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It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why.

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lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring

o! wanderers in the shadowed land despair not! for though dark they stand, all woods there be must end at last, and see the open sun go past: the setting sun, the rising sun, the day’s end or the day begun.

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@oneringnet  — kings and queens the king of the vanyar in valinor and reckoned as the high king of all the elves

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So the Lord of the Rings trilogy is basically just Aragorn being an overworked hobbit-mom who keeps losing his hobbits. Literally every book is just Aragorn trying frantically to find his lost hobbits and I’m here for it.

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it’s 2021 and people still think “movie Frodo is a big whiner” is a) a hot take, b) actually accurate to the movies, and c) not ableist at all

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Frodo smiling (✿◠‿◠)

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Help for Reading Tolkien

I’ve done my best to gather a set of resources to make Tolkien more accessible, to both disabled fans and those who struggle with denser and more academic writing. 

Free audiobooks:

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings 

Silmarillion: Link 1 Link 2

The Children of Hurin

Beren and Luthien

The Fall of Gondolin

Unfinished Tales Part 1 Part 2

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

The Book of Lost Tales Part 1 Part 2

The Treason of Isengard

The War of the Ring

The End of the Third Age

Spark Notes for:

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

The Return of the King

Aids to reading the Silmarillion:

Silmarillion Study Guide made by @omicheese

Silmarillion Chapter Summaries by the Silmarillion Writers Guild

SuperSummary’s Silmarillion Study Guide

An animated map of Beleriand showing the events of the First Age years 1-475

A Timeline of Arda

The Tolkien Road Podcast read out and then discuss each chapter of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion

Tolkien Society’s FAQ

@expertsofarda‘s post of people who can answer questions and help you understand the books

Please add any resources you have! Particularly, I’m still looking for free audio books for; The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle Earth, The Lost Road and Other Writings, The Return of the Shadow, Sauron Defeated, Morgoth’s Ring, The War of the Jewels, and The Peoples of Middle-Earth.

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“‘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.’”

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A Filmic Tour of Hatfield House: the Long Gallery

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos The Crown (2016 - ) Sherlock Holmes (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie The Great (2020 - ) Paddington (2014) dir. Paul King Mr. Holmes (2015) dir. Bill Condon All The Money in the World (2017) dir. Ridley Scott F9 (2021) dir. Justin Lin Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) dir. Jan de Bont Orlando (1992) dir. Sally Potter Wonder Woman (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) dir. Burr Steers Rebecca (2020) dir. Ben Wheatley

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“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells… and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower… both strange and familiar.” - Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

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sorry i didnt “complete my obligations” i was busy having gay little thoughts and ideas

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Who would’ve thought one so small could endure so much pain?

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Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s day will shine upon the keyhole.

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mythic influences for the work of tolkien

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the hobbit - j.r.r. tolkien

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the fellowship of the ring ↬ a long-expected party  

as for bilbo baggins, even while he was making his speech, he had been fingering the golden ring in his pocket: his magic ring that he had kept secret for so many years. as he stepped down he slipped it on his finger, and he was never seen by any hobbit in hobbiton again.

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middle-earth meme: [3/3] heroes -> eärendil the mariner

A ship then new they built for him of mithril and of elven-glass with shining prow; no shaven oar nor sail she bore on silver mast: the Silmaril as lantern light and banner bright with living flame to gleam thereon by Elbereth herself was set, who thither came and wings immortal made for him, and laid on him undying doom, to sail the shoreless skies and come behind the Sun and light of Moon.