#R.I.P. Christopher Tolkien

[muttman]

Hard to swallow pills (for tumblr):

A species that lives entirely underground would have little reason to have melanin, especially if they live primarily around a climate similar to England and Europe in general, especially because lighter skin allows for more vitamins to be obtained when there is less sun normally, this is why non-europeans and non-east asians are darker, the sun is more ínstense and so there’s need for protection and less need to take in more vitamins.

Any added character to Tolkien’s canon does by definition break canon, because the story then has to be changed to accommodate them. Any Beardless dwarf or short haired elf also applies, because of the pre-established culture of each race, and so the culture has to be augmented from what was written by Tolkien to accommodate.

Elves as Tolkien wrote them had long flowing hair because they saw that as beautiful, and the Dwarves never shaved. In addition to the melanin thing, the modern elves make no sense.

Middle Earth was inspired by European mythology, and so has European characters. It features non-europeans from far off lands, like the Harad of the south and the Easterlings of the East, but overall it makes sense as to why the characters are light skinned (I say this as a Mestizo). You shouldn’t cast Christian Bale to play Malcom X, nor Awkwafina to play Robert the Bruce. Same as you’d cast dark, straight haired mestizo (or a fully indigenous Nahuatl speaker if you’re lucky) to play an Aztec or a Mayan.

Grogu is a cutsy piece of bait to get you to watch mediocre shows and distract from the shit sequel trilogy. Star Wars is now just colorful garbage and Din Djarin is (and always has been) a different breed of Gary Stu than Rey, but still such none the less, a plank of wood with all of the “super kewl” items that people know, like Yoda’s species (formerly tridactyls), and the darksaber.

Star Wars and Star Trek, and soon Middle Earth, are being lost to the Normies, and the only way to preserve the original fandom is to make sure you keep an iron grip on your original copies of the series and of Tolkien’s work, to prevent the Heirs from allowing editing.

The people here clap for the most basic shit imaginable, like Din Djarin holding his hands up from a droid about to shoot him. Despite the fact that his opinion on droids has been aboit as stable as a wet noodle, and this isn’t even his show.

Tumblr has not improved as much as you’d think since the exodus, but instead simply infected other sites with its exodus.

Modern Writing, relies now so heavily on the fans making the character traits for the writers, that characters like Din Djarin have exploded in popularity, despite being planks of wood.

Now, I’m leaving this stupid site to learn to write properly, so I can rebuild where Disney and others destroyed, and I’ll laugh as their properties continue to plummit and the Normies slowly fade, to find a new nieche to make into a trend, only to find its fandom wiser, and gatekeeping the fuck out of it, and see peace be restored.

[cynic-and-chief]

In Memoriam

Thank you, Christopher Tolkien, for continuing the legend of Middle Earth and of JRR Tolkien. The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

[fourorfivemovements]

R.I.P Christopher Tolkien

And Thank You.

[songmyself]

Christopher salutaci tuo padre nelle terre immortali di Arda. Grazie di averci fatto continuare a sognare con le sue opere.

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

Me watching Christopher Tolkien fighting money-grubbing corporations that trash themes and characters and show zero respect for the source material away from the works that his father spent most of his life writing:

So anyway Christopher Tolkien literally took 70 boxes of his father’s disorganised notes and spent his whole life turning them into something that could be read, appreciated, studied and loved. Words can’t express how much this man did for everyone to whom Tolkien’s work means something…thank you so much, Christopher. Safe journey to the white shores under a swift sunrise.

[nurantarenendurath]

Christopher Tolkien

I woke up and it hit me like a truck

Christopher Tolkien has peacefully passed away at the age of 95

He was the guardian of the Silmarillion and the lost stories of middleearth

Thanks to him we have all those wonderful stories, that would be lost without him.

He brought more of his fathers work into this world, knowign that it was what he would’ve wanted and he always worked on publishing more.

We lost an amazing and outstanding man, who deserves all the praise and should get way more credit from the media.

May The Valar welcome him, and may he stand before the throne of Illuvatár

And when the last song breaks out, may his voice echo through this world

R.I.P Christopher Tolkien, last son of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And may the undieing lands welcome you in eternity

[albion-93]

Christopher Tolkien: R.I.P. 1924-2020

Today, we have lost the great steward and guardian of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth mythos; his hard work lives on in the books he wrote that carried his father’s legacy. I cannot say I agreed with everything he ever said, often concerning the films or the games inspired by the books, but I will always be grateful for his great work and part in Middle-earth history. Not just in compiling, editing and completing The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales for us grateful Tolkien fans to enjoy, but for being there in the beginning as his father’s first eager audience as a child like many of us were once.

I hope you are now in the Undying Lands reunited with your great father again.

Namárië, Christopher... and thank you for everything.

[jolleiq-chan]

@elven-child a part of me just died... I physically felt it...

T.T

R.I.P. one of the last true gentlemen in this ever-dilapidating world...

[oberst-disappointment]

Christopher Tolkien, son of John Ronald Reual Tolkien, passed on this day, January 16th, at 95, surrounded by family. Without him, we would not have the amount of lore from his fathers works as we do now. R.I.P Christopher Tolkien, and may Manwë carry you away to the Undying Halls.

[hermeticascetic]

R.I.P J.R.R.T.

Today 47 years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien sailed into the West.  We hope that on the Blessed Shore, he is raising a glass today with his son Christopher, looking back at their handiwork, hopefully satisfied with the gift they have given to us who remain behind on the Hither Shore.

Requiescat in Pace, Professor.

Featured Image by Alan Lee, above painting by Donato Giancola.

[fanfictionlive]

In Honour of Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020

One of my stories - my favourite - is based in Middle-Earth. Without the efforts of both J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher, it would not exist. I would not be able to share my love of their world with my readers, had they not first shared theirs with me. Both have had a tremendous influence on me with their respective works, and both are now gone. The world feels just a little emptier today.

"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.”

R.I.P.

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[selennophile]

R.I.P Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020). "Shadows long before me lie, beneath the ever-bending sky, but islands lie behind the Sun that I shall raise ere all is done; lands there are to west of West, where night is quiet and sleep is rest" ~Bilbo Baggins

[neptunesnaval]

R.I.P Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020). "Shadows long before me lie, beneath the ever-bending sky, but islands lie behind the Sun that I shall raise ere all is done; lands there are to west of West, where night is quiet and sleep is rest" ~Bilbo Baggins

[holdupandsmokethatblunt]

R.I.P Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020). "Shadows long before me lie, beneath the ever-bending sky, but islands lie behind the Sun that I shall raise ere all is done; lands there are to west of West, where night is quiet and sleep is rest" ~Bilbo Baggins

[okayaniele]

R.I.P Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020). "Shadows long before me lie, beneath the ever-bending sky, but islands lie behind the Sun that I shall raise ere all is done; lands there are to west of West, where night is quiet and sleep is rest" ~Bilbo Baggins

[esracolak]

95 yaşındaydı ama son oğluydu 😞 babasının geride bıraktıklarını o olmasaydı bilemeyecektik 😥 R.I.P. Christopher Tolkien... #christophertolkien #jrrtolkien https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ZjJumAQOu/?igshid=1gvzjxc7xq1ng