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my previously pinned post is here
Acceptable reasons for humans in reality to burst into song: It’s a concert or a rehearsal or something.
Acceptable reasons for people in Lord of the Rings to burst into song: We are in a kings hall, we are in a pub, we are about to eat some really nice food, we have just eaten some really nice food, there is a pretty tree, there is a pretty rock, there are lots of pretty trees, It’s raining, it’s stopped raining, there is a pretty tree, we are going into battle tomorrow, orcs are ugly, my ancestor was cool, my ancestor was shit, my ancestor was cooler than yours dispite starting this shit, I miss home, I don’t miss home, oh look some grass, the past is a thing that existed and it was shit, the past is a thing that existed and it was awesome, I am in love, there is a river, there is a pretty tree, my ancestor was a tree, we’re on horses now, I’m bored, I’m hungry, someone has died, elves exist, men exist, hobbits exist, dwarfs exist, 10,000 years ago there was a pretty lady, my ancestor was a pretty lady, someone else has died, my sword is cool, my sword is cooler, my ancestor had a sword once he named it Jeff, oh look a tree, I love trees, I am vibing with this monolith, this tree is now officially my bestie, there is a pretty city somewhere, there is an ugly city somewhere, I’ve killed something, I want to kill something, I don’t want to kill something, oh look a wife, I have a wife, I have a son, I am drunk, I am scared, I am bored, once there was this lady she was so pretty everyone she looked at died of awe, you’re pretty, I am pretty, I wish I was home, I wish I was a tree, oh look stars, my ancestor was a star.
We're doing the dishes and mocking a hobbit
I feel like this was actually kind of realistic for medieval times. You didn't have much entertainment, but singing is free.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something. What are we holding on to, Sam? There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
LOTR Week - Day 2 (23rd Sep): people
Fingon
Here’s the timelapse if anyone’s interested 💖
the last queen of Númenor
some elf bullshit happened
The Silmarillion Abridged
Shoutout to whichever Feanorian-apologist on Tolkien Gateway chose this phrasing when explaining why “some of the Sindar and many of the Nandor did not want to live w the Noldor” in Eregion during the 2nd Age. I’m not here to debate morality but that is just underhandedly savage, my god
Though, honestly, “did not want to live with the Noldor bc some *other* Noldor had previously destroyed an entire Kingdom, murdered their folk, & then attacked and nearly decimated a whole city of diverse refugees” just does not quite have the same ring to it. Its artful, really.
And don’t @ me on this—I’m well aware that the Feanorians don’t represent all Noldor, that the Silmarils and the actions & motivations of all involved are complicated, that yada yada yada yada. This is about funny narrative things, not about me picking on anyone’s favorite characters. A girls just gotta laugh sometimes. /end disclaimer
Laughing about this again though because “great evil” —> Second Kinslaying just gives borderline Orwellian
And now I’m imagining, like, Pengolodh or Rumil being handed a copy of 1984 and just, like, short-circuiting over the course of ten hours
My Tolkien Quotes (1/?)
The White Tree of Gondor
Hot Girl Summer is over... get ready for The Fall Of Numenor
War Makes Monsters of Us All
My first piece for @tolkienrsb 2025 (#119) in collaboration with @guileheroine! The corresponding fic will be available soon 💚
the universe is expanding at an increasing rate to make room for more flower-crown Gimlis
The many trees have been CONQUERED!!!
Panel 14 is done! I actually fell into a pretty comfortable rhythm with the trees and am SO HAPPY with how all of it turned out! That’s the hardest panel done and only two more to go!
It’s not the end of the trees though! There’s still a bit of forest on Panel 15 (and I little I need to free-hand in because the pattern needed to be snipped and adjusted) and one last mountain for the Isle of Balar. Nearly there!
Progress on my stained glass Narsil.
(just so you know, the brilliance of your FB works is screamed about at LEAST once per month, and often concerningly more often)
BeckettSimpleton?? Hello! I apologize for the delay in reply! My main handle is associated with my online Tolkien presence, though I do post from the same name on ao3, yes. :) I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed my portrayal of Newt Scamander these past few years. He’s been an important character for me, and the unexplored historical context often brings me to my knees. :) Sending asks to my @uefb blog is more likely to receive a quick reply. So sorry!! Can’t wait to catch up on your work soon. :)
It probably hasn't escaped anyone's notice that Discord has seen a massive spike in popularity among fans in the past several years. It did not escape mine, so I wrote an article about it!
