#middle earth

[lazy-daisy-stitchsparkle]

My next embroidery work on a movie theme, this time The Hobbit.

#hand embroidery #hand stitching #movies #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #my art #my artwork #movie #tolkien #hobbit #bilbo baggins #bilbo #middle earth #textile art #embroidery #textiles

[treatment-enter]

#song joong ki #jude law #seungkwan #ahs apocalypse #books and reading #larry is real #daniel ricciardo #eraserhead #teddybearosito #legendas para fotos #middle earth #max caulfield #gd #gojo

[sarahs-art-space]

I painted Minas Morgul from the Lord of the Rings!

Original and prints available in my etsy!

#fantasy art #lord of the rings #lord of the rings art #lord of the rings painting #the hobbit #the hobbit art #legolas #middle earth #tolkien #fantasy #gothic

[gandalf-the-fool]

#the lord of the rings #the lord of the rings memes #lotr #lotr memes #gandalf #merry and pippin #denethor #faramir #gondor #gondor meme #gondor has no king gondor needs no king #can you sing master hobbit #denethor and pippin #gandalf and pippin #shadowfax #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king #denethor tomato #jrr tolkien #tolkien meme #middle earth #aragorn #boromir #boromir and faramir #helms deep #frodo baggins #sam gamgee #legolas #gimli

[theriu]

If there’s a Middle-earth in Lord of the Rings, does that imply the existence of Large-earth and Small-earth, Top-earth and Bottom-earth, or Left-earth and Right-Earth?

#lotr #lord of the rings #nightblogging #I mean its almost morning #but its still dark and I cant sleep so brain says night #river ponders #river rambles #middle earth #middle-earth

[nighttimepatrons]

Not Without Maedhros

Thinking about a Fingon fic set in Mandos where Fingon is ready for reembodiment but won't leave the halls without Maedhros. Never mind the fact that he hasn't actually seen Maedhros's spirit yet...

The only way he can tell the passage of time is the influx of spirits into the Halls, the halls get larger to accommodate them all. Surely Maedhros is around here somewhere.

It's about Fingon being asked if he's consider Life again and he says he has, but he'd like to wait for Maedhros first. He does not want to leave without Maedhros.

More spirits enter and he waits.

When asked again he is indeed ready for Life but it is disturbing to him that it as taken this long for Maedhros to find him. So he reaffirms that he is waiting, he will not leave without Maedhros.

Spirits come and some start to leave.

The asking stops, and in its place he is told: "it is to leave these halls", "you have lingered long enough", "you can feel the yearning for Life in you, go on, it's time to go". He always says the same: Not without Maedhros, not withouth Maedhros, not without Maedhros.

It seems impossible, but the population of the Halls actually seems to decrease.

And yet he waits. He waits until all of his family has walked out of those great, beckoning doors. He waits as his fellow spirits dwindle around him.

He waits, until he is alone in the vast, silent halls.

#in my heart of hearts it is second person pov #i don't know maybe Miriel can show up #Fingon #maedhros #russingon #<- but only in a sad way #middle earth #silmarillion #mandos #i hope it obvious but yes mae is in the void #my art #my words #<- wow can you belive that me writing something that is awfully close to fanfiction in the year of our 2024 #the silmarillion #fic idea #at risk of sounding arrogant if anyone does like this idea feel free to run with it #i would love to see anything you make (*/ω＼)

[debbiedart]

another self indulgent mairon/sauron ~ 👁🔥

#sauron #mairon #annatar #silm art #silmarillion #fanart #art #digital art #lotr #lord of the rings #middle earth #mordor #fantasy art

[thatrandombystander]

Cosy hobbit video game????? :O

#ramblings of a bystander #the hobbit #tolkien #middle earth #lord of the rings #lotr

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

TB watches Middle Earth

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition

I've been wanting to get back into the commentary stuff because I think it's fun and I like it. And I've really been wanting to rewatch all these movies, so I'm hitting the pause button on the other recommended movies and going this route for a while.

#tb watches movies #tb watches middle earth #anunexpectedwatchparty #the hobbit #the hobbit an unexpected journey #middle earth #jrr tolkien

[durinlover]

Welcome to another survey about Tolkien characters.

Since I'm currently writing (among other things) a rather long fic, I thought to just get some general opinion/ exchange about certain things, like:

#the hobbit #tolkien #middle earth #fili and kili #the hobbit fanfiction #fili durin #fíli #crafts #thorins company #dwarves

[funerealmind]

the way aragorn runs is so chaotic

[uncursedswan]

Every time I rewatch The Lord of the Rings I oscillate violently between “it’s important to show men having close, supportive friendships and I’m so glad Peter Jackson chose to show all the male characters being loving and physically affectionate with one another in a healthy, platonic way” and “damn, these bitches gay. good for them, good for them”

#there are two wolves inside me #one is gay #bisexuality be like #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #hobbit #middle earth #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #legolas greenleaf #gimli son of gloin #aragorn #fellowship of the ring #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king

[tsuyonpuu]

Made some LOTR fellowship Valentine Cards 💘💌

#lotr #lord of the rings #hobbits #the lord of the rings #samwise gamgee #frodo and sam #frodo baggins #middle earth #the fellowship #the fellowship of the ring #valentines day #pippin took #merry brandybuck #gimli #legolas #boromir #gandalf #aragorn

[vigilantegreen]

I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.

#lotr #lord of the rings #aragorn #gandalf #middle earth #the shire #the hobbit bilbo #the hobbit #gimli #hobbits #elf #lotr elves #mirkwood #legolas #legolas greenleaf #tolkien elves #nature #this is so funny #i love him so much

[the-books-we-travel]

So, apparently Home Depot has a sword you can purchase on their website. And the reviews? Well….

