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Lily - France - Huge Tolkien fan 🐲 - Also interested in Star Wars and Marvel. Comes on Tumblr occasionally nowadays

[melkorwashere]

Very very tiny very small fellowship

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Morgoth Returns Through the Door of Night by Álvaro Fernández González

[melkorwashere]

hehe 🔥❄️

[mithrandirl]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) dir. Ralph Bakshi THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2001 - 2003) dir. Peter Jackson

[melkorwashere]

Very very tiny very small fellowship

[tanoraqui]

objectively funny how Sauron remakes his whole aesthetic each Age tbh. First Age he’s like, “I’m the werewolf guy! I breed werewolves, turn into a werewolf, I live on the Isle of Werewolves and I kill prisoners in my dungeon there by having a giant wolf maul them to death! Rawr!”

Then he gets his ass whooped as a werewolf, and again in the War of Wrath, and every time he shows up in the Second Age it’s, “I do seduction now. ;) I’m so beautiful and harmless and I prey on your pride and ambitions, earnest and cruel alike, to lead you to your doom. Do you want to make some magic rings with me? 🥺 Do you want to attack Valinor and take back the immortality you deserve? 😘 Rawr 😉”

Then he gets his ass drowned and in the Third Age he’s just like, “Fine, I’m creepy and/or disembodied, are you happy? I’m banally evil. I have dark towers and orc armies and spirits chained to my will, and [tantrum voice] I want my Ring back! Give it back and do what I say or die!!”

what a #makeoverfail

[debbiedart]

disguise ✨

[ylieke]

Sauron reveals himself to Ar-Pharazôn. From @elfscribe's Elegy for Númenor, v.1.

[theeternalghost]

We all have that one character we’re in too deep for.

[fleetwoodmactshirt]

[odessa-edmundson]

[a-frogge-bip-a-smal-beastie]

This side by side comparison sure is something

[aniseandspearmint]

on the one side we have GORGEOUSLY handcrafted armor. Looks like actual plate, the white tree of Gondor clear and easy to see and echoed on the pauldrons and even pressed into his belt! Which is folded in a LOVELY knot to hold it in place. The chainmail is REAL chainmail. And over all there’s some good wear on it, it looks like Boromir has owned and worked and lived in this armor

And on the other side we have stuff that looks like it was created for a shoe string budgeted made-for-TV Camelot production. It’s CLEARLY plastic. And wtf is that LENGTH that leaves a huge swath of his VITAL ORGANS unprotected???? The symbol is PRINTED on it, not even embossed, and so poorly you can’t even really tell what it’s supposed to be. It looks, as far as I can tell, like someone smooshed a bunch of pseudo celtic symbols together. Those shoulder things are NOT pauldrons. They seem to be some half arsed attempt at coin style chainmail? Maybe? I have NO idea what that shirt is. It looks like maybe the designers were going for a type of Gambeson, but it’s just way WAY too thin. It ALL looks like they hit the after halloween sale at party city for supplies.

[dduane]

cc: @petermorwood

[petermorwood]

This was a show with no grasp of time, no grasp of distance, and no grasp of even fantasy realism - swimming from Valinor back to Middle Earth? Shrugging off a pyroclastic flow? - so I'm not surprised it has no grasp of Hero Props.

"Hero Prop" is the term for Boromir's armour, indeed any armour, costume or accoutrements worn by a Principal Character in LOTR or any other movie.

"Hero" has nothing to do with the character's alignment, applying to Sauron and the Witch-King as well. It means any costume, weapon etc. made as detailed as possible because the character wearing it will be front and centre in very close shots, where an IMAX screen might make any flaws a metre high.

(Bernard Hill was amazed by the details in Théoden's armour, some of which only he and his dresser ever saw. More here.)

Now there's the Numenorean bargain-basement rig up there, and the full plate of the Action Heroine here.

I don't know what it's made of, but it looks like vac-formed, spray-painted plastic.

Compare it to an example of Elven armour from The Hobbit movies, which notoriously didn't have anything like the development time of LOTR...

No further comment.

[enetriss]

quick sketches 🔥

[bob-belcher]

Knives Out (2019) dir. Rian Johnson

[celebrimbot]

Lord Annatar

[elena-kukanova]

"Leithian"

Tol-in-Gaurhot

Finrod

mixed media, 63*44 cm

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Gandalf: I’ve located the One Ring. We should marshal the forced of elves, men, and dwarves into an army to attach Mordor and destroy the ring and Sauron once and for all. 

Elrond: An alliance of elves, men, and dwarves? In this economy? We can afford to pay like, 9 people to do this. 

Gandalf: Okay, I have another idea then. 

[hellomathieu-deactivated2021040]

[vladtheunfollower]

me and my mutuals

[obadeerio]

the river styx

[cy-lindric]

Pallando and Alatar, the Blue Wizards of the East