Don't go where I can't follow...

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2020 moodboard Tolkien edition

requested by @ahobbitstale​

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

“Excuse me, that man in the corner, who is he?” “He’s one of them rangers. Dangerous folk they are — wandering the wilds. What his right name is I’ve never heard, but around here, he’s known as Strider.”

‘But it is a heavy burden. So heavy that none could lay it on another. I do not lay it on you. But if you take it freely, I will say that your choice is right; and though all the mighty elf-friends of old, Hador, and Húrin, and Túrin, and Beren himself were assembled together your seat should be among them.’

Drafts for the Doors of Durin

Hobbiton, Matamata, New Zealand.

Three things that make me happy: Bilbo laughing, Bilbo hugging, Bilbo having an adventure

-J.R.R. Tolkien

(if you know the credits to the last painting, send me please)

“Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”