a regular person, not a deathless elf maiden, but to tolkien, she was the most beautiful woman in the world. and she was, because he loved her. his love made her beautiful. he wrote to his son after she died "but the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos." grief is the price of love. anything that is loved is beautiful.

#j. r. r. tolkien #tolkien #edith tolkien #love #luthien tinuviel #luthien #beren and luthien

[claer]

#the third thing #tolkien #jirt #j. r. r. tolkien #j.r.r. tolkien #edith tolkien #middle earth #luthien #beren #beren and luthien #mine #the tale of tinuviel #luthien tinuviel

[bladesrunner]

And you're engaged. — He's very kind. Very considerate. A good person, really. — There is something I have to say...

Tolkien (2019) dir. Dome Karukoski

#tolkien #tolkienedit #jrr tolkien #edith tolkien #nicholas hoult #lily collins #filmgifs #romancegifs #userrobin #usersugar #userdiana #arthurpendragonns #userleah #usersansa #userfrodosam #userpavlova #userlindir #userhaleths #filmedit #by anja #gifs #*...for she was (and she knew she was) my luthien*

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

Tolkien: Trees are the best. I love trees.

Edith: Yes, Ronald, I know how you feel about trees.

Tolkien: Like, trees are perfect the way they are.

Edith: Yes, dear.

Tolkien: Except...

Edith: Except???

Tolkien: Except... what if they were also a lighting system?

#tea time with the Tolkiens #telperion #laurelin #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #tolkien #lotr #fantasy #trees #edith Tolkien

[tolkienrulez54321]

the bride and the ugly ass groom

#j.r.r. tolkien #tolkien #edith tolkien #she was so fucking beautiful yall #the bride and the ugly ass groom #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #art #my art #lotr #lotr fanart #so many tags #i need everyone to see this #meme

[sindar-princeling]

also I feel like it's a nice moment to tell everyone that JRR Tolkien and his wife Edith Tolkien have "Beren" and "Lúthien" written on their graves, right under their names

#lotr newsletter #it doesnt mean as much to girst time readers as to peoe who know the silm but! its an important detail #i actually visited his grave when i was on a trip to england three years ago and had a huge lump in my throat when i saw it #tolkien #edith tolkien #it's mine my own my precious #silmarillion #beren #luthien

[thelandswemadeofpaper]

Lúthien Tinúviel

#luthien tinuviel #tolkien #luthien #silmarillion #edith tolkien

[harmcityherald]

Edith Tolkien

m. 1916–1971

#!!! #edith tolkien #restored photo #lord of the rings #lotr #jrr tolkien

[thranduilswifesblog]

When you found out Beren and Luthien is based on Tolkien and his wife, Edith love story.

And Luthien is basically Edith

WHERE THE HELL IS MY TOLKIEN!!!!

ALL BOYS IN MY COUNTRY ACTED AND LOOKS LIKE QUAGMIRE!!

#the lord of the rings #the hobbit #rings of power #the silmarillion #beren and luthien #tolkien #edith tolkien #memes

[velvet4510]

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

#jrr tolkien #edith tolkien #beren and luthien #luthien tinuviel #beren erchamion

[sniperct]

Get yourself someone who will put you into their seminal work as one of the most powerful and beautiful people to ever walk the earth, the prototypical love story of your fiction, a woman who bested Dark Lords and moved the unmovable gods to tears.

I’ll never get over it. Never.

From a letter to his son, in 1972

I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief pan of the Silmarillion. It was first conceived in a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks at Roos in Yorkshire (where I was for a brief time in command of an outpost of the Humber Garrison in 1917, and she was able to live with me for a while). In those days her hair was raven, her skin clear, her eyes brighter than you have seen them, and she could sing – and dance. But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos.

I will say no more now. But I should like ere long to have a long talk with you. For if as seems probable I shall never write any ordered biography, someone close in heart to me should know something about things that records do not record: the dreadful sufferings of our childhoods, from which we rescued one another, but could not wholly heal the wounds that later often proved disabling; the sufferings that we endured after our love began – all of which (over and above our personal weaknesses) might help to make pardonable, or understandable, the lapses and darknesses which at times marred our lives — and to explain how these never touched our depths nor dimmed our memories of our youthful love. For ever (especially when alone) we still met in the woodland glade, and went hand in hand many times to escape the shadow of imminent death before our last parting.

And their graves

#luthien tinuviel #edith tolkien #im in my feels okay

[autailome]

tolkien and the great war is a fantastic read so far and i never knew this about the origin of the two trees but it makes me really emotional that edith is really in the fabric of everything about the legendarium

#tolkien #tolkien studies #edith #edith tolkien #tolkien and the great war #e

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. You are inside a very great story!

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 66 to his son, Christopher Tolkien, on 6 May 1944

JRR Tolkien, his wife Edith, pose with their grandson, Simon.

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #quote #hobbit #author #literature #books #lord of the rings #family #christopher tolkien #edith tolkien #story #icon

[mordicaifeed]

#edith tolkien #lúthien #luthien #luthien tinuviel #lúthien tinúviel #tolkien