Even though the Galadhrim armor was my immediate favourite costume aaaall the way back when the movies came out, I only made this cosplay this year, after 10 years of cosplaying Tolkien characters. I got the opportunity of a photoshoot in castle ruins and I couldn't resist. It was a very spontaneous decision though to make the costume so I had to borrow the scalemaille skirt from a friend. The sword and bow are prop replicas.

You can find more of my Tolkien cosplays (I think 19 characters altogether, including a few OCs though) on my Instagram account where I'm much more active than here.

I do clean Himalayas as a hobby and as a LOTR fan, I found this place in a great resemblance with Mordor. There is no filter except my camera settings and there was a dark cloudy sky.

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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.

Does anyone know who portrayed this character? This scene will always give me the chills. Good chills. It makes me feel like I’m in the battlefield.

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

This statue is going to look ridiculously good.

Handmade nostalgia, watercolor paper, watercolor, calligraphy dip pen and ink.

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)

Photographed and edited by Angel Cevallos!

Reading RoTK and just now getting to the siege of Gondor and the Minas Tirith battle. But damn do I love the standoff and battle of wills between Denethor and Gandalf. You can feel the tension between them. Denethor is so much better in the book than his quite literally insane character from the movie. I would’ve loved to have seen a strong and defiant Denethor who had no problem talking back to Gandalf in the movie as he does in the book.

The argument between the two of them and the “item” has been one of the best dialogues in the book.

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.

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?

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?