/arda/ - Tolkien's Legendarium

I'm not fairly interested in crossovers, but I'd love to see specific writers have a crack at writing Tolkien stories.

Like Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett if he was still with us ;_;

As for crossovers specifically, I guess if you pushed me, Monster Hunter game set sometime in Middle Earth. Instead of hunting the usual monsters you hunt Middle-Earth inspired stuff like winged dragons, land dragons, balrogs, crazy ass beasts from the days of Utumno, etc.

And then you make armors out of them.

Saw Fellowship of the Ring and the first five minutes gave me a terrible hunger to learn more about Middle Earth. I got all the main books (hobbit, lotr, silmarillion) and read them twice over by the time Two Towers came out.

After the RotK movie, my interest drifted off a little, until I got Morgoth's Ring gifted and realized I had only scratched the surface.

>>304

I know it just irks me because they go was a wild card.

>>349

I've started Morgoth's Ring, and it's drearily boring.

>>349

>until I got Morgoth's Ring gifted and realized I had only scratched the surface

Shit man, I thought I knew the DEEPEST LORE after the Silmarillion.

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>>359

The History of Middle-Earth is pretty much the deepest you can go since it's stuff that wasn't in any of the actual "canon" books.

Although speaking of canon in a mythology is a bit silly.

>>360

I must admit. Morgoth's Ring comes in swings.

>>368

I don't know what any of this gets at, but I like Tolkien because he brings the pre-christian European culture alive again.

>>369

>Pre-christian Europe

Just say Atlantis

>>370

Númenor was sorta like Atlantis, but that's a small part of the Silmarillion.

>calling yourself Morgoth

Absolutely disgusting

>>372

Yeah, if you're going to use his name, better go with Melkor. Sounds better and "rawer".

>they're all pretty much the same.

Not true at all. That's actually a problem. There's a lot of conflicting sources in Tolkien maps, but the highest source, the Simarillion and LotR printed maps, are actually just a tad incomplete, so a lot of people take to filling the gaps based on prose.

>not even a minute in and I'm already dissecting

My Tolkien autism is too strong ;_;

>>362

I imagine if you were in that class you'd never keep quiet!

>>363

I think I could contain my autism until the end.

I'd much rather ride with the Rohirrim in the last desperate days of the Third Era.

>>333

>third era

well

I might as well just kill myself now I guess

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>>334

If I wanted to do a last stand with Men, I'd wanna fight in the Battle of Unumbered Tears, holding the Fen of Serech against Morgoth besides Húrin and the men of Dor-lómin.

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>>334

>All these faggots who would not rather be ready for the Dagor Dagorath

>>351

Being ready for the final battle while longing for the better, peaceful, times is not mutually exclusive. Heck it's perfectly normal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfeR52a3l-k

Found something nice.

It's a well narrated short history. Has bits and pieces from the Appendixes and the Silmarillion.

>>353

See Thingol's faggotry and shit talking is why they don't get along now.

Thingol just had to be a fucking faggot. He asked for it.

>>285

I can come up with some stuff, I won't have any free time for a few days though so it'll be later. I also might run another site wide advertisement.

>>286

Anything helps.

I have no money to spend on advertising. I might try and make a pen and paper related thread and dumb a few pdfs

>>350

I really like the one at Cuiviénen.

I still can't add the banners. I figured Hotwheels would have fixed that by now. VFEC isn't live yet.

>>352

It's my favorite illustration of Ted Naismith, I had to do it.

>>128

>Melkor

>nothing wrong

Check your elf privilege you shitlord of the west!

>>128

> How much per post, Radagast

about 3 rabbits and 3 pints of shire ale

No Wizard Merchant edit pic yet?

>>114

without Morgoth, the Silmarils would have been devoured by Ungoliant

it may have been out of greed, but he protected them

>>210

But then again he GUIDED Ungoliant to them and then made a half-assed promise that implied she would get to eat them. So it's not like exactly he was innocent on all of this.

More like he backed away like a faget.

>>183

I'm pretty sure black speech was amongst the languages Sola worked for in the production of LOTR and The Hobbit mobies.

>>184

Salo*

Fucking weird ass names.

>>184

No.

I've watched the first two Hobbit movies. I have no fucking idea what the orcs in that movie spoke, but it sure as fuck wasn't morghashnûm.

>>186

>Melkian, named after the rebellious Melkor or Morgoth, is the origin in the First Age of the many tongues used by the Orcs and other evil beings. (This tongue is unrelated to the Black Speech of Sauron.)

Like most faggots I've taken to learn elvish tongues. Although I love better how quenya rolls out of the tongue, since I'm using "silvan" tongues on my D&D games, I've found myself practicing sindar way more.

>>127

It's hilarious, he fucks his sister and then kills himself! HAHAHAHAHA

>>94

The Hobbit just because it was short and I read it like 6 times in High/Middle school.

Probably Return of the King, there is a lot of new stuff every time I pick it up again. Two towers gets close.

>>33

It was a euphemism for Theoden getting fucked to death by his horse.

>>120

The Noldor were illegal immigrants. Thingol should have locked them in camps and sent them back to Eldamar.

>>145

Thingol's a faggot who let his daughter get stolen by a Man and was only as powerful as he was because he married Melian.

I had just finished reading Lotr just a few months back, enjoyed every page of it. I did read the Hobbit first since my Dad suggested that I read it before Lotr. But Tolkeins world of Middle Earth, it's Majestic Beauty going back to the beginning of time (I haven't Read Silmarillion yet just now starting). It's so captivating to think of such a magical place.

>>148

Thingol was right but he was still a whiny faggot right until his death. When a fucking Maia tells you to shutup because there is a greater power acting, you shut the fuck up and swallow your pride.

>>71

Frâpog, golnûg! You are not welcome here.

>>72

Ooga booga where the elf women at.

>>342

The same image posted twice for some reason. Well, here is the full orc tag btw:

krushak-dagra.tumblr.com/tagged/orc/chrono/

>>86

It really felt like Tolkien was projecting himself as Bilbo in both stories. I think it fits perfectly for someone sitting alone on a nice day grading papers. He felt like he was that stuffy gentleman Bilbo started out as that needed a prod out the door. Though Tolkien has had a great deal of world traveling himself at this point. In LotR Tolkien was much older when he wrote it and so was Bilbo. He was the old man sitting, watching, and recording tales for future generations, almost detached from the world as an observer.

Frodo on the other hand I feel is the exemplification of Tolkien's virtues. Not sure I could pick a favorite but I might have to pick Bilbo of the Tolkien parallels.

Sam > Bilbo > Frodo

But yeah, Bilbo was a better protagonist. It helps that the tale was simpler, so you grew to like him more and became more attached to his story

Frodo was alright until the moment he took the burden of the ring. At that point seemed like he became an instrument of fate, becoming far more wiser and powerful and being unable to break the pull of the ring. At that point he stopped being a character and became a walking plot device.

Full Hobbit Rankings:

Sam > Bilbo > Merry > Pippin > Bandobras > Frodo > Lobelia > Elanor > Everybody else > Lotho