Númenorean Hobbit Lass at your service

Picked up anything intriguing from recent Tolkien reading? Lmk below, if you'd like! 👇🏻🫶🏻🤓 (Pssst yes, some of these I'll be expanding into longer essays for my Substack! ✍🏻)

🧙🏼‍♂️ Ok...hear me out, Gandalf the White keeps knowing things he shouldn't technically know, and he even speaks of having "means" to know certain things in the Houses of Healing. Like!! New Maia Powers from his Balrog-Slaying XP? 🧙🏼‍♂️

🏞️ Ummm...the boat should be just shards. And when Faramir finds it, not only is it fine, there's a certain glow to it. And we know Ulmo helps the Children more than the other Valar...just sayin' 🏞️

💭 Frodo in Tom Bom's house, Merry when captured by the Uruk-Hai, Sam when tempted by the Ring...I could go on. Connecting also with Bilbo's dreams in The Hobbit. Like!! 💭

🐎 The way she *sees* Merry, seeks to serve, stands before the Witch King in love for her uncle...and just *feels* everything so deeply...hill I will die on, that is all 🐎

🔥 Slavery clearly mentioned. And the undercurrent of psychological terror...including his orc servants, such that when the Ring is gone and his power extinguished, the text clearly tells us he's just been pumping them with hate and fear. I will be taking no further questions🔥

🌿 It truly is special to me that Tolkien made such a central character a *gardener*. Not my favorite hobbit (that would be Merry), but I get why Sam is beloved 🌿

🌅 Literally no one else. Turns of phrase just giving me chills. And I do think it's part of why his work has been so enduring 🌅

✍🏻 It's so intriguing to me how we experience concurrent events from different character's POVs. That's how life works. And it also underscores how everyone has a role, something important to contribute ✍🏻

🎶 It's everywhere, and it's incredibly special. If in Music is the generative goodness of the Ainur, if it endures, perhaps hope does too...how Tolkienian 🎶

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