Tag: J.R.R. Tolkien

tilthat:

TIL that 140 years after an ancient stolen ring was found on a rural farm, a tablet was found at another site (“Among those who bear the name of Senicianus to none grant health until he bring back the ring to the temple of Nodens”). One of the scholars who translated it: Oxford prof. J R R Tolkien

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association-of-free-people:

Was reading an essay on lotr as a defense of Western Civilization.

This first excerpt is from a segment on The Fall being a cornerstone of Western literary tradition.

Considering that several of these gentlemen came to power after Tolkien had written his magnum opus, it’s easy to see why he found himself increasingly an anarchist.

cutthroatbouquet:

epitoma-rei-militaris:

norseminuteman:

russdom:

anarchothot:

robstmartin:

tilthat:

TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.

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the man who spents hundreds of pages describing trees and meals and worked out the linguistics of multiple fictional languages and the entire cosmology of his fictionsl world called the Beatles’ rehearsal sounds “indescribable”

I’m Tolkienkin.

Good on Tolkien.

Bravo Papa Tolkien. 

Based Tolkien.

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

notreewaits:

snakesaredelicious:

doctorbluesmanreturns:

stealingmyplaceinthesun:

all those obviously-allegorical christian fantasy stories are like really really cringy bible fanfiction

I’m not sure how Lewis managed to thread the needle to have a blatant allegory that’s also a good story, but people have been trying to copy him for decades with no success.

What about Tolkien?

I think he said his work was Catholic but not allegorical

Yeah I think there is a quote of his floating around, about how he started writing the stories as their own thing but realized that he has subconsciously tied in Catholic themes and beliefs into the world’s method and plot.

amigodecuentos:

“You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of ‘trees’ and ‘stars’ saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was ‘myth-woven and elf patterned’.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, from ‘Mythopoeia’
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