Tolkien's Legendarium

Me: Haha, that’s funny. It’s almost as if elves and men haven’t always been fighting a dark enemy

“All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said. But there’s one more thing to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”

A Flower in the Grey North by peet

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GRYFFINDOR: “We must walk open-eyed into that trap, with courage, but small hope for ourselves. For, my lords, it may well prove that we ourselves shall perish utterly in a black battle far from the living lands; so that even if Barad-dur be thrown down, we shall not live to see a new age. But this, I deem, is our duty. And better so than to perish nonetheless – as we surely shall, if we sit here – and know as we die that no new age shall be.” -JRR Tolkien (Gandalf: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, from a letter (n°219) to Allen and Unwin (1959), after “a cat breeder had asked if she could register a litter of Siamese kittens under names taken from The Lord of The Rings” (via vanwatano)

RAVENCLAW: “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” –Aldous Huxley (Proper Studies)

“Gandalf as Ring-Lord would have been a contest between the Ring’s true allegiance to Sauron versus Gandalf’s actually possession of the Ring. But if Gandalf had been the victor it would have been far worse than Sauron winning. The “righteous” Gandalf would have become self-righteous, ruling and ordering things for “good” until he had made good detestable and seem evil.” «The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien», Letter № 246

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, from a letter (n°219) to Allen and Unwin (1959), after “a cat breeder had asked if she could register a litter of Siamese kittens under names taken from The Lord of The Rings” (via vanwatano)

Frodo: Yeah, and Earendil is never allowed to see his son or come back to Middle Earth even. Stories suck. 

There’s one thing I know about her. Just one thing: If I met her again, I would absolutely know.

this is so cute

feanor and his father

Maedhros & Maglor by Alan Lee

Thank you, Christopher Tolkien, for giving us the absolute pleasure of delving into your fathers world and meeting such intriguing and fantastic characters. Thank you for bringing it to life, for continuing even though you constantly berated yourself in your essays, you have done such an amazing job that this family could not thank you enough.