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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

1 year

This is why I love Tolkien.

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Punished Saxon

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3 months

This remains the greatest piece of Tolkien art ever made.

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Inside of you there are two Tolkien heroes.

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3 months

Ted Nasmith's depiction of Tuor is still my favorite. Perfectly captures the wild yet noble spirit of the Edain of the First Age.

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One of the worst things Jackson’s movies did was give everyone the impression that Sauron needed the ring to win the war against the West.

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2 years

Reminder that Tolkien made a “wrathful” comment about effeminate depictions of Elves.

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2 years

Confirmed Tolkien canon depiction of an Elf.

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Reminder that Tolkien made a “wrathful” comment about effeminate depictions of Elves.

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Punished Saxon

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3 months

Now this is the kind of Balrog art I like to see.

Tolkien Art & Other Beautiful Things

@SeanMac67914982

3 months

Flame of Udûn by Weirling

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Nothing and no one hoped to stand against Sauron physically especially by the time of the late Third Age and his victory was absolutely inevitable in a purely martial sense. The point of the rings destruction was to remove his direct and immediate influence over Middle-earth.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

“Uh Professor Tolkien I thought you said you hated cars!”

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8 months

Tolkien’s drawings of the heraldic devices for the Houses of Finwë, Fëanor, Fingolfin, and Finarfin.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

3 months

Ted Nasmith's depiction of Tuor is still my favorite. Perfectly captures the wild yet noble spirit of the Edain of the First Age.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

New Japanese Silmarillion covers.

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Punished Saxon

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2 years

This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard these men with respect, or disgust?

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 years

Help this wanderer find his friends.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 years

Thread The Legend of Baldor the Hapless As famous as the Paths of the Dead sequence is in The Return of the King there is an often overlooked and underappreciated story about it that is shared by Théoden about the long since dead prince of Rohan Baldor.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

>cast non-white guy as the charcter who operates as an outside inflatring force that corrupts your civilization from within, sows dissension, and gets your people to practice worship of Satan, idolatry, and human sacrifice Amazon: "Heh this will show those racist Tolkien fans!"

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"Give up and despair"

Simon Laird

@realSimonLaird

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@FromKulak Yeah, Tolkien is overrated. The theme of his work is to give up and despair.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

5 months

Remembering now that they actually made Arwen and Aragorn versions of Barbie and Ken back in the day.

Culture Crave 🍿

@CultureCrave

5 months

Margot Robbie reveals her cinematic crush "Aragorn from Lord of the Rings ... Viggo Mortensen ... Strider" (via @wmag )

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Punished Saxon

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2 years

One of the better depictions of a Balrog that I've seen.

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2 years

Thread The Two Watchers of Cirith Ungol In the Return of the King we once again come across another often overlooked of Tolkien’s eerie creations the two silent watchers which guard the entrance into the tower of Cirith Ungol.

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6 months

Amazon vs Tolkien fan artist

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DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

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Bernard Hill has sadly passed away at the age of 79.

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@ExiledSaxon

3 months

@LilyAvette It’s the furthest thing from AI this is the cover art for the illustrated version of The Children of Húrin done by the legendary Tolkien artist Alan Lee.

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@ExiledSaxon

8 months

Wheel of Time Japanese cover illustrations.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

What is it with this year and the garbage Tolkien takes?

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3 months

An encapsulation in a single image of the feel of true Tolkien fantasy.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

Best scene in the whole trilogy and the one that encapsulates Tolkien’s themes of fading and loss more than any other.

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6 months

Elrond's speech about mortality is probably the best thing the movies added

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@ExiledSaxon

9 months

Lmao they're actually going to do Shire slice of life.

Tales of the Shire

@talesoftheshire

9 months

Your cosy Hobbit life awaits in Tales of the Shire, a heart-warming new The Lord of the Rings™ game by Wētā Workshop and Private Division. Coming 2024.

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2 years

AI Gondolin vs Ted Nasmith Gondolin

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Filtered

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

Something I’ve begun to realize is people normally suggest that the reason why Tolkien never got more stories published before his death was due to autistic worldbuilding when it was really that he realized that Middle-earth had too many stories for one lifetime.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

Something I don't ever see brought up is that Tolkien never referred to LOTR as a fantasy, epic, or fairy story but only as a "heroic romance."

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

There was another...long ago.

Brandon 🪓

@Totally_Brandon

2 months

Two types of Tolkien-poasters on this app. I stand with @MiddleearthMixr

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Peter Jackson set to write, direct, produce, and star in 2 part film series called “The Lord of the Rings: The Thinking Fox” currently being set for a holiday 2028 and 2029 release.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

No joke he would be a perfect choice to direct The Children of Húrin or any of the stories of the First and Second Age because if Tolkien adaptations are to have any future and any hope of being good they're going to need a guy with this mindset and vision.

