THE EAGLES ARE COMING / AT THE END OF ALL THINGS (1978) Acrylic - 28" x 27" I suspect that watching this scene come to life in Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of THE RETURN OF THE KING was as thrilling for me as any fan of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. 1/5

It's my birthday so, to celebrate, here are some vampires and elves, for which age is irrelevant.

Today's #Tolkien #HobbitDay #HobbitMonth Tidbit: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILBO! HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRODO! And thank you, dear Professor Tolkien!

“The winds of Rivendell” One of seven new watercolours inspired by The Hobbit for an upcoming publication by Legendaria Ediciones. Happy #HobbitDay

The King's Tree from Tolkien’s short story "Smith of Wootton Major", made for the last prompt of the Amon Hen art challenge “Tales from other realms”. I love to illustrate these lesser known stories by Tolkien.⁠

Today, The Silmarillion turns 48! It was the first book that Tolkien started writing, in 1915, but on that he sadly wasn't able to finish before his passing in 1973. The published version was compiled by his son Christopher, who organized many of his father’s drafts into a coherent narrative.

Bringing this back for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday: “Tolkien in the Shire” (watercolour, 2020)

Today's #Tolkien #HobbitDay #HobbitMonth Tidbit: Bilbo loved maps but needed Elrond's help to realize this one had Moon-letters on it. Even the most devoted Tolkien readers can have the joy of noticing details they've overlooked when they listen to others. Community is a gift!

⛄January fairy tales⛄ inspired by Tolkien #fairytales #juanbjuanoliver #illustration #childrenillustration #juanbjuan #juanbjuanillustration #magic #monster #books #fantasyart #childrenbooks #fairytale #monster #creature #fairytale #january #oldmanwillow #lordoftherings #enero #hobbits #tolkien

“On Cerin Amroth” graphite on paper, 28”x 14”.

Today's #Tolkien #HobbitDay #HobbitMonth tidbit: Did you know that some English churches still strew their floors with rushes and that craftspeople still weave matting of them, just as in the house of Tom Bombadil? So fresh and beautiful!

It's September! That means #Tolkien #HobbitDay + #HobbitMonth. I'm challenging myself to post a Hobbit tidbit each day of this month in hopes of sharing a little happiness. I like to start my annual read of The Lord of the Rings in September because it's when Frodo's journey begins. How about you?

Really quite disheartening and disappointing to see the Tolkien Society hosting a discussion on “AI in fantasy filmmaking” this year at Oxonmoot. It feels about as morally and philosophically opposed to Tolkien’s work as a talk on the benefits of deforestation.

A long post I never meant to write. But there's such irony in the fact that Tolkien hated Nazis for perverting Northern mythology, and now they're doing it to him. He'd be more upset at what he'd see as a perversion of his faith. Whatever his faults, he believed in empathy, pity, and mercy. #tolkien

Some recent shots - Minas Tirith, Bree, and the Dead Marshes

"A warlike race of old were all the Naugrim, and they would fight fiercely against whomsoever aggrieved them: servants of Melkor, or Eldar, or Avari, or wild beasts, or not seldom their own kin, Dwarves of other mansions and lordships." - The Silmarillion

“The Fire in Beorn’s Hall” Another of the seven new watercolours inspired by the four elements in The Hobbit I recently created for an upcoming book by Legendaria Ediciones. #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

“What, we asked Dr [sic] Tolkien, makes you tick? Dr T., who teaches at Oxford when he isn’t writing novels, has this brisk reply: ‘I don’t tick. I am not a machine. (If I did tick, I should have no views on it, and you had better ask the winder.)’” - The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Letter 165)

"The act of procreation [...] was one of the acts of chief delight, in process and in memory, in an Elvish life, but its intensity alone provided its importance, not its time or length: it could not have been endured for a great length of time, without disastrous 'expense'." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“But the upclimbing is painful, and from high places it is easy to fall low.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Primitiveness is no guarantee of value, and is in great part a reflection of ignorance. ‘My church’ was not intended by Our Lord to be static or remain in perpetual childhood; but to be a living organism, which develops and changes by the particular circumstances of the world into which it is set.”

