#TOLKIEN IS THE BEST

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

#high fantasy #tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #to be clear i don't mind courtly intrigue high fantasy #it's fascinating and it's fun and it is absolutely still high fantasy cause JRRT doesn't have a monopoly on how high fantasy should be writ #what i object to is the idea that it is the only or the best way to write high fantasy when we have such a stunning counter example

[chechula]

I did not have time to draw creatures for last goblin week, but I have time now. So, here are orcs of Moria and drums in the darkness ♥

#tolkien #moria #orcs #I actually love drawing orcs #and since I first time read LOTR I though that crossing Moria is just the best part ♥ #but I never know- is the drummer Balrog? Is the drum sound sound of him approaching? #I think balrog with drum is nice aeshetic ♥

[brigwife]

my toxic trait is just assuming everyone online has seen the lord of the rings and is a low-key permanent member of the fandom

#I just think that regardless of any other fandom that may be occupying my attention at any given time #this 20 year old trilogy is the best film franchise ever made #not just because if the incredible themes taken from Tolkien's works which were largely accurately portrayed #but also because of the preference for costuming and makeup and physical effects over CGI which becomes so easily dated #meaning the movies never look old #and the SOUNDTRACK #The HEART behind the whole project #Idk I think we just forget sometimes that this was not a Hollywood production hashed out asap to Make Money #It was just some guys in New Zealand #And it SHOWS #I'm having LOTR feelings at 8am in a Thursday morning

[myceliumelium]

I'm legit so proud of this. and also utterly in love with the idea of mae helping Fingon put on his jewelery. You guys feel? The tender intimacy of helping someone dress? The added layer of these two being noldo, and the cultural importance of gemstones and jewelery? The time and effort it took maedhros to gain the fine motor skills to do it left handed?

#High King fingon is the best fingon I dont make the rules #maedhros x fingon #maedhros #fingon #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #middle earth #art

[nailsinmywall]

Maeglin in gondolin (and curufin laughing at eol)

#silmarillion #gondolin #silmart #maeglin #curufin #aredhel #nails silm comix #turgon #guys i have been working on this on and off for 3 years i'm sick of it ! putting it out in the world with all the mistakes in it #eeeehhhhhhhh #eol #idril celebrindal #long post #it's so long im sorry but it looks best like this #tolkien #ecthelion cameo :} #ecthelion #omg the style and designs are so inconsistent 😹😭

[fistfuloflightning]

Morwen and Hurin

#hurin: can’t think of a better person to be with. Best Wife Ever #morwen: no thoughts just horny™ #I honestly couldn’t get these thoughts out of my head while drawing this lol #hurin’s just vibing and morwen’s ten seconds from jumping his bones #that’s it #thats their dynamic #the silmarillion #children of hurin #coh #morwen #hurin #tolkien art #my art

[shady-swan-jones]

- you would make me a tyrant

- i would make you a queen

Concept art by Julien Gauthier

#rings of power #haladriel #if that's not romantic I'm eating my hat #lord of the rings #rop #it's not real we're in his mind and he's showing her a future as he HOPES it will be #the best thing about this is not just the togetherness but that we're seeing how HALBRAND imagines them together as king and queen #if anyone tries to say it wasn't romantic I'm showing them these EXTREMELY COUPLY CANON concept artworks #Tolkien #galadriel #rop spoilers #saurondiel #sauron

[javajuicedraws]

Recent doodles :3

#digital art #my art #fanart #south park #south park fanart #south park art #creek sp #sp creek #tolkien black #NELLY!!! more Nelly love because she’s the best #I might like drawing Craig

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

I've watched this video about 50 times, and the extended skit explaining the 'Do Balrogs have wings?' controversy is still possibly the funniest joke about a niche fantasy topic I've ever heard.

#folding ideas #dan olson #balrog #tolkien #it's got everything: #an increasingly frantic narrator #casually calling David Day a 'Tolkien hack' #the BEST depiction of Morgoth #and a perfect closing argument

[afaramir]

WAIT. happy 20th birthday to viggo mortensen breaking his toe by kicking the orc helmet

#it’s like a best friend. to me #tolkien #lotr20 #two towers #lotr #.txt

[thelien-art]

Walking through the streets of Tirion~

Turgon is talking about architecture and Elenwe just found him and ran up to him, because they love each other

#i like to think so had planned to be a priest of the valar but then meet turgon and was like hell no this my man now #tolkien #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #elenwe #turgon #turukano #silm art #digital art #my art #dont know where they come from as its kinda formal clothes theyre wearing #but then again its turgon and he strikes me as the type who wears his best except when hes at home #where he wears his pajamas or what his siblings would wear on a normal day #elenwe looks more chill #maybe he just comes from the theater #he would wear more to court and go straight home after listening to all those idiots

[irithyllians]

lady nienna, of wisdom, sorrow and courage

#tolkien #the silmarillion #nienna #my art #THE BEST GIRL #q

[wombywoo]

Fingolfin’s last stand ✧

#fingolfin #lord of the rings #the silmarillion #tolkien art #lotr #my art #best boy doin' his worst #every time I experiment with colors its just red/yellow/blue...

[maccha-1228]

Cupid Ye is definitely one of my top 3 episodes 😭✨

#I am just so happy that i could see stan being jealous #it’s canon #the cafeteria scene was the best part #south park #kyle broflovski #stan marsh #tolkien black #sp style #my art

[the-plantman-is-queer]

I’m going insane rn

Doing one of my never-ending rereads and... even when Neil hated Andrew and fully believed all the worst rumors, he still expected someone to be in Andrew’s corner... and then in book three we see him decide to be that person:

something about the way Neil, a perfect stranger to the concepts of friendship and teamwork, still expected better from Andrew’s team and family... I know that’s the entire core of their relationship but it still knocks a hole in my chest to see it laid out so baldly

#the continuity of these fucking books fucking astounds me sometimes #a throwaway line on page 42 of book one being referenced explicitly on page 170 of book three #say what you want about Nora that is still absolutely insane #edit: because i accidentally posted this to my main blog #this is a 978 page self-published book series about a made up sport and the mafia #It has no business having some of the best fucking continuity I've ever read outside of agatha christie or tolkien okay?

[tilions]

Do you ever think about how none of the Hobbits died in the Shire? They all left it when their time had come, as if they couldn't bear it to face death in the land they all went through so much for.

I mean, imagine how those goodbyes must have been for them and for their families. We know of Sam and Elanor but what about Pippin and his son Faramir? Or Merry and his potential children? How did they say goodbye to them, presuming that they knew this journey east would be their last one? That they would never see their loved ones again? Had they made peace with that?

Also the way how their final destination mirror eachother: Frodo, Bilbo and Sam's last destination, the undying lands, the west, the home of immortal heroes from ages past; and Merry and Pippin's last destination, Minas Tirith, the east, the home of mortal heroes of the present.

Just thinking about the fact that none of the Hobbits stayed in the Shire until the very end

#tolkien #lotr #the hobbit #frodo baggins #sam gamgee #merry brandybuck #pippin took #bilbo baggins #i keep coming back to this thought from time to time #and i can't put my feelings into words properly (trust me i tried in multiple different languages) #this is the best I've got