#R.I.P. J.R.R. 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.

[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.

[berserk-ir]

Aweee thanks @xanzusx 🥰🥰

Nickname: Lex, Beserk? Idk I’m not too much of a nickname person lmao

Zodiac: Virgo 🥴

Height: 5’’3

Last thing I googled: Spotify (they removed the app on the MAC App Store so I have to use the Web player! 😡👎)

Followers: noooo idea, I love being tumblr anonymous though 💕

Song stuck in my head: That dumb TikTok edit “And now we’re flying, and it feels like we’re dying” 🥰

How much I sleep: LMAO

Lucky number: Idk? 5? It’s easy to count in fives (dumm at maths)

Dream Job: I would love to be a museum curator and be in documentaries as a historian

Wearing: oversized black sweater hoodie with thigh highs (yes even my Jammies need to be yassified)

Favorite song: ‘I want to be adored’- Stone Roses 🖤

Favorite instrument: oooo Violin bc I’m slightly biased having played it for four years, or Bass guitar (I ain’t ever seen an ugly bass player 😩)

Aesthetic: Dark cottage core for rural and interior aesthetic. 90’s grunge, 70s retro for urban settings and fashion.

Favorite author: Anne Rice (R.I.P) ,J.R.R Tolkien (also R.I.P lmao)

Favorite animal sound: that mrrrp sound cats make when picked up or they are play hunting 🥰

Something random:

I can’t count in odd numbers; bad at mental math (still dumm at maths)

Ahhhhh I don’t know many who would want to do this 🥺🥺 I’ll just spam tag @annzy-bananzys-corner @smokeys-house again 🤣🤣

I was tagged by @raininyourblackeyes like a week ago and I kept putting it off because of uni work but I'm almost done with that so

nickname: the bestie squad calls me barns (and I really like it)

zodiac: scorpio

height: 158 cm

Hogwarts house: Slytherin

last thing I googled: captain marvel in the dc universe, I saw a text post and got confused

followers: wouldn't you like to know weatherboy? (honestly idk)

song stuck in my head: Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell, this happens pretty much every time I read the words twilight zone

how much I sleep: usually somewhere from 6 to 8 hours a day

lucky number: i don't have one, sorry

dream job: I used to want to be a writer, but that requires actually writing. So now I think my dream job would be to be a college professor, but that is very unlikely to happen since doctorate programs are expensive and young researcher and asistant positions at the faculty are scarce due to funding :

wearing: pajamas

favourite song: this is an impossible question but the two songs I listen to the most rn are Noah Reid's cover of A Case of You, and State of Grace (Acoustic Version) TV

favourite instrument: piano (I don't play, but I would love to learn)

aesthetics: I want to say dark academia? But make it modern

favourite author: Maggie Stiefvater, the way she writes and describes things just does something to me. Also the way she describes beauty as something incredibly sad is 👌

favourite animla noise: I like cat purrs a lot

something random: I have a presentation today and I should probably get back to working on it now

I'm tagging @go-catch-a-chickn, @fandoms-princess , @kurobthings , and @saecookie

[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.

[railing-away]

R.I.P. Ian Holm

Lord of the Rings, 1981

Michael Hordern as Gandalf, John Le Mesurier as Bilbo and Ian Holm as Frodo in the Radio 4 dramatisation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

Photograph: John Green/BBC Pictures Archives

All three of these greats have passed now.

