Tolkien general thread

[mindlessobserver]

They can't even ruin it. Tolkien was openly reactionary ("far-right"). This makes it very easy to identify and discard poz. Supposing you know some reactionary thought, anyhow. Few do!

Now that's a shitpost.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I can't think of anything Tolkien would have hated more than Amazon.

Isengard would have looked like an Amazon warehouse if Tolkien were writing today. He'd probably have been too decorous to outfit his Orcs with Powerade bottles though.

 

[JektheDumbass]

You know, I had a major hate boner for Chris Tolkien over him suing TSR over using Ents, Hobbits, and Balrogs in DnD. After seeing constant ads for shit mobile games with LotR branding I think I preferred Chris Tolkien being an asshole about it...

 

[khaine]

Look

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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Spoiler: Supporting White Cis Hetero Men over Whiny Minorities Any Day

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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

Spoiler: Big photo underneath

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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.

Looks like a nice book. There look to be two very similar versions:

The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) Book By J R R Tolkien Hardcover

The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Edition by J R R Tolkien Hardcover

I don't quite understand what is different about them

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[Slap47]

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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.

Bezos wrote a guide for how he wants all of his stuff to be done.

Its quite bleak.

 

[Jarolleon]

Isengard would have looked like an Amazon warehouse if Tolkien were writing today. He'd probably have been too decorous to outfit his Orcs with Powerade bottles though.

The Orcs did have energy drinks ("Orc-draught") in The Two Towers books though. They even feed it to the Hobbits so they can run faster. Though its sound a bit more like meth than Powerade.

 

[CryoRevival #SJ-112]

The hobbits, who represented the middle class of england.

This quote hurts my brain, that a supposedly class conscious person could think that a ficticious people epitomised by a poor and bewildered gardener represent the english middle classes in a time when many of that class had literal servants.

 

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This quote hurts my brain, that a supposedly class conscious person could think that a ficticious people epitomised by a poor and bewildered gardener represent the english middle classes in a time when many of that class had literal servants.

I never heard them representing the Middle Class, but I thought his intent was to make the Shirefolk a stand-in for traditional countryside life in rural England. Which plays and interesting antithesis to Isengard's industry. It makes the Scouring of the Shire a neat little commentary on the industrialization of England burning out these idyllic lifestyles.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

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.

If the Witcher and WoT casting is anything to go by, get ready for a bunch of 4/10 pajeets and blacks. Sauron will be white though.

 

[Kosher Dill]

The Orcs did have energy drinks ("Orc-draught") in The Two Towers books though.

God help us, that's going to be the next tie-in merchandise for Lord Of The Bezos.

 

[Jarolleon]

God help us, that's going to be the next tie-in merchandise for Lord Of The Bezos.

Where there's a whip, there's a way!

Inb4 Lord of the Bezos includes a "self-conscious" scene of Orcish slaves singing a call-back to this song while working in a storehouse, which will be praised in the same way "Don't Look Up" was.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Inb4 Lord of the Bezos includes a "self-conscious" scene of Orcish slaves singing a call-back to this song

You know, I might, might have liked those live-action Hobbit movies a tiny bit if they did the Rankin-Bass "Goblin Town" song, but noooooo.

 

[Red Hood]

God help us, that's going to be the next tie-in merchandise for Lord Of The Bezos.

But do you think it'll be better or worse than the Denny's Hobbit menu?

 

[Kosher Dill]

But do you think it'll be better or worse than the Denny's Hobbit menu?

I tell you, if you go to any Denny's in Middle-earth around 2AM, you're pretty much guaranteed to see a couple of Orcs getting in a fight over typical Orc bullshit. Screeching, clawing, pulling out each other's weaves.

 

[Red Hood]

I tell you, if you go to any Denny's in Middle-earth around 2AM, you're pretty much guaranteed to see a couple of Orcs getting in a fight over typical Orc bullshit. Screeching, clawing, pulling out each other's weaves.

My Denny's always had wraiths and barrow wights at 2AM. Some of them tried to get away with smoking, but mostly they just drank coffee.

 

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My vision of unending torture is having to be the psychotherapist who gets to treat these entities when reality inevitably looms closer in and they are forced to drop the act.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Cultural Marxism is about to take another property, this time an Anglo-Saxon mythology, THE Anglo-Saxon mythology to be clear. Bezos is lucky he has a global monopoly otherwise this would probably be another Get Woke Go Broke moment... but having more shekels than God means they can pull Netfuxs routinely, i.e. dumping out woke trash while never being in danger of losing money from the disastrous fallout due to subs for other content.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

You know, I had a major hate boner for Chris Tolkien over him suing TSR over using Ents, Hobbits, and Balrogs in DnD. After seeing constant ads for shit mobile games with LotR branding I think I preferred Chris Tolkien being an asshole about it...

An old proverb, stick to the devil you know.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

You know, I had a major hate boner for Chris Tolkien over him suing TSR over using Ents, Hobbits, and Balrogs in DnD. After seeing constant ads for shit mobile games with LotR branding I think I preferred Chris Tolkien being an asshole about it...

Christopher Tolkien was the asshole hero we needed. And TSR having to do something a little more original than copypasting Tolkien's creations without paying royalties is a fair ask, IMO.

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