I say this as a lifelong Tolkien nerd: I am not at all sure about the idea of Tom Bombadil coming on camera for season 2 of Rings of Power. Every time I've ever read Lord of the Rings, I've pretty much glossed right past his appearance in Fellowship, just because I tend to find how he is presented unutterably twee.
It'll be interesting though to see how Rings of Power actually depicts him. And it'll take some skillful acting to strike a balance between how ol' Tom comes across (which is to say, twee), and the staggering level of power he possesses. Skillful writing, too, to actually deploy him into the plot in a meaningful way.
Most folks can't tolerate someone who hums four cubicles over. They are in no way prepared for the amount of singing Tom Bombadil thinks is perfectly normal for a Tuesday afternoon. #lotr#amazon#ringsofpower#tolkien
At a banquet in the late 1980s, a delegation from the #Visby#Tolkien Society gave the ivy on St. Olaf's ruin to the Stockholm Tolkien Society as a diplomatic gift. I am pleased to report to all my fellow Stockholm Tolkienians that our ivy is doing well.
Why Do Dwarves Sound Scottish and Elves Sound Like Royalty?
Blame Tolkien and time - by Eric Grundhauser December 7, 2016
"...Tolkien would create languages first, then write cultures & histories to speak them... In the case of the ever-present Elvish in his works, Tolkien took inspiration from Finnish and Welsh. As the race of men & hobbits got their language from the elves in Tolkien’s universe, their language was portrayed as similarly Euro-centric in flavor.
For the dwarves, who were meant to have evolved from an entirely separate lineage, he took inspiration from Semitic languages for their speech, resulting in dwarven place names like Khazad-dûm & Moria.
“When dwarves actually talk, they don’t sound Scottish at all,” says Olsen. “They sound like Arabic or Hebrew.”...As radio & film adaptations of Tolkien’s works were released in later decades, you can see the slow evolution of the dwarven accent..."
Half of the clear plastic ghosts box painted up. Knowing how quick and easy they are, I'll smash through the other half of the box when I only have a couple of hours to spare.
New on my blog is the second half of my top 10 imaginary worlds. I get a bit deeper this time (or go on a bit more!), as these are ones that have shaped me as a writer.
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..."
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.
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."
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.
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"