Thread 8005194

Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit

Is the online game any good still?

>>8006448
There is a dedicated following of welcoming, nice people who love it. The ones I see tend to be book-only fans, and use the game to explore Tolkien's secondary world together.

>>8009110

Love the drip
I think I might start dressing like this
Not many people rock suits and waits coats so casually now

Ulmo and Tuor

Does anyone have a hi-res version of "Green Hill Country" by Ted Nasmith?

gib Erebor

and gollum in the underground lake

>>8013118
nvm, found it.

FFFFFFuck yes bros I'm so happy you made this thread and contributed. I've been looking for high quality Tolkien art for forever, specifically Silmarillion art. Thank you all.

>>8005365
Damn, this one got me.
Any more of Luthien?

>>8015618
welcome

I'll try to post more

Antichrist and Satan, now I know you have turned this website of my youth for your own with the help of the Jews. People with pure hearts will always find something new.

Sayonara for real, this time.

I hope you God makes you curl up into a ball and hide as soon as you read this.

>>8018442
The pharmacist called.

Your meds are ready to pick up.

>>8005302

Man... it's weird but this is almost 1-1 how i imagined the scene to look like when i read it. Awesome contribution!

>>8015951

The Balrog doesn't have wings.

>>8029324
Yes it does.

>>8029324
Book 2, Chapter 5

>>8029324
>>8029330
>>8029441

Okay, okay, let's go to the tape:

>What it was could not be seen: it was like a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark form, of man-shape maybe, yet greater; and a power and terror seemed to be in it and to go before it.

[...]

>His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings.

[...]

>The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. It stepped forward slowly on to the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall; but still Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom; he seemed small, and altogether alone: grey and bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm.

[...]

>With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down and vanished.

It seems to me that these passages taken together only describe a supernatural shadow/darkness/gloom that the creature projects. The second reference to "wings" is a callback to the first, which is clearly a simile.

>>8030455
If they aren't wings then they are big shadow-flaps for being scary which explains why it can't fly.
Thanks for clearing that up. From now on, the balrogs "wings" will be called shadow flaps.

>"There is more than one eagle coming," said Aragorn.

>"Certainly," said Gandalf. "We are too great a burden for one."

>"There are three," said Legolas, gazing out over the plain. "See how they fly! There is Landroval, and there is Meneldor beside him! But there is another that soars ahead: a very great bird. I have not seen his like before."

>"Nor will you again," said Gandalf. "He is the Windlord: the eagle of the White Rider. We are going to battle together. His name is Shadowflaps."

>>8015970
Stole the body of the lady on Edmund Blair Leighton's Accolade.

>>8005195
very nice

>>8029324
>>8030455
I don't mind people interpreting it literally, I think Balrogs look great with wings. That being said, this is probably my favourite artistic interpretation.

bumpses, Precious!

High res Naismith art is the pinnacle

>>8015951
>>8030455
I really like how Gandalfs robe is flying towards the Balrog in the movie Balrog image, as the fire of Balrog is pulling in air like a fire would.

I love the landscapes here so much, thank you for posting them; they're genuinely my favourite kind of wallpaper

Upscaled a couple to fit my screen better

>>8041769
>>8041769

This is retarded. Gandalf was never "young", or at least, not like this. As one of the five Istari, he, like the others, was clothed in the flesh of an old man when he entered into Arda.

Nice to see a thread I started so long ago is still alive

>>8041769
>>8043095
Character design challenges aren't bound by canon, anon.

>>8043104
>>8043104

Fair enough.

>>8005493
beautiful

Any good detailed photos of Rivendale?

>>8043900
>rivendale
ffs anon, get your shit together

>>8043900

Rivendell*

>>8043104
howd they manage to make every character look the same?
Theyre not even different heights ffs

>>8006507
I really love this one but Gondolin was built in a circle.

>>8043900
Here's a good detailed 3D render, anyway.

>>8044360
They used a "paper doll" character creator, where all the components are drawn to fit the same figure.

>>8047078
Are you really this stupid or are you just pretending?

>>8047088
what did he say that was wrong?