[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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[clarkonly]

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither; deep roots are not reached by the frost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[mohriarty]

tagged by @1runw1thwolves212

RULES: Answer all the questions, add one of your own and tag as many people as there are questions

1. COKE OR PEPSI: Coke 2. DISNEY OR DREAMWORKS: Uhh, I want to say Dreamworks, but Mulan is my all-time favourite animated film and that’s Disney so...? 3. COFFEE OR TEA: Tea. 4. BOOKS OR MOVIES: LORD I DONT KNOW?? I love both considering I’m a book AND movie buff wtfff 5. WINDOWS OR MAC: Windows, jesus christ I am not a fucking casual why is this question even here when Mac is obviously inferior to the gaming prowess of Windows. 6. DC OR MARVEL: LMAO fuck DC. MARVEL ALL THE WAY YALL 7. XBOX OR PLAYSTATION: X-BOX. AGAIN, THIS IS A WEIRD QUESTION WHEN X-BOX IS CLEARLY SUPERIOR. 8. DRAGON AGE OR MASS EFFECT: OH LORD. MASS EFFECT BECAUSE OF ANDROMEDA I GUESS - THIS QUESTION IS WEIRD CONSIDERING THEY ARE DIFFERENT GENRE OF GAMES BUT I’D JUST LIKE TO PUT IT OUT THERE THAT OBLIVION WAS THE GREATEST VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME. 9. NIGHT OWL OR EARLY RISER: Night owl fam 10. CARDS OR CHESS: I’m the rad at both but chess for sure. 11. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA: Vanilla. (Strawberry flavouring whoops both their asses so) 12. VANS OR CONVERSE: I don’t fuckin know. They’re shoes. I mean I want a pair of Yeezys if that coults. 13. LAVELLAN, TREVELYAN, CADASH, OR ADAAR: WHAT IS WITH THE DRAGON AGE REFERENCES?? IDK MAN MY CHARACTER RIGHT NOW LIKES LAVELLAN SO ILL GO W/ THEM. 14. FLUFF OR ANGST: ANGST 15. BEACH OR FOREST: Forests! Then again, I remember as I child I went to this empty beach and it was storming and I was sitting on a precipice looking over it all whilst the waves were going crazy and that’s always stuck with me because idk? 16. DOGS OR CATS: fuckin snakes. but i like dogs. 17. CLEAR SKIES OR RAIN: i want it to be storming. 18. COOKING OR EATING OUT: cooking (when someone else does it) 19. SPICY OR MILD FOOD: depends on the dish. 20. HALLOWEEN/SAMHAIN OR SOLSTICE/YULE/CHRISTMAS: Halloween! 21. WOULD YOU RATHER FOREVER BE A LITTLE TOO COLD OR A LITTLE TOO HOT: SON, SON. I AM LITERALLY THE WARMEST PERSON I KNOW I WAS LITERALLY IN THE SNOW ONCE IN ONLY A SINGLET AND PANTS AND I WAS STILL WARM. I ALSO HATE THE HEAT SO THERE. 22. IF YOU COULD HAVE A SUPERPOWER WHAT WOULD IT BE: Read the comics with Legion in them. THAT’S THE POWER I WANT. 23. ANIMATION OR LIVE ACTION: idfk 24. PARAGON OR RENEGADE: renegade 25. BATH OR SHOWER: baths because i can drown myself 26. TEAM CAP OR TEAM IRONMAN: TEAM CAP (BUT I WILL NOT TOLERATE TONY HATE YOU FUCKS) 27. FANTASY OR SCI-FI: HARD QUESTION. BOTH. 28. DO YOU HAVE 3 OR 4 FAVORITE QUOTES IF SO WHAT ARE THEY: I love quotes and thus I have far too many to list, but I find that this one by J.R.R Tolkien is one that is always playing on my mind: “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”     29. YOUTUBE OR NETFLIX: Don’t have Netflix, so YouTube. 30. HARRY POTTER OR PERCY JACKSON: HP. 32. STAR WARS OR STAR TREK: STAR TREK, BECAUSE WHEN I WAS GROWING UP AS A LITTLE MIXED KID I COULD RELATE TO THE STRUGGLES OF SPOCK. 33. PAPERBACK BOOKS OR HARDCOVER BOOKS: Hard cover!! 34. FANTASTIC BEASTS OR CURSED CHILD: FANTASTIC BEASTS. 35. ROCK OR POP MUSIC: I hate rock music and pop music. I like Rock ‘n Roll WHICH IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO ‘ROCK’ A.K.A GO SEARCH UP CHUCK BERRY (R.I.P) 36. WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN YOUR LIFE: I’d say my parents but they aren’t things. Perhaps my journal or my PC? I think mainly my cash lol. I’m unsure. 