January is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birth month. We chose a quote from The Fellowship of the Ring to remember him. J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of The Lord of the Ringsseries,The Hobbit, and other works. What’s your favorite book by J.R.R. Tolkien?
In addition to this appealing to my unapologetic “Bardolotry”, I’d also like to imagine a similar conversation occurring between CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.
LEWIS: “What the bloody hell kind of word is ‘hobbit’?”
TOLKIEN: “What’s wrong with it?”
LEWIS: “Well, John, let’s start with the fact that it’s the word 'hobbit’.”
Sorry for disappearing for a few days or, more like a week- I had friends visiting and was getting a bit stressed keeping up with posts n such (looks at all the missed Alfredo gifs HHHHHHH-)
I’ve been doin a lot of personal art but I’m getting back to doing more art for here soon!! Just needed a mini break.
In the meantime have some messy warmups from today requested by a friend (since they hadn’t known about Smaug before a couple nights ago smfh).
I’ve always liked to imagine that the “more dangerous and less wise” reputation of Mirkwood was created entirely on purpose by the Elves themselves to ward off people who didn’t know better.
It would fit with the canon fact that the Rohirrim believed a strange sorceress lived in the Golden Wood (“few escape her nets, they say”). And Treebeard, when asked by Merry why they were warned against Fangorn Forest by Celeborn, said that had Merry and Pippin been going the other way, he would’ve warned them against Lothlórien, since “I am surprised that you ever got out, but much more surprised that you ever got in”.
Mirkwood and Lothlórien both have a reputation of being “dangerous and strange places” and I like to think Galadriel and Thranduil encouraged that reputation as an extra layer of protection for their people.
but also because it’s mysterious and sexy to be a pretty blond powerful ruler of big pretty powerful forest
My fifteen watercolours depicting Tolkien’s Second Age. They’re for a book which I’ll post more info on soon. From tomorrow evening, A4 prints (10 copies per motif) will be up for preorder at my Storenvy. They’ll be ready for shipping in a fortnight. https://khorazir.storenvy.com/
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