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No clever quip or profundity will ever have the impact of Frodo saying "it's done" and that's a fact.

Frodo and Sam are rescue by Gwaihir and his brothers.

Today is Tolkien Reading Day!🖤

My LOTR reread has convinced me that the "LOTR is great but JRRT could have used more editorial intervention" takes are wrong. Such an editor might have stopped him from just putting "behold!" in the middle of sentences. Such an editor might have reduced the amount of Old English poetry pastiche, or the lists of warriors like something out of Homer or Malory, or the sentences that go on and on in their lush, confident, Latinate cadences.

My name is Valkyrie Exodus Genesis Chicago and i have short wispy grey hair (that’s how I got my name) with grey streaks and grey tips that reaches my shoulder and wise old eyes like swagful stones

thorin fucked that hobbit on the road to erebor broke back mountain style and then died saying “u were such a good FRIEND bilbo”. what an ATROCIOUS situationship my god

One thing I love is that Tolkien never gives any specifics about Sauron's appearance in the Silmarillion, beyond the facts that he is "fair" and "beautiful." Unlike with many other Tolkien characters, there's no mention of his hair or eye color, his height, or anything else about his physical appearance as Annatar or any of his other fair forms.

It could just be because he is a shapeshifter and such details aren't important, as they aren't permanent, but I think Tolkien was a clever enough writer to have an additional purpose for it.

It allows the reader to picture Sauron as whatever is most fair to them.

In a way, it grants Sauron with the very power of shapeshifting that he has in the books; he can appear different to each reader and form himself into whatever is most fair and seductive in their own eyes.

The last time I read Lord of the Rings, I particularly focused on the songs and the lore that they communicated. Now that I've re-read The Silmarillion, which establishes that this universe was created from song, the music in LotR takes on a new dimension. The whole history of this world is recorded in the lyrics, with successive generations building onto the story, right up to Bilbo and Sam composing verse at the end of the Third Age. Participating in the act of creation.

The Hobbit

This is my favorite book. I would love to live in Bag End, and have a smoke sesh with Gandalf ♥

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Just read The Two Towers, and right now I am absolutely obsessed with the fact that l, when the company encounters the Riders of Rohan, Eomer is like:

"You're *who*? That's not real, that's a legend."

"Wait, the Lady of the Lake is real and not a fairytale?"

"What the fuck is a hobbit?"

And later when the Riders encounter Ents, everyone is like, "Trees can talk? What the FUCK?"

Look at that face in the picture. That is the face of a person that does not believe any of this fantasy shit. Absolute normal person energy, and I absolutely love this.

I love the difference in atmosphere between The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

LOTR is like:

"THE APOCALYPSE IS COMING! SATAN IS RETURNING! YOU ARE CHOSEN ONE AND MUST DESTROY A MIGHTY TREACHEROUS RELIC TO SAVE THE WORLD!"

And the Hobbit is like:

"A bunch of homeless trying to rob a lizard"

Two iconic fantasy genres

Not gonna lie, Elrond probably has the BEST case of Dad Lore™️ that has ever existed.

Like one day Elrohir is just helping wrap bandages or some shit and offhandedly mentions a cave he found and Elrond just goes off on a mini tangent of a cave he slept in with Maedhros when he did CPR for the first time and ate an orc raw or some shit. Elrohir just looks at him like ?????? And Elrond never mentions it again.

Arwen will be talking about dwarven trade routes and he will just be like “oh I’m pretty sure that’s where I delivered that dwarven baby after we hid from goblins back in the second age” and then no one knows what’s going on.

sorry for being a lovestruck faggot I promise it will happen again