#tolkien reading day

[southfarthing]

HAPPY TOLKIEN READING DAY! (25TH MARCH)

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.

[glorf1ndel]

Okay, Tolkien fandom. It’s time. Fellowship assemble. March 25th is the day Frodo and Sam (and Gollum) destroyed the One Ring! Sorry, Sauron, but it just wasn’t working out. Happy Destruction of the Ring Day! 💍 🔥 🦅 ✌️ It’s also Tolkien Reading Day, so be sure to leaf through your favorite Tolkien book today. 📚

[echo-bleu]

I never have anything prepared for the events but I've been doing these little studies lately so today seemed like the perfect day for this one.

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day to honor the literary prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) author of acclaimed high fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has shared that the seeds of inspiration for his novels came from his childhood fascination and experimentation with constructed language and a 1911 Summer holiday hiking through Switzerland. Roughly fourteen years after his Swiss adventure, Tolkien would write The Hobbit and the first two volumes of Lord of the Rings while teaching in Oxford.  

Stepping slightly away from Tolkien’s novels, today we’re digging into our broadside collection and sharing Bilbo’s Last Song (At Grey Havens), a poem about leaving Middle-Earth. It first appeared, as seen here, as a poster published in 1974 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., the original English publisher of his famous novels, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), who illustrated many of Tolkien's publications. Chronologically, the poem takes place at the end of the last volume of Lord of the Rings, however it was never included in the series. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[mgcoco]

“Thus [Círdan] forfeited the fulfilment of his greatest desire: to see the Blessed Realm and find again there Olwë and his own nearest kin. Alas, he did not reach the shores until nearly all the Teleri of Olwë's following had departed.”

Tolkien Reading Day 2024, Service and Sacrifice

[oldshrewsburyian]

Éomer and Imrahil: *fail to recognize Aragorn in a disguise*

Pippin: Oh, hey, Strider!!

[weeping] I just love them all so much

[tolkienmatters]

Happy Tolkien Reading Day!

To whom it may concern,

Today is March 25th, Tolkien Reading Day. It commemorates the downfall of the Lord of the Rings (Sauron) and the fall of Barad-dûr! I hope you all have a great week and I appreciate the community we enjoy together.

Here is a link to help you celebrate:

The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Cheers!

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

Tolkien Reading Day is almost over, but just popping on to say that my favorite passage on this year's theme of service and sacrifice is from Gandalf in ROTK:

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till."

This so perfectly encapsulates the imperatives of service here in the real world. You have a responsibility to others to address the problems and evils of life. You literally owe that to the people who are yet to come, who deserve a fair shot at making their way in a world that isn't irreparably tainted by the messes that we made for them. And yet, it isn't your responsibility to fix every single problem and for all time. It's too easy to get discouraged by the immensity of how much is fucked up in the world that needs to be solved. People end up doing nothing because they quickly discover that they can't do everything.

So stop trying to find that magic, silver bullet solution. There is no way to solve everything all at once. Instead, pick something -- what you know and what's in the fields in front of you -- and make it better. Clean that earth. Another person can do the tilling, and someone else the sowing and yet another the harvesting. Someone else can complete the work, but only if you find the strength to honor your responsibility to start it.

[domonicriley]

It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would rather have stayed there in peace.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[sunderedseas]

“Saruman rose to his feet, and stared at Frodo. There was a strange look in his eyes of mingled wonder and respect and hatred. 'You have grown, Halfling,' he said. 'Yes, you have grown very much. You are wise, and cruel. You have robbed my revenge of sweetness, and now I must go hence in bitter-ness, in debt to your mercy. I hate it and you! Well, I go and I will trouble you no more. But do not expect me to wish you health and long life. You will have neither. But that is not my doing. I merely foretell.'” — Scouring of the Shire

[anna-dreamer]

Aaand i could not resist to read a fragment from Starless Road, my ever favourite Tolkien fic. Attaching my old-ass fanart of There-You-Are.

[southfarthing]

hobbit hole with a red door! for tolkien reading day

watercolours and a dab of gouache, 11x7.5" (custom) bookmarks available here ✨

[autailome]

The significance of March 25th in The Lord of the Rings

from Tom Shippey's Author of the Century

[bookscoffeeandi]

📚 Have a fantastic Tolkien Reading Day!

📚 Fantastycznego Dnia Czytania Tolkiena!

[middle-earth-tardis]

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! Featuring the oldest books in my collection! These books originally belonged to my uncle in the 70s/80s.

[mgcoco]

Bilbo is ready for an adventure! Happy Tolkien Reading Day 2023!