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thewarriorandtheking · 7 days

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#thorin oakenshield #my king #thorin #the hobbit movies #richard armitage

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thewarriorandtheking · 10 days

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#thorin oakenshield #thorin fanart #thorin #the hobbit #fanart

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thewarriorandtheking · 12 days

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Here is just "The Misty Mountains Cold"/The Song of the Lonely Mountain, from Chapter 16 of my webcomic adaptation of The Hobbit! I noticed I had never posted the song in isolation. You can find my full webcomic adaptation of the Hobbit on Tumblr here, Ao3 here, and Webtoon here. You can also support my art in general/see things early on Patreon here.

#this is gorgeous #the hobbit #jrr tolkien #middle earth #erebor #kingdoms of middle earth

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thewarriorandtheking · 19 days

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Thorin, but in good moods. 🥺

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thewarriorandtheking · 25 days

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Lord of the Rings was published in the fifties, and largely written in the forties. Tolkien’s opinions on society and morality and technology are at some points genuinely more conservative than what I’m comfortable with. And yet, the more I think about it, the more sure I am that Tolkien actually deconstructs most of the clichéd fantasy tropes he supposedly originates. Some examples.

The long-lost heir is not the hero, he’s a side character who deliberately uses himself as a decoy.

The real hero actually fails in his quest, his goodness and determination and willpower utterly fail in the face of evil, and the world is saved by a series seemingly unrelated good deeds.

The central conflict is not between destroying the world and preserving it. An age of the world will come to an end, and many great and beautiful things will perish, whether the heroes win or lose. The past may have been glorious, but preserving it is impossible, and returning to it is impossible, time has passed and the world has moved on. The king returns, but the elves are gone and magic fades from the very substance of Middle Earth. The goal is not to preserve the status quo, the goal is the chance to rebuild something on the ruins.

Killing the main villain seems to instantly solve the problem, eradicate all enemies and fix the world, except it doesn’t, not wholly, since the scouring of the Shire still has to happen.

Also, the hero gets no real reward, and what he gets, he cannot really enjoy. He is hurt by his ordeal, and never fully recovers.

There is a team of heroes, a classic adventuring party, except the Fellowship is together for less one sixth of the series. The Fellowship is intact from the Council of Elrond to Gandalf’s death, four chapters. The remaining eight are together until Boromir’s death, an additional six chapters. This is nothing compared to LOTR’s length of sixty-one chapters, if I count correctly.

Tolkien is not classic high fantasy. If you actually think about it, there is very little magic. The hobbits’ stealth is not magical, most elven wonders are not unambigously magical, wizards are extremely rare, and even Gandalf hardly uses magic if you compare him to the average DnD wizard. Most magic is indistinguishable from craft, there is no clear difference between a magic armor and a very good armor, between magic bread and very good bread, between magical healing and competent first-aid plus a few kind words.

TLDR: Stop praising recent fantasy for deconstructing Tolkien if they’re “deconstructing” something Tolkien has never actually constructed.

#jrr tolkien #the lord of the rings #the hobbit

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thewarriorandtheking · 27 days

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あなたの怒りは美しい(2024.3.21)

#thorin oakenshield #thorin fan art #the hobbit #fan art

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thewarriorandtheking · 28 days

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MIDDLE-EARTH + Scenery [PartⅠ] THE HOBBIT/THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Random Gif Edit- 35/?

#middle-earth #lord of the rings #the hobbit movies

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thewarriorandtheking · 29 days

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My friend said that the Lord of the Rings is a male based fandom. PROVE HIM WRONG AND REBLOG IF YOU'RE A GIRL AND A FAN OF LOTR!

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thewarriorandtheking · 1 month

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#thorin oakenshield #the young prince #thorin #the hobbit movies #richard armitage

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#thorin oakenshield #the young prince #thorin #the hobbit movies #richard armitage

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thewarriorandtheking · 2 months

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What I learned from The Silmarillion:

Genesis can be rewritten to be way more beautiful and interesting.

Gandalf and Durin's Bane were probably buds once.

All the Elves in the Third Age are nice because all the assholes got brutally slaughtered in the First Age.

"I have a Silmaril in my hand." "Show me." "Sorry, my hand's not here right now."

Old School Sauron is way cooler than the mopey voyeur in LOTR.

Elrond's dad is a planet and his mom is a bird.

Tolkien's cosmology explains everything—except Eru Ilúvatar, Ungoliant, Tom Bombadil, talking swords and purses, animals serving dinner, and That Fox Who Never Knew Anything More About It.

#jrr tolkien #silmarillion

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thewarriorandtheking · 2 months

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Gorgeous!

Card IV- The Emperor

Took me a while to finish this but here’s our slightly mad king under the mountain >:P

#thorin oakenshield #thorin fanart #thorin #tarot cards #the hobbit #fanart

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thewarriorandtheking · 2 months

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Fandom: God there’s like NO content anymore. I wish we could get more art and fanfics :(((

Someone: Hey, I can’t draw anything digitally, because I can’t afford a tablet, but here’s a pen on paper drawing that I spent a lot of time and hard work on. Also, I took a shot at my first fanfic and I’d really like some feedback or at least some kudos if you enjoyed it :)

Fandom: Oh... yeah sorry no... not you. We actually meant writers that are already well known and popular to produce MORE content... I mean, if a popular blog shares your work then maybe. And we don’t really like pen to paper art. We just don’t think it’s professional or even looks good :/

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thewarriorandtheking · 2 months

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