sigridhr: Scans from: Hammond, W. G., & Scull, C., 1995. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. Harper Collins: London Facsimile of a page from the book of Marzabul. Tolkien apparently aged it himself, including putting genuine burn marks on it and puncturing holes for where the binding would have attached. He was extremely disappointed it didn’t make it into the published version of LotR. 
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sigridhr:

Scans from: Hammond, W. G., & Scull, C., 1995. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. Harper Collins: London

Facsimile of a page from the book of Marzabul.

Tolkien apparently aged it himself, including putting genuine burn marks on it and puncturing holes for where the binding would have attached. He was extremely disappointed it didn’t make it into the published version of LotR. 

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Source: sigridhr

first complete sentence on page 45 of the first book i pick up describing my sex life

ibelieveinthepowerofstuff:

He realized that the demon was going to decend on the hall, that he had plotted all day, from dawnlight until darkness gathered again over the world and stealthy night shapes came stealing forth under the cloud murk.
-beowulf

“During the next year or two he had turned up fairly often, coming unexpectedly after dusk, and going off without warning before sunrise.”

my boyfriend grabbed my copy of Beowulf, i grabbed LoTR. yep.

gremlinloquacious: “Catching up”Headcanon - Fili, Kili and Gimli grew up together. They were a bit older, and Princes and he just hero-worshipped the both of them. When they went on the quest to Erebor, they told a rather grumpy and jealous Gimli that when they came back they’d tell him all about their adventures.
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gremlinloquacious:

“Catching up”




Headcanon - Fili, Kili and Gimli grew up together. They were a bit older, and Princes and he just hero-worshipped the both of them. When they went on the quest to Erebor, they told a rather grumpy and jealous Gimli that when they came back they’d tell him all about their adventures.

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okay. Tolkien nerds. maybe some of you will know what i’m talking about.

you read the books. you had your favorite characters, things you were interested in, etc. and then the LoTR movies come out. and there is this glorious coming together of nerds.

and you see all these Elf People.

don’t get me wrong. Elrond, Galadriel, Legolas, etc are all awesome characters. but so many people are obsessed with elves. maybe you are one of them. that’s totally cool. i have no problem with you.

but maybe you were like me. maybe you were looking around at all these people gushing over how awesome and perfect the elves are and you’re just like, “… okay?”

and you don’t quite get it.

and you sort of feel a little sidelined because it seems like 90% of the fandom has Elf Hysteria.

and you wonder where you fit in.

and then the first Hobbit movie comes out.

and you’re like “OH MY GOD. DWARVES. THIS IS THE ANSWER. THIS IS WHERE I BELONG. WE ARE DWARF PEOPLE!”

because for all those years you adored Thorin & Company, and Gimli, and even though you loved all the dwarves with a fierce undying affection, you never put it all together. there are Elf People, and there are Dwarf People.

i exclude Hobbits only because everyone loves them. be real, we all wanna be a hobbit. and the Race of Men doesn’t count because that’s what we are already.

but yeah. there was this click. everything made sense.

and maybe i just never saw it in myself because i didn’t know it could Be A Thing. Tolkien himself was an Elf Person. why else would he have written all about every aspect of their culture? so far as i know there is more info on elves than any other of the Free Peoples of Middle Earth. correct me if i’m wrong. maybe it’s just my personal bias and frustration talking but dwarves being secretive isn’t much of an excuse for the dearth of info/notable characters as opposed to other peoples.

and i could go on another rant here. but maybe that’s for another day.

asktheoakenshieldbros:

awhitemothflew:

 

you know, it occurs to me now that i’ve always been a bit on the forgiving side about errors/weak spots like that in writing, odd since i studied english pretty seriously and while i was in college (briefly) i was an english major.. furthermore i write myself and am super critical of my own stuff. i think it’s that i still approach things the same way i did when i was a kid, like, if it captures my imagination for whatever reason, that’s more important to me than how it was executed. although i will always love well-executed stories best… because… well, obvious. i think i’m just really conflicted inside about loving this new interpretation of Bifur, and being disappointed about him and Bilbo having that communication block. that probably bothers me disproportionately because i so identify with Bilbo. most everyone does, i think, because of course it’s through his pov that we experience the story.

I’m in that odd bunch that didn’t identify with Bilbo…but the Dwarfs…with the…lost home thing XD. And now this new interpretation of Bifur comes along that really hits home. I was…a critical little shit as a child and that only blossomed with the discovery of essays and whatnot.

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I read The Silmarillion for fun when I was 10-11…if that tells you anything about how dull and pompous of a child I was…still am.

we are two distinctly different brands of nerd, and that is beautiful. i attempted the silmarillion when i was… what, 14/15? i could not get through it. reads like the damn bible, and i never got far in that either (:waves: hi, i’m a pagan who grew up in a catholic household! =D). as long as you’re not gonna look down your nose at me for not having  the patience for it, it’s all goodski. like one of my childhood best friends made no attempt to hide her disappointment in me for not being interested. we were both into the Hobbit and LoTR, but we loved it for different reasons.

variety is the spice of life, you know? and i thank the gods for people like you who actually did read the silmarillion. i have a great love for academia but at the core i guess i’m a feeler more than a thinker? idk if i’m even making sense anymore. i tried. =P