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Well, it seems the hour has come my friends.
A bit late notice, but here’s where you can find me after the purge:
@rule-of-thu
(Temporary pending full move to Pillowfort)
@Rule_of_Thu on Twitter
As this blog is still incorrectly flagged it will likely meet its fate in the wastebasket of oblivion with many other innocent blogs...
It’s been a fun four years my dudes, stay safe out there.
Guess who’s ‘tumblr’ naughty?
Yeah. Our idiot overlords have incorrectly flagged this blog...which is for Tolkien discussion....always has been...with not a tit to be found....as NSFW. I WILL be appealing the heck out of that btw.
In the meantime I will be backing up my essays, luckily most if not all of them are already saved. Once I get my nerdy ducklings in a row I’ll try posting them on AO3.
speaking of which it’s been one hell of a day so I’m just gonna skip on over and get my read on.
tfw u arrive at the pearly gates and st. peter just looks at u for a min before pulling up ur ao3 history on his heavenly macbook
#better to rule in hell than be kinkshamed in heaven (x)
Yeah, I know. I don’t call or write till the apocalypse occurs. Oops.
So for those of you who don’t know yet I have another blog under rule-of-thu that was supposed to be my art blog but is like 90% me whining about random stuff and pictures occasionally. (re: Sorry again)
Anyway, as I have already announced that blog will go on hiatus as soon as this idiocy goes into effect. ( I think, unless I figure out how to use my art as effective protest )
The fate of this blog will be decided once I figure out what the best way to screw over Verizon is. Because yes, I am that petty when angered. (Not sorry bout this one it runs in the family)
One fate is that it is closed and everything moved to R-O-T which is looking pretty likely. Another is that my Tolkien art and such will relocate here. ( which I’m uncertain about doing as I figure most of my followers are here for interesting meta / debate and certainly aren’t here for my art or fics and tolerate them at best )
Anyway I’m still looking at my options.
For now you can also find me at rule_of_thu on Twitter and once I clean up my wordpress I’ll give you that address too. I’m already on DeviantArt and AO3 ( handle changed from EAA to Rule of Thu )
I’ll keep you posted with the official ‘here I am’ post soon but as I am notorious for not being able to make decisions please bear with my back and forth. 🙏
The north wind doth blow, and we shall have… Tolkien Secret Santa 2017!
Welcome to the Tolkien Secret Santa! This is a little gift exchange held during the Most Wonderful Time of the Year™. Everyone who participates gets to make and receive a small digital present from their Secret Santa, which could take any number of forms: a fic, a playlist, an artwork, a poem, a graphic - you name it!
Sold? This is how it’s gonna work:
Reblog this post!
Fill out this sign-up form so I can make your pairs! EDIT: The form does not allow multiple selections for fandoms due to my own error. If you want to create/receive for multiple fandoms, please select “Other” and write which fandoms they would be. Really sorry for the inconvenience! The site won’t let me change it unless I pay and I am but a poor student
Follow this blog (you’ll get updates, maybe some inspiration/ideas for gifts, if someone asks something relevant you can see that too etc.)
Wait until partners are sent out on December 1st.
Post your small gift any time between December 16th and December 23rd without tagging/revealing your Secret Santa OR you can wait until the 24th and post it then if you don’t want to go back and reblog/tag.
Tag your Secret Santa on December 24th and I’ll reblog your work to this blog!
A few more things…
Please please try and join before December 1st! There’ll be a chance to pinch-hit a gift if you’re late and a partner can’t be found, but it’s less stress for all of us if you sign up by December 1st!
Feel free to drop anonymous messages to your giftee before the reveal! Little compliments, maybe an unambiguous question, something to hype them up before the 24th…
If you want to contact your Secret Santa through this blog, that’s fine too! Just send an ask on anon and I’ll tag them.
I’ll track #tolkiensecretsanta2017 so be sure to tag your gift so that I can reblog it
Do ask any questions on this blog! An FAQ is in the works and should be up shortly.
Here’s to an amazing and joyous exchange to ring in the season!
Awesome Illustrated Tree Shows You The Origins of Language
If you ever wondered about the ancient linguistic links and how they are interwoven with each other, then Minna Sundberg has just the infographic you have been looking for. Take a closer look!
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Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*
My blog:
on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.
Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.
You WILL miss content with that setting on.
i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why
I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.
To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!
I assumed I just wasn’t writing very well, but maybe it’s not just me.