Crusader of Christ ⚔️

@Defendthewest17

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Director Robert Eggers on myth

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 years

1/3 The Iliad with Alan Lee illustrations.

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Punished Saxon

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Tolkien fans for over a decade: "Man just think of all the cool movies they could make from the histories in the appendices." Hollywood studio execs: "Lmao let's make a 3 hour movie based on a single sentence about a character that no one wants to see more of."

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The new ‘Lord of the Rings’ film is titled ‘THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM’ Andy Serkis will return as Gollum & also direct the film.

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@ExiledSaxon

6 months

I have a burning hatred for what I have begun to call wholesome chungus Tolkien.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

Elden Ring concept art of Radagon and Sauron forging the One Ring by Alan Lee

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

3 months

After reading one of Tolkien's letters recently I noticed something that I've never heard anyone bring up before and thought it would make for some fun speculation: Was Pippin's older sister a murderer?

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

9 months

What’s funny about this is Tolkien actually admitted to having written some “sex stories” in The Silmarillion.

Mazer Rackham Jr.

@TheNextMazer

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@TrashSocrates @AdamSFurman Not enough sex in the Narnia books

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

RIP to the most interesting fictional world made in the last 30 years.

Wario64

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Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda

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@ExiledSaxon

2 months

These two boss fights are the closest things we've had to what a proper boss fight with Sauron or Morgoth would look like.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

Many forget how Tolkien does give deeper insight into the political situation in LOTR it’s just that no one seems to bother reading the appendices.

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4 months

What's funny to think about is that she based her Morgoth art on Mads Mikkelsen and she actually showed it off to him.

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@SeanMac67914982

5 months

Morgoth By Elena Kukanova

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

9 months

Bruh I knew this is how Jadis would be portrayed in this manga.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

What got me thinking about this lately was when I was reading a discussion about darker scenes and aspects of Tolkien’s work and someone brought up the often ignored explicit or implied acts cannibalism and a guy was flat out denying that Tolkien would EVER write such a thing.

Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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I have a burning hatred for what I have begun to call wholesome chungus Tolkien.

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“Who shall be Pendragon in the time when Saturn descends from his sphere? In what world did he learn war?” “In the sphere of Venus, I learned war,” said Ransom. “In this age Lurga shall descend. I am the Pendragon.”

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Elwin Ransom in “Out of the Silent Planet” vs. Elwin Ransom in “That Hideous Strength”

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 years

Goodnight everyone.

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2 months

RIP 👑

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Punished Saxon

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A very different kind of depiction of Túrin and Finduilas during the Fall of Nargothrond. The work is called "Túrin the Silent" by Jay Johnstone.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

How nice of horny Tolkien fangirl artists on Deviantart to give Miyazaki so much to work from a decade in advance.

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@ExiledSaxon I get strong feanor/maedhros vibes from radagon.

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Punished Saxon

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9 months

1/5 Small thread on Makar and Meássë Tolkien's Abandoned Valar of War Makar and Meássë the brother and sister Valar of war are probably the two most interesting Valar from the early writings of The Silmarillion that were abandoned in later revisions.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

9 months

Lol they create their own guild for Númenor instead of using the already established guild by Tolkien of seafaring adventurers.

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The approved design for the builder's guild building in the Rings of power. #ringsofpower

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

The artwork for these games was something else especially for the second one.

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RIP to the most interesting fictional world made in the last 30 years.

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Punished Saxon

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This remains the greatest piece of Tolkien art ever made.

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"We find it difficult to conceive of evil and beauty together. The fear of the beautiful fay that ran through the elder ages almost eludes our grasp." J.R.R. Tolkien On Fairy-Stories

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I think everyone needs to comes to terms with the fact that we are never going to see anything good come out of "LOTR" content ever again.

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Punished Saxon

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Well if nothing else we can at least say that we now have two Rohan waifus.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

This section here is what most attempts at going after ROP failed at and what this guys just nails perfectly.

Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

6 months

This remains the best takedown of ROP.

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4 months

This wasn't very wholesome chungus of Tolkien.

Tolkien Art & Other Beautiful Things

@SeanMac67914982

5 months

Celebrimbor was forced, under torture, to disclose the locations of the 16 rings of power, but not the 3. He died from his torment, and his body was shot with arrows and hung upon a pole, and was later paraded as a banner when Sauron attacked the Grey Havens By hsh

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Later after Meduseld has been built and a commemorative feast is held Brego makes a rash vow in his drunkenness to be the one to pass the Door and uncover the secrets which lie within. After attempting this Brego disappears and is never seen again.

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@ExiledSaxon

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I came to the realization many years ago that most criticism of LOTR boils down to "Yeah but what if the story wasn't The Lord of the Rings."

