Tolkien general thread

Since I got a birthday present early, I figured I'd share some images of the new LOTR Special Edition with Tolkien's artwork. Including a blurb about the epilogue that Tolkien wanted to put in that comes on a little card. Because I'd rather get Tolkien as a present than any bitter YA or modern fantasy writer.

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It comes in a nice cardboard box that has the map of Middle Earth wrapped around it. When you open it, the slipcover and book is inside. The cardboard falls apart at this point, but it's pretty easy to put back into its box shape.

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The eye of Sauron cutout is pretty nice. It's a beautiful book on it's own and it's clear they actually put some money into this edition.

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These are some of the extras that come with the edition. Sort of needless, but it's nice to have some quality maps.

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This is the Epilogue card
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Now to the actual book. It's done up pretty well. Typical Special Edition flairs such as gold edged pages, borders and headers in red, along with a few other details. The pages feel like those from a bible, so very thin and susceptible to bending easily, but still pretty durable.

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A comparison between this new Special Edition and the older one which came in a frosted slipcover, with the Gates of Moria as the cover. As well as Tolkien's drawing for the Fellowship of the Ring. There's quite a few of his drawings included. Some which he did on paper, some which he properly painted. They're all beautiful additions to the book and really feels like this is an honest "Special Edition" in comparison to the older one (but of course, more expensive).

Honestly, pretty happy with it. I like it way more than my previous special edition, but I think I'd go through this one less just because I'd like it to stay in a nicer condition. It's probably one of the best birthday presents I've been given. You can really tell the love that Tolkien had for his universe and even Christopher Tolkien's care in the maps he drew is pretty touching.

10/10, hope more Tolkien fans loving beautiful editions of LOTR will make shitty writers weep with jealousy.
 
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Jarolleon said:
Aragorn does make peace with them after Sauron is defeated though, so they don't have to be baddies forever.
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and their anti-Gondor nature is due to Numenor which under the influence of Sauron started to do the old imperialism shuffle.
 
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JJLiautaud said:
and their anti-Gondor nature is due to Numenor which under the influence of Sauron started to do the old imperialism shuffle.
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Pretty much all of the humans that hated Gondor had a good reason to hate them. They were kind like Athens during the Peloponnese. I don't remember this having anything to do with Sauron, it seemed to me that they Imperialist since the origins of their line were pure.
 
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The south-eastern regions were always in strife with Numenor. From the time of Tar-aldarion, in the early second age, who needed lumber and began chopping up coastal middle-earth, to the influence of Sauron after Ar-pharazon took him prisoner and instilled his cults to the worship of Melkor, right at the end of that same age.
 
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Why do people try to turn a story about what is effectively about brotherhood into some gay bullshit. Worse things are that Russian fanfic that actually got published about Sauron being the good guy and a Stalin figure. Sauron's whole fucking point is that he's obsessed with order, his own order and no one else's. He's an uncaring tyrant second only to Morgoth and his nihilistic spite.

Why do horny women and metrosexual men have to ruin this shit?
 
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Some guys who ran a podcast posted a picture of Tolkien on Twitter.

This "Tolkien Society" proceeds to slide into his replies asking if he had permission, they are claiming they spent a shit ton of money on physical copies of the pictures and now claim to own the copyright of it.

Litteraly 95% of twitter proceeds to reply to the picture asking if its this one.


One of the things I find funny is that they claim they bought the pictures so they can further share Tolkiens greatness.

Then proceed to shove their head up their own ass.
 

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Gezkill said:
Some guys who ran a podcast posted a picture of Tolkien on Twitter.

This "Tolkien Society" proceeds to slide into his replies asking if he had permission, they are claiming they spent a shit ton of money on physical copies of the pictures and now claim to own the copyright of it.

Litteraly 95% of twitter proceeds to reply to the picture asking if its this one.


One of the things I find funny is that they claim they bought the pictures so they can further share Tolkiens greatness.

Then proceed to shove their head up their own ass.
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Non Fungible Tolkiens?
 
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Ngl, I am getting increasingly black pilled about this one. I am first generation English American. This one is going to hurt in a way no other perversion of culture has ever hurt before. My mother was really big on Tolkein and loved how he created a mythology for the English people. I got these stories as a child at the bed side.

I am so glad the Lord of The Rings movies were done so well. But what people don't really understand is LoTR was simply a vehicle for tolkeins real work, which was the legendarium. These stories are sacred to my people and the idea that Bezos is going to pervert them is soul crushing to me.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Ngl, I am getting increasingly black pilled about this one. I am first generation English American. This one is going to hurt in a way no other perversion of culture has ever hurt before. My mother was really big on Tolkein and loved how he created a mythology for the English people. I got these stories as a child at the bed side.

I am so glad the Lord of The Rings movies were done so well. But what people don't really understand is LoTR was simply a vehicle for tolkeins real work, which was the legendarium. These stories are sacred to my people and the idea that Bezos is going to pervert them is soul crushing to me.
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I can't think of anything Tolkien would have hated more than Amazon. Mass production and consoomerism, soulless and inhumane treatment of workers, filling the world with low quality crap, and most of all widescale environmental degradation from all the trash and pollution created. His whole body of work is an indictment against that exact shit.

I am chuckling imagining the casting after the Wheel of Time debacle. Will they select an African-American to play Aragorn or maybe even Gandalf? Will Galadriel be a strong and sassy WOC, and Faramir played by a Chinese guy? Eowyn as spicy Latina? Whatever it is I most certainly will not be watching.
 
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