fuckyeahlotrcast:

Elijah on the set of Fellowship

barduils:

barduils:

i know it’s not actually funny at all but there’s something quite amusing to me about the fact that while all the other races in middle-earth go power-crazy and develop god complexes as soon as they lay eyes on the ring, hobbits don’t really have those delusions of grandeur for the most part so they just go a little feral

smeagol setting his hand on the ring: hhyujhuuugggghmgnggnuggrrrrrrr *loses all domestication*

actuallyfeanor:

i-am-the-inksinger:

barduils:

i love how the elves in the lord of the rings and the hobbit are like a cross between mischievous but ultimately benign trickster gods and fae royalty and then elves in the silmarillion are just these feral eldritch abominations who murder each other over jewellery

The best fae take a few millennia to settle the fuck down. Growing pains, you know.

Oops …

perplexingly:

In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. (…) All shall love me and despair!

I mean, I wouldn’t mind an evil lord if it was Galadriel

femmefrodo:

is this valid

jewishpangolin:

saltystoat:

randomitemdrop:

dr-archeville:

tsaomengde:

My fiancee and I were discussing the worst metal to use to make armor, and the obvious answers are lead and gold, but she cunningly suggested mercury. Which is a fair point, but then I wondered if solid mercury is any good. Googling told me that the melting point of mercury is -38° c (-37° f), so first you get it really fucking cold. At that point, it turns out that mercury has a tensile strength of 1900 mpa, compared to lead’s 18 and steel’s ~500-940 (depending upon the kind of steel).

Now, I know that tensile strength is not necessarily the best measure of a material’s ability to function as armor, but I’m a liberal arts major and didn’t care to actually do that much more research before going straight to, “EVIL ICE DEMONS IN MERCURY ARMOR. THE PCS CAN’T LOOT IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY PUT IT ON IT MELTS AND KILLS THEM.”

Ice Demons wielding weapons made of frozen mercury.  Spearheads that break off & melt inside the target.  Swords that leave tiny bits of melted mercury inside the wound (the swords re-freeze to razor sharpness while in the ice demon’s claws).

Item: blades, spears, and/or arrowheads made of mercury frozen by Ice Magic; can only be used by one with Ice Magic, but deliver whatever damage the weapon type would normally make plus equal amounts of Cold and 1d8 Poison. Once the wound has been delivered, it continues to deliver 1d8 Poison until the mercury has been removed by healing magic, Wish, &c.

Give me all of these

This is literally just a Morgul blade

i love how the elves in the lord of the rings and the hobbit are like a cross between mischievous but ultimately benign trickster gods and fae royalty and then elves in the silmarillion are just these feral eldritch abominations who murder each other over jewellery

silmaspens:

Noldor, Teleri, and Sindar elves

I’m trying to pin down their different styles/ motifs

rankin/bass and ralph bakshi: these look great, except for one small detail…where are the pants?

concept artist for every male character in the tolkien animated films: it’s more of a pussy out look

steverogcrs:

make me choose → sahlazarslytherin asked: Sauron or Gollum