We got three books about a whole pack of guys trying to destroy one piece of Sauron’s bling. Meanwhile,
back in the First Age at the height of Sauron’s power, Lúthien Tinúviel
confronted him directly and beat the shit out of him with an awesome hound. And then she went on right to the stronghold of his master, Morgoth, and put that shithead and his whole goddamn army to sleep. Like, if she hadn’t fallen in love with a human and essentially convinced the gatekeeper of death that she should be able to live and die as a mortal, I don’t think anyone would have ever stopped her.
Lúthien was the biggest goddamn badass in Middle-earth.
Who needs disney princesses when you got Tolkien princesses
i love that moment in fellowship when celeborn pulls aragorn aside and goes “you are being chased by genetically modified orcs so i’m giving you my favourite dagger to stab them with good luck man.”
Ok though do you ever think about how weird it is that, we know elves consider hair super sexual because Tolkien said so, right? it’s literally their primary sexual characteristic. But they also name their children after their hair colour, and all they ever go on about is hair. TLDR this is the most solid argument there is again against elves being prudish, because like, THEY BASICALLY NAME ALL THEIR CHILDREN THE INWORLD EQUIVALENT OF “BIGGUS DICKUS” AND OH MY GOD WHAT IF THE ENTIRE SILM IS JUST ELF EROTICA THAT MISTAKEN FOR SERIOUS LITERATURE BECAUSE THE TWO M’S NEVER GAVE ELROND THE ELVEN SEX TALK
Okay this is the best thing ever. But like. The implications of this O___O I’m thinking
Lúthien cutting off her hair to make a rope is just. incredibly kinky
same with Glorfindel being dragged down to his death by the HAIR
When Elrond learned this (probably from Maglor, eventually) he went back and censored Glofindel out of the canon version of the Silmarillion IMMEDIATELY because WOW NSFW, SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN THIS IS WHY CLOSED ADOPTION IS A TERRIBLE IDEA
A piccy of Gandalf, when he was known as Olorin, before he came to Middle Earth.
I’ve drawn Olorin before but it got deleted in the great December purge. I was never very happy with how it turned out, so I decided to have another go at it. Started by digging out my copy of the Silmarillion, which says:
Wisest of the Maiar was Olorin. Though he loved the Elves, he walked among them unseen, or in form as one of them, and they did not know whence came the fair visions or the promptings of wisdom that he put into their hearts.
It also says that he liked to hang out in the forests of Valinor, so I figured that I’d do that most unusual of things and actually put a background in. Then I sketched the figure out, and took some inspiration for the face from pictures of Ian McKellen when he was young.
Mashups and Exports 