“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” ― J.R.

Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.

[nolikereally]

in all this excitement, let’s not forget the TRUE reason for the season

on February 14, 3019, Gandalf the White arose from death in his true form and set out once more to walk the stones of Middle-Earth

MERRY GANDALFMAS

[monzellious]

I’ve been working on some valentines…

[bear1na]

LOTR - Galadriel by David Stoupakis

[thehobbitkili]

A legit deleted conversation from the Silmarillion

Fëanor: Nelyafinwë, are you having an affair with your cousin?

Maedhros: Half-cousin.

[doitdoitnow]

just summing up whatever Elrond ever says

hey Elrond we’re trowing the one ring into mount doom– ok don’t fuck it up

hey Elrond we’re taking back the dwarf kingdom from Smaug – ok don’t fuck it up

[i-m-ghost-kissed-by-fire]

if this get 100 notes I will draw angbang motorcycle gang au. With acurate, realistic motorcycles, and shit. It could be very cool.

[thorin-loves-thranduil-blog]

Yessssss

[landrovaling]

i need this

[laughingsloth]

[hattedhedgehog]

Once sweet-talking doesn’t work he resorts to the puppy eyes. 

(Based on this)

[alkjira]

sadness warning

What if, after the scene where Thorin beats the goldsickness  and before he goes out to join the others, he takes the time to write Bilbo a letter, because we know he wanted to apologise, and we know that he expected not to make it out of the battle alive, and we know he was surprised to see Bilbo again.

So a letter, written and left with the flimsy hope that someone would make it, and give it to Bilbo. But Thorin couldn’t not write it, because there was just so much he wanted to say. 

And then Balin gives Bilbo this letter after BoFA.

[dirtgemini]

my amralime fanbook pic!!! two page spread!! how exciting!! zoom this shit

you can buy the book here!!! it’s p cool!!! and here’s a post about it

[melkomelko]

Finrod the Explorah

he’s just crazy

[nerdishpursuits-deactivated2024]

Tauriel’s costume incorporated two color ways of this tree bark fabric. She had a coat of that in green, and over top of that she wore a very fitted, brown leather corset. And down the front of it we have these laser-cut leaves. I’m quite fond of layering fabrics, so you get a glint of something else, particularly on the elves. I wanted it to have a slight magical feeling where you kind of go ‘‘Ohhhh, what is that exactly’’ (BotFA EE bts)

[lintamande]

The only information we have on Elven childhood and maturation comes from Laws and Customs of the Eldar (Histories of Middle-earth Volume X).

For at the end of the third year mortal children began to outstrip the Elves, hastening on to a full stature while the Elves lingered in the first spring of childhood. Children of Men might reach their full height while Eldar of the same age were still in body like to mortals of no more than seven years. Not until the fiftieth year did the Eldar attain the stature and shape in which their lives would after- wards endure, and for some a hundred years would pass before they were full-grown.

In other words, Elves grow almost as quickly as Men until their third birthday and then slow dramatically. They look seven when Men are reaching adulthood. They come of age at fifty but often aren’t fully grown until 100 - so fifty might be the human equivalent of 17 or 18, when adolescents come of age in most societies, while 100 is the equivalent of 25, when the human brain actually finishes maturing. Then, of course, Elves cease to grow altogether. Now it’d be really useful to have a graph showing Elven ages versus the comparable human maturities, so ‘thirty-five-year-old Elf’ actually means something. And if we just connect the dots between our data points, we get a really ugly and uneven growth pattern. We want something that starts fast and then levels out, eventually becoming asymptotic (no matter how long they live, Elves will never reach the physical age of a human 30-year-old). 

The obvious solution is a logistic curve, usually used in population growth and resource saturation models. I had to modify it a little bit to manage the fact that Elves grow at the same rate as Men for the first three years of their lives (that’s the ugly little start to the curve there), but from three forward Tolkien’s statements on Elven aging can be perfectly modeling by a logistic function. I set the asymptote at 27: no matter how long an Elf lives, their body will never mature past the physical age of a human 27-year-old. At 18, 19, or 20 years old, an Elf will look 7. At fifty, they’ll be 18. At 100, 26. Just like Tolkien specified, sort of.

So now we can answer all the urgent questions of the legendarium. Maeglin was 12 when Eöl named him; how old is the human equivalent? About five and a half. In the Annals of Aman Fëanor is 16 when his father remarries: what is the equivalent? Six and three-quarters. 

In my timeline for the birth of the Finwean grandchildren, Maedhros is forty when Fingon is born: what does that translate to? 14 and a half. What age-equivalent are Galadriel’s big brothers when she’s born? Twenty-one, fifteen, and nine respectively. 

The second, zoomed-in graph doesn’t show the curve well but it makes it easy to find age-equivalents yourself.

[magicbunni]

I am embarrassed to admit I can’t seem to find a copy of “Laws and Customs of the Eldar“. <cries>

[lintamande]

I hosted it here for you; it’s pretty long, but the relevant bits about Elven aging and maturation are first.

[dionetaofavalon]

If the scene must be about Tauriel, can the interpersonal conflict at least reflect legitimate internal conflict?

[peregrint]

The Last Goodbye | Middle Earth cover (Impressions)

So this is a thing that exists

[daddygraves]

OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO LISTEN

[baggvinshield]

i’m blasting off into space

[worthyironman]

i’m currently on earth two right now from how good that was

[the-hobbit]

Meanwhile Orlando Bloom….

[malmao]

I can’t help but imagine a Thorin that had always wanted to be a dad. Except well. He had like zero interest in female dwarves–females of any race really–so he knew from very early on that it was simply not an option for him. 

So he settles for being an uncle to Fili and Kili and then being a father-figure to Fili and Kili and then watching Fili and Kili grow up to be their own people. 

Bilbo having never talked to him about those kinds of things and being so nervous to ask Thorin how he feels about bringing Frodo into their home. Thorin getting that look on his face. First a spark of hope, tamped down into thinly veiled nerves and awkward reassurance.. 

Just. Whatever you do don’t imagine Thorin fucking Oakenshield’s face when he finds out that he’s essentially going to get to be someone’s father.

Don’t do it. It will end you.