just a fool's hope

Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Music is integral to J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, beginning with the Ainulindalë, the divine music that brought the world into being. Throughout his stories, poems and lyrics are sung aloud by his characters, serving as important vehicles for conveying joy, sorrow, remembrance, and history. In Peter Jackson’s film trilogy, the spirit of Tolkien’s songs is preserved through the use of diegetic music—music that originates from the world of the film and is heard and often performed by the characters.

And there stood Meriadoc the hobbit in the midst of the slain, blinking like an owl in the daylight, for tears blinded him; and through a mist he looked at Éowyn’s fair head, as she lay and did not move; and he looked on the face of the king, fallen in the midst of his glory.

TOLKIEN WEEK Day 3 | Favorite Quote — “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

TOLKIEN WEEK 2022 (2/2) | day 1: solidarity/comradery

“So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. ”

TOLKIENWEEK 2022 Day 10: Hope

ubi sunt (lit: “where are”) - 1. originating from a Latin phrase meaning “where are those who were before us?”; 2. a poetic motif meditating on the nature of transience and inevitability.

@tolkienweek 2022 day 4: beginnings & endings

TOLKIEN WEEK # day 4 beginnings / endings every fellowship member first and last scene

TOLKIEN WEEK 2022 | day 4: favorite story arc ↳ éowyn’s arc

TOLKIENWEEK2022 |day 3: favorite quote

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

I am Aragorn son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil’s son of Gondor. Here is the sword that was broken and is forged again!

TOLKIEN WEEK | Day 1 → Favorite character: Elrond