Am I supposed to pay to get my writing in front of followers now?
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled sci-fi content because this is important for app users, and it sucks. We all follow blogs because we want to see their content, not to have a crappy algorithm decide what’s best.
This blog is down approximately 80%, which doesn’t affect me other than as an annoyance (as this is a hobby and @okayto is small-ish) but the issue undoubtedly hurts others.
Below are instructions for turning it off. You have to do it individually–it doesn’t matter if a blog you follow turns it off, you’ll still be affected unless you do the same.
We don’t normally reblog PSAs, but this is very clearly affecting us, too! If you haven’t been getting your daily dose of RPG humor, this setting is probably why. Turn it off so you can see all the silly shit players say!
Trying to reblog the versions of these instructions with the most notes, so they’ll actually show up for the people afflicted by this update.
Priscilla Tolkien
I was curious about something, because with the light of the Amazon announcements, I realized that as a fandom, we treat Christopher, Tolkien’s 2nd youngest child, like he’s a second JRR Tolkien–and don’t get me wrong, I love his work with the Histories, but I realized a major error in our fandom as well. For all our talk of “but what about women in Tolkien’s works” I realized that there are no search results for his only daughter and youngest of his children. Not on tumblr at least. She’s not devoid of interaction, either, as she has written articles, given talks, and supported general fanworks (such as the Tolkien Ensemble). She co-published the Tolkien Family Album, with her older brother, John (now deceased). Why does it bother me so much that she has no search results, despite also the severe irony of “We only care about his surviving son, and not at all his only daughter, who her parents had long hoped for.”? Because all of his children are extremely crucial to his work, and not just his sons. Frodo is named after her stuffed bear (Bingo Bolger-Baggins), which is highly delightful to me. He eventually altered the name, obviously, to Frodo. She attends the Oxonmoots frequently. She has a BA degree in English and worked as a social worker. (Hence why she isn’t so “famous” as her older brother.) She is a member of the Tolkien Society (last I checked, honorary VP).
As Tolkien’s only daughter, Priscilla has noted her father’s “complete belief in higher education for girls; never in my early life or since did I feel that any difference was made between me and my brothers, so far as our educational needs and opportunities were concerned.” [x] She typed out some of the early chapters of Lord of the Rings for her father (around the age of 14). She has written for Amon Hen. She was one of the heading trustees for suing Warner Brothers over a breach of contract.
She is one of the founding members of the Tolkien Trust, along with her three brothers. My point isn’t to devalue Christopher at all, but rather to highlight that while the brothers are important to Tolkien’s works, so was his daughter and for some reason, at least among the American fandom, I almost always see Christopher the only mentioned surviving Tolkien when Priscilla is still alive and active. I get why we don’t have search results for John Francis Reuel Tolkien (his name is so similar to JRR’s, obviously), but you do have results for Michael Tolkien (one tagged post, it seems, but still far more than Priscilla has; she doesn’t even have general Tolkien posts pop up for her as her brothers do). I’d also like to point out that while Christopher is no longer a board officer of the Tolkien Estate, his younger sister is. Just because she didn’t write the Histories doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care about her father’s work.
How The Lord of The Rings should have ended.
legolas be like
The usual suspects. @zeisenhauer
LOTR fandom vs Silmarillion fandom
LOTR fandom:
- elves are so pure and innocent - Sauron is the bad guy - gay ships everywhere - 99% of memes include Legolas - “why couldn’t the eagles-”
Silmarillion fandom:
- elves’ killing spree - everybody loves Mairon - gay ships everywhere except they’re 10 times more intense and there’s 10 times more of them - 99% of memes include Feanorians - 5-hour-long lectures on “why couldn’t the eagles-”
make me choose: theleavesoflorien frodo in the shire or frodo in rivendell?
Now the Quendi had possessed weapons in Middle-earth, but not of their own devising. They had been made by Aule and sent as gifts by the hand of Orome, when it became known to the Valar that the Quendi were beset by prowling evils that had discovered the places of their dwelling beside Cuiviénen; and more were sent later for the defense of the Eldar upon the Great March to the shores of the Sea.
Tolkien, J. R. R.
The History of Middle-Earth X: Morgoth’s Ring.
Ed. Christopher Tolkien. (London: HarperCollins, 2002.) 276-7 (The Later Quenta Silmarillion (II), Chapter 6 “Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor” §52a)
i don’t really buy this, did they hunt with their bare hands?, or maybe hunting weapons aren’t counted as real weapons idk
- @laurelsblue
Okay, I actually really like this version because it explains several plot holes caused by the fact that ELVISH PREHISTORY IS COMPLETELY INSANE.
