thestoriesbeyond:

_{drinkyouriodine asked: elves or dwarves?}

thestoriesbeyond:

_{anonymous asked: rivendell or mirkwood?}

thestoriesbeyond:

_{The Major Arcana (tarot) - Tolkien Edition (inspiration)}

curiooftheheart:

berenshand:

berenshand:

tolkien: all the war and death in lotr has nothing to do with the war i was in

tolkien: just like how all the morals/good vs evil/everything my characters believe have nothing to do with my morals/beliefs/religion

tolkien: and that character that comes back from the dead has nothing to do with my religion which is based on someone coming back from the dead and uses coming back from the dead as metaphor literally constantly so don’t get any ideas

tolkien: and none of those giant evil spiders have anything to do with the tarantula that bit me either

clive staples: jirt youre literally so stupid

tolkien:

clive:

tolkien: that really slow grumpy tree who takes forever to get to the point or make up his mind is definitely you though

meanwhile, clive staples: Every Single Thing In This Book Including The Talking Lion Is From My Actual Life

I’m sorry but seeing y'all call CS Lewis “Clive Staples” is weirder than any of the magic or furry Jesus in either series

barduils:

someone in my tolkien facebook group just called orlando bloom in pirates of the carribean “legolas doing his best bard cosplay” and i cant unsee it ajdkfghfkf

AJSDFKFDJSKAHFKLDHAZSJAGQK;JDHFJKS

@oneringnet’s favorite character event → thranduil

↳ do not talk to me of dragon-fire! i know its wrath and ruin - i have faced the great serpents of the north!

thestoriesbeyond:

It is within our hearts. 

backofthebookshelf:

lesbiansforboromir:

khazadqueer:

lesbiansforboromir:

God talking about magic in Tolkien you know I thought I kinda had it settled in my head, I’d accepted it’s kind of rare and unknowable nature you know? But then I reread Concerning Hobbits and like…

There’s a sentence that basically says ‘Hobbits didn’t study magic because they just didn’t go in for that sort of thing’ which fucks me up royally because it gives us two pieces of information.

- Magic can be studied 

- Hobbits COULD have had magic but they didn’t want it

I’ve been assuming that Magic’s some inherent thing that requires a process of making and some element of mysticism and a little Valar influence thrown in but no! No apparently you can just read a book like… this isn’t HoME stuff this is Lord of the Rings secure 100% accepted canon material that we now have to just deal with! This means fucking Pippin could have been a Wizard if he’d studied hard enough! We have to process that! John! Did you ever think of that?! 

also, Dwarves have magic. apparently. they can put curses on things. he just.. casually threw that one out there and never mentioned it again.

Yeah!!! Like the Shire just has a bunch of stated ‘clearly magical’ toys all about the shop. Like! What!

I mean, everybody thought that the Necromancer was just some human with a weird research specialization.

barduils:

so many things about tolkien’s mythos are just unintentionally hilarious to me but absolutely nothing beats the fact that elves are canonically such drama queens that they can literally waste away and die if they experience a strong negative emotion

mortal: hey, what’s up man? i haven’t seen you around for a few months, so i thought i’d check in, see how you’re doing, you know-

elf:

aredhels:

@oneringnet favourite characters event: galadriel

oh lights go down
in the moment we’re lost and found
I just wanna be by your side
if these wings could fly
for the rest of our lives