#siege of Gondor

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

The Siege of Gondor by John Howe

#Lord of the Rings #LotR #Middle Earth #Siege of Gondor #Fantasy #Art #John Howe

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"GROND THEY NAMED IT, IN MEMORY OF THE HAMMER OF THE UNDERWORLD OF OLD."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an illustration depicting Sauron's host during the Siege of Gondor, bringing up the hundred-foot long battering ram, Grond, to smash the Great Gate of Minas Tirith and burn the White City. March 3019 of the Third Age.

"Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it."

-- "The Siege of Gondor," Book IV of "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King," written by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Source: www.instagram.com/tr.middlee_earth/p/CxtNQ_0Nknh.

#The Lord of the Rings #Siege of Gondor #War of the Ring #The Siege of Gondor #Grond Hammer of the Underworld #Hammer of the Underworld #Mordor #Mordor Orcs #LOTR #LOTR Orcs #Lord of the Rings #The War of the Ring #Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King #The Return of the King #Middle-earth #Gondor #The Third Age #Third Age #Trolls #Siege Engines #Minas Tirith #LOTR Trolls #LOTR Mountain Trolls #Orcs #Mountain Trolls #Grond

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

The Siege of Minas Tirith/Gondor by 1) The Brothers Hildebrandt, 2) Alan Lee, 3) Stephen Hickman, and 4) John Howe.

#LoTR #The Siege of Minas Tirith #Gondor #art #fantasy art #Lord of the rings #cool

[ettelenethelien]

The Eagle's song in the Return of the King is so crazy when you look at it from the perspective of the people of Minas Tirith because -- that's an Eagle of Manwë right there, and this is decidedly not a common happening, and they're Gondorians, the know what it is. Like.

If Minas Tirith was my city and I wasn't there at the time I would be so very mad.

#Pelargir has utterly lost in its rivalry with Minas Tirith for a year and a day (actually make that three years if you add in the whole #siege and battle of the Pelennor fields while Pelargir was cowed by corsairs at that point) and it's a major source of pride to the boys of #the White City for the next half century #(...unless the Eagle pays a visit to the coastal regions on it's way back -- wherever it is that it came from. that's also a possibility) #my post #Gondor #lotr #tolkien #peoples of Arda #Minas Tirith #Pelargir

[whyisaravenlike-awritingdesk]

Nothing like watching Lord of the Rings to get you amped up for writing a battle scene later

#i haaaaate writing battle scenes #but it’s made marginally better by the fact that Return of the King is on #currently watching the siege of Gondor bit and I feel like I need Grond to come and knock some motivation into me tbqh

[corvidacryptida]

Fun Fact:

The siege of Gondor in Return of the King was inspired by the siege of Vienna in 1683. The ride of the Rohirrim is meant to parallel the arrival of the Winged Hussars (an elite Polish cavalry unit). Both Vienna and Gondor represent the last stronghold holding back an invading force.

#history #lord of the rings #the siege of vienna #the winged hussars #rohan #gondor #history meme #fun fact #lotr #tolkien

[kai3057]

god i love siege weaponry. god, dude… I’m rewatching the hobbit botfa and those dale fight scenes are so… eeaufhsfghmph. I wanna eat,,, mounted crossbows. trebuchets… ough. best fucjing shit, i stg. same with pelennor fields and the defence weaponry in minas tirith. Like????? I Want That. im chewing on barred doors and fortified gates. i am normal about this, im so normal i promise-

#the hobbit #battle of the five armies #gondor #minas tirith #siege weaponry #lotr #god im. so normal abt this. #no im not hheummfmph #i need a Heavy Crossbow i Need One #im watching thorin oakenshield die on screen rn and all im thinking abt are fucking crossbows End Me #off topic but I love the little nose twitch that martin freeman does playing bilbo #literally liveblogging botfa don’t mind me #bilbo: my bf just died #gandalf: *gets lit* #anyways dale fucks all my homies love dale #and laketown yo- those ppl fuck also #bard is the hottest man alive #and girion #rip girion lord of dale u were so seggsy mwah mwah

[velvet4510]

Just think of how many times Faramir must’ve drawn attention to the fact that it was his wife who took down the Witch-king of Angmar. He never left a room until he was certain that its occupants knew and respected his wife for what she did. He was just the proudest husband in all of Middle-Earth.