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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Théoden recountins how after Baldor and his father Brego the future second king of Rohan were the first to try passage down the Paths of the Dead they were warned from venturing further pass the Door into the mountain by an old and mysterious figure.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 years

Tolkien speculates that Baldor had stumbled upon an underground temple built by the Men of Dunharrow and that he met his demise when he was taken by surprise from behind by his assailants and his legs were broken beneath him and his left for dead groping in the darkness.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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I’m dying right now

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 years

So what do you all think cause the demise of the poor hapless Baldor? Did he discover a profane temple of the Men of Dunharrow or perhaps something more sinister and unknown lies below the Haunted Mountain?

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 years

1/3 New Alan Lee Tolkien art drop The Host of the Valar storm Angband, the West from Numenor, Aldarion and Erendis, Sauron begins constructing Barad-dur

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Punished Saxon

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Well found out cat is dying from kidney failure. She’s getting put down tomorrow.

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Virgin Jackson Farmer Maggot "Th-there's no Bagginses round here." Chad Book Farmer Maggot "Piss off stranger before I set the dogs on you!"

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This is of course the skeleton of Baldor and seemingly all there is to say about his demise ends here. But where this gets interesting is that Tolkien gives a speculation about the death of poor Baldor.

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@ExiledSaxon

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The Middle-earth Mixer

@MiddleearthMixr

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Noble Virtue vs. the Nietzschean Will to Power is encapsulated in the divide between Fëanor and Fingolfin. Fëanor’s folly brings him to an unceremonious death at the hands of Morgoth’s servant Gothmog. Fingolfin’s virtue made Morgoth bleed and gave him a permanent limp.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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The great warrior kings of Gondor: Rómendacil I, Hyarmendacil I, and Rómendacil II

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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Really don’t have anything to say about this Rohan anime movie because we still don’t really know anything about it in any meaningful way. And how this was going to look was never going to be a major concern.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

9 months

Look all I’m saying is that I went to the Ring of Doom and nobody knew who you were

The Middle-earth Mixer

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look brother all im saying is that i went to the Prancing Pony and Barliman Butterber didn’t know who you were

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Later of course when Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and the Grey Company make their way into the Paths of the Dead they come across an interesting discovery the bones of a knight with a broken sword laying in front of a stony door fingers still clawing at its cracks.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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“The Lord of the Rings is my happy place!”, “Tolkien is my comfort!” I despise this kind of stuff and irreparable damage has been done to how his work is seen because of this.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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By the way I remain forever part of no adaptations ever again gang.

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

9 months

The last remaining huscarl of Harold Godwinson hiding this before being run down by Normans for a true son of England to find later.

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When Tolkien died, he left behind a bunch of scrawlings about his lore in Old English. This is the opening to the Annals of Beleriand, a timeline of some events of the Silmarillian in the style of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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I like how the LOTR mod for CK3 tries to add a little flavor to the various "faiths."

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Thror's map and the map of Wilderland from the Icelandic version of The Hobbit.

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@ExiledSaxon

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When I was really young this scene was one of the first to genuinely scare me.

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@ExiledSaxon

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HEY DID YOU GUYS KNOW THAT TOLKIEN SAID HE DISLIKED DUNE!?

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They also made one of Galadriel.

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@ExiledSaxon

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"Nudes, nudes in the bio..."

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@ExiledSaxon

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I was actually thinking about this a while back and I realized that Middle-earth as a world is really a perfect blend of the two English works that he held in the highest regard those being of course Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

2 months

Something I don't ever see brought up is that Tolkien never referred to LOTR as a fantasy, epic, or fairy story but only as a "heroic romance."

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Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

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Even though this is my favorite piece from Ted Nasmith the one criticism that I could give it is that he actually sanitizes this scene. The Hill of the Slain when Rían goes there would still be a mound of decaying corpses.

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@ExiledSaxon

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Started rereading The Wanderings of Húrin.

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@ExiledSaxon

2 years

Norman jannies got me @writriverdale @JoKaiGonZo @EvergreenAutumn @ShirePropaganda @conan_esq @ffeanaro @LeHobbitFan

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@ExiledSaxon

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Even though it’s funny to see YT idiots reeeee in the comments I detest this guys engagement bait videos.

Crossbearer🇻🇦

@The_Crossbearer

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Why I love Tolkien:

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@ExiledSaxon

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Just got asked if Alan Lee art is AI.

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Obviously they’ve broken and twisted things worse than this but this just illustrates just how much they don’t want anything to with his writing even down to what would be deemed minor details.

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@ExiledSaxon

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"Just saw the heir to the throne of Gondor with a Northman savage. The Blood of Númenor has been defiled. The line of Elendil has failed. The West has fallen. Billions of kin must die."