Presumably because he was a Maiar aligned with Aulë...narya wrote:What's Curunir the Not-so-White doing in there?
Middle-earth [formerly LotR] in New Media
Grandmother's stunning knitted models of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit characters
If knitting's not your thing, how about Marzipan Smaug atop a treasure of golden sprinkles and rich chocolate soufflé
If knitting's not your thing, how about Marzipan Smaug atop a treasure of golden sprinkles and rich chocolate soufflé
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But it might be!
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Don't be shy...
Amazing paper sculpture by Deviantartist FarTooManyIdeas who created this piece just from the pages of Tolkien's novel. It is a fantastic likeness of Smaug who is hunting for a tiny Bilbo who has managed to escape fron the book’s pages!
Amazing paper sculpture by Deviantartist FarTooManyIdeas who created this piece just from the pages of Tolkien's novel. It is a fantastic likeness of Smaug who is hunting for a tiny Bilbo who has managed to escape fron the book’s pages!
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Middle Earth modeled...
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025558/wha ... om-space#1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHHS5Q_m0g
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025558/wha ... om-space#1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHHS5Q_m0g
The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End
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Lord of the [Coffee] Beans...Voronwë the Faithful wrote:And then there is this:
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Elen - I loved the music in it!
And here's an amazing .gif on the Music of the Ainur!:
http://mirachravaia.deviantart.com/art/ ... -417186294
Also, since I can't see any other thread, Happy Tolkien Reading Day to ya fellas!
And here's an amazing .gif on the Music of the Ainur!:
http://mirachravaia.deviantart.com/art/ ... -417186294
Also, since I can't see any other thread, Happy Tolkien Reading Day to ya fellas!
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Very fascinating! Tolkien does suggest, in one of his letters, that the dwarves do share characteristics of Semitic peoples from the Levantine region, but he never makes the explicit connection to actual human "dwarfs" in Egypt.
It is more likely that Tolkien's dwarves' skill with fashioning metals comes primarily from the depiction of dwarves in the Norse Eddas, Voluspa, etc., where they are small, unlovely creatures (usually quite evil and greedy) that craft great treasures from gold, etc (I believe they fashioned some of the key items and weapons of the Norse gods, including Thor's famous Mjolnir and Odin's famous Gungnir). Tolkien made the dwarves a lot nicer (and a lot more human), while retaining some of that wickedness and greed.
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I don't know how I missed this the first time, but I just spent a delightful evening watching the LOTR triology ala LEGO. Just an hour and a half of the G-rated parts of LOTR, using the original voiceovers, mattes of original backgrounds, and highly flexible animated Lego people for all the characters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CvoG3nY3Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CvoG3nY3Q
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It wouldn't surprise me, however, if the Eddas drew on some of the Egyptian material!! These things get around! Just ask any folklorist.Very fascinating! Tolkien does suggest, in one of his letters, that the dwarves do share characteristics of Semitic peoples from the Levantine region, but he never makes the explicit connection to actual human "dwarfs" in Egypt.
It is more likely that Tolkien's dwarves' skill with fashioning metals comes primarily from the depiction of dwarves in the Norse Eddas, Voluspa, etc., where they are small, unlovely creatures (usually quite evil and greedy) that craft great treasures from gold, etc (I believe they fashioned some of the key items and weapons of the Norse gods, including Thor's famous Mjolnir and Odin's famous Gungnir). Tolkien made the dwarves a lot nicer (and a lot more human), while retaining some of that wickedness and greed.
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That's a great point - though I'm not sure if there's strong evidence of cross-pollination between Germanic and Egyptian mythology in the literature. Nonetheless, there are so many gaps in our knowledge of ancient and dark age peoples, that to quote Carl Sagan "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." There could very well be a connection, and its nice to think there is!Morwenna wrote:It wouldn't surprise me, however, if the Eddas drew on some of the Egyptian material!! These things get around! Just ask any folklorist.Very fascinating! Tolkien does suggest, in one of his letters, that the dwarves do share characteristics of Semitic peoples from the Levantine region, but he never makes the explicit connection to actual human "dwarfs" in Egypt.
It is more likely that Tolkien's dwarves' skill with fashioning metals comes primarily from the depiction of dwarves in the Norse Eddas, Voluspa, etc., where they are small, unlovely creatures (usually quite evil and greedy) that craft great treasures from gold, etc (I believe they fashioned some of the key items and weapons of the Norse gods, including Thor's famous Mjolnir and Odin's famous Gungnir). Tolkien made the dwarves a lot nicer (and a lot more human), while retaining some of that wickedness and greed.
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Popping in to note the title change on the thread. Alatar pointed out in the Geeks thread in Bag End that "LotR" might make people assume this thread was only for creative works related to LotR, or even more restrictively, the LotR films. When I responded that that hadn't been my intention at all, Elen suggested the new title. I'm phasing it in.
This thread is for creative works (in media other than film or text, or such was my intent, though anything interesting is welcome here) that are related to or set in Tolkien's Middle-earth. I think the candy Helm's Deep I introduced in the first post set the tone fairly well, although many serious, actually beautiful works have also enriched this thread.
This thread is for creative works (in media other than film or text, or such was my intent, though anything interesting is welcome here) that are related to or set in Tolkien's Middle-earth. I think the candy Helm's Deep I introduced in the first post set the tone fairly well, although many serious, actually beautiful works have also enriched this thread.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King