#jrr tolkien'

[velvet4510]

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

#jrr tolkien #edith tolkien #beren and luthien #luthien tinuviel #beren erchamion

[invisiblewashboard]

The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.

#jirt #jrr tolkien #tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #Bilbo is a menace #change my mind

[atrustfulplace]

imagine: you are chilling in front you your house getting high. along comes an old family friend who you last saw when you were six, you are now in your 50s. after a brief convo where he is kind of a dick to you, he’s like damn you’ve changed :/. and your like yeah bestie it’s been five decades why the fuck are you here. he leaves. later that night a shit ton of people show up and trash your house. just throw and absolute rager. halfway through the family friend from earlier shows up. he announces in full earshot of everyone that he wants you to come with him to rob a bank. you of course say wtf??? one of the people who broke into your house calls you a pussy. another person shoves you a contract which declares if you get shot robbing the bank they will not pay for your funeral. you pass out. when you wake up you find the contract on your table and your house almost completely back to normal. you stare at the contract for a moment and decide, fuck it this is just as a good a midlife crisis than anything.

this is what happened to bilbo baggins

#i don’t think this has been done before??? #maybe it has if so sorry 😔 #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #gandalf #thorin oakenshield #lotr #jrr tolkien

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

#humor #shitpost #pls help #lotr memes #lotr #incorrect lotr quotes #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #gandalf #jrr tolkien #hobbits #po tay toes

[imsupposedtobestudying-whoops]

🗡That will depend on the manner of your return 🏹

#faramir #lotr #faramir of gondor #return of the king #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #Tromroan #my art #fan art

[prokopetz]

The terrible Gollum game is only the beginning, folks. The Hobbit enters the US public domain in just a little less than ten years, so the current rights-holders are going to be trying to squeeze every last bit of profit they can out of the little fucker before he becomes free to use. You have no idea what's coming.

#media #literature #the hobbit #gollum #jrr tolkien #tolkien #gaming #video games #copyright #public domain #capitalism #swearing

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

#samwise gamgee #gollum #not much left to bury #smeagol #funeral services #tolkien #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #lotr rop #lotr trop #fantasy #the hobbit #lotr memes #lord of the rings meme #tolkien memes

[illustratus]

#lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #lotr #ian mckellen #christopher lee #gandalf #saruman #wizards #the fellowship of the ring #fellowship of the ring #peter jackson #film #behind scenes #cinema #photography #photograph #j.r.r. tolkien #tolkien #jrr tolkien #wizard #staffs #staff

[allythistle]

‘GET OFF THE ROAD - QUICK!!’

Heylo darlins! This is what I’ve been working on this week.

Next up, Bilbo, as per the results of my last poll :D

#artists on tumblr #character art #art #digital art #fan art #small artist #lotr #traditional art #writing #fantasy art #lord of the rings #lotr fanart #the hobbit #hobbits #ring wraiths #tolkien #middle earth #character design #lotr fandom #lotredit #the fellowship of the ring #jrr tolkien #original art #procreate

[the-books-we-travel]

“For he was a gentle heart and a great king and kept his oaths; and he rose out of the shadows to a last fair morning.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

Bernard Hill (1944-2024)

Rest in Peace

#lotr #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #bernard hill #theoden #Tolkien #the lord of the rings

[fantasybooktournament]

#fantasy book tournament #polls #booklr #lotr #lord of the rings #terry pratchett #discworld #jrr tolkien

[velvet4510]

NEW VERSION. :)

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[leaffsheep]

Couldn’t stop giggling while making this

#lord of the rings #lotr #pippin took #peregrin took #gandalf #jrr tolkien #tolkien #lotr memes

[hacked-wtsdz]

Every time I read or watch Lord of the Rings I can’t help but think about how Tolkien had survived one of the bloodiest, most cruel, most dirtiest and darkest wars in human history, came back and wrote this:

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

And this:

"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"

And this:

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

And this:

“Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

And this:

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

And clearly they were all written partly because he survived the war, because of what he’d seen and done and learned. But at the same time the unwillingness to lose faith, the courage and strength that this man had to believe in these things after going through hell! It makes the nihilists look so cheap, so uninteresting! People who’ve went through concentration camps and wars believe in humanity anyway, isn’t that proof that hope and love exist? And many, many, many of them did not return or returned broken and cruel and traumatised to the point when no faith in others was possible for them, and nobody can blame them. But there were many who refused to lose faith and hope. They have seen some of the worst that life has to offer and came back believing that we shouldn’t be eager to deal out death in judgement and should love only that which the sword defends.

No matter how many people say that humanity is horrible and undeserving of love, and life is dark and worthless, and love doesn’t exist I remember this and have hope anyway. Because there were people who have actually had all reason to believe in the worst and still believed in the good, so the good must be real. The good is real, even despite the evil, and we must trust in it.

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #jirt #silmarillion #beren and luthien #john ronald reuel tolkien #frodo baggins #gandalf #gandalf the grey #gandalf the white #galadriel #quotes #book quotes #lotr quotes #world war one #ww1

[nyxshadowhawk]

Which Lord of the Rings characters say fuck:

Aragorn: definitely says fuck, and has to catch himself and tone it down when he becomes king

Boromir: yes. "They have a fucking cave troll."

None of the hobbits do; at least, not at first. Pippin picks up swears from Boromir, and Sam will swear under duress

Gimli: swears all the time, but mainly in Khuzdul. He definitely tries to teach Khuzdul swears to Legolas

Legolas: swears very rarely, and usually in Sindarin, which sounds so pretty that it goes unnoticed. Gimli often tries to goad him into swearing

Gandalf: knows all the swears, but doesn't say them

Galadriel: used to swear when she was younger, but that was thousands of years ago, and she no longer does.

Eowyn: swears constantly. every other word.

Faramir: swore once, and still regrets it.

Gollum: doesn't know any swears, but would say them if he did.

@fadedkat

#the lord of the rings #lotr #the fellowship of the ring #text posts #jrr tolkien #aragorn #gandalf #legolas #legolas greenleaf #gimli #galadriel #faramir #boromir #gollum #eowyn #sam lotr #pippin lotr #hobbits #lotr memes #lord of the rings

[andata-e-ritorno]

Art by Ami Thompson

#the lord of the rings #il signore degli anelli #jrr tolkien #art #arte #lotr #eowyn #merry brandybuck #eowyn of rohan #hobbit #i am no man #the return of the king #il ritorno del re