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brimby and narv!
Quick lineart for a sketch posted for SWG’s March challenge here.
My beloved dwarf 💜
merry the fellowship leaves rivendell day to all who celebrate it
cant believe tolkien was going full woke writing these two
The Silmarils, gouache on bristol paper, 42 inches (3.5 feet) in diameter
I made a thing! Illustrations about the story of the silmarils in red-figure pottery style. It was fun to work on such a large scale.
You can see all the individual scenes and my references here. I'll also be posting them a few at a time!
I made a map to express the way I feel about the geography of Middle Earth because JRRT suffers from something I like to call “has never seen a mountain range in his life”
The map is now half way complete! Panel 8 is done! I had to take a little break in order to get a bunch of crochet gifts done (such as for my BRAND NEW NIECE 🥰) but now I am free to focus more on this project.
Now it’s time for Panel 9 and going back to the sea, which will be much easier since it has neither forests or mountains to stitch.
so the fact he says 'a First Age bottle' implies that he has more than one stashed away and now I'm imagining the apocalyptic hellscape that is late game Beleriand with the survivors frantically trying to flee east, meanwhile Brimby here is hauling five crates of the finest vintage up the foothills of Ered Luin
i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.
The mileage on this one is totally normal Elrond. Hey speaking of can I park him here for a while
h/t to @namasteinside for the lol
In "Unfinished Tales" there's a section where the Fellowship gets Gandalf to tell his side of the story about how he recommended Bilbo to Thorin's company and this is literally how it went down:
There were just so many great additions to this post that I had to put them all in one place.
not only am i the token queer friend im also the Tolkien queer friend, so like, 2 in 1 deal, act now while supplies last,
The Runes on Bilbo's Door
In The Hobbit, it’s explained that Gandalf carved a mark into Bilbo’s door so that the dwarves would know which hobbit hole their prospective burglar lived in. The book itself gives us some information, though it’s pretty vague. When Gandalf actually carves the mark, all we’re told is “After a while [Gandalf] stepped up, and with the spike of his staff scratched a queer sign on the hobbit’s beautiful green front-door.”
Then, during the party, when Bilbo exclaims that there is certainly no mark carved into his newly-painted front door, Gloin tells him
And I assure you there is a mark on the door—the usual on in the trade, or used to be. Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward, that’s how it is usually read.
Finally, in the Unfinished Tales (there’s a chapter in which we read about how Gandalf and Thorin met), Gandalf tells Thorin “I will put the thief’s mark on his door, and then you will find it.”
From these three quotes we can assume a few things, the most important being that the mark that Gandalf used was not one “invented” for this particular situation, but rather was a traditional symbol used for burglars. This becomes important later on, so just remember that.
Now, as for what the rune actually looked like, Tolkien didn’t say. But he did make a sketch of it himself, which is included in Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. In the sketch Tolkien uses three runes: “B” for burglar, “D” for danger, and a symbol of a diamond for treasure. This reflects the explanation that Gloin gave pretty closely.
However, in the Peter Jackson adaptation we see a very different mark - Gandalf only carves the rune for “G”, supposedly to represent Gandalf. But that really doesn’t make any sense, given what we learned about the mark in the books. Gandalf wasn’t nearly influential enough in dwarvish society for his initial to be used as a traditional identifier for burglars for hire. So I definitely don’t think that this is the “correct” mark. But, it does make a fair bit of sense within the Peter Jackson ‘verse, as the “G” rune is used throughout the Lord of the Rings movies to represent Gandalf (we see them stamped on his fireworks, for example.) So it was probably chosen for that reason.
SOURCES: The Hobbit, The Unfinished Tales (“The Quest of Erebor”), Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull
((The runes on the left are the “Burglar Danger Treasure” runes that we see in Tolkien’s sketch. The rune on the right is the “Gandalf” rune used in the Peter Jackson movie.))
Join the Fellowship of the Ring, we have:
the local weed man, who is secretly the most powerful being in the land
a bunch of surprisingly competent tiny adults
a semi-immortal twink
the Axe testimonial
a hobo
Sean Bean
EDIT: and Bill the Pony, GOSH DARN IT YOU GUYS I HADN’T LEFT HIM OUT ON PURPOSE I’M SORRY
the king and queen of rohan present their son to the lord of the glittering caves
or: gimli gets to be an uncle
When will creators of famous and beloved franchises realise that no fan in the history of fandoms has wanted the sequel with the new generation to have higher stakes and more angsty drama than the original.
A Fan: Wow, can’t wait to see the heroes’ children living in a world that has been made better by the original heroes, having a loving and respectful relationship with the hero I loved and respected as a child, and dealing with their own adventure that might not be as high stake as saving the world, but is important for their own personal journey.
A creator: How about the world is ending again, the new generation hates the heroes, who have become major assholes for no reason, and everything is bigger and goes more boom.
Hobbit/Lord of the Rings is the SINGLE exception to higher stakes sequel
and you know why? it’s bc nothing in lotr undid what happened in the hobbit
the hobbit was a lower-stakes story about bilbo helping some dwarves reclaim their ancestral home, and in lotr (the book at least) tolkien goes out of his way to talk about how bilbo lived for a long time rich and famous and happy, and that erebor and dale are prosperous and successful. the threat is something that bilbo brought home with him, but if bilbo hadn’t found it, it would have fallen into worse hands.
the reason why higher-stakes sequels are so often disappointing is bc it’s a betrayal of the original work, and undoes its premise and its victory. in the hobbit, they were never setting out to save the whole of middle earth, so the fact that the whole of middle earth ends up in peril during lotr doesn’t feel like a betrayal. terrible things happen in lotr, but they are better than they would have been in the hobbit hadn’t happened, and that’s why it works
Also, the new generation (Frodo; Gimli) loves and respects the original heroes (Bilbo; Balin) so much, and none of the tragedy of the original heroes’ fates betrays the meaning of the text or their characterization. Bilbo (in the book) volunteers to take the ring to Mordor not out of greed or ring-madness but to spare Frodo from having to do so, and Balin died attempting to do (in Moria, in Khazad-dûm) what he supported Thorin in doing at the Lonely Mountain. But before that, they’d lived whole lives as the fundamentally good-hearted characters they are in The Hobbit and instilled that love in their younger cousins. Their memories are honored, and deservedly so.
merry talks to kids in ithilien like ‘and remember: you’re NEVER too small to fight an unspeakable ancient eldritch horror’ and eowyn says ‘he’s right you’re not’ and faramir’s like PLEASE don’t
merry, a freakishly tall hobbit, says the same to anyone in the shire who will listen and they’re all like ‘that doesn’t sound right but i don’t know enough about unspeakable ancient eldritch horrors to dispute it’
several small hobbit children come to the conclusion that the most unspeakable ancient eldritch horror around is that really big newt that lives in the pond by the Party Field and hijinks ensue
baby hobbit, fumbling with a newt: this is JUST like when mr merry fought the witch king
merry: correct! the witch king of angmar was naught but a wriggling newt unto mine brave and heroic eye!
sam: i wasn’t there but i can guarantee that’s not how it happened
Mara Wilson out here preaching the excellent gospel of “Tolkien’s dwarves are good at c*nnilingus.”
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