jrrt: And sometimes as a man may cast a dainty to his cat (his cat he calls her, but she owns him not) Sauron would send her prisoners that he had no better uses for: he would have them driven to her hole, and report brought back to him of the play she made.
me, every single time: *delighted chortling*
What I love about this, –aside from the simply delightful image of Sauron petting his cat/spider Shelob–, is that it’s one of the very few things The Lord of the Rings tells us about Sauron’s personality. In most of the trilogy, Sauron’s this dark, mysterious, vast menace hanging in the background yet pressing down upon the heroes, but when Tolkien does decide to mention something about Sauron’s personality, it’s this… The man must really hate cats, mustn’t he?
Tag: i love him
Oh hey, finally managed to draw Sauron/Gorthaur again, enjoy the old bastard.
BITCH I’M BACK *slams Silm sketches on your desk*
Went diggin around for art I’ve never posted and found some Silmarillion sketches I’ve done in the past few months.– Do no repost/use/post my art on other websites without my permission –
IS THAT MELKOR AND TULKAS WRASSLIN’ I SEE?
YOU HAVE MADE MY WEEK ◊—◊
When George handed Tolkien the tape recorder, his skepticism towards it as a machine was deeply rooted in his personality. Because the machine could record and play back a human voice, Tolkien joked around that the tape recorder was possessed. That was why he began a recording session with exorcizing any demons living inside the machine. He did this by recording himself reciting the Lord’s Prayer.
But Tolkien didn’t recite the Lord’s Prayer in English. Neither did he recite it in Latin, which would have been expected considering that he was a devout Catholic. No, Tolkien being Tolkien, he recited the Lord’s Prayer in Gothic.
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