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I love Tolkien’s works and I’m probably at least 13% Middle Earth by volume. It’s a rich text and very compelling and we all grew up on it and on works directly inspired by it. But I think the degree to which we impose our own values and politics upon the stories and Tolkien himself is incredibly frustrating and more a product of wishful thinking than anything actually reflected in the text.

I don’t even mean this in a “let people enjoy things” way—more than any other author I see Tolkien idolized not just as a talented world builder but as a profound social commentator. To a degree… sure. For some things, sometimes. But for many other things he was regressive and reactionary even for his time and there is an extreme cultural reluctance to engage with that even among people in the Critiquing Reactionary Themes in Media subculture.

For instance: it’s a really common refrain that LotR is “antiwar”. But what is The Lord of the Rings but an exercise in imaging morally compulsory war? It does depict war as something deeply traumatic for the people involved, but it’s also a war in which the enemy is literally cosmic evil and the primary foot soldiers can and should be destroyed with impunity. How can you have a race of noble warriors like the Rohirrim without the existence of noble war? Even in The Hobbit, war is only a stupid, wasteful folly until the inherently evil faction show up. Middle Earth is a setting in which both cosmic evil and the divine right of kings are real and in which war is a painful necessity that’s still ultimately glorious.

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Of Aegnor and Andreth

Art: Wedding of Aegnor and Andreth

Story by @caiti-creative-corner

Art by me - @isilloth (@isilloth-draws)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences for fic/ General Audiences for art

No Archive Warning Applies

Relationship: Aegnor/Andreth

Characters: Aegnor, Andreth, Bilbo Baggins, Elrond Peredhel

Word count: 6,050

Sing to me a story, O lofty stars above, A story full of truth and sacrifice and love, A story which tells of ancient times, long gone by, Sing to me the stories, seen by a young star's eye, Tales of when the world still young, all but held its breath, To watch and see the love of Aegnor and Andreth.

My collaboration for @tolkienrsb!

With wonderful fic mixing poetry and prose!

#aegnor x andreth #isilloth #caiti #TRSB2025

orsanedraws

the sketch was in my drafts for YEARS.

#Fenris #dragon age art

sorrowfultales

I remembered I have a Tumblr

With the creators now revealed, I can finally post about the piece I wrote as a gift to @isilloth-draws for this year's @arlathanxchange!

If you know what the title is referencing, you probably know where this is going! This was my first real attempt at writing angst and I'm glad Isilloth was kind enough to allow me to write the piece with my own Inquisitor in mind.

You can read "La Pietà" HERE.

#arlathanex2025 #solavellan

zetkun4221

A ray of sunshine

#alistair #dao warden #da origins #alistair theirin #dragon age origins

amys2885

I saw a post about Davrin week a little too late to do any art inspired by one of the prompts. So, I drew a Davrin portrait, and just to say, I'm looking forward to seeing what people come up with this week @datvcompanionweeks :).

Screenshot used for the background

Close up under cut

#davrin #da:tv davrin #dragon age the veilguard #dragon age davrin

icantspellthings

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

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Tumblr is the website where you ramble to yourself like a madman until someone decides they like you and put you into their pocket like a shiny rock. That's how you get followers