He heard someone on the street telling the story of the great siege of Gondor. He stayed silent through all the parts with him in it. But when it got to the part where the Witch-king was finally killed, he interrupted the story to say to the listeners, “That was my wife. My wife did that. She did that and then she chose me, of all men.”

He told the story himself to their children and made sure they knew and remembered, “That was your mother. Your mother did that.”

He heard his adult children tell the story to their own children in his later years and called out from his lounge chair in front of the fireplace, “Your grandmother did that.”

He read Pippin’s copy of the Red Book that he brought to Gondor, skipped ahead to that part, pointed at the page, and said, no matter if he was with someone or alone in the room, “I’m married to that woman.”

And every time this happened, when they were in their prime, and when they were old and wrinkled, Eowyn always blushed the same blush and said “will you ever shut up about that and let me brag about how my husband resisted the Ring and saved the world?” And Faramir always kissed her and replied, “Never.” It was the only request he ever denied her.

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lotr movies #farawyn #eowyn x faramir #faramir #eowyn #eowyn of rohan #faramir x eowyn #lord of the rings #witch king

[spockandawe]

Lord of the rings! Again! I'm fond enough of this story, but what this project definitely taught me in contrast to things like svsss is that I have I have basically no patience for repeating myself unless the thing I'm repeating was a passion project from the start, haha. But after I finished my first take last year as a gift for my cousin's wedding, like a fool, I told my brother he could pick what handmade gift he wanted for his wedding and he said... lord of the rings.

I wasn't going to give my brother a less extravagant version than I gave my cousin, so I went all in! And I really think i nailed it with the edge art. Watercolors are classic, but I was the type of sketchbook kid who stuck to pencils and pens. It was originally going to have watercolors also, until the lines turned out this detailed and I started worrying about making things muddy. And honestly, doing lines like this where you don't miss the watercolors worked out REALLY well, and I'm going to keep that strategy in mind going forward. I want to get good at watercolors, but I also know it's valuable to play to your own strengths!

I'm really pleased with how the elements of this came together! The last book was black and blue, so flipping the palette to reds was a lot of fun, and I really enjoy these endpapers. Leather endbands against a leather spine remain one of my fave effects. And as painstaking as drawing the siege of gondor was, and as hard as it was to scrape together references for a spread that 1) showed the cool stuff and 2) had the aspect ratio to cover an 18"x4" surface area, it was really rewarding to see it all come together. I'm really delighted with how this turned out! Two last indulgent pictures to show off the art without those covers getting in the way:

#crafts #bookbinding #lord of the rings #edge painting #or adjacent #long post

[istaricelebelasse]

There is a horn. It is nothing special, made from the tusk of some beast that Aredhel barely even recalls felling.

There had been many such beasts on The Ice after all.

The horn had found its way into her luggage and over so many restless nights watching over little Idril she had made it.

It does not compare to those that The Hunt had used in Aman, bound as it is with scant strips of leather and metalwork repurposed from a necklace that she could not wear on The Ice.

But it is hers. And it is precious, in a strange way.

She does not take it when she leaves her brother’s city. It remains, untouched, in her rooms.

It watches as she slowly fades from a poison bestowed by her husband.

The horn is given to her son, yet he has no use for it. A love of hunting and the great outdoors was not anything she passed on to her only child.

It is gifted to another, to a child borne of his cousin, a more precious gift than perhaps his cousin realises.

(One of the few pieces he has of his mother. A wish and a warning and an apology all at once.)

Somehow it survives the Fall. Somehow it ends up in Sirion.

It does not burn in the destruction. Nor is it taken by the Sons of Feanor as they take their hostages.

It lies, abandoned on the floor, until the King comes (too late) to the aid of the city.

There are too few survivors, but they can ill afford to leave any supplies behind. And besides, Gil-Galad can recall his cousin placing a strange solemn honour upon the hunting horn.

It sits, unused, until the Sons of Earendil are returned to their king, whereupon it, aged and yet bearing a presence is returned to them.

There is little argument over which of them gets that piece of their father when it is time for them to separate. The elder twin takes it, as he took their foster father’s sword. The younger is content with a silver harp and the book of their mother’s herblore.

Elros takes it with him. A symbol of his House, and honour for his heir to bear.

Down it goes, down down down the generations until there is little but a drop of Numenorian blood left in its bearer.

It crosses oceans and continents and Ages of the World, survives battles and sieges and the falls of Great Cities and Great Kings until all that is left is a Steward upon his throne sending a son to find answers for a dream.

