to the edge of night

Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.”

requested by elf-friend-frodo

An Alliance once existed between Elves and Men. Long ago we fought and died together…

middle earth meme: [1/3] hobbits  ❧ Samwise Gamgee

For, as many songs have since sung, it was the Periannath, the Little People, dwellers in hillsides and meadows, that brought them deliverance.

References to ‘The Silmarilion’ by J.R.R. Tolkien (part 2) The Lord of the Rings (2001—2003) dir. Peter Jackson

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“The Elven-king, the character himself, is inspired by a character from Tolkien’s earlier writing, King Thingol Greycloak. Thingol, also like Thranduil, has his weaknesses and one of them is passion for jewels. King Thingol had a great quarrel with the dwarves, which is what Tolkien referred to in the Hobbit. Thingol arranges for the dwarves to make a necklace for him, but then there is a dispute over payment and ownership. The Dwarves actually went and killed Thingol in his own Halls. In revenge, the Elves go after the Dwarves and they wipe them out.”

I will not say do not weep; for not all tears are evil.

For where am I to go? And by what shall I steer? What is to be my quest? Bilbo went to find a treasure, there and back again; but I go to lose one, and not return, as far as I can see.

To ask what is the origin of stories… is to ask what is the origin of language and of the mind LORD OF THE RINGS place names + their meanings

Over the lip of the little dell, on the side away from the hill, they felt, rather than saw, a shadow rise, one shadow or more than one. They strained their eyes, and the shadows seemed to grow. Soon there could be no doubt: three or four tall black figures were standing there on the slope, looking down on them. So black were they that they seemed like black holes in the deep shade behind them. Frodo thought that he heard a faint hiss as of venomous breath and felt a thin piercing chill. Then the shapes slowly advanced.