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Let's be honest the only one who is worth of the silmarils is him:

#hej op jen kvůli tomuhle probouzím svůj lotr blog #jsou na sebe pyšní? #krteček #silmarillion

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more uncommon photos of hobbits

#hobbits #hobbits!!! #pippin #frodo #sam #merry

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Have you seen the post with conclusion that Golum called Sam a himbo? I hope you did. I just wanted to remind you that it exists.

i have seen it multiple times. and it’s still. good.

#Anonymous

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Let’s Talk About... (AO3)

a sequel to this short fic by @interstellarcutie

(i finally finished this so i guess i can disappear for another month, huh?)

#fic #nic.doc #nic.jpg #lotr #frodo #merry #pippin #and others #hobbits

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rohirrim

#art #rohan

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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.

#lotr

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Reblog if you support, appreciate, or love multi-ethnic Tolkien art

And the artists who make them

#!!!!!!!!!

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we have an update on the situation:

celegorm still on his bullshit

celegorm the fair

son of fëanor

#celegorm #nic.jpg #you won't believe how hard it is to get an iphone picture to pc #bluetooth dead. web browser disc google doesn't upload. #dg app is huge but kinda works #then i found out the picture is a .HEIC #even forcibly renamed .jpg my pc can't open it #download this codec pack says an undownloadable pack #can i screenshot it? well it's sideways so... how about... #i click print and print it as pdf which can be turned -> screenshot #i. hate. the hell device #but hey i did it *faint party noises*

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They were cowards for those tiny little elf ears.

I’m het for Tauriel…

#tauriel #art

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Faramir is THAT bitch that loves to make people uncomfortable esp when he’s bored. Hello. I could see him walking up with some casual blasphemy on a slow Thursday

YOU. ARE. CORRECT!

Blasphemy? No, the need here is to be able to see that Faramir’s valar devotion and peaceably noble manner IS the punk alternative culture of the times. To have belief in mystical hope and elvish nonsense and prophetic kings is to go against the grain and Faramir makes it sEXY. 

Slow day? Oh Faramir’s gonna make EVERYONE discomforted by his hot takes on the dreadful ingratitude and moral bankruptcy of Gondorian society. Or he’ll just drag his dad into one of their balls to the wall ridiculous arguments that are just exhausting for EVERYONE except Faramir who’s always a slut for conflict, it’s better than the NON-emotion that his whole family displays the rest of the time. Like, you got it! He’s a shaker! He likes getting under people’s skin because he’s just SO good at it.

#yeahhhhhh #faramir

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The Valar: sooo how’s defeating Sauron going

Saruman: everything is going according to plan, don’t worry about my giant fortress and the army I’ve amassed, they’re for an unrelated project

Radagast: I named this hedgehog Sylvester :)

Gandalf: I’ve started a side business making and selling fireworks

The Blue Wizards: 

#gandalf #radagast #saruman

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i’ve got a full 5 popular posts going around rn that i’m not looking at the notes of any more which is a personal record i think

#sdjklfkfld #i'm. sorry i guess #except i'm still kinda proud of that horrible addition #so maybe not that sorry

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current sketchbook shenanigans: some fëanorians but Happy

#nic.txt #it looks horrible but feelings were put into it #expect the pic soon or never

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all tolkien related fanfiction is deeply chaotic just in very different ways. like.

the hobbit movies fic authors: due to personal reasons, i will be ignoring everything tolkien ever said about his universe. any elf can choose to be mortal, background regardless. the valar are completely benevolent and directly involved in the affairs of middle earth in the 3rd age. thorin and bilbo are together in the afterlife. try me, bitch.

silmarillion fic authors: this is pwp but i did 8 hours of research to make sure it is canon compliant. it is based on a throwaway line from something john tolkien scribbled on the back of a receipt in 1947. every character mentioned will be dead or eternally damned within a day of this taking place. they are also distantly related and hate each other.

#and what about it???

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When the makers of the Lord of the Rings films chose to go the slapstick-grotesque route in portraying Denethor, rather than the dignified-tragic, they also chose to weaken all the characters who interact with him. 

Watching the movies, you have to wonder: Why would Pippin pledge his life to such a monster? Why would Faramir even bother to argue with someone who’s so clearly irrational? How could Boromir place so much faith in his country when its reigning leader is so obviously sinister? 

Not only do they drastically change the image of Denethor himself, these changes make Pippin appear guilt-ridden and impulsive (which it’s true he is, but he’s also following a genuine respect for this man and his people), Faramir appear helpless (which he is NOT), and Boromir either foolish or hopelessly naïve (which he also is not). 

#i'm in a weird mood so expect more positive denethor stuff ig #denethor

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Modern Gimli moodboard.

#gimli #moodboard

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Mister... ermmm...Gandalf... wizard dude... sir?

#pippin