That’s how Tolkien describes Sam’s attack on Shelob. Rereading right now.

While portraying Aragorn, Viggo Mortensen was also documenting life behind the scenes of The Lord of the Rings through his own camera lens.

Away from the battles and costumes, he captured quiet, candid moments of the cast and the crew. Creating a unique visual diary of one of cinema’s greatest productions.

Many of these photographs were later published in The Hole in the Sum of My Parts, offering fans an intimate perspective that only someone living the experience could have captured.

Recently we got this little orange fluff who we named Gimli, we’ve noticed he’s been acting like he needs a friend. The vet agreed and recommended a male cat around his same age.

I found this guy at the humane society IF he’s still available we’ll be getting him tomorrow evening 🤞🏼

I’m having such a hard time thinking of a name for him other than Gandalf (it’s been a while since I’ve read the books but we watch the movies often)

Pattern is Two Towers by Thread Geeks - 42,000 stitches, 38 colours, 12" x 12" inches. Can't believe it's finally finished!

im doing a painting of the shire and was just wondering! no other pic of the the shire has this tree

I love lord of the rings like everyone else here. But I grew up on the rankin bass Hobbit VHS tape long before the LOTR movies. And I think the Rankin bass hobbit is a fine adaptation of tolkiens work. To this day when I think of a hobbit, it’s this version I imagine. Same goes for Gollum. So I very much wanted to add them to my collection.

That was amazing. I can't believe I haven't done this before. I fully understand the "I see it all as one movie" point of view now

Few weeks ago I saw here someone posting about this book. So, I needed it too and here it is, just arrived! 😬

Obviously he's a godfather to the genre so he gets those pioneer privileges, but there's something truly different about the way his characters are written.

I think that most fantasy stories write their characters the way they would in any other genre. Meaning that they treat fantasy as more of an aesthetic than a philosophy.

The best fantasy is nor just an aesthetic, you have to write uncompromising characters!

https://youtu.be/kZxTw5RkThA?is=PCD1UMYTdTVWF-9g

I find myself in Oxford for a day, and went on a little improvised Tolkien tour. I visited the bench, his various homes, the pubs, and of course his grave. I left a bouquet of flowers and a little letter of thanks for his legendary work. There’s not many Tolkien fans in my life to share this with, so I figured I would post here. If you’re ever in Oxford, paying a visit only takes a short bus ride :)

My wife gifted me this beautiful book, couldn’t be more happy!

It's just a little dirty at the cover, but i think it was a fair price!