pippin but buff

i respond from @tadpal, but perhaps more importantly i reblog my own art from @tadpal. if you want to talk to me: talk to me about pippin!

[problempippin]

pippin is buff and the reason why boromir and other men of gondor describe him as childlike is bc in gondor all children are fucking shredded

[gay-pippin]

Hobbits that point at gay people

[lesbiansforboromir]

I've another tolkien academic article to recommend, though this one is far more easily accessible than 'Wretched of Middle-earth' thankfully, though is also amusingly written by some 'Millers'

"Tolkien and Rape; Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman’s Body in Middle-earth" by T. S. Miller and Elizabeth Miller contains #1 an excellent examination of Shelob's often remarked upon 'monstrously-feminine sexuality' #2 a robust (if still too nervous for my liking) critique of Tolkien's treatment of rape in all his body of work, and #3 a whole new anecdote about Tolkien's medievalist scholarship that I had never heard about. This anecdote is also, crucially, so fucking embarassing for him like it has to be read to be believed.

The paper is (I think?) pretty approachable apart from the quotes that are in middle english. And somehow a bit funny too! Which I understand is strange to say about an article discussing rape but look;

In what follows, we will insist on paying close attention to what Tolkien and his writings say and show about women as embodied beings who desire and who age, even when these women take the shape of outsized arachnids.

[asneakyfox]

one of my favorite bits in lord of the rings is something the movies didn't really try to do because it's entirely internal, but sam's carrying the ring and it starts trying to do its work on him, so he's having these intrusive visions of himself marching at the head of a vast and terrible army, and he just starts laughing because, me? samwise gamgee? sam gamgee the general sam gamgee the dark lord are you for real? man i just want to go home and do some gardening. and the ring gets frustrated and it starts trying to figure out other stuff that would actually tempt sam and it's finally like, okay, but hear me out: imagine if you could have...A REALLY REALLY BIG GARDEN

[asneakyfox]

and then he's like, i don't know that sounds like a lot more work than a regular garden actually. why don't we just get on with finding mister frodo

[cosmonaut-observer]

If you live in the UK you need to see this

Protect Internet Freedom from now until forever. It's important existentially! Americans stand with UK citizens in our struggle against government censorship

[russettrush]

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation

We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag

Got the link via @finalducc

If you live in the UK, please be sure to take part in this!

[fading-bisexual-queen-milkshake]

@daysleftofsecondterm

[starlightshadowsworld]

You guys have my whole heart for sharing this I had no idea will be filling this out and encourage all my fellow brits to do soo too. If you’re not from the UK please keep sharing this around we have till the 26th May to submit these in.

This whole thing was set up without our say we all need to make sure we’re heard.

[beetletusked]

this was SUPPOSED to be a sketch for a sketch exchange with my friends (more specifically @totallynottinsel ) but it got leaked (i couldn't keep my fat mouth shut) and now i'm posting it

as always reblogs appreciated, no reposting to other platforms, and definitely no ai. get that shit outta here

[bellflowermini]

if you need someone to remember you, just know, i remember it all

[silmalope]

For day one of @tolkienfashionweek , headcanons on the evolution of (elf-friendly) fashion and fána among the Valar :)

[nayrring]

How it feels like everytime i make another annoying silmarillion reference while watching lotr/ hobbits movies around others

[thefreakmeister]

[minotauri]

another crying frodo because why not

[pukiirice]

I am no man.

[fishfingersandscarves]

redraw of the very first illustration i did for i tadui hanar

[lukavyi]

Study

[gemsoflasgalen]

goldberry | river-daughter

another attempt at her, this time more of a water spirit 🌊

speedpaint below the cut | commission me on kofi! 🌟

[catilinas]

hello????????????????????????

[herawell]

Éowyn is a better person than me because if my uncle and adoptive father failed to protect me from his advisor sexually harassing me, spared that man’s life, and offered him a place in the army, the place in the army that I was denied for being a woman, after I had spent five years nursing my uncle back to health and performing the other thankless womanly duties of his court, no way in hell would I have stood between him and Satan’s right-hand man.

Tolkien never touches on Éowyn’s justified anger at her uncle over Gríma Wormtongue, other than a line about her looking at Théoden with “cool pity”, which is yet another indication he’s not the feminist king fandom makes him out to be.

[torchwood-99]

It would be him calling Eomer "the last of that house" that would do it for me. Especially when you consider that Eowyn had just spent five years in a living hell looking after him because it was her duty as a member of "that house".

"You stand before my liege lord and kin!....well, sort of, sometimes he says I'm his kin. At least, when Hama says I'm a member of his family he doesn't disagree so that's kind of something I suppose?"