#tolkien shelf

[vintonharper]

Peep at my lil Tolkien Shelves.

#tolkien #jrrtolkien #silmarillion #lord of the rings #unfinished tales #history of middle earth #beren and lúthien #the fall of númenor #the fall of gondolin #the hobbit #the children of húrin #the nature of middle earth #lotr lego #roverandom #bookshelf #tolkien shelf

[queerofthedagger]

my 'hey yes we have an all-consuming brainrot going but let's try and do something actually productive this week that I'm having off of work' project is sorting through my bookshelves, rigorously throwing things out (little miss I own over a thousand books in my one-room apartment is reaching the breaking point aka I'm finally and utterly running out of space) and i think i threw out almost a hundred books today and it's still not anywhere close for sorting shelves by genre without having to stack and put things second row. how am I supposed to live like this

#*mine #mona rambles #I've already put a book buying ban on myself until i catch up with my tbr of owned books #unfortunately for me then tolkien took over my brain so while i /am/ only more or less buying my 2 allowed books per month #they're all his stuff and I'm not making a dent in said tbr at all while also having very little hope that this is going to change anytime #soon #i do have a rough sorting now by like.... #fantasy / other fiction / queer + feminist + antiracist theory / other non-fiction / poetry / classics / philosophy / language + travel /et #but it's really more of a suggestion and really testing the limits of like.... shelf space lmao #i'll have to catalogue all of it too once i'm done to see what my actual tbr is at and like. man. terrifying #but also i just think someone should pay me money in exchange for 5-50k words per month so that i can move and have a library. it's time

[southfarthing]

I ordered a second-hand copy of Tree and Leaf a couple of weeks ago, and it arrived with a signature from Michael G. R. Tolkien (JRRT's grandson), dated 2 May 1989. I have to admit I don't know much about him, but it turns out that he delivered a lecture about his grandfather that day for the University of St. Andrews Science Fiction and Fantasy Society – so I'm guessing someone must have taken this book with them and asked him to sign it.

It's amazing to me that this book then ended up in my hands. Surely it was a thing of memory and fondness for its previous owner, and I can't imagine them willingly giving it away for it to sit in a warehouse somewhere before being sold online for cheap. And yet it has made the journey, and I'm even more excited to read it than before, now that this introduction to Tolkien's philosophy itself has been touched by history and memory.

An excerpt from the 1989 lecture that made me smile:

'I am delighted to be able to continue a family connection that goes back 50 years to the Andrew Long Memorial lecture of March 1939, though I am sorry to note in the official biography of my grandfather that this commitment was described as one of the "endless distractions that prevented him from working at The Lord of the Rings!" However, it is clear that this lecture was not just a sidetrack; it subsequently formed the basis for the remarkably astute and often characteristically witty, prejudiced and uncompromising Essay on Fairy Stories, known as "Tree and Leaf" [...] It helped to clarify his purposes and sense of direction in The Lord of the Rings and it could be seen as an indispensable guide to the art and concepts of Tolkien's fantasies. So what may have seemed a distraction was actually a reinvigoration and gave him more confidence as to what kind of audience the undertaking might presuppose.'

#🤧🥹 just. layers of history and memory... the unknowable nostalgia of pre-loved things... the allure of memories that aren't my own... #tolkien #jrr tolkien #mp #also YEAH i got lotr silm and unfinished tales too 😏 same edition so they can look secksy on my shelf #lotr

[camille-lachenille]

I see a lot of posts about this ‘elf on a shelf’ now that Christmas is creeping closer, and just occurred to me that I have one. Two actually.

Behold, my Elves on a shelf:

#elf on a shelf isn’t part of my country’s xmas folkore and i have no idea what it means #but i have a kinder surpise collectible galadriel and arwen staring into my soul on my shelf #and i couldn’t resist the easy joke #tolkien #the lord of the rings #elf on a shelf

[wineandthrandy]

Posted by Thranduil of Mirkwood on IG

#lee pace #king thranduil #elf on the shelf #only elf I want on my shelf #wine and thrandy #thranduil memes #thranduil art #thranduil fanart #snark tales of the elvenking #thranduil snarks #mirkwood elves #king of the woodland realm #the hobbit #tolkien

[gradientdescentcosplay]

Today I'm getting a new book case so you guys are getting library porn

#cleaning out the old shelf really forced me to confront how much my reading tastes have changed over the years #but also certain ways they've stayed the same #such as the still-treasured leather bound volumes of Tolkien #and the huge volume of trashy comics full of hot ladies with swords #books #book porn

[phantasieandmirare]

I’m rereading Die and also writing and rewriting the Wikipedia page for it because it is woefully under-developed and my brain hurts from all the extra references and information that I need to link to but it’s so beautiful to see just how much this story is a love letter to not only RPGs but storytelling as a whole

