@peregrintook​ Here’s the first post I made regarding my enthusiasm for the show BUT to answer your questions here;

- No they didn’t fire Tom Shippey. That’s a pretty prominent misconception going around. And honestly if they had fired him? I woulda been happy about it, he was incredibly present for the Jackson trilogy and look where that got us. But no, Tom Shippey has stated he left the project after working on it for a while for his own I think work reasons and there was no firing or dramatic walking out or any such thing. He’s also not the only Tolkien Academic working on RoP! Carl Hostetter, guy who produced the Nature of Middle Earth, for one was involved in the linguistics for the show (Quenya is going to be spoken regularly and Adunaic script plays a part). Dr Corey Olsen has also seen the project through from pretty much it’s inception as far as I’m aware. But also like... I want to be clear, you don’t need a Tolkien Academic to write a good tolkien adaptation. Someone who’s really familiar with the source material and extraneous books and the complexity within the canon? Sure, but that doesn’t necessarily mean an Academic but kjasd I won’t get on my high horse about the state of Tolkien academia today right now. Point is, they had more than enough people familiar with the text onboard. Which actually brings me nicely to the second part.

- Haven’t heard ‘they didn’t read the silmarillion’ before but no! The show runners, writers and even actors were all either silmarillion-style-nerds before the show or joined their ranks during production. Robert Aramayo actually got so into the books that he started organising salons to discuss specific elements of the text, which is so funny to imagine. And anyway, where has this idea come from that the Silmarillion is the book to read for this section of history? There’s essentially the same info about the Akallabeth in the Silm as there are is the Appendices. The unfinished tales has more to do with Numenor in it and they’ve been quoting stuff from there too. They don’t have the rights to the silm, or the unfinished tales, but they also have special allowances given by the tolkien estate to add in things from those sources anyway. Essentially if you’re hearing someone say ‘they didn’t even read the silmarillion!’ #1 they’re wrong and #2 they probably don’t know all that much about the Akallabeth or it’s sources themselves.

- Lastly jasdh it’s... a star! The basic eight pointed form of the so called feanorian star turns up everywhere in tolkien canon, including on gondorian imagery atop the white tree seven times to represent the ‘seven stars seven stones and one white tree’ poem. The Galadriel we meet in the show is a Commander of Gil Galad’s armies, and Gil Galad is covered in these stars in the show, he’s also got elbereth embroidered into his cloak. The stars likely mean either noldo, or just Gil Galad full stop, both of which are perfectly reasonable uses of an eight pointed star. 

oh and 40!

Hello beauty!!!

1. What are three shows in your watchlist that you’ve been meaning to get to?

- The Expanse

- X- files (I’ve seen bits but I need to do a proper watch)

- And then Fargo, I’m currently in the second season after meaning to watch it for literally years

12. What’s something about your best friend that you love?

- That she’s down for anything, totally matches me in a sun/moon way (and that at any given time we could be either) like sit on the sofa and watch The Crown for 8 hours? She’s there - go for a little wander in the woods? She’s good for it - going air gun shooting and a day trip to Rugby? You bet

15. Do you have any houseplants? Do any of them have names?

- I have many a houseplant, none of them are named though

40. What’s your favorite kind of tree?

- I’m a basic bitch lover of a Cherry Blossom 🌸

Hey folks!

I’ve decided that I want my LotR side-blog to be my main blog for a couple of reasons, and since tumblr is unfortunately very very complicated about these kinds of things that meant that my only option was to just swap urls around.

You’re probably seeing this because you followed my then-main now-side blog holey-george, and don’t worry that blog is still going it’s just OVER HERE now.

I still love HP and I will still reblog HP stuff and occasionally upload my own, it’s just that there’s a lot of HP stuff and HP opinions going ‘round on tumblr rn that mostly just make me sad, and sometimes a little bit angry for obvious reasons because f!ck JKR, and I don’t want what is basically my main internet home if you will to be a place that makes me sad yk.

So. LotR is and has always been and will always be my main fandom so I figured why not just switch these two blogs around and that’ll be that.

Okay I’m rambling.