I find this image very pleasing #language #tolkien

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This is the most comprehensive article written on this topic. Just wish they would use The Fall of Númenor as an example.

Sometimes I think about Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries and Tolkien's strong views on the threat of the Machine, and I get so mad I could spit. I get that the names #Tolkien created aren't explicitly copyrightable, but I hate these companies giving them their own social meaning.

New Arda Revised video made to accompan @cinemallennials.bsky.social ‘s recent video on Rúmil & what makes one “great” among the Eldar. #Tolkien #Luinelle www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MFVPyf/

New longer form video comparing the historiographies of Numenor with those of TaNaKh’s Deuteronomist(s) as part of @cinemallennials.bsky.social & I’s “Arda Revised” series. #Tolkien #Luinelle www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MLNKk8/

These articles never do enough in trying to say how vehemently Tolkien would have HATED these technocrat losers and how they completely misread his life’s work. Stop using just LOTR use his works on the Second Age too. They never include the Fall of Númenor www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

Who is Grond?

Welsh was spoken across Britain before English even existed. But now the PM says it’s the only *official* language of the UK State. Here’s why he’s wrong. ✍️Owen Williams

This Good Friday, ICE are the centurions dragging Jesus to Golgotha and the crowd baying for his blood are a lot of Americans who'd consider themselves Bible-believing Christians. Kyrie Eleison.

You're a divinity school. Where do you think Jesus was from, you cowards?

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Nimloth the Fair #thesilmarillion #lordoftherings #tolkien #isildur #nimloth #numenor #akallabeth #medievalart #fantasyart #illustration

This is unacceptable, and as an identifiably Jewish academic, I have to say: Not in my name. I refuse to be the government’s excuse for xenophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-Palestinian racism. This is not for my safety, and it never will be.

That's not to say there wasn't racial hierarchy, of course. But Tolkien already wrote the Númenóreans as a Mediterranean-style society most akin to Byzantium (remember, Constantinople was modern-day Istanbul) or Egypt (North Africa) and he compared later Gondor to those same cultures.

If Gondor was anything like the Mediterranean world—and both the text and Tolkien are pretty clear about this—then it was a multiethnic society, full stop. If there were dark-skinned soldiers in Roman Britain, there were sure as hell dark-skinned Guards of the Citadel.

Why does #Tolkien call the granary in the Shire “the Grange,” but the ones in the Pelennor “garners?” Personally I attribute this to different languages of the “source texts”—i.e. the information from Gondor would have more loanwords—but perhaps there is another difference? #luinellë

💍 Two new casting announcements have been made for season three of The Rings of Power! Jamie Campbell Bower and Eddie Marsan will be joining the cast. Bower will be a series regular, while Marsan will appear in a recurring role. Source: Variety

The Lord of the Rings illustrations by Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov. #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien

This week’s Tolkien Deep Dive is about a significant—but easily missed!—detail in the second chapter of The Lord of the Rings and its continued relevance to us today. #frodo #tolkien #lordoftherings manymeetings.substack.com/p/frodos-cho...

5 things I did this week, #silmarillion edition

It all happened so fast! What happened in the USA reminds me of what Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin found when they returned to The Shire (#LOTR). The hobbits were browbeaten and following orders because they had only ever known peace. But with the right leadership they overcame their dictator. #Tolkien

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Also LotR brings me and many other people a lot of joy, which is valuable in its own right and also necessary. Emma Goldman once said that any revolution without dancing isn't a revolution worth having.

Sometimes my academic specialty—Tolkien and post-Christian theology—seems totally impractical in the face of rising fascism. Other times, though, spending so much time with fantasy, the history of religion, hermeneutics, the emergence of (and backlash to) modernity - it all feels very of-the-moment.

The majority of county councils in Wales have now officially expressed their support for the devolution of responsibility for the Crown Estate to the Welsh Government ✍️Emily Price

What is a #Tolkien myth you can think of? Something that lives in the zeitgeist but isn’t from the text? #luinellë

The Mabinogion. There are quests to find magic hogs, mysterious talons that reach down the chimneys of homes to abduct folk, and many other wonderful things in this Welsh epic that Tom Shippey argues was an influence on the Tale of Beren and Luthien.

People are always asking “what are some books that capture the feeling I get when I read The Lord of the Rings” so I made a list:

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Ut38N5/ #luinellë

Hot take but clearly Haleth only became a unisex name because she was so badass people undescended from the Haladin thousands of years later named their sons after her in the hopes they would be strong. #tolkien #luinellë

“The revolution will not be televised” has become a prevalent saying, but I think too few people honestly understand that the second caveat has to be “it won’t be readable without paying a subscription fee.” Companies need to take articles about the government out from behind paywalls.

Seeing IG accounts with names like “Silmarillion fans” and all they post is LotR content makes me want to make an account that solely posts arithmetic-based memes from The Nature of Middle-earth and call it “LotR movie fans.” #luinellë #tolkien

huh, i wonder what this is about www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Does anyone else think about how Minas Tirith has enough lampwrights—specialized potters or glass-blowers or metalsmiths—for them to have their own street? #tolkienomics #tolkien #luinellë

Gregory the Great says Satan tempted Christ, "cum posse [hunc] mortalia perpeti humanitatis videret," which a 19th century translation renders "when he saw that He might suffer all the mortal accidents of humanity." I just keep hearing "the thousand natural shocks/ That flesh is heir to."

I wished I had a better word than "idolator" though. Theologically it captures something centrally important in the Christian tradition: do not mistake the powers of this world for the One who loves it into being. But it's so often used as a pejorative for non-Christians. Any suggestions?

I call these Christofascists "idolators." They worship capital, white supremacy, patriarchy, power. Not God, and certainly not the Christ crucified by Empire. I have no pretensions to being morally innocent, but I believe Christians ought at least to strive *not to do those things*.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

SHE SAID WHAT SHE SAID

if I see one more post about how being a Hobbit is all about sitting around barefoot and eating potatoes I’m going to snap. it’s about toppling authoritarian regimes through self-sacrifice and love in action!!! get off your butt!!!! (you can bring the potatoes with you though)

This, highlighted, is telling.

Special guest announcement! Jay Johnstone will be joining us in-person at Westmoot 2025! Jay Johnstone is a British illustrator who works with traditional methods and techniques employed by medieval artists and artisans.

This might sound a little wack but I think a great form of #resistance is offering one’s time and talent for free. So much of our world is disappearing behind paywalls, and given the state of the world this will likely continue apace. Why not fight back by giving?

The worse things get, the more I come to appreciate the Book of Revelation. Not so much as a literal prediction of the end timess, more as a radically anti-imperialist text whose ethos can be summed up in the four letters "FAFO."

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“Prince Imrahil” by Abe Papakhian. Do you suppose the knights described as accompanying Imrahil were simply well-appointed horse guards of his household? Or were they vassals in turn of the Prince of Dol Amroth, with subfiefs of their own? #tolkienomics #tolkien #luinellë #gondor