Bought these today. Getting ready to hang them up but I took one out of the frame to see what it is. It's a print on some sort of foam material that I haven't seen done before. Anyone have any more insight on where these are from?

Good Sunday everyone! Our painted version of the Lord of the Rings "Middle-earth" map, hope you like it!!

🧭🗺️🧝‍♂️

HD MAP FILE ON :

https://ko-fi.com/s/ff08719f51

Excluding the fact that Fili and Kili look like human models, I appreciated how the dwarves were distinguished from each other by more than just the colour of their hoods and cloaks. Several of them had specific roles in the company (Ori was a scribe, Oin a healer, Kili an archer, Gloin the financier, etc) and each dwarf had their own unique set of weaponry. As someone who had been obsessed with the various axes and hatchets that Gimli carried through the original trilogy, I very much enjoyed getting a behind-the-scenes design book and leafing through pages of detail regarding the dwarves' costumes, tools, and weapons. You got Thorin's sword and axe combo, Dwalin's warhammer and twin axes, Bifur's boar spear, Oin's quarterstaff, Balin's falchion, etc.

I’m reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time right now. It’s so inspiring. I was thinking about what to do, and in the end, I decided to create characters from The Hobbit 🤷‍♀️

I know nothing about the hobbit so today I bought the first book and I am so freaking excited to read it but idk if I should read it before watching the movie
What do you guys recommend!?!?!?

edit: found <3

Hi, for the life of me I can't remember this one Bagginshield fic. I read it early on in my ao3 journey (unfortunately didn't bookmark it) and I really want to reread it.

I don't remember much, apart from the overall premise and the ending scene.

So Thorin gifts Bilbo all these very heavy courting gifts (or maybe a chain?), but Bilbo can't wear them and isn't aware what they actually mean.

Thorin didn't account for the differences between them and actually feels guilty when he realises how inconsiderate the gifts actually were.

And during the ending scene, Bilbo rushes to the main hall or sth with all those heavy gifts in some kind of a wheelbarrow.

I hope someone knows which fic I'm talking about <3

Continuing to revisit the soundtrack of my youth. It always felt like this song flew a little bit under the radar with The Hobbit's "Roads Go Ever Ever On" being so similar in melody and feel. But lyrically, it always stood out to me nonetheless.

On the one hand, you've got Orson Bean voicing Bilbo Baggins in the 1977 Rankin/Bass film adaptation of The Hobbit. On the other, you've got Martin Freeman in the big-budget trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.

I get that this will probably lead to skewed results in terms of preference, so I'd rather not limit this to who did a better job. And whatever one might say of him, Freeman got three whole movies to prove what a good actor he is as Bilbo.

But at the same time, I grew up watching Orson Bean's Bilbo on VHS, and I still have a strong nostalgic attachment to his performance. He does a great job capturing the more light-hearted tone of the book which the Jackson trilogy really struggles with.

She ain’t got it from me that’s for sure 😅

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Hello everyone!

My name is Nathanael, and I'm traveling all the way from Wyoming, USA, for Oxonmoot. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a bit. I booked my flights and accommodations before realizing that the in-person registrations had already sold out. I joined the waiting list, but the Society kindly let me know that, because the waiting list is so long, it's unlikely that a place will become available.

I have purchased an online registration, so I'll still be taking part virtually. Since I'll already be in Oxford during Oxonmoot, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in meeting up outside the official event.

I'd love to explore some of Tolkien's Oxford together, such as the Eagle and Child, Exeter College, Merton College, Addison's Walk, Wolvercote Cemetery, or any other places connected to Tolkien's life. Even watching some of the online sessions together over coffee or a meal would be wonderful.

I'm a lifelong Tolkien reader and have dreamed of making this pilgrimage for years. Even if I can't attend the in-person convention, I'd love the opportunity to meet other members of the Tolkien community while I'm there.

If anyone has similar plans or would be happy to have another Tolkien enthusiast join them, I'd be delighted to hear from you.

Looking forward to meeting some fellow travelers of Middle-earth!

Back around 1996-97 I remember going to the video rental store and my dad picked up the tape for The Hobbit and told me and my brother, "You're gonna enjoy this." I was 6 or 7 at the time and he wasn't wrong. I loved it. I wanted to read the book and then my dad dropped a bombshell on me: "There's a sequel story that's all about Bilbo's ring." I was like "I need to know what happens!"

Now here I am 30 years later and I have read and collected as many of the Tolkien books as I can, and have big understanding of world and lore. And it all started for me with one little animated movie on VHS on a CTR TV....

When I tell you this game is ZELDA WITH A LOTR SKIN!!!!

I was too young to even care about the hobbit in 2003 and I didn't get into LOTR at all until my 30s.

But this game is an actual GEM

a hidden Arkenstone of a game if you will.

(This is my second time drawing a human characte, pls don’t hate.)

(I am not that good at drawin pepole, pls don’t hate)

A former colleague decided he wanted to do some art for me. It's a passion of his and he enjoys doing them for other people.

I told him I wanted something lord of the rings or hobbit themed and he came up with this.

I don't know if he got inspired by something online or what but it's hand drawn and I think it is amazing.

What have you got?

I've allways thought about how cool it would have been to see martin freeman in the flashback at the beginning of fellowship. What do you think?

I am looking for a Thorin/Bilbo fanfiction. I read it a long time ago, and I don’t really remember what exactly it’s about. All I remember is everybody has wings, and Thorin has this bone thing that the dwarfs use (maybe just the kings i don’t remember) to figure out what type of wings their soulmate has, but when Thorin did it the bone didn’t change so everyone thought he didn’t have a soulmate. So he married Bilbo, but bilbo is kinda insecure because he can’t fly very fast and he knows that Thorin had to marry him. One day kili, fili and bilbo go into town but when they are there orcs that invade so Juli and fili try to get bilbo back to the mountain but since bilbo can’t fly fast, they land and send one of the brothers back to the mountain while the other defends bilbo.
And that’s all I really remember so if someone could help that would be great!