>>8005493
She had bigger booba when I was reading the books

I don't suppose anyone has the Alan Lee Mines of Moria picture in wallpaper form? Or any of Alan Lees other art in. I used to have most of them but I lost them when my last PC broke.

Thorin and company playing their instruments at the unexpected party, illustrated by Michael Hague

>>8055711
>goldberry
need the netflix version
kek

>>8043104
why are they all White?

>>8059047
why not?

>>8059047
because the lord of the rings is about HWhite people
end of

>>8009110
cute pic and cute filename

Anyone got a good Door of Moria phone pape? I used to have as my lock screen now I can't find a good one

>>8070907
Dunno if it's good, though.

>>8073520
Beautiful

>>8071874
Nobody wants to see this woke shit

>>8074123
It's not even that woke, the women are idiots and the female dwarves have no beards (like they do in the books)
I'm pretty sure they also made a couple elves black because they read that some elves were "dark", but they completely forget that along with skin color should come culture or anything to make the poor guy interesting
I'm accusing them of being fantasy-racists, yes

It's just shit

Makes me sad
The art is okay, at least its giving a job to those poor kiwi props makers

>>8074124
its woke shit cope

>>8075915
this looks really good
anyone got it at a higher res?

>>8075915
>>8075969

>>8074762
>rings of power
it deliberately takes a massive shit on Tolkien's lifetime masterpiece work of fantasy literature

>>8078598
maybe you should do like a hobbit, and touch grass. lol. go to a gathering place, have some beers, sing some songs with the people who live around you. love them because tomorrow they will be gone.

>>8078650
>be me
>I hate woke tards ruining good things
>some blue haired fool
>hurr durr town grass
go die dickhead

>>8078686
great orc-like writing anon

>>8071874
god... I love galadriel with all my life

this picture goes so fn hard

>>8080360
tf are those? Failed clones of Orlando bloom?

>>8080360
why couldn't they even use the natural light of the scen, its so weird how they used a flash or a big ass reflector to make the background so dark

ugliest cinematography since those shitty DC movies

>>8074124
>female dwarves have no beards (like they do in the books)
Don't believe everything you read online. Female Dwarves are NEVER described as having beards in the books. They're described as having beards in 'The War of the Jewels' which was written by Christoper Tolkien using unused and unpublished manuscripts. J.R.R. Tolkien even has a compilation of minor writings that where published in 'The Nature of Middle-earth' that directly contradict this. In these he describes Middle-Earth races with beards and concerning Dwarves he said that 'all MALE Dwarves had beards' with no mention of females being bearded at all. It's likely that if he did once put pen to paper and say that female Dwarves had beards in an unused manuscript, he walked this back in later writings. (Something which he did ALL THE FUCKING TIME)

>>8080360
What a ridiculous series and with how much it cost, it's a piece of garbage that's eating its nose in ratings.

>>8050646
Nah. Her breast were always small, sale as her shoulders. Hips and legs were 10/10. I know this as fact because that is what I imagined.

>A billion dollar soap opera "fan" fiction of the second age
No thanks. I'll just stick with the books, PJ films, and older adaptations.

Fellas, I'm looking for that one fanart piece of Sauron and Morgoth having a pool party. They're in trunks floating on inflatables in the pool. Anyone got it? In the meantime, here's a pape.

>>8061606
this is great

>>8018442

JRR Tolkien was a devout Christian and Lord of the Rings is chock full of Biblical allegory and symbolism.

If you're going to LARP as one of us for attention, at least learn how we actually talk first.

>>8059047

Because the only non-Whites in LOTR are orcs, as it should be.

dont know if its something on my end but a lot of these papes are missing?

>>8084898

There was a site malfunction and a bunch of thumbnails are missing from the server.

Bumpity bump

>>8089124
This is the cover of Halloween III, you're an idiot.

>>8030455
This is the first time I've seen this depiction of the balrog and I like a lot more than the more "demony" version from the movies. This seems more in line with Silmarillion.

>>8089881
Halloween 2 actually and it was a mistake from a week ago.

