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Terry Pratchett
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underrated lotr moment is gandalf’s “let me risk a little more light” so the fellowship can see the ruins of dwarrowdelf.
idk what it is idk how to put it into words but like. such a quick and quiet little moment of, recognizing we’re all in constant mortal peril but while we’re here you should still witness the wonders of the world. while we are here, though it may be on a life-threatening quest, you deserve a little tourist moment. soak it in, the great city that remains long-abandoned and nearly forgotten, the grand pillars that outlived the memories of those who built them. so much of love and life is fleeting in this dark age. but the scraps of it can still be found. the remnants are still here, and even with significant risk they deseve to be beheld.
LOTR Heritage Post
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”I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.„ - J. R. R. Tolkien
Kinda vent idk..
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The Lonely Mountain🏔️
My favorite scene in the film!!
May 11th, 2022 - February 15th 2023 (I spent so much time on it😭)
Photographed under lamplight (the daylight version could be found in my posts)
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POV:
You both die fighting for a home you've only ever heard of and will never experience.
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Windy
(for commission)
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“His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.”
- J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit
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"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory."
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Appendix A "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"
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If you dont know how to make a decision just ask yourself "what would Gandalf do?" ...he just follows his nose, disappears for days and he beats old men with his stick... So do what Gandalf does
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The Expulsion (preliminary art)
by Donato Giancola
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The fact that The Hobbit is such a lighthearted family-friendly book, especially when compared to LOTR, actually breaks my heart when you consider that it is Bilbo’s writing. That journey was anything but a fun trip for him. He went through real dangers and horrifying moments. He saw violence for the first time. At the end of it, he lost his love. And he went home traumatized, heartbroken, and forever changed.
Yet when he wrote the story down, he emphasized the more successful and fun parts, and glossed over the depth of his pain and grief when the losses happened (even leaving Fíli and Kíli’s deaths to a throwaway line.)
Because what else could he have done? Nobody else could possibly understand his pain. Bilbo wasn’t like Frodo. He didn’t have a Sam who he shared the experience with and could talk to about it every day afterward, to help him work through writing down the details of the darker parts of the story. And his other friends lived far away and could only visit occasionally.
And the hobbit children were all full of wonder about Elves and dwarves and trolls, so he put the focus on that.
I feel like that was his way of dealing with his trauma.
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“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Tory Sevas’s illustrations for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.