discworldtour: So today I went to see the Tolkien exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum. It was an incredible exhibit and it’s still up for another two weeks, if you’re in the New York area or can get there easily I cannot recommend it highly enough. There were copies of this book available to …
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a-cute-lil-octopus: so apparently when jrr tolkien was a professor on the first day of class he’d wait until his students were in the lecture hall and seated and starting to wonder whether they were all in the wrong room before throwing open the doors at the back of the hall and striding down the aisle …
You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views …
yuans-samurai-kathu: Elrond after the death of Gil-galad. Source: yuans-samurai-kathu
earendil-was-a-mariner: Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to ‘defeat’ it by being humble when we get the treasure. Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, it’s a real dragon and it has my gold
oiseaudete: lintamande-reblogs: earendil-was-a-mariner: Tolkien started rewriting the Hobbit in the style of LotR, but what I really want is the Silmarillion in the style of the Hobbit. In a hole in the fabric of the universe there lived a god. Now, this was not one of those minor gods of bedtime stories or petty wars …
cycas: writer-robin: Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit” in the first place, when it was originally intended to be an oral bedtime story for his children. (found in the forward to The Hobbit Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1987) ‘Damn the boy’ Hurray for Christopher Tolkien, forcing consistency on his father’s …
bananaraisinface: J. R. R. Tolkien on escapism in “The Lord of the Rings” (x) “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain …
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darthstitch: John was a soldier huddled in the trenches facing No Man’s Land, feeling the most wretched he had ever been. He was cold and hungry, overwhelmed with the stench of unwashed bodies and infected wounds, the nearly endless rounds of gunfire and grenade explosions, the screams of the dying. Sometimes he felt as if …
kelseyuum: … he claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book. Tolkien replied on March 18: “Dear Mr. Gamgee, It was very kind of you to write. You can …
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