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Legolas and Gimli arrive in the Undying Lands by John Howe

#lotr #gimli #legolas #gigolas

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aredhel and maeglin

#aredhel #maeglin #silmarillion

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hi! do you happen to read lotr fic? or know any blogs that do that could give me some recs?

oooo anon i wish i could help but i'm awful at fic recs!! that's not to say i don't read them, i just never save the darn things (but i’m sure you’re familiar with ao3 which is where i find all the good stuff!!)

i’m sure you won’t mind if i ask for a bit of assistance.....

@absynthe--minded, @feanope, @arofili, @maglor-still-lives, @tolkieniad, @himrings, @swordwieldingeowyn, @heraldofgilgalad

anyone able to help us out?!

#ooh #have not read any of these! #saving for later

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In which Dís is fed up with idiots and fighting and decides to do something about it, saving the day with her awesomeness and now everyone can go home.

#the hobbit #dis

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Eärendil and Elwing 

Sailors of the sky~

#earendil #elwing #silmarillion #lovely!

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Thank god it’s finished ;_____; I think this is the longest I’ve spent on a drawing ever xD  So I basically suck at digital painting/realism so I’m forcing myself to draw it all the time now and starting to enjoy it more (:  I’ve got mixed feelings about how this turned out.. I like some bits but I hate others..like how I’m absolutely terrible at shading clothes, but nevermind… So this is my attempt to draw Lúthien Tinúviel from The Tale of Beren and Luthien *u* I know she’s more likely to be dancing around in a forest than holding a sword but…humour me, I just wanted to show a different aspect of her personality. I’m so bad at designing dresses also but I tried my best xD  I’ll stop rambling on now, I hope you guys like it <3

#silmarillion #luthien

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Fingolfin v. Morgoth || Ar-Pharazôn v. Sauron

I recently made an edit about Fingolfin’s challenge against Morgoth, comparing it with Eowyn’s confrontation with the Witch-king, but as I was researching for another edit about Umbar, I came across another passage that strongly reminded me of that one - specifically “And Morgoth came” v. “And Sauron came” - and then looking further I realized that both passages are extremely structurally paralleled.

Now news came to Hithlum that Dorthonion was lost and the sons of Finarfin overthrown, and that the sons of Fëanor were driven from their lands. Then Fingolfin beheld (as it seemed to him) the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses; and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar. Thus he came alone to Angband’s gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat.

And Morgoth came.

That was the last time in those wars that he passed the doors of his stronghold, and it is said that he took not the challenge willingly; for though his might was greatest of all things in this world, alone of the Valar he knew fear. But he could not now deny the challenge before the face of his captains; for the rocks rang with the shrill music of Fingolfin’s horn, and his voice came keen and clear down into the depths of Angband; and Fingolfin named Morgoth craven, and lord of slaves. Therefore Morgoth came, climbing slowly from his subterranean throne, and the rumour of his feet was like thunder underground. And he issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable on-blazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals; and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice.

—Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin

And men saw his [Ar-Pharazôn’s] sails coming up out of the sunset, dyed as with scarlet and gleaming with red and gold, and fear fell upon the dwellers by the coasts, and they fled far away. But the fleet came at last to that place that was called Umbar, where was the mighty haven of the Númenóreans that no hand had wrought. Empty and silent were all the lands about when the King of the Sea marched upon Middle-earth. For seven days he journeyed with banner and trumpet, and he came to a hill, and he went up, and he set there his pavilion and his throne; and he sat him down in the midst of the land, and the tents of his host were ranged all about him, blue, golden, and white, as a field of tall flowers. Then he sent forth heralds, and he commanded Sauron to come before him and swear to him fealty.

And Sauron came.

Even from his mighty tower of Barad-dûr he came, and made no offer of battle. For he perceived that the power and majesty of the Kings of the Sea surpassed all rumour of them, so that he could not trust even the greatest of his servants to withstand them; and he saw not his time yet to work his will with the Dúnedain. And he was crafty, well skilled to gain what he would by subtlety when force might not avail. Therefore he humbled himself before Ar-Pharazôn and smoothed his tongue; and men wondered, for all that he said seemed fair and wise.

—Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor

I could go on about this -

about how Fingolfin was strong and stood alone and called Morgoth forth with his own voice, where Pharazon was proud and hauled a retinue along with him and doing his dirty work for him;

how Fingolfin was watched with awe as he approached Anbgand, where Pharazon’s approach to Mordor was greeted with fear;

how Morgoth was afraid of Fingolfin but accepted to avoid appearing weak to his subordinates, where Sauron was ready and willing to Pharazon to his advantage and didn’t trust his subordinates to the job right;

how Morgoth was great and terrible and dark as he stood before his foe, where Sauron took a fair form and humbled himself as he began his deception -

I could go on and on, but honestly these passages speak for themselves, about what makes a king, and what makes a good king, and what makes a coward and a hero and the various ways that evil can work, and how one can learn from history or ignore it, the way Sauron learned from Morgoth’s defeat to make himself stronger and the way Pharazon ignored his ancestor Fingolfin’s bravery in favor of his own pride…

Tolkien you clever bastard - you’ve done it again!

#meta

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I know 22 September is Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ birthday—but let us not forget that it is also the date in which Samwise Gamgee, last of the Ring-bearers, leaves Middle-earth for ever to reunite with Frodo.

#i'm just gonna be over here crying into my tea #sam #elanor #lotr

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The Mirror of Galadriel by sh3lly

#galadriel #lotr

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Mordor by Matt Ferguson

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A sketch of this smoobch has been my twit header for forever, so I finally finished it!

#lotr #the dwarf and his boy #gimli #legolas #gigolas

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𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 @vodkertonic

↳ 𝘛𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 (½)

𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯!

#tauriel #the hobbit #third from last cracks me up every time

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More Photos from my Óin Cosplay. We were in the Harz Forest in Germany.

#oin #the hobbit #fantastic #i love cosplay

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‘Éowyn, Éowyn!’ cried Éomer amid his tears. 

But she opened her eyes and said: ‘Éomer! What joy is this? For they said that you were slain. Nay, but that was only the dark voices in my dream. How long have I been dreaming?’

‘Not long, my sister,’ said Éomer. ‘But think no more on it!’

#lotr #eowyn

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I made a promise, Mr Frodo. A promise. “Don’t you leave him Samwise Gamgee.” And I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.

#lotr #frodo #sam #water leaking down face

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Don’t you just LOVE a woman who can scoop you up into their strong arms !!!

#the hobbit #tauriel #Kíli #honestly? #... yeah #i could go for that tbh

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“The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.”

times are tough but aragorn, king of men, is trans and thats good enough to keep me going

#aragorn #and from the west arises #lotr