#tolkien reading

[aarchimedes]

for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!

anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻

#lord of the rings #the hobbit #lotr #hobbit #yeah guys idk i just feel like most people read it really young #but jolkein is really wordy and idk how y'all got through that at 8 yo #my attention span could neverrrrrr #obviously not as wordy as like. les mis. but you know what i mean. #lots and lots of context all the time. love that for his worldbuilding not so much for my hold on the plot #and yes i have watched the movies #i didn't completely miss the cultural zeitgeist #yay first time making a poll! if you vote or read my tags this far you are a gem 🫶🏻 #edit: i realize i spelled tolkien wrong. i feel like this proves my point #but also i feel like thats something you spell with your heart and not your mind

[turndecassette2]

#watercolour #art #tolkien #elf #feanor #or it was meant to be feanor but I was too lazy to google what hair colour he was supposed to have & I know some ppl care deeply about #those sorts of things #I need to re-read this book #just remember it being good tragedy #& the author cares about trees in a way I find strangely moving & sweet

[la-pheacienne]

I'm reading the lord of the rings and I'm once again amazed at how... good most characters are. Like, they are genuinely good people. They are a bunch of kindhearted, gracious, caring people, coming together under adverse circumstances and trying to figure things out and find a solution and support each other through it all. Like Frodo and Sam meet Faramir and Faramir is a bit suspicious at first and kind of implies Frodo may be a spy, and then when he hears his story and he's like Frodo, I pressed you so hard at first. Forgive me! It was unwise in such an hour and place. And this blows.my.mind. He wasn't even particularly mean or threatening to him in the beginning, he's just such a kind, considerate man, recognizing the kindness and honesty of another man. And they're all like that. Even Gollum starts slowly changing (for a short while) when he encounters Frodo because that's the thing about kindness and humility and grace, they are contagious. They transform people, even a creature like Gollum cannot be immune to that. Like, you may consider all this simple and basic and I get it but, hear me out. It is quite rare to see that in modern media and it is also pretty difficult to pull off in a way that is not corny and simplistic. It is mind blowing that you actually don't have to present the entire palette of human cruelty and vice in order to tell a compelling story, contrary to popular belief. Lotr does the exact opposite, and it is just beautiful and it warms my heart. Especially taking into consideration tolkien's pretty grim growing-up experience, him being a double orphan without a home, raised between an orphanage and a priest and having no family apart from his brother and then the war and then he almost dies and then he's poor as hell and then a second war and it all makes sense somehow. He writes to his wife who is also an orphan two days before the marriage "the next few years will bring us joy and content and love and sweetness such as could not be if we hadn't first been two homeless children and had found one another after long waiting" and, yes, yes! The love and sweetness just radiate from his work, the entire lotr series is a little radiant bubble of hope and love and grace that he imagined in his head to deal with a dismal reality and then he just gave that to the world, and isn't that what imagination and art is all about after all?

#i literally wrote this because faramir said 'forgive me' #like that was the inspiration here #terminal brain damage don't mind me #BUT #i have a point #i do! #i am cringe but i am free #i love these books so much #i love this man so much #lotr #the two towers #frodo baggins #faramir #gollum #the lord of the rings #aspa rambles #tolkien #aspa reads tolkien

[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

[winwin17]

It's only called Rivendell because Elrond's Daycare and Orphanage doesn't have that Elvish feel to it.

#lotr #rivendell #elrond's daycare and orphanage #lotr humor #lord of the rings #lotr fandom #lord of the rings fandom #literature #books and reading #fantasy #fantasy books #fantasy literature #tolkien #jrr tolkien #jrrt

[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 ♥

[doctorslippery]

#switzerland #tolkien #geo-beauty #landscape #geology #geography #the world #books #library #bookstore #reading #reading is fundamental

[legoflas]

aragorn, at the council of Elrond: it's such a relief that the creature Gollum is securely locked up in Mirkwood

legolas:

#lotr #the lord of the rings #aragorn #legolas #guess who's reading fellowship again #i just find this part so fucking funny #gollum #tolkien #also my phone will never stop correcting legolas to Legoland

[isilwhore]

All of my special guys are in here

#hell yeah time for another re read #the silmarillion #tolkien #tolkien legendarium #silm elves #lotr #silmarillion

[azaisya]

@just-another-linguist and @melestasflight both requested Fingon which was v exciting. Fingon is one of the characters that really stuck with me the first time I read the Silm, but I’ve never actually drawn him. In my mind this is like a Valinor-era Fingon!

