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silmarillion-ways-to-die · 8 months

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Some Tolkien fans, especially the performatively Christian ones, love to paint a picture of Tolkien as this staid, conservative Oxford don, a stereotypical mid-twentieth-century British academic.

The real JRR Tolkien was a FUCKING WEIRDO. We tend to forget today how completely fucking bizarre his obsessive hobby was to his contemporaries. CS Lewis wrote some fantasy novels. Tolkien CREATED A FUCKING PLANET with history and myths and languages and races and maps and ITS OWN FUCKING BIBLE. And he spent his ENTIRE LIFE working on it, expecting that only a small percentage of it would ever be published or seen by other people.

Tolkien was a FREAK. Don't let so-called fans take that away from him.

#Tolkien was a FREAK #worldbuilding as a trauma response #tolkien #silmarillion #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr rop #lotr trop #fantasy #the hobbit #jrr tolkien

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merilles · 4 months

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci~💍✨

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hamletphase · 6 months

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kinslayers and kidnappers

designs based on the talented @ silmaspens <3

#silmart #the silmarillion #maglor #maedhros #elrond #elros #tolkien #my art #they are my silly freaks sorry jirt

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kintheartist · 3 months

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This is hardly a new revelation I'm sure, but realizing that Tolkien's elvish architecture (as designed by John Howe and Alan Lee) was inspired by art nouveau, and the dwarves' architecture was inspired by art deco, made me geek out because it's so clever

Doubtless there are other posts about this but I'll explain for anybody who doesn't know about this because I'm so happy about it:

Art Nouveau is inspired by organic shapes and the natural world. It emerged also from the Arts and Crafts movement, which was a response pushing back against industrialization.

Makes sense for elves because of their relationship to nature and how old they are, right?

Dwarves, on the other hand--their motifs are inspired by art deco. Art deco, in turn, was the replacement for art nouveau, embracing technology and industry and focusing on geometric shapes.

Example from the Hobbit movies:

It works so well because dwarves have such a heavy focus on industry and technology from their very creation by Aulë, and also their history--sleeping until after the elves were made. I'm just screaming over how smart it was to pull artistic inspiration from these two movements!! Like from a design standpoint they work so well, but they also mirror both the culture and history of these civs and I just think that's so neat!!

#kintxt #art analysis #kin freaks out about art shit more at 2 #lotr #tolkien

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essenceofarda · 21 days

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OF BLESSED THYME & THISTLE | Chapter 1 | Page 5

Masterlist of Pages

Faramir’s cousin, Lothiriel, comes to Minas Tirith to become a companion of his new bride, Eowyn, something that he hopes will ease Eowyn’s rough transition into Gondorian Society. Eowyn, for her part, decides her new companion would in turn make the perfect bride for her brother, Eomer King of Rohan. Matchmaking shenanigans ensue 😏

When the aunties pull no punches 😳😖 Poor Eowyn lol

I'm actually kinda super proud of how this page turned out LOL

#Lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien fanart #tolkien art #lotr fanart #lotr art #lotr fic #lotr fanfic #lotr comic #lord of the rings fanfic #lord of the rings fanart #eowyn of rohan #eowyn x faramir #faramir x eowyn #farawyn #eothiriel #lothiriel of dol amroth #eomer x lothiriel #my art #Eowyn tries SO hard to make a good impression on her relatives (none of whom are impressed #by the fact that she's the FREAKING WITCH KING SLAYER)#and they're just like #varying levels of asshole to her :(#Mainly Faramir's aunt is #bc his aunt's husband's niece (an antagonist in this story) was the preferred bride to be #so Faramir's aunt is a little miffed that Faramir chose an 'uncivilized' woman of the 'lesser men' to marry #instead of #y'know the one she herself chose for Faramir to marry #not that faramir was ever inclined to do so in the first place lol

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emprcaesar · 7 days

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there are only a handful of movies that i think would be better if they could say fuck. top of that list is the hobbit / lord of the rings.

could you imagine the dwarves entering bilbos hobbit hole and him being like, “yeah who the fuck are you?!?” or like gandalf being like, “pippin i think you should fucking kill yourself i can’t take your bullshit any longer.” or like legolas calling someone a bitch…most likely gimli.

#frodo just being like i can’t fucking do this anymore sam i’m going to fucking freak out in a second #or like seeing gollum for the first time and being like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THAT HOLY FUCKING SHIT #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #legolas #frodo baggins #gandalf the grey #bilbo baggins #tolkien #jrr tolkien

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tilions · 5 months

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- Sunset (Prof. John D. M. Brown)

→ @tolkienfamilyweek day ii · siblings · findis & lalwen

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kindlythevoid · 7 months

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“Gimli was lifted up [onto the horse] behind his friend, and he clung to [Legolas], not much more at ease than Sam Gamgee in a boat.”

-The Two Towers pg. 35

Friendly reminder that the one time Gimli got onto a horse for the first time and hated it so much that he was compared to Sam in a boat, who had multiple paragraphs dedicated to how much he hated boats.