#Tolkien

Alf

AlfonzCavalier

Tom Bombadil is a good thing and completely fundamental to the Christian elements of the Tolkien world view.I'm no Tolkien scholar but a few thoughts: Basically, Bombadil embodies a very

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

6) Soon afterwards Tolkien would begin creating his legendarium of Middle-earth with both “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” revolving around the magical, golden and often-stolen One Ring

Kyle J. Howard

KyleJamesHoward

When your ambition is to obtain more power, no matter how hard you try to convince yourself you can do so w/o moral compromise, you can’t. If obtaining power is

Zack Stentz

MuseZack

People are rightfully talking about the greatness of the Lord of the Rings films today on Tolkien's birthday. Some of you may know that the great director John Boorman made

Bill Corbett

BillCorbett

So I finally went full nerd and read The Silmarillion, which is alternatively fun and a dreary slog. But if you've never done likewise I'm here to tell you that

National Trust Archaeology

NatTrustArch

Something rather special for #FridayFinds this week; a tale of a #Roman treasure, a curse tablet & a *possible* link to JRR Tolkien. If you're sitting comfortably then I'll begin...Once

Evan

EvanCooney

I was asked to do a thread on why “lore context” for Gandalf’s fight with the Balrog in the Lord of the Rings is so important and makes the scene

Luke Shelton PhD

LukeBShelton

When we think about gatekeeping in scholarship, it is kind of like trying to think about ‘children’s literature’. We have two ill-defined terms that we have to define before we

Túrin Turambar

TrinTurambar4

Eru Ilúvatar or "The One" is the single omniscient and omnipotent creator in LotR Mythos. Ilúvatar = "All Father" in Quenya. So he is the "All Father" of Pagan Mythos,

Uwe Edelheit (no, that's not my real name)

dietweeterei

1/ Last week I asked you if, in your opinion, Eru Ilúvater has a body or not. 67% of you said no. But in the Ainulindalë Eru lifts his left

HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈

HolBolDoTweet

This is a new commemorative HG Wells £2 coin for 2021. Now, as someone who particularly likes one of his very famous stories, can I just note that the big

TheOneRing.net

theoneringnet

If we really are getting #ReleaseTheSnyderCut and #ReleaseTheAyerCut - two auteur filmmakers working at the top of their game whose franchise films were altered beyond recognition by Warner Bros studio

the dislocating GM🦓 Talin in Idle Champions 13/1♿

mustangsart

THREADCW: AbleismTolkien, Orcs, and AbleismSince the recent orc discourse, I was hesitant to speak about it from a disability point of view, but I believe that I should because it's

Zach Weinersmith

ZachWeiner

Interesting thing about JRR Tolkien:So, there's this famous letter of his, where a German publisher in 1938 asks him to prove he is of aryan origin. He refuses, saying "I

Eleanor Parker

ClerkofOxford

'Eala earendel, engla beorhtast, ofer middangeard monnum sended...''O Earendel, brightest of angels,sent to mankind over middle-earth...'The midwinter solstice, the Anglo-Saxon version of 'O Oriens', and the light of

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

I’ve been thinking a lot about how many of the semi-formative series in sci fi/fantasy I read as a kid were written by white people, often men, often with serious

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