Franck Moreno

En mi alma llevo todas mis pertenencias: Lo que no está ahí no me pertenece. ❤️‍🔥🌩️

[Franck Moreno @franck_z3ro]

Sunday

[AlbaBG @albabbgg]

🌊🔮 #gandalf

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

J.R.R. Tolkien explains why he spent years building Middle-earth before writing The Lord of the Rings.

In a rare interview, Tolkien is asked why he devoted more than a decade to creating the world behind his stories before writing them.

He rejects the idea that Middle-earth emerged purely from his unconscious, describing himself instead as “a meticulous sort of bloke” who spent years working out timelines, languages, histories, customs, and genealogies until everything fit together.

For Tolkien, the world existed before the story.

He even says The Hobbit began almost by accident, explaining that the larger mythology was already in place and that the novel simply became absorbed into it.

When asked why anyone would build an entire fictional world before telling a story, Tolkien points to what he calls “subcreation.”

As creations of a Creator, he argues, humans naturally desire to create. Since we cannot create something from nothing, we instead reshape existing reality into new forms that are both imaginative and aesthetically satisfying.

Tolkien also rejects the idea that art should be driven solely by moral purpose, insisting that beauty and aesthetics are just as fundamental to human creativity.

Discussing good and evil, he explains that Sauron was not evil from the beginning but fell from grace, much like Lucifer. The One Ring, he says, symbolizes a power so absolute that even someone with good intentions would inevitably be corrupted by wielding it.

He adds that this idea long predates the atomic age, noting that the foundations of his mythology were developed while he was still an undergraduate, not as an allegory for modern events.

At the end of the interview, Tolkien is asked whether he would rather be remembered for what he said or for what he made. He dismisses the distinction, arguing that lasting creations endure precisely because they have something meaningful to say.

Source: The Tolkien Professor interview with J.R.R. Tolkien (BBC, 1968), “J.R.R. Tolkien Interview (1968).

[The Mellon Heads - LOTR Podcast @mellon_heads]

Telperion The Silver Tree

Art by Rishi Shukla

[⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ @RadicalDecay]

X-men 97 Ororo is so beautiful like goddamn

[Halle Berry @halleberry]

It’s hard to believe it’s been 26 years since X-Men first hit theaters. Playing Storm has been one of the greatest honors and I’m forever thankful to everyone who’s loved her right alongside me. ⚡️💙

[Soc. Tolkien México @STolkiendiliMex]

Esta noche, el #SmialDaenmoth continúa su recorrido por #Tolkien y la Gran Guerra, de John Garth, para descubrir cómo una generación marcada por el conflicto transformó sus experiencias en literatura perdurable.

🕘 21 h (MX)
📺 YouTubeLive y FbLive
#YoLeoATolkien #TolkienMexico

[Tolkien Art @SeanMac67914982]

Mithrandir
by Kimberly

[Soc. Tolkien México @STolkiendiliMex]

La Gran Guerra también dejó ecos en la #TierraMedia. Acompaña a nuestro #SmialDaenmoth e invitados en la lectura de #Tolkien y la Gran Guerra, de John Garth.

📅 Mar 7 de julio | 21:00 h Mx
📲 FB Live y YouTube Live de la STMAC

#YoLeoATolkien con la #STMAC #TolkienMexico

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Ana Kasparian exposes a leaked recording of Israeli officials ordering the bombing of their own abducted soldiers.

The Zionist regime intentionally murdered its own people to prevent any leverage.

They never cared about the hostages.

Pure evil!

[Duke Of Nigeria. @xagreat]

Killing Children is not self defence, it is terrorism.

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Powerful: instead of celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of Trump's America, Pope Leo XIV chose to stand at Lampedusa's Gate of Europe, the monument dedicated to those who rescue and welcome migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

@netanyahu fuck you

[Tolkien Art @SeanMac67914982]

Hall of Fire
by Stephen Hickman

[Tolkien Art @SeanMac67914982]

Tol Sirion by Jonathan Guzi

Tol Sirion was an island on the upper reaches of the River Sirion where Finrod Felagund built the tower of Minas Tirith to keep watch upon the doings of Morgoth on the northern plain of Ard-galen and prevent passage south by Orcs through the Pass of Sirion, the West Gate of Beleriand.

[DannyKPolitics @DannyKPolitics]

Ana Kasparian IS the revolution.