Finally, on the shores of a river, overlooked by statues of the Kings of Old, the horn is blown for the last time.

It is blown to summon aid, to draw attention, to allow those it’s bearer would protect the chance to escape.

It takes three arrows to take down the horn’s bearer, and the Falls of Rauros to finally grant the horn rest.

The Horn of Aredhel Maeglin Earendil Elros Numenor Gondor is no more.

#horn of Gondor #silmarillion #lotr #aredhel #maeglin #earendil #elros #boromir #silm fic

[shrikeseams]

You know what, while I’m being irrationally angry about how people interpret fiction differently than me, I would also like to rail against the interpretation that the Long Siege was passive, and not an active attempt to regain the silmarils.

CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE THINKING THAT HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF SLOW GRINDING WARFARE IS PASSIVE. CAN YOU? It’s like saying that Gondor was passive and ambivalent about Mordor because they didn’t succeed in taking it out. BAFFLING.

Like, please stop and spend like, two minutes imagining how things would have gone for Beleriand if the sons of Feanor had pulled a Luthien. If they just snuck in to Angband, snatched the silmarils, and the fucked off out of the war effort forever because they got theirs.

How long d’you think it would take for Morgoth to flood forces through the entire eastern frontier? How long d’you think it would take until Doriath was actively under direct siege, without convenient Noldor buffer states on their flanks?

For that matter, how long do we think it would take for Morgoth to reclaim the silmarils, with the sons of Feanor get them without defeating Morgoth first?

How long do you think DORIATH would keep their silmaril, without the majority of the exiled Noldor standing between Doriath and Morgoth???

Luthien (and Beren) can do what they do because Luthien does not, as far as I can tell, actually take any interest in the well-being of the vast majority of people living in Beleriand. She is not a queen. She doesn’t seem to take any interest in politics. She doesn’t seem to take any interest in the well-being of the people of Doriath or Nargothrond, either! Luthien can get in and get out because she needs one (1) sparkling rock to convince her boyfriend that he can marry her honorably. She doesn’t need to worry about direct pursuit because she has the exiled noldor and her mom standing between her (and everyone she cares about) and the war.

THE SONS OF FEANOR DO NOT HAVE THAT LUXURY. If they want to claim the silmarils in a way that doesn’t fuck over everyone in their faction by drawing  direct, targeted attacks from Morgoth, they need to defeat Morgoth first. That is the only way for them to claim the silmarils sustainably. They are actually pursing their goal in the slow, safe, smart way.

#tolkien #I am aware that my anger here is irrational #that is why i am posting it to the being irrational about fiction website #I do think the SoF stealing the silmarils in the early first age would make an interesting AU #in that it turns the first age into an incredibly fraught game of keep-away #silmaril hot potato #And let's not delude ourselves: if the SoF did have the silmaril(s) when beren turned up on thingol's doorstep? #thingol would still set the same quest and b&l would just rob the SoF instead #San shoots the breeze

[lesbiansforboromir]

Why do you think Aragorn as accepted as a King? They don't have blood tests to confirm his identity and he is not even from Gondor (was probally born here, but not raised)

Oh no Aragorn was not born in Gondor, canonically speaking he was born in the north amongst the northern dunadain and that is his cultural heritage. And not only that, Aragorn's claim to the throne is legally shakey at BEST. His only claim to the line of Meneldil (original King of Gondor after Anarion and Elendil's deaths) is through a female line, which used to be an accepted path to kingship in Numenor, but was since entirely discarded by both Gondor AND Arnor (so not even Aragorn's own direct ancestors agreed with letting women rule kingdoms) And a previous legal ruling on this PRECISE ISSUE decreed that Aragorn's ancestor DID NOT have a right to Gondor's throne. So yes it's a good question isn't it? There are two answers!

#1 Gondor is still a partial if not full theocracy. This is one of those aspects of the book that doesnt really make sense unless you understand all the character's actions through the lense of catholicism and religious faith in general. Aragorn is 'Estel' or 'hope', but when people say 'hope' in Middle-earth what they mean is faith etc.

