Is the online game any good still?

>>8006448
There is a dedicated following of welcoming, nice people who love it. The ones I see tend to be book-only fans, and use the game to explore Tolkien's secondary world together.

>>8009110

Love the drip
I think I might start dressing like this
Not many people rock suits and waits coats so casually now

Ulmo and Tuor

Does anyone have a hi-res version of "Green Hill Country" by Ted Nasmith?

gib Erebor

and gollum in the underground lake

>>8013118
nvm, found it.

FFFFFFuck yes bros I'm so happy you made this thread and contributed. I've been looking for high quality Tolkien art for forever, specifically Silmarillion art. Thank you all.

>>8005365
Damn, this one got me.
Any more of Luthien?

>>8015618
welcome

I'll try to post more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFnrBPfbPo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aHtdoXPiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPenjGbLtLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G-zanqLD3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC35cQKHwzg

Antichrist and Satan, now I know you have turned this website of my youth for your own with the help of the Jews. People with pure hearts will always find something new.

Sayonara for real, this time.

I hope you God makes you curl up into a ball and hide as soon as you read this.

>>8018442
The pharmacist called.

Your meds are ready to pick up.

>>8005302

Man... it's weird but this is almost 1-1 how i imagined the scene to look like when i read it. Awesome contribution!

>>8015951

The Balrog doesn't have wings.

>>8029324
Yes it does.

>>8029324
Book 2, Chapter 5

>>8029324
>>8029330
>>8029441

Okay, okay, let's go to the tape:

>What it was could not be seen: it was like a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark form, of man-shape maybe, yet greater; and a power and terror seemed to be in it and to go before it.

[...]

>His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings.

[...]

>The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. It stepped forward slowly on to the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall; but still Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom; he seemed small, and altogether alone: grey and bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm.

[...]

>With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down and vanished.

It seems to me that these passages taken together only describe a supernatural shadow/darkness/gloom that the creature projects. The second reference to "wings" is a callback to the first, which is clearly a simile.

>>8030455
If they aren't wings then they are big shadow-flaps for being scary which explains why it can't fly.
Thanks for clearing that up. From now on, the balrogs "wings" will be called shadow flaps.

>>8015970
Stole the body of the lady on Edmund Blair Leighton's Accolade.

>>8005195
very nice

https://www.gq.com/story/lord-of-the-rings-is-a-christmas-movie

>>8029324
>>8030455
I don't mind people interpreting it literally, I think Balrogs look great with wings. That being said, this is probably my favourite artistic interpretation.

bumpses, Precious!

High res Naismith art is the pinnacle

>>8015951
>>8030455
I really like how Gandalfs robe is flying towards the Balrog in the movie Balrog image, as the fire of Balrog is pulling in air like a fire would.

I love the landscapes here so much, thank you for posting them; they're genuinely my favourite kind of wallpaper

Upscaled a couple to fit my screen better

>>8041769
>>8041769

This is retarded. Gandalf was never "young", or at least, not like this. As one of the five Istari, he, like the others, was clothed in the flesh of an old man when he entered into Arda.

Nice to see a thread I started so long ago is still alive

>>8041769
>>8043095
Character design challenges aren't bound by canon, anon.

>>8043104
>>8043104

Fair enough.

>>8005493
beautiful

Any good detailed photos of Rivendale?

>>8043900
>rivendale
ffs anon, get your shit together

>>8043900

Rivendell*

>>8043104
howd they manage to make every character look the same?
Theyre not even different heights ffs

>>8006507
I really love this one but Gondolin was built in a circle.

>>8043900
Here's a good detailed 3D render, anyway.

>>8044360
They used a "paper doll" character creator, where all the components are drawn to fit the same figure.

>>8047078
Are you really this stupid or are you just pretending?

>>8047088
what did he say that was wrong?

>>8005493
She had bigger booba when I was reading the books

I don't suppose anyone has the Alan Lee Mines of Moria picture in wallpaper form? Or any of Alan Lees other art in. I used to have most of them but I lost them when my last PC broke.

Thorin and company playing their instruments at the unexpected party, illustrated by Michael Hague

>>8055711
>goldberry
need the netflix version
kek

>>8043104
why are they all White?

>>8059047
why not?

