Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

I need to spill the tea and tell you a secret....I am half númenórean🫣

For those who come after🌹 #ClairObscurExpedition33 #expedition33 #art Gustave beloved

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Seems like we are currently having a problem in Mordor with sleeping/waking up... @dragoninn.bsky.social offers you breakfasts🥞🥐🍞☕️ for free and if you need also a cozy bed🛏😌

((ooc: just wanted to say Gil-galad is having the time of his life with all these hot Mordor men. He is suffering but in a good way. he is Looking.))

Have I taken two of my anatomy studies and combined them? Yes, I did 🤭 A night with Maeglin and Ungoliant 🕸

[OoC Young adorable female uruk sketch✏️]

Protector, guardian, musician, wedding speaker, libarian to be...I may have many jobs but my favorite jobs are husband, father and friend😌

Since Tolkientober has ended I have spent my time sketching, trying to do some anatomy studies. Of course these are best to do with some of your favourite characters mind 😌 Ft. Human form Ungoliant, Maeglin and Rôg 🤭 WIPs here I come

After almost 200 years I cut my hair short for the first time..well shorter 😅 It is too late to go back now...not sure how I feel about it 🤔

It's tiiiiiime! Get yourself ready for the most wonderful time of the year✨️

Midnight cooking🤭 Picrewの「할로윈 수프」でつくったよ！ picrew.me/share?cd=0rF... #Picrew #할로윈_수프

Sorry, I am late . Sailing lessons took longer than necessary. One of the uruks decided it was fun to go in circles. Oh, by the way, brought Fred along. He is wearing the same thing he wears on the ship, he thinks he is a pirate....by the way, who is Mr. Darcy, Ernil?

Lady and being beyond the binary arriving 😌 @ungolunhinged.bsky.social looking forward to a night of spooky fun and shenanigans

Say spooky dooky! 📸 this is for the family album

Ladies, gentlemen, and beings beyond the binary, ghouls and Nazgûl, Uruk, elves, hobbits, spiders, trolls, Ainur, humans alive and undead… you may know the donkey daycare farm as a fun place. Tonight, let @nazgulno6.bsky.social and me show you its spooky side.

True "hard" men are just hard men when their values - loyality, friendship, love, peace and honesty are about to get destroyed by the heartless men.

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand. All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front. He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you. Fuck 'em.

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That must have been an amazing library!

#Tolkientober- Day 27: Libraries Pengolodh in the library of Gondolin #Pengolodh #loremaster #Silmarillion

#Tolkientober - Day 25: Volcano 🌋🌋 (Another repost I originally made for a "Romanticism" prompt for TolkienTuesday -More new work to come on Monday 😊) #Adar #Maeglin

Come join us this Unhinged Halloween or the donkeys will come after you! (With sad eyes because they miss you.)

🚨Less than a week away🚨 Get your outfits ready and join us for a spooky night at the Donkey Farm 31st October from 8pm (CET) onwards @fourthofthenine.bsky.social and I look forward to see you

day 21 #tolkientober - A connection with deep #roots

#Tolkientober - Day 20: Loneliness When you feel less lonely visiting your mother's tombstone than in a crowded city #Maeglin #Silmarillion

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#Tolkientober Day 19: Transformation Tw// Blood At some point, his blood started to run black 💔🖤 P.S: It had been a while since I wanted to draw this and today's prompt was perfect! I'm glad I managed to finish this one on time ^^ #Adar #Moriondor #Morgoth

On the road.

The thought of them being happy even for a while seems strange to me 😬 But then I am proof of it happening... I would not be here otherwise

Story time with the kids 🐲🕷 They love the story of the little tadpole travelling the world

#Tolkientober - Day 15: Precious No way I could go a whole Tolkientober to at least post one wholesome post of my precious beans 🥰 (Goli is supposed to have 4 toes by the way 😆) #Smole #Maeglin #Ungoliant #AU +

Cheeky little uruk😌

Save the date 📅 I and @fourthofthenine.bsky.social invite you to spend Halloween with us on the donkey farm Get youe costumes ready. More info to follow 🎃

Come join our good friends, Nazgûl Numbers 4 and 6 for their first party! There will be donkeys.

This is what I would sing to my wife if I would sing😌 youtu.be/i752DxeIi7Q?...

Writing my memories... This would be the opening line: The crown was only a few inches away from his head. He kneeled in front of it, one hand holding his sword and his deep blue eyes looking up to the heavy golden burden....

#Tolkientober - Day 9: Fall "and [Tuor] cast him far out, and his body as it fell smote the rocky slopes of Amon Gwareth thrice ere it pitched into the flames below."Tolkien, Silmarillion #Maeglin #FallOfGondolin #Silmarillion

On 6 October T.A. 3018 in #Tolkien's Middle-earth: Strider and the Hobbits reach Weathertop where they are then attacked by Nazgûl. Frodo wears the Ring and is stabbed by the Witch-king. Image: "Frodo and the Nazgûl on Weathertop" by @spirosgelekas.bsky.social #BookSky

#Tolkientober Day 5: Hope For this prompt I could only think of the most truly hopeful scene in all Tolkien adaptations for me🖤🤍 P.S: Inspired by "The Swan" by Hilma af Klint✨ #Adar #Galadriel

#Tolkientober Day 3 - Crown Sam is ultimate girl dad. Tell me I'm lying. And why I shouldn't just start giving everyone flower crowns. (( I was a good girl. Lira pouted at me the whole time wanting to give her Adar a crown. )) #fanart #lotr #samwisegamgee #sam #tolkien #doodle

#Tolkientober Day 4: Armor Life, in defiance of death #art

#Tolkientober - Day 4: Armour Maeglin wearing his black galvorn armour in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad (I allowed myself to add some whimsy into his outfit as a tribute to Nan Elmoth ✨️) #maeglin #tolkien #silmarillion

#Tolkientober Day 4: Armor Sauron in the First Age, when he was Morgoth's lieutenant👁️ PS: I love armours so I think this prompt should appear in every Tolkientober 🦾 #Sauron #Armor

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*Patrolling the borders of Mordor*

Me her and the spark of love that shines upon us✨️ #doodle #sketch #pencil

Every Fall, Uruks in Mordor celebrate the anniversary of the eruption of Orodruin🌋And other Mordor folk join them, like Lady Ungoliant here (in her human form, design by @maelomion.bsky.social & @ungolunhinged.bsky.social ✨) I've been wanting to turn the sketch into an illustration for a while! 🙌

True intimacy is watching her looking at the starry sky with wide and bright eyes. Standing next to her when she starts grinning because she is proud of herself. Standing behind her when she rolls up her sleeves to put plans into action. Holding her hand when her world seems to break down. +