In lotr meta-logic the divine right to rule is a real thing that actually exists, god (Eru) literally wants Aragorn to be king. The characters within the story are aware of this to varying degrees, Boromir being one of the few characters who properly disregards this and wishes to view Aragorn's claim on it's own merit. Even Denethor knows and understands that Aragorn is chosen by god, and he's very bitter and angry about it! (good for him). But in general, all other characters including all Gondorian lords are 'faithful' or 'elendili', and within this religion the only people who could be called 'priests', who can bridge the divide between man and god, are their Kings. So, religiously, if Aragorn IS sent by god to rule them, then they would be committing a kind of heresy to refuse him. And remember, god literally exists in Arda canonically and so therefore does sin and heresy, not just in a moral way but also in a literal like... fact of nature kind of way.

So when Aragorn arrives in Pelargir with an army of ghosts it gives Lord Angbor FAITH in him. When Gandalf, an angel literally doing god's will, is his friend and expressly supports his claim the other lords of Gondor also are inspired to have faith in him. Aragorn spends a good deal of time after the siege of minas tirith ticking divine checklists for 'guy who should be king', he is not making a legal argument for his right to the Gondorian throne, he is making a religious argument for his right to rule over the entire population of 'the faithful' which includes Gondor AND Arnor, destroyed or not.

There WOULD be discussion though! Not everyone in Gondor is dunadain and not everyone is faithful in the way that the dunadain are faithful. Culturally the northern and southern dunadain have been seperated for 3000 years and a lot of people would have issues with being ruled by someone so other to them, even if he had lived among them for 10 years (though that does help). But in the end the lords of gondor are almost all dunadain and they all have to abide by the tenets of their faith, or '''fall''' and become '''lesser men''' than even the rohirrim (terrible I know 🙄) so they really had no choice but to support Aragorn in the end.

However, reason #2

Minas Tirith's armies were absolutely decimated after a weeks long siege and war before that, and what few soldiers were left were exhausted and barely functioning. Aragorn arrived at their gates and broke the siege with a full army who'd only done ONE fight and told everyone he was king of Gondor. What was Imrahil gonna do, say no?

#chats #Anonymous #aragorn #erran vs tolkien

[cgcosmo]

Alan Lee - Siege of Gondor

#art #tolkien #lord of the rings #battle #alan lee

[aralas-week]

Invitation for Aragorn x Legolas enthusiast to be participate in #aralasweek2024 event!

The event will run over seven days from July 2 to July 8.

This was held for the second time. Get your free pass, Everyone!

PROMPT LIST

CANON

Before Fellowship

To Lothlorien

Between Anduin and Rohan

Siege of Gondor

Coronation

After Journey

The Final

AU

College/University

Flower/Coffee Shop

Space/Sci-fi

Steampunk

Wizard Academy

Soulmates

Sherlock Holmes

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[anghraine]

I was just thinking about how Tolkien gradually establishes that there are quite a lot of people in Gondor. In ROTK, he even specifies where they live (Belfalas, Lebennin, etc), but we don't see those places except in general descriptions/songs, and most of those people are defending the regions they live in and thus offstage.

It's easy to kind of forget that the Minas Tirith scenes are happening in a pretty big country with a large population (and that the weight Boromir felt in leading Gondor's defense wasn't just about the inhabitants of Minas Tirith, but a whole damn country with what would have to be over a million people, likely well over that). Even when people are talking about how the outlying forces that arrive to help defend the city are only a tenth of the fiefs' actual forces, I think it's something that often doesn't sink in.

So (for me, anyway), there's something both unexpected and really satisfying when book!Aragorn uses the dead to secure the armies of Gondor and then those offstage southern Gondorians we keep hearing about show up to lift the siege of Minas Tirith. We knew they were out there, but it wasn't real until they come leaping off the ships at the Pelennor.

I've talked before about why I like that Aragorn uses the army of the dead to liberate the southern Gondorians, but I do think there's something very effective about Aragorn arriving at the head of an overwhelmingly Gondorian army he convinced to follow him and saving Gondor that way—through providing very real assistance to the people he means to rule, inspiring them to follow him, and those people being necessary and critical to saving their country. It'd feel a lot more deus ex machina, too, if Tolkien hadn't reminded us that they were out there multiple times. But he does set it up in a kind of unobtrusive way, so I really enjoy how it winds out.

#the catalogue of incoming troops is such an interesting visual way of setting the rest of gondor up too #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #long post #aragorn #gondor #ondonórë blogging #anghraine's meta #boromir

[nolofinweanweek]

Nolofinwëan week is starting in 2 weeks!

Below are some inspirational, nonmandatory prompts for your creations. These suggestions are formatted as questions because they are meant simply to inspire you. Featured timeframes and characters can be mixed and matched in whatever way or disrespected completely.

