#J.R.R. Tolkien

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[perfectfeelings]

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[resqectable]

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[shaelit]

HarperCollins Strike Update

For the full breakdown of what’s been going on since November, read here.

January 20, 2023

It’s been over FIFTY days. The strike is still ongoing. Harper has yet to even speak to the union.

Union members are still scraping on their second and third hustles (which most entry-level publishing people have) and donations to the strike fund. The union has set up a hardship fund (here’s the post about it on their official Instagram, for verification) so no more fiddling with checks or Venmo.

If you can donate, please do.

And whether you can or can’t, please do still share.

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[ageofgeek]

I've been thinking about tolkien lately, and i know this must've happened to many fathers and mothers across europe in the 1940s, but

do you ever think about how tolkien was sent to fight in a pointless, brutal, terrible war, from which only he and one of his friends returned? a war that promised young british men that they would find glory, only to find death and trauma and suffering? and when he returned, stricken with trench fever, he told his children stories of the adventures of a humble hobbit - a simple tale, that maybe purposefully didn't reflect just how awful his own "adventure" was.

And then just 20 years later, those children, his children who had heard those stories of a humble hobbit, got sent to fight in another brutal, devastating war, and he had to watch them go without him, knowing what they would go through because it had happened to him.

and this time, after that second war was over, and his sons had returned to him safely, he wrote another tale. This one not as simple. This one not for children, but for the grown men and soldiers his sons had been forced to become. This one centered the brutalities of war but also the hope of friendship and love.

i just. do you ever think about john ronald reuel tolkien???

[my-chemical-mermaid]

Tolkien: Tom Bombadil is a funky little dude who lives in the forest with his hot wife. Also the most evil thing in the world has no effect on him.

[middle-earth-tardis]

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[froyo-baggins]

inside me there are two wolves. one says that frodo and sam have one of the most devoted, loving friendships ever portrayed in fiction, that depictions of loving platonic friendship between men is extremely important in literature and film, that jrr tolkien did a wonderful thing in depicting a male friendship where both of them are able to be so vulnerable and tender with each other, and that the gestures of kissing and holding hands have their roots in medieval chivalric tradition and were not associated with romance in the way they are now. the other says that frodo and sam have the big gay.

[thebeautifulbook]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien. Art binding and box by Dimitris Koutsipetsidis (2022). Book cover designs by Mia Heath. One of a kind.

source [more photos and information from Dimitri]

[perfectfeelings]

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

On September 2nd, 1973, J.R.R. Tolkien passed away, and this September 2nd is the 49th anniversary of his death. For me and many others, reading Tolkien’s books was a formative experience that sparked a lifelong passion for the world that he created. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, along with Tolkien’s other works, have been a constant source of delight, fascination, and inspiration for me. They have also been a comfort to me in hard times, and a place where I feel at home. It’s difficult to put into words just how much I love Tolkien’s mythology; it is deeply significant to me, and always will be. Thank you, Professor.

[shaelit]

February 21, 2023 - FINAL UPDATE

For a chronological timeline of the entire Harper strike, click here.

Today was the Harper Union’s first day back at their desks.

Collective action works.

The union tweeted out a full summation of their agreement with HarperCollins here, but the highlights are as follows:

Minimum wage increase, immediately to $47,500 with a ramp-up to $50,000 by 2025.

A $1,500 bonus for all union members, presumably to partially offset the costs of being left without a paycheck by their company since November

Guaranteed annual raises for all marked satisfactory or above

Union letter and membership card included in new-hire packets

Joint Labor/Management committee to meet monthly

Time on aforementioned committee and/or all company-sponsored DEI activities will be seen as and paid as work time (as opposed to the free labor junior employees were expected to contribute previously)

Juneteenth and Presidents’ Day added as permanent paid holidays (as opposed to, you know, a one-time publicity stunt a la June 2020)

Return-to-office not mandated for union employees until July 1 (currently, Harper expects employees to live and work in NYC)

The above are just the guaranteed, contractually mandated changes that will be implemented at Harper. This does not include the ripple effects that have already begun in the rest of the industry.

Collective action works.

[thoughtkick]

Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[illustratus]

The Walls of Moria by Donato Giancola

[spidertams]

a little drawing of my boy fili... I consider the fact that i still know how to draw him a win