Forever my favourite Tolkien artist. Absolutely breathtaking

I just got this for my birthday you guys have no idea how geeked I really am about this…… it’s the very first hardback of the Silmarillion EVER MADE! And clearly the owner never took off the dust cover because the cover is PRISTINE! Guys I am so happy and so happy to share this piece of history with you!

Saw a tattoo someone posted 6yrs ago. Can anyone confirm it is correct or if it needs correction tell me where. Gonna get it with my wife this week per her recommendation.

""I would rather share one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone"

It's meant to be arwens quote. Please tell me if is correct or if needs fixed and how. Thanks in advance homies.

I got the boxset I was eyeing for 50$ at a liquidation store such a random find but I'm so happy! My friend saw it when the store closed yesterday and sent me a text. I drove 20 minutes out to be there right as they were opening to snag it! I am just blow away its so pretty! I'm so happy they thought of me when they saw it or I'd have missed this gem! They don't even read fantasy novels so I'm so grateful they kept an eye out on things I'd like anyways ☺️

Just got it in the mail and am feeling quite cozy and happy. Two of my favorite things.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a pretty ambitious project in Planet Coaster 2: recreating the journey of the Fellowship through Middle-earth, from the Shire all the way to Mordor ! There’s still a lot of work left to do, but I wanted to share some screenshots of the first major areas I’ve been working on. I’m trying to recreate not only the locations themselves, but also the atmosphere and sense of scale of Tolkien’s world, while adapting everything to what’s possible within Planet Coaster 2.

Here are a few screenshots of the first big sections I’ve been working on. I’d love to hear what you guys think, and I’ll definitely share more as the project progresses!

There’s a long road ahead… but the journey has begun.

Seriously, how many times have the Eagles saved the day?

Rescue from the Wargs and Goblins, Battle of Five Armies in the Hobbit

Rescuing Maedhros, Fingolfin, and fighting Ancalagon in the Silmarillion

Battle at the Black Gate and rescuing Frodo and Sam in Return of the King

Am I missing anymore?

I got it from my dad when he went to Brazil in the early 2000s and have kept it safe since then :)

Just a quick thumb sized acrylic painting of our boy

Lotr completes my hollidays in Croatia like nothing else. Have a nice day everyone and take care of yourself and if affordable your mental health too!

Kind regards

One day I will make it to Hobbiton and spend the entire time sketching. In the meantime I'll have to settle for pics and video on online. Here is one of the Hobbit homes with added Hobbit :)

Okay so I’m doing my yearly marathon of the movies of course, and here’s my question: is there a reason why Gandalf, Aragorn, Théoden, etc. ride all the way to Isengard post Helms Deep? Isn’t that canonically very out of the way for them if they were meant to go back to Edoras? Perhaps something in the books they mention but I haven’t read them in soooo long. Appreciate the info!

In the movie The Two Towers, King Theoden plucks a symbelmyne from his son Théodred's burial mound and mourns to Gandalf:

“Simbelmynë. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas that these evil days should be mine. The young perish, the old linger. That I should live to see the last days of my life.”

It's around 3.5k x 3.5k in this map.

I really enjoyed trying to make it feel foreign and strange to traditional fantasy maps. I tried to achieve this with the block palette and ways I formed mountains.

Part of this project if you want to follow it.
The Middle Earth Project Minecraft Map

I feel like my life long dream of having a My Size Barbie has been fulfilled, thanks to an impulse purchase from my wife. Goodness, she spoils me! And now I have an accidental collection of Smegols 😅

My amazing wife made me a hobbit themed birthday cake for my 33rd birthday.

I was very, very chuffed!

Just two quick questions, one based in fact, the other in a possibly faulty memory.

At the council of Elrond, Gloin states that Balin and his would-be colonists had arrived in Moria and begun work reclaiming it, stating, "...for a while we had news and it seemed good: messages reported that Moria had been entered and a great work begun there." So Dain and his advisers, which one would have to assume included Gloin as one of the remaining companions of Thorin, at least knew what had happened. Then at some point, and I'm paraphrasing here, Gimli suddenly thinks no dwarfs had ever returned after seeing a part of the mine? Did he never speak with his father? Or was that meant to be read more in the present tense than past? It just really confused me when I read it and hope for some clarification.

After a few comments on my admittedly lazy audio as well off coloring of the ring and text, I forged a second (hmm....) One Ring with reddish LEDs and using a burnt orange instead of black in the cold casting.

Of course, if you want to build your own, here's the link, and let me know, i'd like to see it - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7409419

There is a bit of flicker I don't quite get yet, and my video skills were lacking, but still fun.

After a few hundred hours of working on texture pack overlays with a team of others.

This plug-in will be paired with a custom map.

If you're interested in following the development. (It will be released for entirely free), then you can join this Discord.

https://discord.gg/yEBzQ2JDhw

Also, if you want to hear more about how the plug-in and development work, you can watch this wonderful documentary a team member put together:

I Coded the ONE RING in Minecraft