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comradeupdog · 8 months
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Hey, I am re-reading Lord of the Rings and I have a question: Does Aragorn’s sword, Andúril, flame or just kinda glow? Tolkien writes during the Battle of Helms Deep that: “Andúril rose fell, gleaming with white fire.” And that men on the wall shout: “‘‘Andúril! Andúril goes to war. The Blade that was Broken shines again!’” And that “Three times Aragorn and Éomer rallied them, and three times Andúril flamed in a desperate charge that drove the enemy from the wall.” But every wiki I find says it glows but not that it flames and I have only found like 1 or 2 depictions of the sword flaming in the rest it doesn’t even glow just reflects or is just a sword.
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satans-classics · 4 months
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Deep Lord of the Rings lore question: is there any reference to whales existing in Middle Earth? Or any massive ocean creature similar?
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ineffectualdemon · 2 years
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I love that Hobbits are never explained. We get explanations for everyone else with sentience in middle earth except for Hobbits who are suddenly just kinda...there
And it's said and shown that nothing can happen without Eru's knowledge and guiding hand
Which means Eru, god himself, planted in hobbits and just didn't fucking tell anyone. Just for shits and giggles
I don't know why that tickles me so much
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(Image Description: two panel meme. First panel has Carly and Sam from ICarly labeled The Valar and Maiar ask "Um...watcha got there?" The second panel shows Spencer from ICarly labeled Eru and holding a smoothie standing next to an ostrich labeled Hobbits. Spencer is answering "A smoothie")
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theadwyn-of-rohan · 1 year
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I always wondered what age all the rangers, especially the grey company ones would be, and also more in general how dúnedain aging even works, and how the maturity compares to "normal humans"/middle men
I mean we do know that all the grey company rangers are dúnedain, even if they aren't of royal blood/direct descent of isildur, and therefore still have a longer life expectancy than normal humans. I don't know/am not sure, if we actually have information on that, but I would say, that means that the usual one is about 140-150 years, maybe?
Now the question is, where do the gc rangers fit in, and how old are they compared to aragorn?
In my mind, idk if I read that somewhere, i believe that Dúnedain mature at 25, and that's probably when they get sworn to aragorn, so Helchon is somewhere around 25 or 26 years.
Thanks to an ao3 fic I read some time ago, I hc Candaith to be rather young for a ranger, somewhere in his early thirties, also because (courtesy of that fic aswell) the lone ranger thing wasn't actually planned, but the other rangers just- died (blame garth agarwen. that always works) another contributing factor to young(ish)!candaith might be bc of the oc that i ship him with- but that's beside the point
Calenglad, as we know, is older than Aragorn, by at least about 20 years, and with him, in my mind-, looking like he's in his forties somewhere (leaning towards late forties), something inbetween 107-120 seems fitting
Golodir, I'd believe, is somewhere similar to Calenglad, possibly a bit older, but due to all the Angmar shit- being mordirith's favourite punching bag for a few years straight does that to you- has aged faster, which puts him somewhere in the range of 120/120+ give or take
Corunir and Lorniel were besties and a similar age, change my mind. With that, and my headcanon for Angmar being give or take 10 years long, they were definitely older than 25 to actually go on that journey, and at the very least two-to-three years older, for the experience, which would put them somewhere in their early 40s/40s. That would mean that Golodir had Lorniel at about 80- which is fine, ig? Aragorn had Eldarion at 91, tho he also lived to 210, so I dunno if he is a valid comparison.
Anyway, this were the first rangers that came to mind- [actually, now that I think about it loth and rads too- and amdir, dagoras, daervunn, saeradan, halbarad- but i can't be bothered to write smth about them]
here you go *cutely hands you my first post*
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autumnmobile12 · 2 years
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Tolkien elves and dwarves have a laundry list of reasons why they hate each other.  For starters, when the elves and dwarves first encountered each other, they were very startled because until that point, each group had thought they were the only intelligent, self-aware beings in Middle Earth.  Right off the bat, the elves named the dwarves Gonnhirrim, which means ‘masters of stone,’ which is nice until you realize they also called them the Naugrim, which means ‘stunted people’ and if I was called that by a race of ethereal, graceful creatures, I’d probably be throwing shade right back, too.  But one of the big reasons for the animosity is the incident with the Nauglamír Necklace, which sounds like the start of a heist movie, but here’s the long and short of what happened:
King Thingol of Doriath, sewing the seeds of his own destruction like a boss, tasked Beren with retrieving one of the three Silmarils from the crown the Morgoth in order to prove himself worthy of his daughter Lúthien.  Beren succeeded and for a time, this Silmaril remained in Thingol’s keeping, incurring the wrath of the sons of the elf Fëanor who were oath-and-honor-bound to retrieve the Silmarils, no matter what atrocities they would commit along the way.
