When you watched the ship sailing into the west at the end of The Return of the King, you might not have realised that it was kind of going into space.
I never knew until now that there is such a thing as Tolkien Reading Day.
"Tolkien Reading Day is an annual event, launched by The Tolkien Society in 2003, that takes place on 25 March. It has the aim of encouraging the reading of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the use of Tolkien's works in education and library groups. The date of 25 March was chosen in honour of the fall of Sauron in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Wikipedia"
Here's what you get if you cross a photo of my Los Angeles apartment building with the #Midjourney prompt "Imladris, Rivendell, home of Elrond". I'm rather surprised that palm trees aren't mentioned in #Tolkien's otherwise thorough descriptions of the place. 🙂
It took me a while to paint a Maglor I was satisfied with, but I'm pretyt happy with the result <:
I hope you like it too! 💙
PS: I appreciate that my elves (especially the Noldor) aren't very flashy - they have no circlets, or jewels, or shiny robes. This is bc I'm trying to focus more on the basic features, and the lovely viewers can imagine all the extras they like <: Think of paper dolls, but 2D 🙈
Hier sind die Versionshinweise für Update 39: „Entscheidung in der Arena“, veröffentlicht am Mittwoch, dem 13. März 2024.
Besonders erwähnenswert:
Ab sofort sind drei neue Instanzen und ein neuer Schlachtzug verfügbar! Alle drei Instanzen sowie der Schlachtzug können von jedem gespielt werden, der „Die Korsaren von Umbar“ besitzt.
Ausführliche Infos zu Update 39 könnt Ihr auf der offiziellen Website nachlesen.
A very large American sycamore (platanus occidentalis). They always remind me of the White Tree of Gondor, which was in turn inspired by Telperion, that silver tree of the First Age that became the moon. The base of this one is so big I can wrap my arms only about a third of the way around.
PS: is Celegorm supposed to have gold hair, or silver hair? I'm not sure, but since I already painted a golden version, it was time to try my hand at silver <;
I must have penned 100 of these by now as I move around the fediverse week to week and sometimes day to day. Anyway here it goes again...
I'm a #Nintendo fangirl. My first console was the #NES and I've been in love ever since. The #N64 being my favorite console of all time with games like Goldeneye, Mario 64, and #Zelda Ocarina of Time being some of the best games ever made. I know most people had a PlayStation then, but I was always a Nintendo girl.
I watch #horror#movies consistently, and sometimes it feels like I've seen the entire genre. Out of nowhere someone will recommend me a film I hadn't seen, and I'll love it. Routinely makes the genre surprise me in a good way. It's gotten to the point that if it's not a horror film I probably won't watch it.
I like to read, and again, with a slant to horror. #StephenKing being my favorite author ever since I read The Shining as a young teen. #Fantasy, especially #Tolkien, is another fixation. I did see the #LotR movies before I read the books, so I'm probably not as cool as you.
If you don't love #birds we probably can't be friends. I've been bird obsessed for going on 6 years now. Ever since a house sparrow couple decided to nest in my garage I've become a bird nerd. Honestly I don't think it would be possible for me to love anything more than our feathered friends, and it shatters my heart every time I read about #climatechange decimating bird populations. Birds are better than people, full stop.
#Retrocomputing and #nostalgia are another side hobby. Content around the retrotechisphere is certainly in my orbit. I grew up with i386 processors and 9600baud modems in my veins. I would hangout in chatrooms on #BBS servers until 2am (my mom HATED it).
That's basically me minus all the neurodivergency causing disasters in my life, but I'm not here to trauma dump. As long as I have an #Android phone and a Nintendo console I'll be happy.
I like the novel Dune more than I do LotR, and I think the latest Dune adaptation (both movies taken as a whole) are excellent, and mostly faithful to the book.
But the LotR movies, while admittedly taking a lot of liberties, are so monumental and innovative that they still eclipse the cinematic Dune.
That said, Zendaya probably deserves a nomination next year, for playing Chani in part 2.
I have been playing Middle-Earth: Shadow of War the last few days, which is not a bad game, even if it seems lacking in comparison to Shadow of Mordor.
But it made me think about Sauron in #dnd again, that is, #odnd: he's basically a lich, isn't he? Powerful spellcaster, sort of undead, has an item that contains part of his power and... actually we don't really know so much about him from LOTR, he shows up like once when he gazes through the palantir.
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Spent today applying these tabs to all of my Middle Earth rule and campaign books. Hopefully, these will make it easier to find rules and unit profiles.
After the comments I got on this, I want to publicly say that you are all correct, when I painted this I was all about sad Maedhros BUT WHAT IF (swipe please <; )
(I considered writing "did you say Silmaril?" but it seemed too mean 😝)
Chaque estampe que vous m'achetez me permet d'en développer de nouvelles, d'affiner mes choix artistiques ainsi que de me vivre d'autre chose que d'amour et d'eau fraîche, je vous en suis donc immensément reconnaissant 🙏
Neil gaiman posted this-
Posting this for the people who think that Tolkien's world-building was something complete and entire and finished before he started to write.
Instauré par la Tolkien Society, le #TolkienReadingDay, le 25 mars célèbre la destruction de l'Anneau Unique et la chute de Sauron.
À cette occasion, nous vous invitons à organiser des rendez-vous locaux ou en ligne sur notre serveur Discord https://discord.gg/cafByTS pour lire J.R.R. #Tolkien le jour même ou autour.
Contactez-nous si vous souhaitez participer ou organiser chez vous !
Finally, feeling human enough to get a few hours painting in today. So I decided to paint up the final Ruffian I needed for the Scouring of the Shire campaign.