I say this as a lifelong Tolkien nerd: I am not at all sure about the idea of Tom Bombadil coming on camera for season 2 of Rings of Power. Every time I've ever read Lord of the Rings, I've pretty much glossed right past his appearance in Fellowship, just because I tend to find how he is presented unutterably twee.
It'll be interesting though to see how Rings of Power actually depicts him. And it'll take some skillful acting to strike a balance between how ol' Tom comes across (which is to say, twee), and the staggering level of power he possesses. Skillful writing, too, to actually deploy him into the plot in a meaningful way.
@annathepiper I'm personally a huge fan of Hutchinson's work and really looking forward to S2. Did S1 work well? No. But a lot of shows don't find their feet in S1.
@KindlyWizard@annathepiperTreating it as fanfic, I kinda loved a lot of the things S1 played with, particularly with Adar, the orc-father. He and Galadriel had an interesting hate relationship.
At a banquet in the late 1980s, a delegation from the #Visby#Tolkien Society gave the ivy on St. Olaf's ruin to the Stockholm Tolkien Society as a diplomatic gift. I am pleased to report to all my fellow Stockholm Tolkienians that our ivy is doing well.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit” By Maria Popova
"...People have celebrated Tolkien as a writer for years — you haven’t been able to get away from him since all the books of the century polls. But The Lord of the Rings has always been the focus since it was published in 1954 — it’s a much more grown-up, significant book. It has overshadowed The Hobbit as a more old-fashioned, children’s book, which has become known in the context of The Lord of the Rings. The anniversary allows us to move the spotlight back on to the book which started it all.
A rare piece of cross-disciplinary creativity from the mind of one of modern history’s greatest creators, The Art of the Hobbit is equal parts literary treasure and treat of art, exploring the notion of the author as designer — a particularly timely concept in the age of self-publishing and disciplinary cross-pollination in the making of books..."
@shekinahcancook imo, Tolkien’s dust-jacket design for The Hobbit is the best piece of artwork he ever produced, although there are a few others that run it close.
Surprised to learn in Fonstad’s Atlas of #MiddleEarth that #TheShire is 21,400 square miles (55426 square km) — way larger than I was imagining! That would make it slightly smaller than West Virginia and larger than Switzerland. And that isn’t counting the later-added Westmarches or Buckland either.
Pretend? really?
Reminds me of a book I've read about bookstores' fun moments, and one was about a customer who wanted to buy books just to put at his house and makes him looks so smart. LOL
But, I've read #Tolkien, Jackson, #Atwood, #Orwell and more ! #Booksworm#books#Readers
"Les causes qui touchent les héritiers de [#Tolkien] sont résolument progressistes. Ils indiquent qu’ils donnent notamment de l’argent pour : les arts, l’éducation, l’environnement, la lutte contre le sans-abrisme, le développement international, les relations internationales et la consolidation de la paix, la migration, la réforme carcérale, la santé au Royaume-Uni et dans le monde, et la recherche médicale."
@Wisesnail great image! I always thought he was a fascinating character. I think he was the one that was chained to the mountain in Angband. He kind of reminded me of Prometheus up there. I never thought of him as a babe, but glad you do! Keep the art coming!
@JoelBarr thanks so much! Hahah it doesn't take much for people (real or not) to become my babies - and how could I resist such a tormented character?
Ps: I love the comparison to Prometheus!
Today is #TolkienReadingDay and we're normally in the hobbit of letting people boromir #Tolkien books on this day because we're a library and it's good to shire. We're not being smaug about it but we do have a LOT of Tolkien books so come along and baggins some for your elf. 📚
Today is #Tolkien#Reading Day! I'm re-reading "Farmer Giles of Ham" (1949) for the first time since the 1980s. I have since become a Medievalist, very much not stepping into the same river twice.