#fingon #silmarillion #silm art #silmarillion fanart #tolkien fanart #candlesart #here down in the valley #I’d started reading the silm after I’d just finished reading this v extensive aragorn&legolas series #that mostly just involved one of them getting whumped and the other having to rescue him #it was a fantastic time. ‘mellon’ was possibly in the title #anyway it was pure h/c w a side of road trips and so when fingon went on his road trip to rescue maedhros #my brain immediately supplemented the like paragraph of description w the tens of thousands of words of a&l fic I’d just read #which. given that my first read of the silm was mostly just a blur of names and locations #made fingon and his rescue incredibly memorable

[southfarthing]

HAPPY TOLKIEN READING DAY! (25TH MARCH)

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.

#lotr #lord of the rings #lotredit #tolkienedit #tolkien #tolkien reading day #oneringnet #filmedit #fantasyedit #usersansa #thcrin #arthurpendragonns #userhaleths #ughmerlin #userfrodosam #mine #my gif #*lotr #lotr: gif

[phantasymistart]

some first attempts at drawing lotr characters

#aragorn eowyn and frodo my loves…. #i recently read the books and watched the movies for the first time and whyyy did i wait this long holy shit #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr fanart #lord of the rings fanart #art #illustration #my art #procreate #artists of tumblr #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #phantasymist #aragorn #eowyn #frodo baggins #tolkien

[sonnynewts]

bets for thorin hitting his head on that fuckin lamp

#bagginshield #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #my friend got me to rewatch the hobbit trilogy bc they were a first timer so now i’m regressing #got to thinking about bilbo reading to/with thorin while he recovers all snuggled up in bed w like a million pillows bc thats what *I* need #it ain’t much but it’s honest work #tolkien art #newt art

[invisiblewashboard]

Small Child’s Thoughts on “Helm’s Deep”

Sounds like there are way too many bad guys.

Are they happy because the king is there? Hm. Because the king will help them fight the bad guys? I feel happy when my dad comes home because he helps me fight my sisters.

I think you should maybe not listen to someone named Wormtongue. But maybe it’s not his fault that he’s named that. Maybe his mom and dad just didn’t like him.

Mom, can I have a horn to make horn blasts with? (No.) But I would only use for good things, like to tell you if there was danger!

The van? If they have vans they can have trains. (No, no, Small Child, that means “vanguard.”) Hm. That is boring. They should have a van instead.

Gimli wants to kill lots of orcs and that is very good. I like that.

Hundreds and hundreds more bad guys is not a good thing.

Lightning plus bad guys is going to equal a very bad time for everyone.

I just do not really know what is happening. You are reading lots of words but I am confused. I only know there are orcs and lightning.

Why did Legolas spend all his arrows? (Because that’s what happens in a battle.) Well, he should have just brought more with him.

I tried to jump off a wall once. And you told me it was bad. But Gimli did it and you said it was good.

Wow! 21 is a lot of orcs! Good job, Gimli. You’re doing very good work!

Two dozen? (A dozen is 12, so how many is two dozen?) Oh, I see. 24! Legolas is winning now. Who is going to get more points? I do not want to wait to find out, I would just like you to tell me now. (Just be patient! You will find out soon enough.)

How many orcs did Aragorn kill? (I don’t know, I don’t think he is playing the game with Legolas and Gimli.) Why? He should play and not ruin the fun.

So, Mama? Blasting fire is like a bomb, right? Like a big explosion? I think if they have that, they can maybe have trains soon. Trains would make things easier because they could go places fast.

Saying his spear was long seems just so unnecessary. Spears are long. That is why they are spears and not just little stumpy stabbers.

Is that Gandalf the White Rider? Good. I think things will be okay now if he is here.

Hey Mom? You told me that if I was patient I would find out who got more points. But you stopped reading and I still do not know.

#small child's thoughts #lord of the rings #lotr #jrr tolkien #the two towers #read aloud #first read through #little stumpy stabbers #lots of train talk tonight #seriously I had to filter out so much train talk

[angry-neverland]

If I have to hear "Sam was the real hero" another damned time I might just summon the spirit of Samwise Gamgee himself so that he could smack you in the face with a frying pan

#lotr #frodo baggings #samwise gamgee #samfro #lord of the rings #tolkien #like did we read the same books? did we watch the same movies #no one can do it on their own thats the frigin point of the story

[ruthlesslistener]

God I'm rereading the Lord of the Rings series, and I forgot how fucking funny Aragorn and Eowyn is. Contemporary writng makes you groan and go 'ah here it is lads here's the unnecessary crush' whereas everytime they look at each other its more like this:

Aragorn: what a sad young woman. I hope that she finds peace with herself, rather than waste her life recklessly in despair

Eowyn, through gritted teeth: i just want to fight like you do so fuckin bad

#lotr #lord of the rings #love in tolkien's books is so much better than the crap in most others #so you can tell it wouldn't be romance when reading it #but it sure as fuck comes off like it to people with shipping goggles on #(her and faramir are super cute i have no contest against them)