J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit” By Maria Popova
"...People have celebrated Tolkien as a writer for years — you haven’t been able to get away from him since all the books of the century polls. But The Lord of the Rings has always been the focus since it was published in 1954 — it’s a much more grown-up, significant book. It has overshadowed The Hobbit as a more old-fashioned, children’s book, which has become known in the context of The Lord of the Rings. The anniversary allows us to move the spotlight back on to the book which started it all.
A rare piece of cross-disciplinary creativity from the mind of one of modern history’s greatest creators, The Art of the Hobbit is equal parts literary treasure and treat of art, exploring the notion of the author as designer — a particularly timely concept in the age of self-publishing and disciplinary cross-pollination in the making of books..."
I always loved #twins, and #Elrond and #Elros have a special place in my heart - I wonder when Elros made his choice, and I like the take that it did so when both were still fairly young. I imagine it must not have been easy 💔
Surprised to learn in Fonstad’s Atlas of #MiddleEarth that #TheShire is 21,400 square miles (55426 square km) — way larger than I was imagining! That would make it slightly smaller than West Virginia and larger than Switzerland. And that isn’t counting the later-added Westmarches or Buckland either.
Je suis assez mort de rire ! Je jure que c'est la dernière fois que je poste de la déconne Youtube ! C'est pas mon genre mais là je ne peux pas faire autrement !
J'ai encore trouvé moyen d'acheter des BD bien débiles !
"La Terre du Milieu mais un peu sur la gauche" Piers et Lehue
et
-"L'enfer c'est les hôtes" Karibou et Richerand
J'en parle demain ok ? Le temps de les lire quoi...
Pretend? really?
Reminds me of a book I've read about bookstores' fun moments, and one was about a customer who wanted to buy books just to put at his house and makes him looks so smart. LOL
But, I've read #Tolkien, Jackson, #Atwood, #Orwell and more ! #Booksworm#books#Readers
Pretend? really?
Reminds me of a book I've read about bookstores' fun moments, and one was about a customer who wanted to buy books just to put at his house and makes him looks so smart. LOL
But, I've read #Tolkien, Jackson, #Atwood, #Orwell and more ! #Booksworm#books#Readers
"Les causes qui touchent les héritiers de [#Tolkien] sont résolument progressistes. Ils indiquent qu’ils donnent notamment de l’argent pour : les arts, l’éducation, l’environnement, la lutte contre le sans-abrisme, le développement international, les relations internationales et la consolidation de la paix, la migration, la réforme carcérale, la santé au Royaume-Uni et dans le monde, et la recherche médicale."
#introduction
hello there, i'm antares! i like linguistics (can speak english, russian and spanish), music (i play guitar) and fixing things (mainly finding ways to use old tech and sewing). i've never been a big poster, but spent a lot of good time lurking in #tolkien and #danmei fandoms
things that i'm also into: #solarpunk#foss#astronomy#botany#hiking#theatre
any pronouns are fine, but in english i prefer they/them
After being busy and not managing to get time at my paint desk, today I painted up an Ent model, really quick easy to paint, but the result is really nice.
Played some Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game. My Hobbits took on the Ruffians in the Scouring of the Shire campaign. At this point in the campaign, it's pretty even between the two sides.
"Farmer Giles of Ham" has the scene from "The Hobbit" where Elrond reads inscriptions on ancient swords and identifies them as famous blades. In FGoH it's the local parson and the sword is Caudimordax, or Tailbiter.
Today, March 25, the One Ring is destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom.
"The fourteenth of the New Year," said Gandalf; "or if you like, the eighth day of April in the Shire-reckoning. But in Gondor the New Year will always now begin upon the twenty-fifth of March when Sauron fell"
Today is #Tolkien#Reading Day! I'm re-reading "Farmer Giles of Ham" (1949) for the first time since the 1980s. I have since become a Medievalist, very much not stepping into the same river twice.