April 2011
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darkmillenium:
Over Misty Mountains Cold - J.R.R. Tolkien
Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. For ancient king and elvish lord There many a...
November 2010
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“It is true that Dream is not unconnected with Faërie. In dreams strange powers...”
– On Fairy-Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien (via ahobbitstale)
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“Faérie cannot be caught in a net of words; for it is one of its qualities to be...”
– On Fairy-Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien (via ahobbitstale)
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“The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things:...”
– On Fairy-Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien (via ahobbitstale)
August 2010
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WHERE DID THE ENT-WIVES GO? THE ANSWER…
fuckyeahlordoftherings:
“When I read The Lord of the Rings, the biggest and most perplexing mystery for me was not the presense of Balrog wings, or why Frodo wasn’t flown to Mordor, or who Tom Bombadil was. It had to do with my personal favorite character – Treebeard. The question on the lips of every Ent: where did the Ent-wives go?
The answer came to me like a bolt of lightening. In the...
onceuponahobbit:
“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.”
Bilbo Baggins
June 2010
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“Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons...”
– On Fairy-Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien (via ahobbitstale)
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ahobbitstale:
By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by.
— The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
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May 2010
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The Happy Mariners
canto:
I know a window in a western tower That opens on celestial seas, And wind that has been blowing round the stars Comes to nestle in its tossing draperies. It is a white tower builded in the Twilight Isles, Where Evening sits for ever in the shade; It glimmers like a spike of lonely pearl That mirrors beams forlorn and lights that fade; And sea goes washing round the dark rock where...
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“‘For myself,’ said Faramir, ‘I would see the White Tree in flower again in the...”
– The Two Towers, “The Window on the West” (via sowideasea)
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The Last Ship
evenstar:
Fíriel looked out at three o’clock: the grey night was going; far away a golden cock clear and shrill was crowing. The trees were dark, and the dawn pale, waking birds were cheeping, a wind moved cool and frail through dim leaves creeping.
She watched the gleam at window grow, till the long light was shimmering on land and leaf; on grass below grey dew was glimmering. Over the floor...
March 2010
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“As far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, the inveterate philologist in 1938, lecturing the publishing firm of Ruetten & Loening on the proper meaning of the word Aryan. R & L wanted to publish a German translation of The Hobbit. They had asked Tolkien for written assurance that he was an Aryan, and he regretted “I...
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February 2010
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Mythopoeia
To one [C.S. Lewis] who said that myths were lies and therefore worthless, even though ‘breathed through silver’.
Philomythus to Misomythus
You look at trees and label them just so, (for trees are ‘trees’, and growing is ‘to grow’); you walk the earth and tread with solemn pace one of the many minor globes of Space: a star’s a star, some matter in...
January 2010
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Happy Birthday John Ronald Reuel Tolkien!
lucette:
J.R.R. Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973)
Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a respected medieval scholar and university professor. The enduring influence of his works, which recount the fictional history of Middle Earth, has earned him recognition as “the father of modern fantasy literature.”
December 2009
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“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One (via twotimestwo)
This is more proper citation format, though I would still prefer it if the character were cited before the author.
November 2009
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via sunshinemusings)
Zombie Tolkien Releases Book 36 Years After Death
upandaray:
Truly, J.R.R. Tolkien is the Tupac Shakur of the literary world. His son Christopher has once again raided the fell barrow where his corpse resides and found still another unpublished manuscript there, entitled The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. It goes on sale today. (via Techland)
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“Many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea,...”
– JRR Tolkien (The Silmarillion) (via lexical)
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
The old...”
– The Riddle of Strider - J.R.R. Tolkien
(via alltimelow)
