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anyways. this movie is my favorite obscure tolkien adaptation and it's really bad but i love it with all of my heart

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thank you pliny the elder for telling us about pyrrhus (of the infamous pyrrhic victory) and his immortal, spleen-healing gripper

#lotr but aragorn heals people with his feet

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300 cowboys shooting each other to pieces in a fight over a jewel

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Maybe you should hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth or afar casteth some bitches

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It's always so disappointing when sci fi and fantasy books call their languages "Basic" or "Common". No language is apolitical or universal if they're all calling one language Basic, who made it that way? Why is THIS dialect "Common" and all the others are Special/Magical/Incomprehensible??? Show me even a hint of the politics, or give your language a real name

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I saw a post once debating if Aragorn really should have taken Gondor’s crown after all and I’m not getting into that discussion, but I did take the moment to appreciate a post-War of the Ring Boromir and I love

#interesting concept! #boromir

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There are various moments in LOTR (book) where the Fellowship of the Ring ends up defending Galadriel from the accusations of being a man-eating witch, and ok, but I feel like it would be funnier if she was really a man-eating witch. Because I'm a feminist!

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#i tend to think they succeeded #but i do have a hc in which they successfully create a lasting resistance to Sauron they themselves were captured #and/or killed

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4:00 am thought: it's never actually canonically established that Elros married a mortal woman

#at least as far as i can tell #they're not mentioned in Tolkien's list of unions between elves and men #and i think there's no actual reason that elros couldn't have married an elf and also chosen the gift of Men #and i dont think his children being mortal is a dealbreaker either #feel free to correct me though #elros #elros tar minyatur

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December; the 22

Yule day 2:

Where can Luthien´s sigil be found?

Happy winter solstice day!

Okay so I kinda forgot what day it is so there´s a unicorn version as well as a bonfire version

Mistletoe; Mistletoe represents romance, fertility, and vitality, and let´s not forget it´s a poisoned plant, although Celtic druids did use it for healing properties and decorations

Holly; Hollies were also used by druids as a symbol for fertility and eternal life and thought of to have magical powers - whereas when Christianity adopted the tree the leaves symbolised Christ's thorn crown and the berries his blood

Bonfire version;

#i love your luthien! #especially her hair! #her sigil is on her chest right? #lúthien #beren

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Sorry everyone but this is how i headcanon Huan from now on, idc…

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I’ve said this before, but I always found stories that frame heaven as “evil” and hell as “good” (or less bad) to be genuinely boring. I like more nuanced approaches to each realm.

I understand that for a lot of people, Christianity is a religion they like to criticize and mock, but I feel like if you don’t even understand the fundamentals of the religion, why even attempt to critique it?

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Flammifer. 2016, Digital. 

“But on him mighty doom was laid, till Moon should fade, an orbéd star to pass, and tarry never more on Hither Shores where Mortals are; for ever still a herald on an errand that should never rest to bear his shining lamp afar, the Flammifer of Westernesse.“

Amongst all the characters in the Middle-Earth canon, Eärendil has always been my favorite.

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Illustrations of Tolkien characters in the style of Byzantine iconography by Jay Johnstone

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LOTR20: Day 1:  history: The Blue Wizards

They must have had very great influence on the history of the Second Age and Third Age in weakening and disarraying the forces of East ... who would both in the Second Age and Third Age otherwise have ... outnumbered the West.  

Source: Last Writings | The Peoples of Middle-earth ✔All arts are mine and can be found on my blog. Today an awesome #lotrweek starts and I want to celebrate it by recalling my favorite and so underrated heroes - Ithryn Luin - Alatar Morinehtar and Pallando Romestamo. In his last writings Professor Tolkien revised their story and aknowledged the great impact they have had on a history of Middle-Earth. Their heroic deeds and sacrifices left vague but yet we can clearly see Professor's commitment to tell us more about their fate and Faithful Haradrim\Easterlings. What a story it could be... we can only guess now.

Special thanks to @lotr20 for welcoming any works based on LOTR - not movies only ❤

#the blue wizards