#christopher tolkien

[metamorphesque]

from a letter to Christopher Tolkien (August, 1945), J. R. R. Tolkien

[theidlespoon]

nothing, just tolkien originally writing down the hobbit because his son christopher kept complaining that he'd change the details from night to night and then christopher later being so crucial in taking tolkien's notes and turning them into fully written novels of worldbuilding. loving someone to the point of creation and then having them help you finish the job.

[mcpayne]

"As strange as it may seem, I grew up in the world he created. For me, the cities of The Silmarillion are more real than Babylon."

- Christopher Tolkien

[iamnotshazam]

"our son made it through the war to come of age, let's fucken party! rsvp only if you're a little bitch who's NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on"

edit: fascinating! the tags are full of two types of people. 1) people who think this is a joke and 2) catholics who fully admit to a bit of cheeky cultural alcoholism just nodding and saying "uh huh"

[dearest-loveliest-elizabeth]

Reading Sauron Defeated is so great, because the first drafts Tolkien wrote of some scenes (that he ended up deleting) are SO INTERESTING

(Part 2 / Part 3)

While in the crack of doom, when Frodo claims the ring and puts it on, he sees the eye and almost immediately regrets it, but when he tries to take the ring off, he can’t.

In another draft, Gollum kills himself by throwing himself into the fire after finally having the ring. (And Sam stabs a black rider)

In another draft, Sam kills Gollum (this appears in several drafts btw, so it’s a recurring idea Tolkien had)

(Btw, I’m I reading it right? Does “hurls himself and Gollum into the gulf” mean they both die?)

In another (one of the ones where Sam kills Gollum), the wizard king (the witch king) appears, and tries to stop Sam and Frodo from leaving (which would kill them), but fear not because Frodo tells him to kill himself, and he does.

Lobelia dies in a fight before the hobbits return to the shire (during Saruman’s rule)

About Frodo leaving to Valinor:

Sam and Frodo leaving to Valinor at the same time when they’re old :(

(Frodo was originally called Bingo)

About “Frodo rides to the Havens and says farewell to Bilbo”, Christopher Tolkien believes his father wrote in a hurry and accidentally wrote Bilbo instead of Sam.

I love Tolkien’s notes because those are exactly my notes when I write and I think about a scene

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

[insidethehalloftheflame-eyedking]

[partfae]

i feel so lucky to be alive in a world where there’s tolkien to think about