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I was looking at these images and just thought “These photos could be be a modern ‘Lonely Mountain from Laketown’”

This is probably my favorite Alan Lee illustration in the books I've read so far.

This statue is going to look ridiculously good.

Men of the House of Bëor had darker skin than those of the other houses; I am simply following what Tolkien wrote.

Photographed and edited by Angel Cevallos!

So it all just happened, 2 years ago I've read like a few chapters from The Hobbit but, so at one moment I was talking with my teacher about her book collection and she metioned the Lotr trilogy so I decided to give middle earth another chance and oh boy, for the next 3 months I'd find myself completely immersed into that universe. Now I'm to read The Silmarillion and The Hobbit (I'll read the entire book this time)

Having owned the Folio Silmarillion for a while and reading it twice I had to get the rear of the set. The art design took a bit to calibrate to but I have to say, I'm a forever fan now.

This edition is magnificent. The binding quality is heirloom-level, and the simple, austere design is exactly what I want. It doesn't have gorgeous Alan Lee artwork to coach my imagination, just simple old-world woodcut style chapter headings (with a cool story of their own).

They're, how do I say this, perfectly balanced in the hand, haha. All around just a joy to interface with, these are books made to be read over and over.

I'd love to see more of the posthumous stuff added to this set, and a version of Atlas of Middle Earth would absolutely slap.

I'm going to break in the spines and dive in now.

Hi im new here! I wanted to post this here to ask if anyone had additional information on this lotr poster. I image searched it and found a post on this sub from 2y ago talking about others who had similar posters to this and the artist James (or jimmy) Cauty. I searched him and found a cool new band The KLF, but i dont know his other works of art unfortunately.

I really wanted to post this to figure out if this is some kind of reprint and how I might go about finding more information on it. I saw a few members had this awesome art and also wanted to share it since it meant so much to my grandma before her passing

Please let me know anything you know and I appreciate whatever insight I can find, thanks!

Well, most part of the book is fun to read out loud. Even the spider isn't that scary at all...Shelob is just evil. But..we just finished the battle at the pelannor fields. When eomer goes berserk, even my 7 year old was in tears and hyped like a little Pikachu.

I have to confess, even I had difficulty to keep reading it, there is a lot of emotions going on in that chapter. Reading it out loud makes it even more...vibrant.. damn..one of the best chapters I have ever read out loud.

Also...I know the movie had to make choices...but seeing eomer evolve in the book, is just magical and beautiful. It. Would have worked in the movie but then they had to add 30 minutes. Bring in prince imrahil..would love too see him shine with those swan wings...kinda like the polish hussars.

PJ’s version of this scene is by far my favorite scene in any movie, tv show, sketch, or any other type of media. It’s not close.

Starting from when the Fellowship is surrounded by orcs, continuing to the look Frodo gives Aragorn as Aragorn calls his name. This sequence has a huge impact on me.

From fear of “what happens now?” The fellowship is surrounded, then they’re not? The orcs are running away?

confusion, relief, anticipation comes in.

Then the light of the fire. Oh. Oh sh\t. “*This enemy is beyond any of you.”

The fellowship gets across the bridge. Gandalf, being the introduced as the leader, the powerful wizard, makes his stand. that’s right, Gandalf will save the day.

The hero falls, then the music as the Fellowship exits Moria.

Obv as lotr fans I don’t have to put in every detail and explain to you what happens. That said, every detail from this start to end is perfection.

All of this. This is, imo, the single greatest series of events to ever be put on screen. Is there another scene in the movies that is more impactful?

I'm reading The Hobbit to my 6 year old boy for the first time. When we got to the Misty Mountains song, I wanted him to hear it, so I showed him the clip from the film, which he's asked to see again and again. That started a thing in which after each cool scene, like the three trolls, I show him that scene from the movies. So far, aside from the song, his favorite is Goblin Town.

This has given me a chance to reconsider the movies, or at least much of them. Here's what I think worked really well:

Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves - all had great performances and mostly fit the parts from the book very well.

Smaug and Gollum were terrific.

The Dwarven history shown was excellent.

The treasure and kingdom under the mountain were excellent.

Thorin's heel turn, then back to face, was well done and poetic.

The music was terrific.

What didn't work so well:

The necromancer seemed out of place.

The various elf cameos, and Saruman, seemed pointless.

The forced romance was silly.

I didn't like most of the Laketown stuff.

I was really disappointed with Beorn. I loved him in the book.

Azog and Bolg were nothing villains.

The ending battle was tedious, in my opinion.

What else worked and didn't work?

We all know Saruman's staff in the Peter Jackson trilogy, and how it's modelled to look like the top of Orthanc. But all in all, Saruman has only lived there, what, half a century by the start of the story, and he's been in Middle Earth almost two millenia.

One has to assume that he had a different staff before that, right? Obviously, this is only a matter for the movies, since almost no description is given to the staffs in the books beyond colour, and no real mention is made of Saruman having fashioned a new staff, as far as I know. But still, I cannot help but wonder what that first staff might have looked like.

Do you suppose it looked similar to Gandalf the White's staff in its design?

Couldn’t work out what I should do with my pumpkin.. not the best execution but I’m a few gins deep

My boyfriend is a huge Tolkien nerd. I am an oil painter. I really want to paint him something awesome, and Tolkien related, but I am not sure what to actually paint. I would love suggestions on characters, scenes, or anything that he would love. Thank you!

Late night thoughts that prevents me from sleeping lol

Ok ladies and gents, it is time for the ultimate showdown. You can do the question one of two ways. You can just choose The character you think is most badass.. or.. you can number them 1-4 (one being best)

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Turin (Best known for slaying Glaurung/ father of dragons)
Ecthelion (Best known for slaying Gothmog/ lord of balrogs)
Fingolfin (Best known for fighting Morgoth in single combat)
Elendil (Best known for slaying Ancalagon/ largest dragon of middle earth)

My personal answer is clearly fingolfin. Though he lost the fight, I just think it’s legendary beyond words. I can only imagine him outside the gates of angband blowing his horn. Morgoth got embarrassed on that day.

The Nazgûl are afraid of that stuff. Aragorn alone can fend them off with a burning matchstick.