THE TIMELINE WE ARE WORKING WITH IS RIDICULOUS. LUDICROUS. LAUGHABLE.
10,061 Elves awaken
10,396 Orome discovers the elves
10,406 Orome returns to Valinor and holds council with the Valar, afterwards returns to Cuivienen
10,588 First Sundering of the Elves
This means that when they are discovered, the elves have only been awake for 335 years. Now this sounds like plenty of time to invent things right?
Not on a prehistoric scale, where new inventions take thousands of years - or hundreds of thousands of years. Our own species has taken 200,000 years to get where we are today, and most of our inventions occurred in the last 10,000 years. The bow and arrow took us about 129,000 years to invent; pottery took about 172,000. Agriculture doesn’t appear for 190,000 years.
Inventing things is hard. It’s even harder with a small, scattered population and no way to exchange information except in person. So innovations arise less frequently and take a long time to spread. The situation of the elves was really no different than that of early humans.
And the elves are operating under an extra handicap: they have no parents to teach them. The elves wake up under the stars and know nothing, like newborn children. They’re starting from scratch. Even our earliest ancestors had someone to tell them ‘no don’t eat that’, ‘you can drown in deep water’ and ‘here’s how you make babies’. Their first winter must have been a shocking near-death experience. And Melkor’s attacks add even more difficulty, because now the elves have to survive while also hiding and staying together.
Elves are superhuman, but there’s no way that the early elves of Cuivienen had progressed beyond simple stone technology, even if we assume 1 elf year = 100 human years of technological advancement.
So if Orome presented them with steel swords and spears made by the demigod of metalwork, they may very well have looked at their simple wood or knapped stone efforts and thought their own tools couldn’t even be counted as weapons.
Receiving technology and information directly from the Valar explains why the elves advanced so quickly, and also why contact with the ainur = more complex level of civilization.
This previous experience also explains why the Noldor were able to come up with the ability to make high quality swords so fast when they had no experience with war (swords are not necessary for hunting). They had an image of what they ought to look like, and a practical idea of how they were used.
Also, a note on hunting and hunter-gatherers. The image of man the hunter is very romanticized, but when we study mid-latitude hunter-gatherers, we find that the majority of calories they consume come from plants. Hunting is harder, more labor and time intensive, and far less successful than plant foraging. Humans invest so much effort in hunting partially for cultural and social reasons, and partially because meat is hard to get but a nutritional bonanza if you can.
Prehistoric hunters made up for their primitive weapons with their hunting strategies. Our most ancient ancestors used persistence hunting, where you literally run your prey to death. It may not even have required weapons; the prey collapses in exhaustion and only a finishing blow is necessary. Neanderthals and early humans used ambush hunting, and also took advantage of terrain to herd prey animals into places they could be easily killed, like deep mud or off cliffs. Fishing and small prey don’t require advanced weapons either - a sharpened stick, a club or a rock will do.
(via anthropologyarda)
evosia Flying over Landmannalaugar during the midnight sun.
Sauron in Numenor (Melkor`s temple) by Елена Куканова
Нуменор, храм Мелькора
“Работать над образом Саурона начала я именно с маски потому, что с его способностью к перевоплощению, способностью казаться тем чем нужно казаться в конкретных обстоятельствах, с каким лицом его не изобрази - будет не совсем правда, и эта золотая маска передаст его сущность гораздо ближе чем любое из его обличий.
Любые ритуалы, обряды, складываются веками, но поскольку культ Мелькора в Нуменоре возник в считанные годы, на глазах одного поколения, мне представляется что Саурону пришлось разработать некое действо, которое должно было впечатлить в первую очередь самого Ар-Фаразона и высшие круги. Думаю, это носило достаточно театрализованный характер, в любом случае это должно было быть зрелищно величественно и эффектно, (в духе Мелькора, которого люди напоминали эльфам больше всего).”
@ Елена Куканова
Falls of Rauros
A thought: the way the Noldor learned to put light in gems, or power in rings…. the Teleri develop a craft of putting song in shells? So children of men are told that if they put their ears to the shells, they can hear the ocean singing - (what already happens in normal shells is a physics thing that will obviously still happen normally), and sometimes you really can hear the ocean elves sing.
