There’s a thought: Do you suppose #Tolkien based Thingol Greycloak on King Numa Pompilius?
https://mastodon.social/@AimeeMaroux/114380911500290785
LESETIPP: Wumpusjagd – die erste Game Map der Videospielgeschichte
https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/wumpusjagd-die-erste-game-map-der-videospielgeschichte/
@glyph @Taweret @jalefkowit The question of the rightful owner of the One Ring is complicated and hilarious. #Tolkien https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2023/09/17/of-golf-balls-and-war-spoils-the-one-ring-and-property-law-squabbles/
@daisymayys @hadeantaiga @Vettir Anybody familiar with "Nightfall in Middle Earth", the album by German Power Metal band Blind Guardian that adapts the events of Quenta Silmarilion? (and the bonus track Harvest of Sorrow that's about Turin Turambar)
screaming into the void perhaps but are there any silm fans on this site??
Just found this pic that I took at Wakehurst place last week, which conclusively proves that Ents do exist…
Was ich nicht verstehe: reiche, einflussreiche Menschen, die all ihre Kraft der Marginalisierung bereits marginalisierter Menschen widmen. Es ist der Opportunismus einer diebischen Autorin, die sich auf ihrer Superjacht bei Cocktail und Zigarre über ihren gelungenen Coup freut.
#jkrowling #tolkien #TransRights #guardian
Inspired a bit by @rob_haines's screenshot albums, I've started recording my experiments designing little Dwarf settlements in Return to Moria, a game I've played *far* too much of recently (digging a lot of virtual holes feels like one of my less bad options for coping with the world...)
I've been making some quite pretty places! I've got the first post up, and there'll be more to come in a variety of dwarfish styles and biomes :)
@e_kloczko Linda-lambe means “the singing tongue”. “Tra-la-la-lally” is a Lindàrin word. #Tolkien
HarperCollins UK have a 40% sale on everything, running until Friday 18th April 2025. Use code SPRING40 at checkout to get the discount. May be a good time to snap up any Tolkien books you're after, especially deluxe editions! I may just have ordered the facsimile Hobbit, hardback expanded Letters and hardback illustrated Robert Foster guide. HarperCollins UK often do flash 50% sales but these are very short running. This one is on for longer. https://harpercollins.co.uk #Books #Bookstodon #Tolkien
Quenya is the native language of all the High-Elves living in Eldamar and Tol Eressëa. It developed there. The Elves who speak it are the Vanyar (First Clan), the Ñoldor (Second Clan), and the Teleri (Third Clan). But the Teleri's view of their language is that it is a distinct tongue, not a ‘dialect’ of Quenya . The Teleri call their tongue Lindárin, Linda-lambe. In Quenya that tongue is called Telerin, and in English Telerian.
The Digital Tolkien Project is up for an award this year. Lobbying all #Tolkien Society members! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u6xcbj535kkksz5qsehakuiu/post/3lmuuyuuab22r
In 1951, #Tolkien rewrites his first Middle-Earth story from 1917 for the fourth and final time. He struggles to make sense of Tuor's aimless hiking.
In this version, first published in Unfinished Tales (1980) we see Tolkien at the height of his LotR powers, treating his early meandering tale as a dependable but badly incomplete historical source. He adds a lot of needed motivation. But keeps his old hero still hiking around!
Tolkien's manuscript.
This is from another area of Tolkien's mind: calendars.
He was pretty obsessed with making calendars for his Middle-earth. He wrote a big appendix to "The Lord of the Rings" about it, and wrote a great deal about the calendars before settling on the text as printed in Appendix D of "The Lord of the Rings".
I also feel like making a Font of Tolkien's own pen writing. What do you think?
The One Ring inscription (Part 2)
Image 1 shows the second One Ring inscription Tolkien sent to the printer. But he was still unhappy with it. So he asked to send another one.
Image 2 shows the well know inscription as printed in books. The original art sent by Tolkien to the printer is lost.
The inadvertently changed tengwa is circled in blue. Tolkien became later aware of his mistake (before publication) but accepted it.
The One Ring inscription (Part 1)
The inscription on the One Ring is perhaps the best-known piece of Tengwar art (along with the Doors of Moria) that Tolkien conceived, but did you know that he made a mistake in trying to find a better style of calligraphy for it after sending it to the printer and being urged by everyone to finish the job?
_look for part 2_
Des Bilbo de carnet.
J’ai filmé un dessin sur mon tumblr :
https://www.tumblr.com/maumont/780707197313269760/perdu-dans-la-grotte?source=share
#tolkien #bilbo #lotr #illustration
Técnicamente no es la mejor animación, pero como fan de J.R.R. Tolkien he disfrutado mucho "La guerra de los Rohirrim". Y sé que para muchos será un punto a favor, pero en mi opinión bebe demasiado de la trilogía de Peter Jackson, podía separarse más en la iconografía (es que incluso cuando aparece Saruman lo hace con el rostro y caracterización de Christopher Lee en las películas). De hecho, cuando se atreve a imaginar diría que refleja la Tierra Media mejor que la versión en cine.
Los decorados y paisajes son bellísimos, a veces parecen pintados por Alan Lee; apuesto a que sus ilustraciones han servido de inspiración para esta reconstrucción de la Tierra Media.