37. THE LAST BOOK YOU READ/THE ONE YOU’RE CURRENTLY READING: The Help by Kathryn Stockett and now I’m reading The Blind Side by Michael Lewis!! I def recommend yall check ‘em out. 38: SONG THAT MAKES YOU SMILE/SONG THAT MAKES YOU CRY: I’m not going to add the song that makes me cry because I dont want my friends to read that lol, plus Im uncomfortable with crying anyway. A song that makes me smile.... Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham! I guess is probs the no. one contender. I don’t know, I’m not in-tune with my feelings. 39. SUSHI OR WAN TAN SOUP: Sushi 40. SPRING OR AUTUMN: Both. Spring, because that’s when my tulips seem to be happiest! But they grow best in Winter. If it were a competition between all the seasons, let it be known that Winter will always win. 41. DRAWING OR WRITING: I like both, since I do calligraphy often and that ties in with drawing and writing. But if I had to choose I’d choose choose writing. 42. SINGING OR DANCING: I’m bad at singing and I absolutely, with 100% of my being detest dancing. So, by the great power of deductions, y’all can see that my answer is: singing. 43. TV SHOW/MOVIE/BOOK THAT’S LIKE YOUR HAPPY PLACE, SOMETHING THAT ALWAYS MAKES YOU SMILE: I’m in far too many fandoms, but something to do with LOTR, The Hobbit, HP, MARVEL, STAR TREK, etc. Would do the trick! 44. FIRST GOOD CHILDHOOD MEMORY THAT POPS INTO YOUR HEAD: I am four. My nose is cold and my ankles are submerged in clear, running river water. It’s Autumn. The leaves around me are falling and it is quiet and I am alone and I had never felt so free in my life. It was the first time I had ever felt something I couldn’t describe, and I remember how clearly I felt like I was ancient, like I had lost something old and powerful. I remember my heart felt heavy in my chest and I remember that I felt too solemn to be so young. I felt so sad but I felt so whole and those are contradictions I think, but I felt them anyway. 45. IF YOU COULD VISIT ANY HISTORICAL TIME PERIOD, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY? The 40s, so I could contribute to the war effort, and I would try and save as many Jewish people as possible. I’d save my grandmother specifically, she didn’t die in the Holocaust but she was scarred beyond repair and it was heartbreaking.

[miffimifster]

R.I.P. Miffi Miffi had trouble breathing, since last night. We took her to our vets this morning, and they found that her lungs were full of fluid, and there was a mass visible on one side. She was struggling to draw breath. Her chances were very bleak, and we had to make the difficult decision to let her go. Miffi passed away around 10:30am, today, July 8, 2017. Miffi (originally named Mithril - after the special silver mined by dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit") was the second kitten adopted by my self and my husband, in April 1999. She was such a little character, jumping everywhere, and attacking my feet on the bed. She let Frodo know "Who's boss!" pretty much immediately, once she got big enough. They were best buds for a long time (until Mauricee-poo came along and threw everything out of whack in the cat dynamics). She was my husband's "Little Nurse", on bad days, when he had a migraine, curling up on his chest, and purring his pain away. She was also my baby - snuggling on my chest, every chance she got, and demanding shares of all the tasty foods I've had - especially, chicken. We always joked about buying her one whole roast chicken, and just letting her go at it, speculating that she would go in at one end and then burst out through its chest, like a Xenomorph ("Aliens"). Our house is now even emptier, as we are down to two kitties, Frodo, and Kinu.

[clarkonly]

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither; deep roots are not reached by the frost.

J.R.R Tolkien