I honestly can’t stop laughing.

#omg #this is just too incredible not to share #lol #there are even more reviews on the site but these were my faves #mwah #lord of the rings #tolkien #hobbit #swords #sword #the lord of the rings #middle earth #medieval #middle ages #home depot #jrr Tolkien #Lotr #beautiful #hilarious

[suzannahnatters]

So here's one of the coolest things that has happened to me as a Tolkien nut and an amateur medievalist. It's also impacted my view of the way Tolkien writes women. Here's Carl Stephenson in MEDIEVAL FEUDALISM, explaining the roots of the ceremony of knighthood: "In the second century after Christ the Roman historian Tacitus wrote an essay which he called Germania, and which has remained justly famous. He declares that the Germans, though divided into numerous tribes, constitute a single people characterised by common traits and a common mode of life. The typical German is a warrior. [...] Except when armed, they perform no business, either private or public. But it is not their custom that any one should assume arms without the formal approval of the tribe. Before the assembly the youth receives a shield and spear from his father, some other relative, or one of the chief men, and this gift corresponds to the toga virilis among the Romans--making him a citizen rather than a member of a household" (pp 2-3). Got it?

Remember how Tolkien was a medievalist who based his Rohirrim on Anglo-Saxon England, which came from those Germanic tribes Tacitus was talking about? Stephenson argues that the customs described by Tacitus continued into the early middle ages eventually giving rise to the medieval feudal system. One of these customs was the gift of arms, which transformed into the ceremony of knighthood: "Tacitus, it will be remembered, describes the ancient German custom by which a youth was presented with a shield and a spear to mark his attainment of man's estate. What seems to the be same ceremony reappears under the Carolingians. In 791, we are told, Charlemagne caused Prince Louis to be girded with a sword in celebration of his adolescence; and forty-seven years later Louis in turn decorated his fifteen-year-old son Charles "with the arms of manhood, i.e., a sword." Here, obviously, we may see the origin of the later adoubement, which long remained a formal investiture with arms, or with some one of them as a symbol. Thus the Bayeux Tapestry represents the knighting of Earl Harold by William of Normandy under the legend: Hic Willelmus dedit Haroldo arma (Here William gave arms to Harold). [...] Scores of other examples are to be found in the French chronicles and chansons de geste, which, despite much variation of detail, agree on the essentials. And whatever the derivation of the words, the English expression "dubbing to knighthood" must have been closely related to the French adoubement" (pp 47-48.)

In its simplest form, according to Stephenson, the ceremony of knighthood included "at most the presentation of a sword, a few words of admonition, and the accolade." OK. So what does this have to do with Tolkien and his women? AHAHAHAHA I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED. First of all, let's agree that Tolkien, a medievalist, undoubtedly was aware of all the above. Second, turn with me in your copy of The Lord of the Rings to chapter 6 of The Two Towers, "The King of the Golden Hall", when Theoden and his councillors agree that Eowyn should lead the people while the men are away at war. (This, of course, was something that medieval noblewomen regularly did: one small example is an 1178 letter from a Hospitaller knight serving in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem which records that before marching out to the battle of Montgisard, "We put the defence of the Tower of David and the whole city in the hands of our women".) But in The Lord of the Rings, there's a little ceremony.

"'Let her be as lord to the Eorlingas, while we are gone.' 'It shall be so,' said Theoden. 'Let the heralds announce to the folk that the Lady Eowyn will lead them!' Then the king sat upon a seat before his doors and Eowyn knelt before him and received from him a sword and a fair corselet."

I YELLED when I realised what I was reading right there. You see, the king doesn't just have the heralds announce that Eowyn is in charge. He gives her weapons.

Theoden makes Eowyn a knight of the Riddermark.

Not only that, but I think this is a huge deal for several reasons. That is, Tolkien knew what he was doing here.

From my reading in medieval history, I'm aware of women choosing to fight and bear arms, as well as becoming military leaders while the men are away at some war or as prisoners. What I haven't seen is women actually receiving knighthood. Anyone could fight as a knight if they could afford the (very pricy) horse and armour, and anyone could lead a nation as long as they were accepted by the leaders. But you just don't see women getting knighted like this.

Tolkien therefore chose to write a medieval-coded society, Rohan, where women arguably had greater equality with men than they did in actual medieval societies.

I think that should tell us something about who Tolkien was as a person and how he viewed women - perhaps he didn't write them with equal parity to men (there are undeniably more prominent male characters in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, at least, than female) but compared to the medieval societies that were his life's work, and arguably even compared to the society he lived in, he was remarkably egalitarian.

I think it should also tell us something about the craft of writing fantasy.

No, you don't have to include gut wrenching misogyny and violence against women in order to write "realistic" medieval-inspired fantasy.

Tolkien's fantasy worlds are DEEPLY informed by medieval history to an extent most laypeople will never fully appreciate. The attitudes, the language, the ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESS use of medieval military tactics...heck, even just the way that people travel long distances on foot...all of it is brilliantly medieval.

The fact that Theoden bestows arms on Eowyn is just one tiny detail that is deeply rooted in medieval history. Even though he's giving those arms to a woman in a fantasy land full of elves and hobbits and wizards, it's still a wonderfully historically accurate detail.

Of course, I've ranted before about how misogyny and sexism wasn't actually as bad in medieval times as a lot of people today think. But from the way SOME fantasy authors talk, you'd think that historical accuracy will disappear in a puff of smoke if every woman in the dragon-infested fantasy land isn't being traumatised on the regular.

Tolkien did better. Be like Tolkien.

#tolkien #middle earth #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #the lord of the rings #eowyn #writing fantasy #fantasy #female characters #writing #historical fiction #medieval women #medieval history #medieval #history #womens history