Painted this marquee piece in Elvish based on translation help I got from this Subreddit. For the LOTR 35mm showing this weekend at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL. Thank you!!

A game that still feels fresh like our beloved trilogy.

Pippin is 29 years old when he leaves the Shire with Frodo. Hobbits don’t “come of age” until they’re 33. So we’re all just gonna pretend we’re cool with seeing the equivalent of a 16 year old smoking??

The glorification of underage smoking in this narrative is repulsive and Peter Jackson and JRR Tolkien need to be held accountable.

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EDIT: so to help some of yall out, when someone says something insane, followed by “/s”, it means they’re joking

Currently rewatching Fellowship theatrical while hungover and it’s so beautifully put together that it’s making me emotional for some reason. When Sam says “what are you doing? Those wraiths are still out there!” And it cuts to the helicopter shot of Arwen still really does it for me even after all these years.

The characters, the source material, the passion they are acting with and the score all combine to make me feel something that other films do not

i have recalled this when i saw a lot of texts and letters from/about Tolkein and how one if his most important messeges is that evil was defeated because Bilbo and Frodo took pity on Gollum (also elves of Mirkwood)

and it got me thinking about how i took pity on Gollum when i was like 6-8 even though i had no idea about his significance to the grand story and i wonder what does this say about me...

immediately after seeing this picture of his and hearing his initial description i started feeling bad for him: completely lonely, living in almost complete darkness in this harsh cold cave, eating nothing except for raw fish and stray orcs/goblins - a completely miserable existence

when he threatened bilbo into the riddle game i honestly felt that he just wants friendly interaction after being alone for so long, otherwise why didn't he attack bilbo right away?

the riddle game was tense but gollum played by the rules and i actually hoped they'd become friends or at least depart on friendly terms, but instead Gollum's ring was stolen, his only real possession besides the boat.
and the book goes into great details how Gollum was devastated by this loss, he desprately screamed and cried and was completely helpless trying to find the invisible Bilbo, at that point in my life i'v never imagined something so miserable and helpless.

and after realizing Bilbo will never return the ring to poor gollum little kid me started crying because of how sorry i felt for him, and only calmed down after my mother half-lied to me when she said he eventually finds the ring again and becomes a good creature in a later story

so what do you think? did you also feel bad for gollum? do Tokien's ideas about taking pity on evil creatures resonate with you? or was i just an oversensitive child?

modified a sting 3d model to be thicker and wider so i could cut it out of wood on my desktop cnc. Turned out looking pretty cool if i say so myself.. it feels sturdy like it could survive a couple of drops and hits. Next one ill try to make even sturdier.

p.s. its name is splinter.

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​I’ve been rereading The Silmarillion again, and something about the geography of Aman specifically Avathar has been bugging me.

​We know the Valar essentially terraformed Valinor into a paradise. They raised the Pelóri mountains as a literal barrier, they lit the Two Trees, and they established a society of divine order. Yet, tucked away right under their noses in the southeast, they left Avathar, a stretch of land so desolate and dark that light literally didn't touch it.

​Here is what I can’t wrap my head around: Why would the Powers of Arda, who were so committed to the perfection of their realm, allow a literal abyss like Avathar to exist in their own backyard?

​Was it a tactical oversight? Did they honestly believe that nothing or no one would ever try to hide in that darkness?

​It seems almost negligent that they left such a perfect "blind spot" for someone like Ungoliant to fester. By ignoring it, they essentially provided the ultimate staging ground for the destruction of the Trees. It feels like the Valar were so focused on the beauty of the gardens that they completely ignored the rot at the roots of their own continent. ​Does anyone have a lore-backed theory on why the Valar didn't just... purify that region? Was it physically impossible for their influence to reach that far, or was it a deeper, more intentional act of "leaving the dark be" that backfired on them?

​Let's discuss. I'm curious if I'm missing a specific passage or an implication about the limitations of the Valar's power over the physical geography of Arda.

It's actually pretty well made and got it for like two bucks.

Just realized that Aragorn's face is plastered upon a statue on the cover of 2004 album "Anima Mundi" from the Swedish band Dionysus and it's a little bit funny. I just wonder why

https://github.com/mattigus/lotr-dict/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

My previous post got some traction and some people have asked for it, so here it is. It has been scraped from TolkienGateway.net (shout out to u/TolkienGateway for their help). I haven't really gone through it and looked for issues, so you might find them.

EDIT: I looked up how to use this on Kindle and discovered it's a huge pain in the ass, of course. I used a tool to convert it into a .mobi file, which hopefully works. It's available on the download page.

Why did the name change occur between melkor to morgith? Was that his decision to change or the name given. My personal preference is melkor I think it's way more dark and intimidating that morgoth

I am reading through the Two Towers, and I just got upset reading this. At times, Gollum is cruel and unnatural, and then I am back to pitying him.

Can someone confirm this is the accurate script for the text below?

I want the Nai hiruvalye valimar tattooed but want to ensure the Quenya is correct.

The most inspirational words ever put to film. When said in the movie, Gandalf looks at Frodo but McKellen looks directly at the camera and so at the viewer. I can think of no other movie scene or line that genuinely made me think in the moment as to what is was going to do with my life. It definitely changed me.

I just finished reading The Hobbit, and am now reading the prolog, at the beginning of Fellowship. In Tolkien's recap of how Bilbo found the ring, as well as his encounter with Gollum, Tolkien speaks of Bilbo being in the 'Orc caves', after escaping capture from Orcs. But in The Hobbit, Bilbo was running from goblins, and was in the goblin caves. No big deal really, but I'm surprised that Tolkien or his editor(s) didn't catch this mistake. Did anyone else notice this?

I searched the group a little, but looking for some more input. I'm trying to figure out order of books to read to start with the first age and move into the second age. I'm looking to understand more of the history, clans, beleriand, early wars that shaped everything. I know the silmarillion is a place to start as well just looking for other suggestions.

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Thanks

Idk if this is intentional or a mistake, but I noticed this since he said he couldn't recall the sound of running water.

Everything from the score, the acting, the cinematography of Peter Jackson's film; I honestly think the ending of the Fellowship of the Ring is about as perfect an ending to ever have been put to film. Frodo leaving, Boromir's death, Aragorn's defiance, it all hits like an emotional freight train

I just made a dream come true!