>>8059047
because the lord of the rings is about HWhite people
end of

>>8009110
cute pic and cute filename

Anyone got a good Door of Moria phone pape? I used to have as my lock screen now I can't find a good one

>>8070907
Dunno if it's good, though.

>>8073520
Beautiful

>>8071874
Nobody wants to see this woke shit

>>8074123
It's not even that woke, the women are idiots and the female dwarves have no beards (like they do in the books)
I'm pretty sure they also made a couple elves black because they read that some elves were "dark", but they completely forget that along with skin color should come culture or anything to make the poor guy interesting
I'm accusing them of being fantasy-racists, yes

It's just shit

Makes me sad
The art is okay, at least its giving a job to those poor kiwi props makers

>>8074124
its woke shit cope

>>8075915
this looks really good
anyone got it at a higher res?

>>8074762
>rings of power
it deliberately takes a massive shit on Tolkien's lifetime masterpiece work of fantasy literature

>>8078598
maybe you should do like a hobbit, and touch grass. lol. go to a gathering place, have some beers, sing some songs with the people who live around you. love them because tomorrow they will be gone.

>>8078650
>be me
>I hate woke tards ruining good things
>some blue haired fool
>hurr durr town grass
go die dickhead

>>8078686
great orc-like writing anon

>>8071874
god... I love galadriel with all my life

this picture goes so fn hard

>>8080360
tf are those? Failed clones of Orlando bloom?

>>8080360
why couldn't they even use the natural light of the scen, its so weird how they used a flash or a big ass reflector to make the background so dark

ugliest cinematography since those shitty DC movies

>>8074124
>female dwarves have no beards (like they do in the books)
Don't believe everything you read online. Female Dwarves are NEVER described as having beards in the books. They're described as having beards in 'The War of the Jewels' which was written by Christoper Tolkien using unused and unpublished manuscripts. J.R.R. Tolkien even has a compilation of minor writings that where published in 'The Nature of Middle-earth' that directly contradict this. In these he describes Middle-Earth races with beards and concerning Dwarves he said that 'all MALE Dwarves had beards' with no mention of females being bearded at all. It's likely that if he did once put pen to paper and say that female Dwarves had beards in an unused manuscript, he walked this back in later writings. (Something which he did ALL THE FUCKING TIME)

>>8080360
What a ridiculous series and with how much it cost, it's a piece of garbage that's eating its nose in ratings.

>>8050646
Nah. Her breast were always small, sale as her shoulders. Hips and legs were 10/10. I know this as fact because that is what I imagined.

>A billion dollar soap opera "fan" fiction of the second age
No thanks. I'll just stick with the books, PJ films, and older adaptations.

Fellas, I'm looking for that one fanart piece of Sauron and Morgoth having a pool party. They're in trunks floating on inflatables in the pool. Anyone got it? In the meantime, here's a pape.

>>8061606
this is great

>>8018442

JRR Tolkien was a devout Christian and Lord of the Rings is chock full of Biblical allegory and symbolism.

If you're going to LARP as one of us for attention, at least learn how we actually talk first.

>>8059047

Because the only non-Whites in LOTR are orcs, as it should be.

dont know if its something on my end but a lot of these papes are missing?

>>8084898

There was a site malfunction and a bunch of thumbnails are missing from the server.

Bumpity bump

>>8089124
This is the cover of Halloween III, you're an idiot.

>>8030455
This is the first time I've seen this depiction of the balrog and I like a lot more than the more "demony" version from the movies. This seems more in line with Silmarillion.

>>8089881
Halloween 2 actually and it was a mistake from a week ago.

>>8063565
Is there any detail more pointless in Tolkien fandom that gets autistics more rhiled up than the size of Ancalagon?

>>8080358
I also love Morfydd Clark. She's so pretty.

>>8080360
Don't listen to those bigots. Rings of Power was dope.

>>8074123
Christ please shut the fuck up, you little baby ass bitch

>>8078686
>durr blue hair
You will die with your dick in your hand, you self-cucking hick

>>8092826
rope yourself troon

>>8088192
still pains me that they had to tear this down after filming

>>8089913
Kind of Tolkien's fault for not giving him a more detailed description than "he broke an entire mountain range when he fell"

This would inevitably lead readers to assume he was absolutely gargantuan in size, which was probably not really the case.