Venturing through J.R.R. Tolkien's World.

Two wanderers on an adventure in the World of the Rings. Join the Company.

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“‘Do you now wish to look, Frodo?’ said the Lady Galadriel. 'You did not wish to see Elf-magic and were content.’ 'Do you advise me to look?’ asked Frodo. 'No,’ she said. 'I do not you counsel you one way or the other. I am not a counsellor. You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous. Yet I think, Frodo, that you have courage and wisdom enough for the venture, or I would not have brought you here. Do as you will!’”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. ♡ J.R.R. Tolkien — The Hobbit

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Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

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A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

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another hilarious example:

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my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

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Lord of the Rings Poster series by DreamMachinePrints

1. The Shire 2. Rivendell 3. Rohan 4. Gondor 5. Mount Doom 6. Lake Town

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I like to call my chickens “beasties” or “fat little monster trucks” and other such affectionate terms, but dad seems to take offence whenever I do and always gently refers to them as “the girls,” “the ladies” and sometimes “the dames” when he’s putting them away, like he’s a butler shepherding a group of well-bred country lasses into the parlour for tea 

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this post evokes such a pleasing mental image that my depression was completely cured for 5 and a half minutes

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REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS

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9 million people fucking love dogs

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Here we come 10.

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BREAK THE POST

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not enough voluminous skirts with pockets big enough for apples

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This gives me hope as a writer.

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the avengers as tmmgttb

Steve: 

Tony: 

Natasha: 

Bruce: 

Clint:

Thor:

Sam: 

Wanda:

Pietro: 

Rhodey:

Vision: 

Peter:

Scott: 

T’Challa: 

Bucky: 

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I love this

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Beautiful interiors by Alberta Prairies

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So great a power and royalty was revealed in Aragorn, as he stood there alone above the ruined gates before the host of his enemies, that many of the wild men paused, and looked back over their shoulders to the valley, and some looked up doubtfully at the sky. But the Orcs laughed with loud voices; and a hail of darts and arrows whistled over the wall, as Aragorn leaped down.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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'What of the dawn?' they peered. 'We are the Uruk-hai: we do not stop the fight for night or day , for fair weather or for storm. We come to kill, by sun or moon. What of the dawn?' 'None knows what the new day shall bring him,' said Aragorn. 'Get you gone, ere it turns to your evil.' 'Get down or we will shoot you from the wall,' they cried. 'This is no parley. You have nothing to say.' 'I have still this to say,' answered Aragorn. 'No enemy has yet taken the Hornburg. Depart, or not one of you will be spared. Not one will be left alive to take back tiding to the North. You do not know your peril.'

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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Tall ships and tall kings Three times three What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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'I have now a last task to do before I go; I must pay Saruman a farewell visit. Dangerous, and probably useless; but it must be done. Those of you who wish may come with me—-but beware! Do not jest! This is not the time for it.'[said Gandalf] 'I will come,' said Gimli. 'I wish to see him and learn if he really looks like you.' 'And how will you learn that, Master Dwarf?' said Gandalf. 'Saruman could look like me in your eyes, if it suited his purpose with you. And are you yet wise enough to determine all his counterfeits? Well, we shall see, perhaps. He may be shy of showing himself before many different eyes together. But I have ordered all the Ents to remove themselves from sight, so perhaps we shall persuade him to come out.' 'What's the danger?' asked Pippin. 'Will he shoot at us, and pour fire out of the windows; or can he put a spell on us from a distance?' ‘The last is the most likely, if you ride to his door with a light heart,’ said Gandalf. ‘There is no knowing what he can do, or may choose to try. A wild beast cornered is not safe to approach. And Saruman has powers you do not guess. Beware of his voice!’

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers