#J R R Tolkien

[kulumukun]

I need this angst muahahaha

#silmarillion #silm art #melkor #mairon #tolkien art #the silmarillion #angbang #j r r tolkien

[best-childhood-book]

Fourth Competition Final Results

Congratulations to The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien for winning this fourth round of the Best Childhood Book bracket! Our runner-up is Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, which did quite well against the father of fantasy.

We'll be taking a break from Best Childhood Book and moving on to Best Childhood Worlds, the preliminary rounds for which will be posted this weekend!

#best childhood book #results #the hobbit #j r r tolkien #info #update

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#j r r tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #twitter #tweets #tweet #meme #memes #funny #lol #humor

[prokopetz]

I need to live another twenty years purely to see what kind of bullshit the Tolkien estate gets up to with respect to The Silmarillion in 2044.

#media #literature #j r r tolkien #the silmarillion #copyright #intellectual property #public domain #swearing

[thyinum]

Happy birthday, Professor 💛🍃

#tolkien #j r r tolkien #tolkien day #tolkien birthday #gandalf #mithrandir #middle earth #the hobbit #the lord of the rings #the silmarillion #lotr #украрт

[eternal-fear]

Reading this in Lord of the Rings and knowing how silmarillion got to be printed is an experience.

#lord of the rings #lotr #silmarillion #tolkien #frodo baggins #bilbo baggins #j r r tolkien #christopher tolkien

[lanzhn]

#EDIT: I MEANT ‘’SILM FANS’’ NOT ‘’SILM’’ #silm #silmarillion #lotr #the silmarillion #tolkien #jrr tolkien #j r r tolkien #lord of the rings #my post #mine

[heverything]

#j r r tolkien #jrr tolkien #j.r.r. tolkien #tolkien #poem #poetry #quote #quotes #camp fire #fireplace #winter #seasons

[ayaosguqin]

“Fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength”

Glorfindel

#glorfindel #house of golden flowers #tolkien #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #j r r tolkien #lotr elves #silm art #artist on tumblr #digital art

[ismeneee]

You are Beren in Tol-in-Gaurhoth, and you are having a very bad dream.

#celegorm #luthien #silmarillion #tolkien #j r r tolkien #my art

[mxliv-oftheendless]

Ok I know we all like to joke about how the Battle of the Five Armies is only a page long in The Hobbit but like. Sometimes I think about how what if Tolkien wrote it that way because he didn’t want his kids to hear about war.

#like the hobbit was supposed to be a bedtime story for his kids #and Tolkien fought in an actual war like he was on the front lines #and obviously it impacted him heavily enough to write a whole trilogy of anti-war books #but this was a story originally meant for his children to hear #so what if he left out the battle of the five armies because he didn’t want his kids to hear about it #but still left in the sad aftermath because he at the very least wanted them to know how destructive war is #I dunno I could be wrong #but sometimes I think about that #the hobbit #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #j r r tolkien #the silmarillion #tolkien legendarium #tolkien

[enchantedbook]

Illustration for the unpublished version of J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' by Peter Klucik, 1990

#peter klucik #illustration #the hobbit #j r r tolkien

[sleeplessant]

Hey Tolkien people and history buffs of Tumblr, I'm in need of your assistance. Does anybody know if there was an actual historical inspiration (or many) to the narrow, no rails, stone bridge of Khazad-dûm?

For context, I'm trying to use it as an example in my theoretical physics dissertation on the dynamics of pedestrians moving in a single line, but I've already met with some resistance from advisors with No Taste. All my google searches have conducted to analyses of the effectiveness of the Khazad-dûm scene in the book & movie, instead of an analysis of the actual "physical" bridge.

I know I could use other modern examples from construction scaffolds or bus and plane boarding/exiting schemes for single-line movement, but that's boring. Uninspired. Everyone does it. What I want is a badass illustration from The Lord of the Rings, and a JRR Tolkien quote on my very theoretical, so abstract that is basically useless, physics dissertation.

A physicist calls for aid.

#j r r tolkien #j. r. r. tolkien #john ronald reuel tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #fellowship of the ring #bridge of khazad dum #khazad dum #bridges #stone bridges #humanities people help a stem girly out #single line movement #pedestrian flow #dumb procrastination shit i do instead of writing #gondor calls for aid #if you don't know the answer could you please reblog??? pretty please #or point me in the right direction #phd life #ah the wonders of academia #pedestrian traffic #durin's bridge #dwarrowdelf #mines of moria #tolkien #legendarium #tolkien legendarium

[an-old-lady]

The three types of Hobbits. I started this a while back and just got the motivation to finish it. Moomin was an inspo in this interpretation.

#art #digital art #fanart #character art #character design #digital artist #art account #concept art #character concept #concept design #character sheet #lord of the rings fanart #lotr fanart #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #the hobbit fanart #tolkien #jrr tolkien #j r r tolkien #moomin

[prokopetz]

You know what just occurred to me?

When the United States switched its copyright duration from the older first-publication formula to the newer life-of-the-author formula, it elected not to make the change retroactive, so there are effectively two copyright regimes in place: one for works published in 1976 and earlier, which use the first-publication formula, and one for works published in 1977 and later, which use the life-of-the-author formula.

This means that, barring any authorship fuckery, The Silmarillion, which was published in 1977, and thus uses the "life of the author plus 70 years" formula, will enter the US public domain in 2044.

However, The Lord of the Rings, which was published in 1954, and thus uses the "date of first publication plus 95 years" formula, will enter the US public domain in... 2050.

In the United States and only in the United States, there will be a period of six years during which The Silmarillion is public domain, but The Lord of the Rings is not.

#media #literature #the lord of the rings #lotr #the silmarillion #j r r tolkien #copyright #intellectual property #public domain #swearing

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien.

#booklr #books #bookblr #fiction #book #quotes #book quotes #quotations #quote #book quote #j rr tolkien #j r r tolkien #reading #jrr tolkien #tolkien #tolkein #lord of the rings #middle earth