🌟New Prints Available Today! Based on Tolkien's own artwork and the remark of his son that Old Man Willow was inspired by an unpollarded tree on the River Cherwell, this dreamy, hazy scene is unforgettable. More links in comments. #Tolkien #TolkienArt #LOTR www.miriamellis.com/product-page...

"However it is, humans being what they are, quite inevitable, and the only cure (short of universal Conversion) is not to have wars – nor planning, nor organization, nor regimentation." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“When they have read it, some readers will (I suppose) wish to ‘criticize’ it, and even to analyze it, and if that is their mentality they are, of course, at liberty to do these things – so long as they have first read it with attention throughout.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“[...] man cannot live on stone and sand, but I at any rate cannot live on bread alone; and if there was not bare rock and pathless sand and the unharvested sea, I should grow to hate all green things as a fungoid growth.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Great East Road” One of seven new watercolours inspired by The Hobbit for an upcoming publication by Legendaria Ediciones. #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

"His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“It was not yet gone, but it was getting buried: the memory of the high and the perilous. But you cannot teach that sort of thing to a whole people quickly. There was not time. And anyway you must begin at some point, with some one person.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Yet I suppose I know better than most what is the truth about this ‘Nordic’ nonsense. Anyway, I have in this War a burning private grudge [...] against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler [...]. +

“You knew you were behaving wrongly and foolishly; and you told yourself so [...] But if I had spoken sooner, it would not have lessened your desire, or made it easier to resist. [...] No, the burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“[...] likely enough that we are going to our doom [...] But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. [...] Now at least [...] we may help the other peoples before we pass away.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Other evils [...] may come; [...] Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

Minha primeira arte encomendada ficou pronta! Conheçam Rúmil de Tirion, o Elfo noldorin que inventou o primeiro alfabeto élfico (mais tarde aperfeiçoado por Fëanor) e que escreveu o Ainulindalë, a Música dos Ainur! Arte pela @dragaofada.bsky.social

"Of course The L.R. does not belong to me. [...] though naturally I take a deep interest in its fortunes, as a parent would of a child. I am comforted to know that it has good friends to defend it against the malice of its enemies. (But all the fools are not in the other camp.)" - J.R.R. Tolkien

"[...] I have deliberately written a tale, which is built on or out of certain 'religious' ideas, but is not an allegory of them (or anything else), and does not mention them overtly, still less preach them [...]." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

"We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Those who believe in ... God ... do not think the Universe is in itself worshipful, though devoted study of it may be one of the ways of honouring Him. And while as living creatures ..., our ideas of God and ways of expressing them will be largely derived from contemplating the world about us.”

"Not 'Nordic', please! A word I personally dislike; it is associated, though of French origin, with racialist theories. Geographically 'Northern' is usually better. But examination will show that even this is inapplicable (geographically or spiritually) to 'Middle-earth'." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Recovery is a regaining — regaining of a clear view. I do not say ‘seeing things as they are’, though I might say ‘seeing things as we are (or were) meant to see them’ — as things apart from ourselves. Freed from the drab blur of triteness or familiarity — from possessiveness.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

"[...] for to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Bilbo woke with the early sun in his eyes", by J.R.R. Tolkien.

"Thus the merciless will ever count on mercy, and the liars make use of truth; for if mercy and truth are withheld from the cruel and the lying, they have ceased to be honoured." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is one of the mysteries of pain that it is, for the sufferer, an opportunity for good, a path of ascent however hard.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people. +

“Men have conceived not only of elves, but they have imagined gods, and worshipped them, even worshipped those most deformed by their authors’ own evil. But they have made false gods out of other materials: their nations, their banners, their monies;” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“So most men teach, and few men learn. Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“And curb your pride and your greed, or you will fall at the end of whatever path you take, though your hands be full of gold.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“How otherwise would you have it? Should Manwë and the Valar meet secrecy with subterfuge, treachery with falsehood, lies with more lies? If Melkor would usurp their rights, should they deny his? Can hate overcome hate? Nay, Manwë was wiser;” - J.R.R. Tolkien