Tolkien Universe

A place to gather my love for J.R.R. Tolkien's middle earth!

[sauronisnotamused]

Long time no see… so have some imaginary of the Valar Aule and Yavanna. I’ve my own thoughts and ideas why I drew them the way they’re shown but I’m gonna keep it for later :>

[valtsv]

Sauron’s banishment to The Void

EXPECTATION:

melkor: oh my dear lieutenant i missed you so much!!! are you alright?? did they hurt you???? you fought so well i’m so proud of y-

REALITY:

“MAIRON YOU USELESS FUCKING TWINK”

[sauronisnotamused]

Twunk…please.

[cy-lindric]

Tolkien sketches ! Vala and Maia duos : Melkor and Sauron, Varda and Ilmarë, Manwë and Eonwë, Nienna and Olorin, Yavanna and Melian.

[bottiq]

Lúthien Tinúviel & Huan, the Hound of Valinor sketches I wanted to draw something to celebrate the start of 2018 and since its the year of the dog I decided to sketch Lúthien and Huan. I missed drawing these two! I miss drawing Silmarillion art in general haha. I hope to do a digital illustration of this (perhaps even with Beren) before the Lunar New Year!

I did a short process video on instagram when I was sketching✨

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[vmae]

The Fall of Gondolin is weird, because all these big fantasy novels and stories and animes have the Big Epic Fight climax where all the heroes fight so hard and barely pull through and it’s so badass and the audience loves it. Then we have Gondolin….and it’s….not. You read and they’re doing badass things and shouting about hopes and valor and dreams and youre like!! fuck yeah!! and they kill SO many balrogs and orcs and its going EXACTLY like one of those big climax battles. Then….it doesn’t. It just, goes downhill. Your favorite characters start dying, losing their little feats of valor. It gets less badass and more unsettling horror. The descriptions shift from awesome swords to wow, there’s a body in the street, wow this dude is dying next to his friend. Hey, someone’s daughter is out there sobbing and screaming and she watches her dad die. Another one of your favs dies. The room full of civilians gets attacked. You’ve lost the fuck-yeah mood and now you’re sitting there with a concerned expression because this is not the emotion you intended and it’s not sexy, badass action flick it’s just a cold nameless corpse in the streets and families committing mass suicide to avoid being taken into slavery, someone’s cousin trying to murder her family and rape her, there’s dragons in the street but they’re not cool and fuck-yeah, they’re burning people to death as they cower against walls they can’t escape from, and the battle is lost, and everyone dies, except for a tiny handful of people who run out a tunnel, way less than there should of been, and you’re like. Oh. That wasn’t the “cool fantasy battle” I was thinking it would be. That was a lot. I need to sit down. I just got destroyed by thirty pages of prose. 

[lady-byleth]

there’s “cool fantasy battles” and then there’s “realism in a fantasy setting”

Gondolin was the latter

[alia-andreth-deactivated2018121]

This is why I don’t believe people when they say that George R.R. Martin is the “edgy” fantasy author and all J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote were kiddie books.

[easterlingwanderer]

George R. R. Martin books are about 100% more uplifting and hopeful than anything Tolkien ever wrote :\

[alia-andreth-deactivated2018121]

The thing about GRRM’s books is that shit was fucked up in the first place so when shit gets more fucked up you’re not much surprised. Tolkien creates beautiful worlds full of Nice Things So then when shit gets fucked up it hurts like a punch in the gut.

And there’s nothing you can do about it unless Eru decides to intervene (in some form or another. I argue he did at the end of LotR).

[meaninglessprose]

I think that’s actual canon. He arranged for Bilbo to get the ring, for Gollum to be in the right place and time at the end, to both get the ring and fall.

But I can’t remember where it’s written, help, guys?

[vmae]

I feel like another part of Tolkien is that there aren’t “happy ending” there are “happy moments.” Like, there are big victories, but even the end of lotr showed that killing sauron didn’t fix it all. The shire still got fucked up. Later on, people still died. Friends still got seperated.

In Silm, we see little happy bits like some of Beren and Luthien, or there’s a few festivals, or a few characters have some years of relative peace, but there is no ULTIMATE “good ending” we see in a lot of fantasy stories. I mean for goodness sake, Silmarillion ends with the suicide of one of the main characters. 

I actually kinda like this because, like, it feels more realistic? There is no ultimate fix-it-all ending for real life, like we got to see in harry potter or star wars. There’s no “kill all the bad guys and party, the end.” There are victories, and times that are better than others, like how it’s better to live in Europe currently than WW2 Europe. And even in times of horror, there are moments of joy. The only “happy endings” there are in Middle Earth ARE those pockets of joy. Not a single character has a perfect, wholesome, untouched life but almost every charachter is able to, via friends and whatnot, find themselves a smile in the darkness. 

[cerulean-shark]

I really like this style of ending books, it feels very real and sticks with me longer. It makes the happiness mean more while it lasts, and it makes the fight for it more potent to read about.

[vmae]

It’s not a fight to save the world forever, it’s a fight to keep the world a little better

[incorrecttolkienquotes]

Something you have to understand about Melkor is that he's very bad at remembering the meaning of the word "no".

- Manwë, the Silmarillion, Of the Darkening of Valinor

[jodeeeart]

Just in time for the annual Aragorn. Happy new year everyone! <3

[rememberkingthranduil-deactivat]

👑😠👠👠🙀= Cat, don’t take the Kings shoes.

[thranduilista]

Ok, but what is it with cats & ballerina pumps? Mine are completely obsessed too. 😹

[flurgburgler]

angbang warm up doodle

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[tosquinha]

Luthien and Huan, as per new year tradition. May we have a good 2018 :’)

[melkomelko]

💀 I DON’T NEED NOBODY 💀

*Melkor to everyone*

Happy New Year soon!

[tuilinn]

I guess it’s turned out that the enemy of our enemy is also now our enemy.

Maedhros to Maglor before the Third Kinslaying (via tuilinn)

[angedemystere]

[eldamaranquendi]

Finrod by  カメハメ

[contemporaryelfinchild]

So I made a little size chart of Dragons of Middle-Earth

I think these are right but if anyone has quotes or anything to indicate something different, send them my way and I’ll fix it.

[demigodoftheatre]

I love this because you realize that all the ego stroking in The Hobbit is Smaug trying to cover up that he’s a tiny, tiny dragon. Smaug the magnificent? impenetrable? Chiefest and greatest of calamities? More like Smaug the small and annoying.

[whispersinthestatic]

Holy mother of god…how did Ancalagon the Black not destroy ALL of Middle Earth???

[val-ritz]

He never got the chance. During the War of Wrath (which did destroy basically all of northern Middle-Earth) Earendil, that one guy who’s in all the Elven songs, came down in his sky-ship Vingilot along with all of the Eagles, and they fought that motherfucker for an entire day. When he died, he broke three mountains under him. He was fucking insane.

[lila-jelly]

in the process of re-watching all three extended lord of the rings with my sister, and the hobbits are particularly charming me this time around. 

[myrkvidrs]

Glorfindel by すけきよ