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my entry for @lorbalith beautiful DTIYS challenge on instagram!

#omg my boys #i missed them <3 #bagginshield #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #the hobbit #fanart

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I like Dune: Part 2 PRINTS

#dune #fanart #whoa i love this

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Sauron

#my boi <3 #sauron #mairon #the silmarillion #fanart

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the return of the king - 20th anniversary

"This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace."

#lotr

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The Mausoleum by the Phantom Painter

#art #non-fandom #whoa #this is 100% my vibe

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King dir. Peter Jackson

#lotr #these views are my country now... #i can't believe i made it here sometimes #it's so surreal #new zealand

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thorin but make him a polish nobleman

#whoa #there is something positive to come out of my country #thorin oakenshield #the hobbit #fanart

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"What do you reckon?" 🐰 "Let me see..." 🐺

#bagginshield #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #my bois #i love them sm #fanart #the hobbit

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🌟 she 🌟

#omggg these are so pure #eowyn #miranda otto #lotr #PERFECT CAST IS PERFECT

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One of the things that’s really struck me while rereading the Lord of the Rings–knowing much more about Tolkien than I did the last time I read it–is how individual a story it is.

We tend to think of it as a genre story now, I think–because it’s so good, and so unprecedented, that Tolkien accidentally inspired a whole new fantasy culture, which is kind of hilarious. Wanting to “write like Tolkien,” I think, is generally seen as “writing an Epic Fantasy Universe with invented races and geography and history and languages, world-saving quests and dragons and kings.” But… But…

Here’s the thing. I don’t think those elements are at all what make The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings so good. Because I’m realizing, as I did not realize when I was a kid, that Tolkien didn’t use those elements because they’re somehow inherently better than other things. He used them purely because they were what he liked and what he knew.

The Shire exists because he was an Englishman who partially grew up in, and loved, the British countryside, and Hobbits are born out of his very English, very traditionalist values. Tom Bombadil was one of his kids’ toys that he had already invented stories about and then incorporated into Middle-Earth. He wrote about elves and dwarves because he knew elves and dwarves from the old literature/mythology that he’d made his career. The Rohirrim are an expression of the ancient cultures he studied. There are a half-dozen invented languages in Middle-Earth because he was a linguist. The themes of war and loss and corruption were important to him, and were things he knew intimately, because of the point in history during which he lived; and all the morality of the stories, the grace and humility and hope-in-despair, was an expression of his Catholic faith. 

J. R. R. Tolkien created an incredible, beautiful, unparalleled world not specifically by writing about elves and dwarves and linguistics, but by embracing all of his strengths and loves and all the things he best understood, and writing about them with all of his skill and talent. The fact that those things happened to be elves and dwarves and linguistics is what makes Middle-Earth Middle-Earth; but it is not what makes Middle-Earth good.

What makes it good is that every element that went into it was an element J. R. R. Tolkien knew and loved and understood. He brought it out of his scholarship and hobbies and life experience and ideals, and he wrote the story no one else could have written… And did it so well that other people have been trying to write it ever since.

So… I think, if we really want to write like Tolkien (as I do), we shouldn’t specifically be trying to write like linguists, or historical experts, or veterans, or or or… We should try to write like people who’ve gathered all their favorite and most important things together, and are playing with the stuff those things are made of just for the joy of it. We need to write like ourselves.

#text #tolkien #ohh

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THE SILMARILLION "The Silmarillion is the history of the War of the Exiled Elves against the Enemy, which all takes place in the North-west of the world (Middle-earth). Several tales of victory and tragedy are caught up in it; but it ends with catastrophe, and the passing of the Ancient World." ― J.R.R. Tolkien in Letter 131 to Milton Waldman.

#the silmarillion

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Redraw of my lotr triptych from 2022

#whoa #lotr #fanart

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A couple of Thorin drawings

#ughhh this is hot...? #why do i find out at almost 29 yo that i'm into beards #*hides* #thorin oakenshield #the hobbit #fanart

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Thinking of how Legolas began to feel the call of the sea, irresistible and overwhelming, during the quest and yet waited until everyone in the fellowship died before leaving. Except Gimli of course, who he took with him.

He waited decades out of love and friendship.

Thinking about Merry and Pippin buried next to Aragorn.

Thinking about Eomer who called for Merry at the end of his life, to see him one more time before he passed away.

Thinking about Sam who, after Rosie passed away, left Middle Earth to see Frodo one more time before his own death.

Thinking about Legolas and Aragorn singing for Boromir, Merry and Pippin who owe their lives to him praising his deeds and bravery.

Thinking about Gimli, who walked the Path of the Dead out of love of Aragorn and visited Fangorn forest out of love of Legolas.

Thinking about Gandalf, who feels responsible for the heavy burden he placed on Bilbo and Frodo, and who took them with him to Aman, traveling with them one last time to bring them somewhere where they will finally know peace.

The love i have for them.

#oh #text #lotr

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The Death of Beleg Me and @chechula were listening to The Children of Húrin read by Christopher Lee. His dramatic voice fits perfectly 🐲💖

#whoa #dramatic #the children of húrin #fanart #turin #beleg

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MALI’S 22K CELEBRATION ✶ LORD OF THE RINGS ↬ 💌 for @bladesrunner

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The Fall by Anato Finnstark

#the silmarillion #Ancalagon #fanart