Flattery savoured ever sweet in the nostrils of thst Ainu, and for all his unfathomed wisdom many a lie of those whom he despised deceived him, were thet clothed sweetly in words of praise;
Beren and Luthien, JRR Tolkien (via lovebookquotes)
Month: June 2017
among those Men who followed the teachings of Sauron or the Zigûr in any of his guises, it was common practice to wear glass beads resembling eyes, similar to those worn in real cultures to ward off the evil eye. however, his followers wore it to attract the Eye’s blessings, not to ward it away.
berúthiel, in her youth, has been known to braid them into her hair.
The axe forgets; the tree remembers.
African proverb (via futurepharaohs)
This is a Zimbabwean proverb from the Shona tribe, meaning that a person who harms another or borrows from someone will often forget, but the person who is harmed or borrowed from will always remember.
(via sweetheartpleasestay)
Art: Vol. 1 J.R.R. Tolkien; Vols. 2,7,8 John Howe; Vol. 3 Ted Naismith; Vols. 4, 6 Alan Lee; Vol. 5 Herbert Draper
@daughterxftheseas: #Wesley stop taking my favorite animals and making them Fauna of Mordor #at this rate I’ll have to move to Mordor
Me, scooping up animals in both arms and hauling them over the Mountains of Shadow: YOU WON’T CATCH ME ALIVE, SUCKAHS
I can’t even…
Its beautiful
Put me here when i die
Ir Ithil ammen Eruchîn
menel-vîr síla díriel
si loth a galadh lasto dîn!
A Hîr Annûn gilthoniel,
le linnon im Tinúviel![The Moon having watched for us Children of Eru
shines like a jewel in the sky
now flower and tree, listen silent!
O Lady of the West, star-kindler,
I sing to you, I, Nightingale!]
Lúthien, The Lay of Leithian, Canto III (source )
FFIIIIIIINNNNNGGGOOOLLLLLFFFFIIINNNNNN!!!
i tried different things with lines / colour and actually doing lips well?i might redraw him when im not so overworked by uni. ;u;
Napuctun speaks
(Christian):
What David predicted once,
God accomplished it
Blessed is the Christian sword
truly precious, such a warrior;
confident in the image of The Cross
as their strongest shield,
with power of the holy wrath
will hunt you down, heathen tribes.
The emperor’s sword, at war,
and the pope’s sword, godly and full of
glory,
are getting down together
to the root of all evil,
the disdainful virus of falsity.
(Maya):
What has been written
will be fullfilled.
what has been spoken
will come to be.
Burn, burn, burn
on earth we shall burn
become cinders in
the blowing wind
drift over the land
over the mountains
out to sea..
So you may not comprehend itSo you may not understand it; he will come who knows
how the ages unfold
Weep, weep, weep
but know, know well:
Ash does not suffer,
Ash does not suffer.
“Where is your son, Faramir?”
“He lies within; burning, already burning. They have set a fire in his flesh. But soon all shall be burned. The West has failed. It shall all go up in a great fire, and all shall be ended. Ash! Ash and smoke blown away on the wind!”
Sauron’s Masks: Tol-in-Gaurhoth – War of the Last Alliance– RivkaZ 2017
“There now he brooded in the dark, until he had wrought for himself a new shape; and it was terrible, for his fair semblance had departed forever when he was cast into the abyss"
I wanted to showcase my idea for different battle masks worn by Sauron; one for striking fear in the elves of Sirion, and one to disguise his misshapen visage after the Akallabeth. I thought it would be poetic to see his fair form to wear a fearsome mask while his monstrous form wears a beautiful one; maybe for the sake of vanity, or simply to be recognizable after his imperfect re-embodiment. It seems like something the leaders of the Last Alliance who knew him from before would comment on, while facing him down on the slopes of Orodruin.
JRR Tolkien
Sketch and design for dust-jacket for The Fellowship of the RingIn January 1954, six months before the first volume of The Lord of the Rings was published Tolkien wa asked by Allen & Unwin to suggest a dust-jacket design for the book. He replied, late in February, that he was ‘without both time and inspiration’, but before another month had passed he produced two ‘notions’ for jackets if the first two volumes, the Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. “I can hardly call them more” than notions, he wrote, “owing to their technical deficiencies. But someone might be able to rectify them or produce something on their lines. (I have indicated the precise form and significance of the ‘elvish’ lettering.)”
Five designs by Tolkien of the Fellowship of the Ring jacket are extant. One differs from the rest in that a ribbon outlined in black ink and blue pencil runs behind the central ring (representing Sauron’s Ring), and the upper, red-jeweled ring (meant to be Narya, the ruby Ring of Fire worn by Gandalf, in symbolic opposition to Sauron) is offset from the centre, the runic text on the ribbon reads ‘in the land of shadows where the Mordor lie’, shadow and Mordor curiously inverted. The text in red tengwar around the centre Ring is, with minor differences, the Ring inscription in the Black Speech, as published in book 1, chapter 2: ‘Ash nazg etc..’ At bottom left and right are the other two of the three Elven rings, Nenya and Vilya, the Rings of Water and Air, set with adamant and sapphire. Of Tolkien’s other designs for the Fellowship jacket, [the second picture] is representative. The central device is almost fully realized: Narya suspended between stylized flames above the One Ring, within which floats the eye of Sauron (later, upon a field of black), and around which the Ring inscription is written in fiery tengwar.
From: “J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & iIlustrator”, by Hammond & Scull, page 179
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