#orthanc

[autistook]

MARCH 5TH

Pippin steals the Palantír, looks into it, revealing himself to Sauron

#on this day #lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #pippin #pippin took #peregrin took #merry brandybuck #merry #tolkien #lotredit #lotr edit #meriadoc Brandybuck #gandalf #aragorn #legolas #palantir #rotk #the return of the king #orthanc #palantiri #tolkien edit #jrrt #middle earth

[ufotomorrow]

two towers

#the lord of the rings #tolkien #two towers #orthanc #cirith ungol #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #tlotr

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Orthanc by Cliff Cramp

#Lord of the Rings #LotR #Middle Earth #Orthanc #Fantasy #Art #Cliff Cramp

[gnomescarfcomics]

#The Two Towers #Lord of the Rings #Middle-earth shots #Aragorn #Boromir #Eomer #Merry Brandybuck #Pippin Took #Treebeard #Gandalf #Gimli #Legolas #Grima Wormtongue #Theoden #Helm's Deep #Isengard #Orthanc #Saruman #Sauron #Tolkien

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

#merry and pippin #dominic monaghan #billy boyd #saruman #christopher lee #treebeard #orthanc #ents #isengard #my edits #lord of the rings #lotr gifs #aragorn #viggo mortensen #the hobbit #thorin #richard armitage

[theworldsoftolkein]

The Road to Gondor - by Breath-Art

#the lord of the rings #tolkien legendarium #middle earth #tolkien #gandalf #gondor #sauron #eye of sauron #orthanc #tower of orthanc #mount doom #gates of argonath #the argonath

[mask131]

Tolkien trivia of the day: While in The Lord of the Rings, after Saruman's defeat Isengard becomes part of the domain of the Ents, in his various drafts Tolkien entertained various other ideas for who would get to replace Saruman as Isengard's "keeper".

Before he settled on the Ents, Tolkien thought Dwarves should rather take over Orthanc and Isengard after Saruman ; and before Dwarves, Tolkien's original idea was for Radagast to actually become the new Wizard of Isengard.

#tolkien trivia #orthanc #isengard #radagast #saruman #the lord of the rings #lotr

[mariajoseignacia666]

#tolkien #black metal #medieval #ted nasmith #orthanc

[dartxo]

"The Two Towers"

2022

A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful... But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better, as he thought, being deceived–for all those arts and subtle devises for which he forsook his former wisdom, and which fondly he imagined were his own, came but from Mordor; so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child’s model or a slave’s flattery, of that vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength.

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien

2022 was the 20th anniversary of The Two Towers.

Though the whole trilogy are collectively my favorite films of all time, the second installment is definitely my least favorite of the three, ironically in part for the same reason a lot of people love it: Helm's Deep. I find the battle is unnecessarily overblown, in importance, length, and stakes in comparison to the book, to the point that it takes away from other important story points, and somewhat diminishes the impact of the later Siege of Gondor and Battle of Pelennor Fields, which is a much bigger and much more narratively significant battle in the War of the Ring. Nevertheless, it was fun to revisit some of my favorite scenes from the film, as I did in 2021 with Fellowship of the Ring.

#barad dûr #orthanc #lord of the rings #two towers #lotr #lotr fanart #lotr art #fandom #photoshop #art #artists on tumblr #mexican artist #autistic artist #dartxo

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO The Lord of the Rings:

The Tower of Orthanc

Set: 10237

2013

Pieces: 2359

#tolkien reading day #tolkien #jrr tolkien #lego #lego builds #lego sets #lego bricks #lego minifigures #lego the lord of the rings #lego lord of the rings #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #orthanc #saruman #gandalf #gandalf the grey

[ratsarecute4]

Isengard Reclaimed

#my art #art #digital art #lotr #lord of the rings #isengard #lotr art #lord of the rings art #lord of the rings fanart #lotr fanart #trees #orthanc #ents

[tolkienillustrations]

Isengard Unleashed by Jeremy Bennett

#LOTR #Tolkien #Isengard #Orthanc #Jeremy Bennett #Battle of Helm's Deep

[tenth-sentence]

'Go and fetch Saruman, since you have become his footman, Gríma Wormtongue!' said Gandalf.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" - J.R.R. Tolkien

#book quote #lotr #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #ttt #the two towers #grima wormtongue #saruman #gandalf #wizard #footman #orthanc #isengard

[iibislintu]

#lord of the rings #the two towers #minas tirith #minas morgul #barad dûr #orthanc

[gnomescarfcomics]

Middle-earth shots of the week

#Bilbo Baggins #Smaug #Kili #Fili #Gandalf #Saruman #Erebor #Orthanc #Khazad-dum #The Hobbit #Lord of the Rings #Rings of Power #Tolkien #Middle-earth shots

[slivensays]

Orthanc, a tower built out of black stone and darkness. Pointing like a burnt finger towards the sky, it casts its shadow heavily on the ground.

2014.

#grima wormtongue #my stuff #lotr #fanart #fanfiction #orthanc #ttt