This is also a cry for help, if people recognize the references in Die that I’m not catching please go to the Wikipedia page and help me link stuff, I know I’m missing things or not understanding that things are references and it’s driving me up the wall

#die #die comic #y'all i used to be afraid of reading die because i was worried it would make me upset #cause i gotta be careful with my story consumption of dark things because some days the bar of 'this will literally ruin my day' is low #but then i read it and immediately had to read the entire series it's SO GOOD #had to clench my teeth through the dog scenes but i made it and now i'm rereading it #anyway please help me #i still don't know if the general at the end of issue 3 is a specific reference or just a random elf dude and i need help #and then all the bronte stuff???? i legit don't know #i can do most of tolkien and probably swing lovecraft but the bronte and wells stuff is beyond me #the books are on my shelf but i haven't gotten there yet

[keendaanmaa]

I am Very Pleased with how these shelves turned out—these are my handsomest books so they get pride of place, but the decision to mix the mismatched editions in with the matching ones was tonight's inspired choice and I quite like how it turned out

#also i moved my tolkien to a different shelf instead of putting it next to these #i have nice copies but they are.....less shiny than these shelves 😝 #moving adventures #randomness

[the-trophy-shelf]

This is my Trophy Shelf. It's not much, and I'll be the first to admit there are several unread books on there, and that's why this account exists. I intend to read everything on that shelf (+ my kindle) and I mean e v e r y t h i n g. I have no idea how long it'll take and I'm sure that I'll wind up buying more books so theoretically it'll never end..

#brandon sanderson #mistborn #stormlight #stormlight archive #sara j maas #christopher paolini #inheritance cycle #tolkien #robert jordan #wheel of time #fantasy books #book shelf

[tarninausta]

thinking about my tolkien headcanons and ocs with asoiaf brainrot is the worst idea ever, i get the tone all jumble up and it SHOWS and i hate it

#i just need to reread all tolkien works on my shelf to fix this #it's been too long and it shows bc i'm over here catching myself mid-thought to realize #i've made a bonus westerosi but i wanted to make a noldor?? #pain and suffering on planet earth #🌟 txt

[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

[nicasbookblr]

Stacking The Shelves #1

Stacking The Shelves #1

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#cinder and ella #girl at heart #jason dorough #jennifer nielsen #jrr tolkien #kelly oram #new books #poonam bhuchar #safe from the pain #stacking the shelves #tbr shelf #the false prince #the gem of tagath #the hobbit #tish thawer #weaver by tish thawer

[munson-blurbs]

A little Eddie x bookworm!Reader fluff for my beloved @corroded-hellfire 💚 thank you for being my soulmate. You mean more to me than you’ll ever know.

The school library is your favorite place to be. Surrounded by stillness and books, rows and rows of novels that allow you to escape into your own fantasy world. You love it so much that you’ve started volunteering there after school just to embrace its feeling.

“What’re you in for?”

The voice startles you, breaking your focus of reshelving mysteries. You turn around to see Eddie Munson standing beside you, pushing a cart of paperbacks. “Wh-What?”

“The manual labor,” he clarifies, gesturing to your book stack. “I accidentally told O’Donnell to kiss my ass, so Higgins stuck me here. Guess he finally realized that detention wasn’t helping me ‘learn my lesson.’”

You’re not quite sure how someone can accidentally tell a teacher to kiss their ass, but you move on. “Oh, um, nothing. I mean, I just help out here. For fun.” You cringe at the phrasing. Yes, while most people are out partying, I hang out in the library. Try not to be jealous of how cool I am.

Eddie just nods. “Fellow bookworm, huh? Nice.” He glances around the library. “You’re really smart, right? Probably read everything in this place.”

“Pretty much,” you agree, even though it’s far from the truth. Your crush on Eddie Munson is beyond cliché: shy honors student falling for the metalhead bad boy. He leaves you both tongue-tied and rambling. “I didn’t know you liked to read, too. What’s your favorite book?”

He brings his hand to his heart as though he’s just been stabbed, stumbling back dramatically until he bumps into a bookshelf. “That’s like asking a mother to pick her favorite child,” Eddie laments, rubbing the back of his head where it collided with the shelf. When he does, his Hellfire shirt rides up slightly, exposing a pale sliver of stomach. “I love anything Tolkien writes, but pretty much anything fantasy is fair game.” He hands you a book to shelve as he asks, “What about you?”

“Fantasy’s…fantasy’s good,” you manage, embarrassed at how flustered you got by just seeing a bit of his skin. You grab another book off of his cart. “But I’m especially partial to the classics. Like Little Women.”

