#Jrr Tolkien

[thelien-art]

Elrond Peredhel; in Imladris

Elrond Peredhel, in the Second age, in the newly established Imladris which stood finished in S.A. 1700 Of the Sun (1697-1700)

[ihobbit]

Today is April 27th. On this day (2941, the Third Age of Middle-earth) the hobbit Bilbo Baggins left the Shire with the company of Thorin Oakenshield and the wizard Gandalf. The adventure begins! 

[conkers-thecosy]

....Anyone else ever think about Tom Bombadil and the fact that Tolkien's publishers probably only left that whole chunk in there because they thought this random, delightful, and overpowered character was likely going to make a future appearance to help fight the forces of evil, or???

[akzgaj]

Spring in Mirkwood.

Thranduil.

Gouache on paper.

[velvet4510]

Tolkien’s subtle connections between LOTR and The Silmarillion are just glorious to discover. Like the reason Gollum hates sunlight and moonlight is the same reason the Nazgûl get scared off when Frodo calls out to Varda! Sauron, and thus his servants and his Ring that has completely corrupted Gollum’s soul, shares the absolute darkness of Melkor, who always hated and feared Varda because she is absolute light and thereby she created the Sun and Moon in defiance of that darkness… and she created them out of the last remaining light of the Two Trees which Melkor destroyed, so every time a piece of Melkor’s darkness comes into contact with the light of the Sun and Moon, it is reminded that Melkor did not destroy that light completely, that it lives on. Gollum can feel Varda’s creations forever clashing with what is indirectly Melkor’s creation.

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

Regular fandom Tumblr: Do you think your blorbo would fuck my blorbo?

Silmarillion Tumblr: Do you think your blorbo would betray and murder my blorbo in the name of Morgoth the Marrer of Middle-earth?

[call-me-cosmic]

Gandalf is Gan-done

[winwin17]

Incorrect Quote Poll

[cantsayidont]

Gandalf describing why he selected Bilbo for Thorin's quest, in version B of "The Quest of Erebor" (UNFINISHED TALES, 331):

That pointed at once to Bilbo. And I had known him once very well, almost up to his coming of age, better than he knew me. I liked him then. And now I found that he was "unattached" — to jump on again, for of course I did not know all this until I went back to the Shire. I learned that he had never married. I thought that odd, though I guessed why it was; and the reason that I guessed was not the one that most of the Hobbits gave me: that he had early been left very well off and his own master. No, I guessed that he wanted to remain "unattached" for some reason deep down which he did not understand himself — or would not acknowledge, for it alarmed him. He wanted, all the same, to be free to go when the chance came, or he had made up his courage. I remembered how he used to pester me with questions when he was a youngster about the Hobbits that had occasionally "gone off", as they said in the Shire. There were at least two of his uncles on the Took side that had done so.

Uh-huh.

[enbymetalhead]

Sometimes I forget that Blind Guardian and The Silmarillion were created seperately, and not for the sole purpose of producing the best concept album ever made.

[dougielombax]

“Clearly you don’t own an air fryer.”

Oh YEAH?!

Well clearly YOU haven’t read the Silmarillion!!!!!

[frodothefair]

Why is Tolkien so charitable regarding Frodo's missteps? After all, Tolkien conveniently and entirely blames all of Frodo's missteps regarding his handling of the ring on the ring itself.  "I do not think Frodo's was a moral failure. At the last moment the pressure of the Ring would reach its maximum -- impossible, I should have said, for anyone to resist."- JRR Tolkien. One can't imagine him saying anything remotely like this about the others who tried to take the ring. It's only Frodo's actions that Tolkien excuses by saying that anyone in Frodo's position would have done the same thing.

"One can't imagine him saying anything remotely like this about the others who tried to take the ring."

Hmm, and why not? I think it's hard to speculate on what Tolkien would've said about any other character if they were in Frodo's place, charged with Frodo's specific task.

We also do not know how any other character in Frodo's shoes would have acted; we can only speculate.

What we do know, however, is that of the people who took the Ring or tried to, Frodo and Sam were the only ones who took it without the initial desire to use it to achieve some personal goal (including the goal to simply have it, without even knowing what it was. Examples here are Isildur, Gollum, and Bilbo, who also called the Ring "my precious," which Frodo notably never did, and which I interpret to mean that he never coveted the Ring like Bilbo did).

Sam and Frodo took the Ring in order to conduct it to Mount Doom and destroy it. Arguably, Frodo's intentions at the Council of Elrond were that and only that -- if things changed later, that speaks to the time he interacted closely with the Ring and the proximity to Mordor. Sam also took up the Ring only because he wanted to carry on Frodo's mission, but he only carried it for one or two days, so we don't know what would've happened if he continued to be the Ringbearer.

However, the original intention, the lack of ulterior motive in taking the Ring, and the sheer length of time that Frodo spent resisting the Ring while at the height of its power (both in terms of time and place) are all important, and if there's an answer to your question, this is it.

Also, really, no need for the large font, lol. I can see just fine. :)

[invisiblewashboard]

The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.

[atrustfulplace]

imagine: you are chilling in front you your house getting high. along comes an old family friend who you last saw when you were six, you are now in your 50s. after a brief convo where he is kind of a dick to you, he’s like damn you’ve changed :/. and your like yeah bestie it’s been five decades why the fuck are you here. he leaves. later that night a shit ton of people show up and trash your house. just throw and absolute rager. halfway through the family friend from earlier shows up. he announces in full earshot of everyone that he wants you to come with him to rob a bank. you of course say wtf??? one of the people who broke into your house calls you a pussy. another person shoves you a contract which declares if you get shot robbing the bank they will not pay for your funeral. you pass out. when you wake up you find the contract on your table and your house almost completely back to normal. you stare at the contract for a moment and decide, fuck it this is just as a good a midlife crisis than anything.

this is what happened to bilbo baggins

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

[velvet4510]

Insane how Bilbo Baggins embodies each of the Free-Peoples of Middle-Earth.

He is The Hobbit.

He is an honorary Dwarf.

He is an Elf-friend and VIP in their restricted realm.

And he is the instigator of the ultimate salvation of Men.

Bilbo Baggins is the Free-Peoples, rolled up in one.