stabs, one big stab that goes al the way through, panic

Our heroes are being chased by the Bad Guy? ✅

They hear something behind them and hide, thinking it is the Bad Guy who is chasing them? ✅

Person is at first revealed to be Probably Not The Bad Guy because he has bells everywhere? ✅

Person Is A Good Guy and helps our heroes on their journey. ✅

Bilbo: Oh so they were useful?

Elf: Well. No, not exactly

Bilbo: But the owners didn't want to throw them away.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: And they were in possession of several people over the course of years.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: That's a mathom.

Elf: No! We loved them because were very pretty!!! And one of a kind!!! Crafted by hands more skilled than any of ours!!!

Bilbo: Yes, like my great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

Elf, in tears: The Silmarils were not like your great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

in fact, i have 3! all available in both OTF and TTF file formats.

Tengwar Sans General - english or sindarin mode, vowels on the following consonant

Beleriandic Sans - mode of beleriand, vowels have their own letters

Quenya Sans - quenya mode, vowels on the preceding consonant

enjoy!

Important update! With Microsoft Word, Photoshop, and some other programs’ default settings, the tehtar and other combining will not work properly. Here is how to make them work.

You may need to use the OpenType versions of the fonts for these steps to work.

Word 2010+, Word 365, Word for Mac 2008+: Open the Font dialog (small button at the lower right of the Font section on the Home tab of the ribbon). Go to the “Advanced” tab and under “Ligatures” select “All”, then click OK. Also, save your document as .docx, not .doc, or it won’t work the next time you open it.

Publisher 2010+, Publisher 365: Select your text box and go to the Text Box Tools tab of the ribbon. The Typography section should have a dropdown titled “Ligatures”; select “All”.

InDesign: Go to Window > Type > Character. Click on the top right corner menu and ensure Ligatures is checked.

Photoshop: Go to Window > Character. On this panel, the first button activates Standard Ligatures, while the third button activates Discretionary Ligatures. Activate them both.

Middle Earth: Hobbit or Lord of the Rings?

Fellowship: Favorite Hobbit movie

Ring: Favorite Lotr movie / book

Bilbo: Favorite character

Dor Guldur: Least favorite character

Gundabad: Favorite “evil” character

The Shire: Favorite place

Rivendell: Favorite species (hobbit, dwarves, elves..)

Misty Mountains: Do you have a favorite quote from the movies/books?

Mirkwood: Would you rather be an elf, hobbit, mankind, dwarf, wizard?

Gondolin: Favorite Durin’s son

The Nine: Favorite fellowship member

Sindarin: Favorite weapon

Minas Tirith: Do you own any Lotr/Hobbit merchandise? 

Gig-Galad: Would you have changed something from the movie? 

High King Feanor: mortally wounded by several balrogs

High King Maedhros: willingly burned alive

High King Fingolfin: stomped to death in a 1v1 with morgoth

High King Fingon: got his head cleaved open by balrogs

(Okay, you get the point).

High King Gil-Galad: in the event of my death, Elrond, I crown you H—

The Shire in the movies is essentially perfect and a little fantastical – there’s no mention of Frodo’s parents drowning and there’s no nasty sorts like Ted Sandyman. The Shire in the books feels more like the English countryside, if a little more unspoiled. The Rivendell of the movies is truly beautiful(!!!), yes, but not really comfortable and the hobbits are eager to leave there and go home. Movie-Elrond is also harsher and more aloof. The Rivendell of the books is explicitly said to be “the perfect house” as well as beautiful and the Elrond in the books is as “kind as summer”.

I’ve noticed that when movie fans talk about Middle-Earth they usually go on about the Shire, while book fans may be drawn more to Rivendell and Lorien. I’ve always wondered why I never felt particularly drawn to the Shire and I think that’s partly because I’ve been more shaped by the book’s portrayal. 

In a hole in the fabric of the universe there lived a god.

Now, this was not one of those minor gods of bedtime stories or petty wars for heaven; this was the One God, all-loving and all-knowing, who created the world – only he hadn’t created the world just yet, which is why he was sitting in a hole in the fabric of the universe.

This God is known by many names - or, at least, he will be, once there are entities other than Him in the world, which at the moment there are not. The Elves will call Him Eru Ilúvatar and He is really looking forward to it. 

It might be wise to back up a little. Well, Time has yet to be invented, so technically we cannot ‘back up’ at all, but there are some things that ought to be said before we proceed with the primary narrative here, which is how Eru Ilúvatar got around to making the Elves that would call him that name, and then to the long string of catastrophes that would get some Elves in the habit of cursing it. 

The Hobbits: What do we do Mr. Strider

The Hobbits: *looking to this big scary mountain man so intimidating and mysterious they don’t even know his real name*