You expect him to scoff at that, but he just plucks a pen from his back pocket and clicks it open, scrawling the title on his calloused palm. “Little…Women.” His tongue pokes out from between his lips as he concentrates, skin not the best medium for writing. “Okay, now I’ll remember to read it.”

You spend the next hour shelving books with him and swapping stories. Eddie tells you about his band and his D&D Club, and you confide in him that you’re working on writing your own novel. His eyes widen at the information. “No shit!” he exclaims, seemingly unaware of his otherwise quiet surroundings. “How much have you written?”

“Just an outline so far,” you admit, but he’s already excited.

“Bring it with you tomorrow,” he instructs, “and I’ll read it after we’re done.”

You cock your eyebrow at this. “How many days of manual labor did Higgins give you?”

Now it’s Eddie’s turn to be bashful. “Just, uh, just the one.” His cheeks tinge pink. “But I’d like to keep talking with you.” He lets his fingers brush against yours for just a moment, but it’s enough to tell you that there’s hope for something beyond friendship here.

“Yeah, okay,” you smile, returning the empty cart to the circulation desk and shutting the lights. “Walk me to the bus stop?”

“I’ll do you one better,” he offers with a grin. “Let me give you a lift home?”

And who are you to deny this cute, metalhead, bookworm bad boy?

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#eddie munson #fanfic #stranger things #stranger things fanfic #eddie stranger things #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson x you #eddie munson fanfic #eddie munson x f!reader #eddie munson stranger things #eddie munson fluff

[camille-lachenille]

#tolkien #the silmarillion #the hobbit #the lord of the rings #tolkien polls #lotr poll #tolkien fandom #hyperspecific poll

[otteranha]

The kids all read to Eddie, it’s good for him to hear their voices the doctors say. And Steve wants to, he wants so badly for his usefulness not to be over already. But even with all his old tricks from school, with all the underlining and going line-by-line, he struggles with the language and tiny print in Tolkien, and Herbert might be even worse. Usually he ends up moving the bookmark ahead more than he’s really read just so Dustin won’t look at him like that.

He feels foolish, useless, like a big dumb drag on the group, not doing his part when Eddie needs this, needs to hear people, his people. And when Steve runs out of things to say he can’t even read to him like everyone else can. Hell, even Wayne comes after 12 hour shifts and reads until he can’t stay awake. Steve’s failing Eddie again and it’s making him crazy.

He’s walking past the hospital gift shop when he sees the book. It’s a kiddie book. Obviously, it’s way too childish for Eddie, there’s a mouse on the cover for crying out loud. But the title is printed in that old-timey font, like something Dustin would use to write ~spells~ for their little game and when Steve skims the first chapter it’s easy to read. He brings the book back to Eddie’s room with him. 

Later, Eddie swears that he absolutely heard the first part that Steve read, coma be damned, he just made Steve start from the beginning because he wanted Dustin and the rest of them to hear the whole thing. Later still, when they bring home their first foster kid, Eddie will pull a battered copy of Redwall off the shelf and ask if she wants to hear a bedtime story.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve reading eddie middle grade novels while he's in the hospital is something that can actually be so personal #stranger things #stranger things hc

[doberbutts]

Sorry if this is a silly question but is it ok if I follow you if I’m a Tolkien blog? I completely agree with your criticism of racism and racial/bioessentialism in Tolkien and fantasy inspired by him and attempt to critique those themes when applicable but if you’d be more comfortable if I did not follow I completely understand!

Oh you're probably here from that post that I worded a little clunky. To clarify: I am a huge Tolkien fan boy and I have an entire shelf in my house dedicated to all of his works, reference books included. I don't have some of the newer releases from his estate and the recent audio books are on my wishlist, but otherwise I own pretty much everything published with his name on it. So, in short, a Tolkien blog would simply be a fellow fan :]

I had a roommate for a while that hated Tolkien, in her opinion his works are irredeemable due to the sexism, racism, and related age of his works. I do agree that there is discussion to be had about the sexism and racism, as well as the constraints of his time, and how as the modern-day father of fantasy many derivative works don't put in the work required to perhaps fixing things he himself discussed as problems with his works in his many letters and journals- of which I have published copies on aforementioned bookshelf.

HOWEVER I think "irredeemable" is too far a step, not just because I'm a fan of his works, but because I think it's really not his fault that people inspired by his writing chose not to engage with fixing the problems the man himself admits to not being satisfied with. Most of his fame came after his death, so it's not like he was alive to fix it, and also when shitty people took the wrong message from his works we also have proof he told them to fuck off and that he hated that they touched his stuff.

The reason I'm online in the first place is because at a ripe 11 years old I wanted to talk to other Tolkien fans. 20 years later, I'm still of the same mindset.