What role does Discord play within the broader network of platforms popular among fans? How do fans navigate Discord as part of their fan practices? What does this mean for the ways in which fans experience fandom?
Based on ethnographic research within two small-scale fan servers, I try to find an answer to these questions. The article is published in a special issue fully dedicated to the topic of fandom and platforms, made possible by a great editorial team. So if that in any way sounds interesting to you: check the whole issue out!
I have been thinking about the ways we present knowledge in posts on Tolkien Tumblr
[I’m editing to add that I have been thinking about this more on and off ALL afternoon, and... I recognize social media is a complex space and that there are plenty of valid personal reasons we don’t use citations in social media. So take this all with a grain of salt, obviously. And I think there’s pros and cons to it all, but this is still a semi-worthwhile conversation, I think.]
Could we as a Tolkien fandom stop making posts with an aggressively informative tone--often without sources--that mix canon/textual information, meta, and headcanon? What would it look like were we to at least use syntactical indicators of when we are talking about (a) what exists in the text, (b) what can be pieced together or is implied in the text (or can be reasonably assumed given in-universe history), and (c) what we have chosen to believe as individuals?
While I tend to take a "live and let live" attitude to fandom, when we present things as fact that are not necessarily facts, we are doing a disservice to one another as fans.
Every fan deserves access to information to make their own decisions, and it therefore makes sense to me that meta and headcanons should be marked more clearly than they often are, particularly in wildly popular posts that may be getting circulated due to, well--potentially--confirmation bias.
For example, there are always posts flying around with what might be construed as misinformation. Particularly when it comes to supposedly canonical takes on things as sensitive as elvish cultural differences, racial hierarchy, or colonialist commentaries, take-down culture--even within a complex fictional world--somehow seems to fuel these bizarre and often--in fandom--self-propagating wars that extend from the page to the fan space and fuel either in-universe wars (between Noldor and Sindarin and Silvan stans, for example) and extra-universe discomforts (i.e., those who have experiences or histories of racial-ethnic trauma and colonialization and are seeing these narratives ignored, uncited, or poorly represented, passed around the fandom as freely and unchecked as Dorwinion at the King's table). Even when these posts elevate the group that is coded as inferior in-universe, doing so with no context, no citations, or no indication of whether the post is "real" Tolkien or headcanon potentially obfuscates:
the very real reasons fans feel affirmed or disaffirmed by the texts, and
the complex and nuanced reasons fans spend hundreds of hours creating content or writing stories that write against an in-universe narrative.
And it makes appreciation of Tolkien's world more difficult for those who are just discovering it.
To be absolutely clear: I love meta.* I live for meta. And I think my absolute obsessive love for it is why this frustrates me. And as someone who has been in and out of the Tolkien world for 22 years--who came of fandom age in the early years of the Internet--I just really think we should be helping younger generations learn and make their own decisions--while enjoying meta, too!--but not aggressively telling them how to think. Some of us have been in this fandom so long and have read so much text we can look at a post and go "Oh, this is canon; this is questionably canon across drafts; this is reasonable meta and how cool!; and this is this person's individual opinions" but not all of us are there, and none of us are there on EVERY aspect of Tolkien.
So yes, have your opinions--I, for example, have some very unpopular opinions about the Feanorians, and Amroth, and I am an unapologetically enthusiastic Wood-elf stan (see my pinned post, lmao)--but all I recommend is that you be clear in your presentation, even just in the tags.
My point isn't to stop people from talking about Tolkien; it's not about policing who can say what; it's not even about holding one type of knowledge over others. It's all just to say:
- Yes, tumblr is all fun and games, but media consumption and media literacy still matter, and so do respect and kindness. - Please responsibly write and reblog. -What might our fandom(s) look like if we changed the ways we talk about knowledge and its dissemination?
All I want is vague citations and clarity or at least an indication of the type of post being propagated, and I don't think that's such a bad thing to whinge about.
*phew*
* and I g-d love shitposts, sweet jesus yes
Someone randomly liked this post today and I was forced to remember its existence.
…what a brazenly autistic post (affectionate), pre-awareness of my own autism. Like. Post-diagnosis!me doesn’t know how I survived 3 decades thinking the level of discomfort I have over simple COMMUNICATION OF FACTS was 100% neurotypical.
I’ll just file this away with my 50-page word document of every time Tolkien ever mentioned wood-elves and go on with my merry autistic chaos elsewhere
hey so anyone else just, feel thin. sort of stretched. like butter scraped over too much bread. like you need a holiday. a very long holiday. and you don't expect you shall return? or is that just me and bilbo baggins