The Nauglamír Necklace was created by dwarves and presented to Finrod Felagund, king of Nargothrond and one of Galadriel’s four brothers.  After the destruction of Nargothrond, the necklace was retrieved by Húrin, which he later cast before the feet of Thingol as ‘payment’ for the elf king’s safekeeping of his children, Túrin and Nienor.  Túrin and Nienor’s story is a Greek tragedy full of misfortune and sadness, so this payment was a mockery born of Húrin’s anger.  Of course, Morgoth the embodiment of evil had a huge hand to play in all of this, but since this post is about dwarf and elf animosity, we’re going to move on.
Anyway, Thingol commissioned some dwarves to set the Silmaril in his keeping into the Nauglamír Necklace.  This was completed, but the dwarves coveted the Silmaril and tried to take the Nauglamír Necklace back, stating the elf it had been originally made for was now dead and Thingol had no right to it.  Seeing through this excuse as a pretense to get their hands on the Silmaril, Thingol mocked the dwarves and they naturally got mad, killed him, and took the Nauglamír and the Silmaril.  Before the dwarves could escape Doriath, though, they were ambushed and most of them were killed by elves.  The survivors, however, returned home and spun a story about how they had completed Thingol’s request, but he had refused to pay them and had ordered their deaths.  Now there were some dwarves who guessed the truth and tried to persuade the others, but the ‘dwarves who were cheated’ story is still probably hanging around to this day.
So there you have it, a little lore regarding the mistrust between elves and dwarves.  I picture some poor guy telling this story in a tavern and then a belligerent Thorin comes up behind him and is all like,  “Is that how you understand that story?”
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belodensetdust · 1 year
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Today's gondorian New Year!! Let's celebrate Frodo losing one of his fingers to a volcano
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da3antra · 1 year
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Not my ass chained to the top of Thangorodrim watching the curse unfold
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k-she-rambles · 1 year
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I keep saying "the land of the gods" when referring to valinor, but it makes it not sound like a real place. It is, it's a whole-ass continent. The gods/Powers/Valar in Tolkien's world are creatures themselves, inventors of the world but not of Life. That lies with the creator.
They were suuper excited when they were told other rational beings were being created, and the whole setup of Valinor as a haven (and physical location of Elven Purgatory) is because of that excitement. Morgoth did that much of a number on the world in the early days, too. They were that worried they were going to be at fault for the premature deaths of the creator's darlings, who they thought were pretty darn darling themselves.
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fishybehavior · 2 years
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LoTR is wild and is deep
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avatarobi · 1 year
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When Thorin gave Bilbo the Mithril chainmail shirt, he said it was made for an Elven prince.
The only Elven prince that was born in any of the 4 Elven realms since the founding of Erebor is Legolas.
Frodo is wearing Legolas's baby clothes in LOTR.
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bitchreads · 27 days
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The last time I read Lord of the Rings, I particularly focused on the songs and the lore that they communicated. Now that I've re-read The Silmarillion, which establishes that this universe was created from song, the music in LotR takes on a new dimension. The whole history of this world is recorded in the lyrics, with successive generations building onto the story, right up to Bilbo and Sam composing verse at the end of the Third Age. Participating in the act of creation.
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cemeterything · 5 months
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probably the funniest thing i ever did as a kid was try to convince anyone who'd listen to me infodump about my favorite media that my ocs were actual canon characters in the story and then if they expressed genuine interest in checking it out i'd panic and be like no you Can't and just never speak to them again
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royaltea000 · 1 year
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Your honor he is simply on his hot girl shit 💆👑💅✨
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english-history-trip · 6 months
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Signs posted at the Casting Office during the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
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theladyelizabeth · 6 months
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I think another thing that’s appealing about Astarion is that he’s a complete subversion of the typical high elf stereotype in high fantasy. You usually think of high elves as these lofty, ethereal, wise beings. And then here’s this sassy bastard man who was probably a walking disaster even before he became a vampire lmao
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dagnyart · 8 months
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I made a redesign for Thranduil. I wanted to add something vimpireish in his look, I think it can work good for his gloomy forest kindom! Also I wanted to keep forest and floral parts, because these folks are very close to nature. You can find my early fanart with him in my blog and many other silmarillion and lotr arts. Also commissions are open
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