>>8063565
Is there any detail more pointless in Tolkien fandom that gets autistics more rhiled up than the size of Ancalagon?

>>8080358
I also love Morfydd Clark. She's so pretty.

>>8080360
Don't listen to those bigots. Rings of Power was dope.

>>8074123
Christ please shut the fuck up, you little baby ass bitch

>>8078686
>durr blue hair
You will die with your dick in your hand, you self-cucking hick

>>8092826
rope yourself troon

>>8088192
still pains me that they had to tear this down after filming

>>8089913
Kind of Tolkien's fault for not giving him a more detailed description than "he broke an entire mountain range when he fell"

This would inevitably lead readers to assume he was absolutely gargantuan in size, which was probably not really the case.

bamp

>>8093817
why is there no brown people anon?

>>8094588
why would there be?

>>8094639
I know this is the most basic kind of bait there is, but ok… There are literally brown hobbits in the intro chapter of LotR.

>>8094656
those are not what you think

Does anyone have a super high res Middle Earth map?

>>8095833
no

>>8093314
you live in the impoverished south and survive off of government benefits white trash, why don't you go first?

>>8097404
im not white

>>8005306
Ungoliant is my favorite entity in the series because it doesn't belong anywhere, comes from nothing, and makes the literal devil cry like a bitch.

test

>>8043068
I absolutely love quotes like these. It really hits home with moments that, while with moments that may not personally hit as hard, you fully understand the emotion coming from them as from different passages that evoke that same emotion.

>>8101736
>posts in a literature related thread
>can’t even write a 30 word post
lol

>>8094656
italians and greeks are swarthy too but I woukd call them brown people

>>8101967
*wouldn't call them brown

>>8101968
brown hobbits are canon anon, cry harder

>>8103013
>brown hobbits are canon
maybe headcanon

>>8103925
have you read the actual book anon?

>can't even have a nice lotr wallpaper thread without brainrot baiting and spamming a universally hated fanfic
Tired.

>>8104053
I used to love the movies but they invited in so many casuals who interpret Tolkien's work to match their world view
if anything you enjoy is made into a tv/movie/game it's fucking over

>half the cool images don't load for me
sad times

>>8022067
Anybody willing to reupload this pic?

>>8105993
Thanks!

Can some one reupload this one too? >>8005707
thanks

i don't know man, this thread seems kinda gay

>>8108002
I thought that was a minecraft screenshot

>>8092825
Stop desecrating the great works of European men with your greedy little foreign goblin hands and there won't be any reason to complain. It sounds more like you're the baby bitch because you couldn't handle someone shitting on your grotesque mockery of literature.

thread's 2 year anniversary coming up

Arda is a horrible, rotten place full of misery and suffering and garbage.
The Ainur are a fucking joke and a bunch of absolute losers.
Their song of the world was so fucking awful that Eru himself was unable to course correct, TWICE, and then finally gave up on it completely and forcefully ended the song.
The elves are a tool created by Eru to both educate and entertain his ignorant children the Ainur.
How convenient it was that the elves came in being on the eastern side of middle-earth and then got dragged and spread across it's breadth by the summons of the Valar, leading to all the fun stories for those same Valar to enjoy.
But of course the Valar need some on Valinor to enjoy up close, the Vanyar are pretty flower vases for the Valar to look at while waiting for Eru to take back the imperishable fire and end the world.
They claimed they were pulled all the elves for their protection, but the first kinslaying occurred on the shores of Valinor.
The Valar lost their twin towers to Melkor and then lose their twin trees to Melkor, they are losers, through and through and could not protect anyone!
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, Morgoth fooled the Valar twice, shame on them.
After all the horrible shit Morgoth did, murdering the elves, torturing them, twisting them into an entire evil race of beings that go on to terrorize middle-earth for the rest of the song of the world. He didn't do it once or twice he did it over and over again, his punishment? locked up for a little while in a jail and then pushed out of arda to sit with all his Ainur siblings and watch the song from outside.
Melkor's life is more important and valuable than the lives of every elf on Arda because the elves are toys.
Fuck the Valar.

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