Here, have another painting before I go to work.  

Something about Gandy’s pink scarf really works for me in this picture.  

I think I might be one o them homersexuals.

It’s Tolkien Week!  Have an awesome picture of Jackson’s Gimli to start off your day! 

I really like this one.  Balin’s tomb showdown.  

Gimli looks like a damn Black Mage, though. 

Another one of my favorite paintings.  I feel bad, because I have no idea who the artist is.  If anyone sees this, and can tell me… I’d love that sooooo much.

Merry/Pippin/Treebeard goodness.

Start your Saturday off right with a painting based on the Silmarillion.  This one is by John Howe, I believe. (I’ve just got a folder on my hd with a bunch of Middle Earth paintings, and not ONE OF THEM is labeled.) 

Ungoliant drinking the light from the Two Trees and Melkor just sitting there looking pretty.  In Valinor everyone is pretty. 

This one is mine.

(Source: lotrconfessions)

Drew a picture of Legolas and Gimli.

Fëanor - one of my many Tolkien love/hate relationships.

I plan on finishing this.

I know this picture dominated the LotR tag on my dash for a while, and I just wanted to post this in response. :B

Going to try to defend the name ‘Mt. Doom’.

(deep breath)

For starters, the word ‘doom’ has several meanings.  The two important to this Tumbl are as follows:

1. Inevitable destruction or ruin.

AND

2. a judgment or decision

Tolkien tends to use both forms of ‘doom’ quite a bit.  

“What shall we do with the Ring, the least of rings, the trifle that Sauron fancies? That is the doom that we must deem.” - Elrond

Now that we know that ‘doom’ can allude to a decision, we can relate that to Isildur’s decision to keep the ring after cutting it from Sauron’s hand at the end of the Second Age, AND Frodo’s decision to keep it rather than throw it into the fire at the end of LotR.  So, we’ve got Mt. Doom: the mountain of ruinous choice, and Mt. Doom: the mountain of inevitable destruction… ‘cause it’s a big scary fuckin’ volcano in the heart of Mordor.  Also, I always thought that Mt. Doom was kind of the layman’s term for it.  Like, that’s what the men and hobbits called it.  I know the elves called it Orodruin.  It had a couple more names that I don’t remember. 

It is a pretty funny picture, though.

I’m quoting myself… but I like using the quote feature.  SO SUE MEEE

The newest fad in Middle-Earth.

I’ve had this book for a few months now, and I just thought it was interesting enough to share with you guys.  In a nutshell, it’s a book of illustrations by Tolkien himself. It’s pretty interesting comparing what was going through Tolkien’s head as he wrote his mythology, and what you or I think of as we read them.  I think my favorite would have to be Smaug.  I scanned a picture of him so you guys can catch a glimpse of the all powerful, terrible dragon himself:

DAWWWWWWWWWW.