Day 1: Noontide of Valinor - Darkening | Fingolfin | Anairë

Canon offers only hints about the Noontide of Valinor, a pre-canonical era that established many relationships and events we see unfolding in the Silmarillion. How did Fingolfin and Anairë meet? What kind of childhood experiences did Fingon, Turgon, Aredhel and Argon have? What was their relationship with the families of Fëanor and Finarfin? Were Fingolfin and Fëanor always at odds? How did the interference of Melkor disrupt these relationships? What events developed after Fëanor's banishment to Formenos and Fingolfin's rule in Tirion? How do you envision the Darkening of Valinor?

Day 2: Exile - Arrival to Beleriand | Fingon | Argon | Elenwë

The Flight of the Noldor is a breaking moment, a crisis that brings about some of the most challenging moments for Fingolfin and his family. Can you illustrate the argument that brought about the decision to leave Valinor? What effect did Fingon's participation at Alqualondë have? What were the relationships between the hosts of Fingolfin and Finrod on the Helcaraxë? What was Argon's or Elenwë's story before their passing? How do you interpret the rising of the Moon and the Sun with the host's arrival to Middle-earth? What about that glorious moment when the host challenges Morgoth at his gates?

Day 3: Mithrim - The Long Peace | Turgon | Aredhel | Eöl

The early days of Mithrim solidified the House of Fingolfin as the next line of Noldorin Kings, followed by a 200-year-long siege of Angband. What were the early political relationships between the hosts of Fingolfin and the Fëanorian followers? What prompted Turgon to build Vinyamar and then Gondolin? What was Aredhel's life like in Gondolin before leaving? What kind of new friendships were developed during the Long Peace? Did any reconciliations take place? What were the Nolofinwëan fortresses like during peaceful times? What was the Nolofinwëan relationship like with the local Sindar Elves?

Day 4: Dagor Bragollach - War of Wrath | Idril | Maeglin | Tuor | Eärendil | Elwing

The Battle of Sudden Flame brings another turmoil with the death of Fingolfin and the rising of Fingon as the new High King. This is the beginning of a turbulent period that will culminate with the sinking of Beleriand. How do you imagine these battles? What is your reading of Fingon's Kingship? How do you envision the relationships between the House of Fingolfin and their mortal allies, the House of Hador? What kind of culture did Gondolin develop in its isolation? What brought about the strained relationship between Idril and Maeglin, and how did it affect loyalties in Gondolin? What happened to Gondolin's refugees? What was Idril and Tuor's final fate? How do you imagine Sirion and its multicultural population?

Day 5: Lindon - War of the Ring | Elrond | Elros | Gil-galad | Celebrían

The War of Wrath destroys Beleriand, but the line of Fingolfin goes on through his descendants. How do you imagine the begging of a new life in Lindon? What is your reading of the parentage of Gil-galad? What was his kingship like? What was the relationship between the Peredhil twins? What led to their decision to choose different fates? What kind of culture developed in Lindon, Númenór, Rivendell or other settlements ruled by Nolofinwëan descendants? How did the events from the first age affect relationships in the second and third?

Day 6: Fourth Age Middle-earth - Return to Valinor | Númenórean descendants | Peredhil descendants

The Fourth Age signified the end of the Elven era in Middle-earth and the end of Tolkien's canon. What about your own ideas for this time frame? How does Gondor change under Aragorn and Arwen's rule? Who are their children? What kind of culture develops as the Elves leave Middle-earth? What about the Elves who return or are reborn in Valinor? Can they integrate easily into the place they once called home? Is Valinor even a physical place?

Day 7: AUs, Canon divergences, Freeform | Nolofinwëan OCs | Canon ghosts | Earlier canonical characters

This is a day to let the muses run wild with canon. Do you want to go down deep rabbit holes on obscure canonical details discarded in the published Silmarillion? Have a Nolofinwëan original character that needs a space to shine? What if Fingolfin won the battle against Morgoth? Who was Erien, daughter of Fingon? What if Idril returned Maeglin's love? Who was Elros' wife? What if Elrond decided to choose a mortal fate? Who would the Nolofinwëans be in modern times?

The event directory is accessible here.

#nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #fingolfin #elrond #fingon #turgon #gil-galad #maeglin #aredhel #idril #earendil #elwing #elros #arwen #elladan #elrohir #aragorn #silmarillion #the silmarillion #lotr #tolkien elves #mod post