#lotr collection

[autistook]

LOOK

sharp and heavy as hell, official Unexpected Journey replica

[paontaure]

“The Shire”, original art in graphite, ink and watercolor. Print available on my Etsy : https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/Paontaure

2023 © Paontaure

[trahald-the-burrower]

The best Sméagollum figure to this day:

The reasons why:

He has a Gollum head and a Sméagol head.

He has a fish.

He has a removable loincloth (pocket included).

He is bendy and twisty and grabby.

His proportions are quite accurate, and he even has his mismatching ears.

The rock stand has buttons, one with an S that says Sméagol quotes when you press it and one with a G that says Gollum quotes.

This is the "Return of The King Talking Deluxe Gollum" and I love him. I had two of them when I was 12/13, but I gave one to a little kid.

[baba-the-yagaa]

rip Aragorn, you would've loved carabiners

[cconfusionh]

these are so funny to me

[ihobbit]

I want to show you my favorite book. Of course, this is The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien. I have several books from different years of publication, but this one is my favorite, with illustrations by the author.

[cardboard-crack]

[sesamenom]

Ringlord High King of Everything Elrond, inspired here

(@the-writing-goblin)

I imagine in this situation elrond would have been partially tempted by boromir's declaration, but instead of trying to fight sauron with it (because even in the weirdest crack au i can think of elrond is still too genre-aware to try that) he tried to use it to supercharge his use of vilya and protect everyone.

basically Ringlord!Elrond turned the entirety of Eriador into a mega-gondolin situation: massive walls (courtesy of numenorean/eregion tech) around the regions bordering the north or Mordor, fortresses along the mountain range and several layers of gates along every road in or out. Everybody goes in; nobody goes out; everyone is safe.

and he ended up claiming the kingship to give him more authority in the process - he's High King of the Noldor and Sindar and King of the Edain (given that there are like three half-vanyar in middle-earth, he's more or less king of all children of iluvatar) and so he can have command over the entirety of the West.

and with the help of the Ring, this actually works! but the corruption starts to show eventually

he uses his kinship to Gondor to forcefully drag them into his neo-gondolin-empire-creation so he can ensure none of his great-nephews will ever have to face sauron. he extends the walls to encompass Mirkwood, because he's the high king of the sindar and has a duty to protect thranduil's realm, and unleashes the full might of his melian-lite powers to purge Sauron's Shadow and the spawn of Ungoliant from the now-Greenwood.

Galadriel and Glorfindel very much see where this is going and are very very worried. galadriel won't let him build walls around lothlorien (because she lives next door to a balrog and knows exactly what happened to gondolin) but celeborn thinks it's a good idea, since after all Doriath wouldn't have fallen if Melian's girdle had still been up. glorfindel tries to talk him out of it but the ring has taken hold

the Ring's power also enhances all his natural weirdness and powers - he has his wings and maia markings permanently activated now, with or without finwean anger. he can fully shapeshift, and he goes from raising waves in the bruinen to raising tsunamis in the great sea.

except the finwean anger seems to be permanently activated now, too, and anyone who harms someone he's deemed under his protection finds themselves the target of a rather ironic vengeance quest. the shapeshifting is looking weird now - his teeth are always sharp now, and his eyes have gone fully inhuman. sometimes he has claws and his wings look more like bats than eagles. and his water powers are more like osse's- he can't calm the waters now (goldberry is the first to notice something's up) and can only stir them into massive ship-sinking storms and tsunamis.

this progresses until he's basically Evil Luthien ruling over a continent-wide Mega-Gondolin, slaughtering orc-hordes before they even reach the white walls and sinking any naval fleet Sauron tries to send around the coast. Everybody is brought in; nobody leaves; everyone is safe...?

he figures out that the dwarven legend of "Durin's Bane" has to be one of the few first age balrogs thats still unaccounted for. and well, it's living right on his border, and he can't risk another fall of gondolin, right? so he leads a small force in there to clear moria, and they shove the balrog off the edge, but it takes one of his captains (except glorfindel) with it (maybe erestor?) and he uses the ring and saves erestor, (and maybe floods the balrog for good measure), and glorfindel is sure he saw elrond's eyes go yellow for a moment.

and even fully corrupted, he knows he can't take the ring directly into mordor. but he can wipe out sauron's armies outside the walls, to protect his kingdom - because turgon's mistake was thinking he was safe even when there were balrogs and dragons and orcs outside, right?

somewhere along the way, arwen realizes what's happening and goes to live with galadriel. one of the twins goes with her; the other stays out of loyalty but eventually follows.

elrond's kingdom has become a cross between doriath and gondolin now, with all the surrounding lands warped by ring-magic to hide it, and layers of stone walls and iron gates preventing anyone from leaving. because everyone is here; nobody leaves; everyone is... safe?

[unpretty]

"Everyone I knew who said they were into Legolas turned out to be in denial about liking women."

ALKFJFJYWYGSHDHDJ OMFFFFG

As a former Legolas fangirl this felt targeted 😂

write what you know (friends who got really into legolas and later turned out to not be interested in men)

[frodo-with-glasses]

Notice: I am adopting you and your wife and I am not taking no for an answer

Not SamFroSie!

[relatable-autistic-things]

Sometimes I can't believe that neurotypical people don't get special interests. It actually makes me kinda sad for them.

Like, what do you mean, you don't spend hours engaging with something that will fill you with unbridled joy??

How do you people cope???

[msrandonstuff]

btw do I need to read the silmarillion before i read the books of the children of hurin or about the fall of numenor? i rlly wanna read them now that I finished the lotr but idk if id be missing too much vital info about the lore and everything if i jumped straight to them before reading the silm

[aipilosse]

Galadriel would be the anti-Coco Chanel; her rule is before leaving the house, look in the mirror and add one accessory.

No, not enough jewels. No, still too subtle. Here (gives what's supposed to be a incognito stealth mission party one jeweled brooch each, one gold belt, two silver belts, a bejeweled scabbard, and an even larger and shinier jeweled brooch)

[broadwaymeows]

🍃🍂🍃

[drowninginabactatank]

Weta has a Halloween themed hobbit hole model and man I want one for my bookshelf so bad! It's beautiful 🎃

[cuddleswinchester]

anyway happy birthday Frodo ✨