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theyeofmagnus · 2 days

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my take on the gandalf big naturals situation

#gandalf's love of the halfling's leaf had some weird side effects #saruman #gandalf #lotr #lotr fanart #art #my art #tolkien #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #lord of the rings fanart #gandalf big naturals #saruman the white #gandalf the grey

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cantsayidont · 3 days

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I am generally fond of the Peter Jackson LORD OF THE RINGS movies (much more so than THE HOBBIT trilogy, which is an unmitigated disaster from start to finish), but I still feel that it was a tremendous error to remove "The Scouring of the Shire" from the ending of RETURN OF THE KING. I think I understand the rationale for omitting it — it further complicates what's already a protracted finale, and it is kind of a downer — but I suspect it's one of the changes to which Tolkien himself would have most objected.

First, it's an essential element in the arc of Frodo. Frodo has already been wounded in a way that even Elrond and Gandalf can't entirely fix, even after they remove the notch of the Morgul-knife. After enduring an impossible ordeal, he returns to the Shire to find that the war has come home in a way that, at least for him, can't be fully set right even after Saruman is dead and much of the immediate damage repaired. Frodo's original conflicts have been seemingly resolved: At the beginning of the book, he's seen in Hobbiton as an irresponsible youth of dubious background who grows into another suspicious eccentric like Bilbo, but by the end, they want to make him the mayor (to which Frodo only very reluctantly and temporarily agrees), and even his feud with the Sackville-Bagginses is ended. Even so, Frodo is left far more alienated than he ever was to start with, which is why he finally chooses to go over Sea rather than live out his life in the Shire.

Second, while it is superficially rather grim, I think Tolkien might have argued that it's actually his most hopeful chapter. Tolkien says in the introduction to the second edition that "The Scouring of the Shire" had its roots in his own childhood:

The country in which I lived in childhood [in Warwickshire] was being shabbily destroyed before I was ten, in days when motor-cars were rare objects (I had never seen one) and men were still building suburban railways. Recently I saw in a paper a picture of the last decrepitude of the once thriving corn-mill beside its pool that long ago seemed to me so important.

Thus, it seems significant that the shabby destruction of the Shire at the hands of Saruman and his men is actually set right remarkably quickly. As soon as Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin return, they're able to rouse the other hobbits to action and drive out the ruffians within a matter of days, and Sam is even able to use Galadriel's gift to replace most of the trees that have been carelessly destroyed, with a magnificent mallorn-tree in place of the beloved Party Tree. The Shire hasn't wholly escaped the scars of industrialization, but the hobbits have come to their senses and turned back before it was too late.

That is really the most optimistic element of the story's finale. Aragorn's coronation means a restoration of order to the West, but magic and wonder are fading away or departing over Sea. Arwen has made the choice of Luthien and is doomed to eventually fade and leave the world; in the Appendices, after Aragorn's death, she returns to Lórien, now deserted, and essentially lies down and dies. Tolkien did not feel the Ents would ever find the Ent-wives, so they too will probably never flourish again. However, the Shire endures, in a way that the country where Tolkien grew up did not — not by remaining completely aloof from the world, but by rejecting the new mill and the smokestacks, and by "thousands of willing hands of all ages" deliberately tearing down everything built by Saruman and using the bricks "to repair many an old hole, to make it snugger and drier."

#movies #books #lord of the rings #lotr #peter jackson #return of the king #jrr tolkien #the scouring of the shire #frodo baggins #saruman #tolkien's ecological imaginings are not above criticism #they're still rooted in a kind of pastoral fantasy #but it is somehow heartening to imagine #that the horrors of industrialization aren't irreparable

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ahahnopenope · 1 month

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here's the picture i couldn't get out of my head

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illustratus · 9 months

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not-another-brick-ln-the-wall · 11 months

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Lord Of The Kitty

#lord of the rings #lotr #gandalf #gandalf the grey #saruman #legolas #aragorn #thranduil #elrond

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s-u-w-i · 2 months

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Continuing with the LOTR series! ⚔

Also, I’ve decided I'll be selling the originals after I finish all the drawings (that means after Easter). But if there is any character you'd like to have in particular you can start reserving them now. By messaging me here or on [email protected] :^)

All reserved!

The prices are from 50 to 80USD (shipping included). And same as last year with the dog drawings this year also all the earnings will be sent to charities.

Thank you! 🌿

#my art #illustration #ink #traditional art #character design #tolkien #pippin took #merry brandybuck #boromir #lotr #aragorn #saruman #uruk hai #lúthien

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cirrdan · 1 year

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I just wanted to draw Saruman with an IKEA shark

#SHARKEY #lotr memes #the lord of the rings #tolkien universe #sarumansharkey #saruman #tolkien stuff #istari #the silmarillion #digital art #middleearth #tolkien fanart

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aquitainequeen · 5 months

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Me, while reading The Lord of the Rings: So, are we ever going to learn what the deal is with Gandalf and the other wizards? Tolkien: How do you mean? Me: Well, they're clearly very long lived, they came from over the sea many ages ago, Gandalf at least can do magic; so what exactly are they? Are they Elves, are they Men, are they something else? Tolkien: Angels. Me: Ah, okay. Me: ... Me: ......what. Tolkien: They're angels in human form. Me: What? Tolkien: And Sauron is also an angel. Me: What??? Tolkien: Maybe I should have expanded upon that in the main trilogy? Me: You could have stood to mention it a little more, yes.

#gandalf #saruman #istari #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #lotr #silmarillion #maia #tolkien #jrr tolkien

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atomic-chronoscaph · 9 months

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The Lord of the Rings - art by Donato Giancola

#donato giancola #the lord of the rings #j.r.r. tolkien #tolkien art #lotr art #fantasy art #middle earth #gandalf #saruman #hobbits #aragorn #eowyn of rohan #1990s #2000s

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startrekvsfaceapp · 2 years

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#lord of the rings #dall e #craiyon #unreality #ai generated #gandalf #saruman #bffs

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incorrect-lord-of-the-rings · 2 years

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oldschoolfrp · 3 months

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Saruman the White ponders his palantír. "You are the trusted apprentice to one of the greatest Wizards in all Middle-earth" in A Spy in Isengard (Angus McBride cover art for Middle-earth Quest gamebook #1 by Terry K Amthor, Iron Crown Enterprises, 1988). McBride has been memed more than once.

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mushroomates · 10 months

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ppl like to quote “not all who wander are lost” and “i am no man” but we all forget when gimli stumbled across merry and pippin high off their asses camping outside of saruman’s tower and yells at them “where did you get the weed, you villians!” i have quoted that. every day.

#lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #pippin #lotr #gimli son of gloin #gimli #pippin and merry #merry and pippin #saruman #meridoc brandybuck #merry brandy buck #pippin took #peregrin took #the two towers #fellowship of the ring

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illustratus · 2 months

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