penny-anna:

Merry Brandybuck + text posts etc

barduils:

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui:

earendil-was-a-mariner:

The least realistic thing about the Lord of the Rings is that a team got together for a group project, decided everything in one meeting, and their plan worked.

The group abandoned the original plan halfway up Caradhras, split up several times, some group members started looking into different projects, found new partners and ended up doing something else, the original plan was abandoned early on, and the project was salvaged at the last moment by the one group member that didn’t get sidetracked. Sounds like a pretty astute description of teamwork to me

iconoclassic:

de Hobbit (by P-E Fronning)

gordon-freeman-official:

tilthat:

TIL J. R. R. Tolkien received from a fan a goblet with the Ring inscription on it in Black Speech. Because the Black Speech in general is an accursed language, and the Ring inscription in particular is a vile spell, Tolkien never drank out of it, and used it only as an ashtray.

via reddit.com

“I know I made this up but I’m still not taking chances”

Tolkien, probably

captainsnoop:

God, Tolkien naming his book “The Hobbit” was such a big dick move. Like, back then people didn’t know what a hobbit was. It’d be like if I released a book called “The Smarple” and 50 years later everyone just knew what a smarple was.

physicsofgridlock:

redeaddie:

ladyintheattic:

i cannot believe that we were robbed of this book scene

This is no joke. These are direct lines from the book.

It’s true

kunstzauber:

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

raineydaydelib:

h-brook-writes:

capillaries:

plot twist: the introverted character who doesn’t like big social gatherings or speaking in front of people is still an introvert by the end of the story because introversion is not a character flaw and it doesn’t need to be overcome 

Look, I’ll go on your stupid adventure, but you better leave me the fuck alone when we get back. 

Bilbo Baggins.

NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE HE WAS SO INTROVERTED HE USED A CURSED OBJECT TO GET AWAY FROM PEOPLE

are u kidding excellent example 100% relatable big mood

Summary of Tolkien’s works

swagstagtastic:

Lord of the Rings: 

• Evil destroyed, 
• everyone lives Except you boromir
• happy endings for all! 

The Hobbit: 

• Evil mostly destroyed, 
• almost everyone lives, 
• happy ending!
  

The Silmarillion: 

• Evil sort of banished 
• everyone dies
• tears all around
  

highrami:

uhhhh dear jolkien rolkien r tolkien, this is the gayest thing i’ve ever read, in my life,