#lotr gollum

[yumyumlum]

Friday night. No idea who made these but they’re great 😂

#lotr #lord of the rings #lotr fanart #lotredit #lotr humor #gollum #frodo baggins #gandalf #aragorn #legolas #lotr gandalf #lotr frodo #lotr memes #lotr legolas #lotr headcanons #lotr aragorn #lotr elves #lotr gollum #last friday night

[chainiy-grib]

Sam doesn't get it

#lord of the rings #fanart #lotr #lotr fanart #art #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #lotr gollum

[ryunumber]

Courtesy of @jurrasicoresposts: Grashneg has a Ryu Number of 3.

#grashneg #lotr gollum #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #lotr #ryu number #submission

[parfavar]

My precious.

#parfavar #memelife #meme #lol #meme adiction #lord of the rings #lotr gollum #gollum

[scrubfiend]

#gollum #gollum game #lotr gollum #lord of the rings gollum #lotr #lord of the rings

[velvet4510]

Tolkien’s subtle connections between LOTR and The Silmarillion are just glorious to discover. Like the reason Gollum hates sunlight and moonlight is the same reason the Nazgûl get scared off when Frodo calls out to Varda! Sauron, and thus his servants and his Ring that has completely corrupted Gollum’s soul, shares the absolute darkness of Melkor, who always hated and feared Varda because she is absolute light and thereby she created the Sun and Moon in defiance of that darkness… and she created them out of the last remaining light of the Two Trees which Melkor destroyed, so every time a piece of Melkor’s darkness comes into contact with the light of the Sun and Moon, it is reminded that Melkor did not destroy that light completely, that it lives on. Gollum can feel Varda’s creations forever clashing with what is indirectly Melkor’s creation.

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lord of the rings #tolkien legendarium #the silmarillion #middle earth #the valar #maiar #valar #varda #varda elentari #elbereth #gollum #sauron #morgoth #melkor #lotr gollum #ainur #the one ring #nazgul #ringwraiths #frodo baggins #lotr frodo #two trees #telperion #laurelin #sun #moon

[memray]

i’d stab gollum idc he tries to kill me i start stabbing

#lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #gollum #lotr gollum #tolkien

[ach-sss-no]

I feel weird giving out unprompted permission statements because I'm making a big assumption that anyone's going to want to use my work. That said I also know people do like to build on other people's art and can't always work up the nerve to ask, so: Anyone is free to use this design if they want to for any reason- I don't own this character anyway. (Although I am hopeful that you do not, you know, monetize it, because i cant do that and if you do that its not fair ;_; ) Feel free to remix, improve, use as basic inspiration, etc. I would appreciate a tag/mention if you use it so I can see what you did!

This design has evolved a little since I first started drawing it, and I will see people reblogging the original design notes and think 'oh no! those are out of date and I don't have new/accurate ones!'

Reblogging the old one is still an honor- and the first take on a design just sometimes has a different appeal because it's less refined and more chaotic (especially with a character that should be chaotic), so I suspect some people will just prefer the older drawings & they'll still get shared, which is great! But I felt as if the project was a little bit incomplete without an update, since I think I've reached the point where if you see that old post & then come to my blog and look at my current content, there's a noticeable difference.

Also I kind of like making design notes.

If anyone's wondering why things changed, the answer's really simple- 90% of it is just the result of him settling into having more consistent anatomy and facial structure so that I can keep him looking accurate across different angles and poses. If you look at the old drawings you may notice that Gollum has an inconsistently shaped squishy head. That's fine for a concept post but doesn't work as well for maintaining him across different comic panels or in an animatic, at least not the way I work.

In the same vein, while my art is still & will always be heavily stylized, I started giving him more structured semi-sorta-realistic anatomy so that he wouldn't look entirely out of place next to less bizarre-looking characters such as Aragorn. (I feel that's also helpful in nudging Gollum into the uncanny valley where he ought to be, rather than leaving him so abstractified that there's a risk you won't see anything wrong with him having noodle arms.) He also acquired the new-style 'garbage bag' outfit because I found a reference in LOTR to his arms and legs being bare/exposed (it's in one of my favorite passages, the 'an eagle would think Gollum was dead if it came by right now' passage in The Two Towers):

Not even an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom, silent, not moving, shrouded in their thin grey cloaks. For a moment he might have paused to consider Gollum, a tiny figure sprawling on the ground: there perhaps lay the famished skeleton of some child of Men, its ragged garment still clinging to it, its long arms and legs almost bone-white and bone-thin: no flesh worth a peck.

#long post #blobart #lotr #lotr gollum #lotr fan redesign #i really do love that passage because it says so much and implies more #sam and frodo are sitting there invisible because they are being protected by the gift of love and honor galadriel gave them #gollum who has been busting his butt to hide all of his life #issplatted out there like a frog entirely exposed. he has nowhere to hide and no protection- not even proper clothing #and even a carrion bird would think he was 1) dead 2) of no value #...and then we have tolkien drawing the allusion to a starved/abandoned child #it's eerie and deeply empathetic at the same time #It's also funny. why would there be an eagle here pondering gollum #same energy as 'a fox wondered why these hobbits were bobbling around in the woods' and then the fox disappears forever #also same energy as 'there was a thrush nearby. bilbo was in such a bad mood that he tried to kill it' #body horror #eye horror #unsanitary/ #bones?.... #tw: gollum #there #I will be doing a morning reblog of this because i only do this once every two years so postblock it if once was enough

[achillyscomedown]

baths are amazing. why have i never realized how great they are. i feel like a fish. i have become one with the water. this must be what gollum felt like before bilbo showed up

#lotr #lord of the rings #gollum #tumblr #shit post #text post #incorrect quotes #lotr incorrect quotes #the lord of the rings #lotr gollum #bilbo baggins #the hobbit

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Is this anything

#lotr #gollum #lotr gollum #lord of the rings

[elemale]

A precious little drawing today 💍

#gollum #digital drawing #digital art #drawing #fanart #lotr #lotr gollum #the hobbit #the hobbit fanart #lotr fanart #my art #art #artwork #my draws #lord of the rings #lord of the rings art #precious #made in ibis paint #ibispaintdrawing #ibispaint art #ibispaintx #ibispaintapp #ibis paint art #ibis paint drawing #ibis paint x #ibis paint x art #sketch #black and white #black and white art #lineart

[kaltranis1718]

the Lord of the Ring selfies

#lotr fanart #lotr memes #gandalf #lotr gollum #legolas #pipin tarupin #frodo baggins

[cas-dyke]

drunkenly explaining the use of pupil dilation on gollum in the lord of the rings movies to differentiate sméagol from gollum to my sibling rn. smartest i’ve ever felt. professor in gollumology

#lotr gollum #lord of the rings #lotr #did you know he broke his toe on that helmet

[lucarleigho]

idk what everyones talking about the new gollum game looks great

#lucarleigho #:O) #lord of the rings gollum #lotr gollum #moomin #he looks a bit different than i remember

[sillyblorboboypoll]

um 9th fight

#poll related #silliest tumblr blorbo boy #tournament poll #tumblr poll competition #gollum #lotr #lotr poll #lotr gollum #finrod #finrod felagund

[scrubfiend]

this is a real game that people worked on

#gollum #gollum game #lotr #lotr gollum #lord of the rings #lord of the rings gollum