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  1. I occasionally write features for Engineering NZ's quarterly publication, EG Magazine. For the most recent issue, I got to interview three of the team at WētāFX, for an article to mark 25 years since the release of the first Lord of the Rings movie 🤯 (pg16) #nz #vfx #lotr #lotr25 #scicomm

    issuu.com/engineeringnewzealan

  2. Manchmal braucht man einen Drachen, der dich beschützt und dich unter seine Schwingen nimmt :)

    Möge er euch mental unterstützen und durch die Woche bringen! <3

    #dragon #lotr #safety #cute #mastoArt #illustration

  3. @ashwin I first came into contact with the material as a kid, before I could read.As a Betacam SP or Betamax tape. The thick big one🤔

    The Lord of the Rings (1978) Explored – The Most Underrated Version of #LOTR That the World Has Forgotten #yt

    youtube.com/watch?v=OncEydX6Asg

    Many modern fans seem not to like it. I like it :) I do.

    I have no plastic toys from LOTR or anything, and I also don’t care much for the movies.

    In my opinion, the movies definitely have mass visual appeal. Still, the story is the real glue that grounds it.

    I don’t know. “LOTR fans don’t seem to be environmentally conscious—just over-entertained bourgeoisie, obsessing over their collection of authentic Elvish swords made of plastic, participating in consumerism, and not caring about the Earth.”

    I’m not in contact with the current LOTR fan base, so there is nothing I could contribute to that discussion.

    The Ents are my favorite fantasy beings in the LOTR universe: giant, talking tree beings. XD Haha.

  4. @nemo

    #UnpopularOpinion

    I loved “The Hobbit”, because it is a child’s adventure story.

    I hate the #LOTR movie series. It is full of adult themes, like politics, race, war, romance, and crap.

    Tolkien would probably not have liked LOTR fans. Tolkien was of the opinion that we should take care of the forests, and value food, friendship, music, merriment and simple joys, over gold.

    LOTR fans don’t seem to be environmentally conscious, just over-entertained bourgeoisie, obsessing over their collection of authentic elvish swords made of plastic, participating in consumerism and not caring about the Earth.

    #LOTRsux

  5. Learn To Speak In 8 Minutes | Basics of

    youtu.be/DT-xR-R9VkU

    O mór henion i dhû
    Ely siriar, êl síla
    Ai! Aníron Undómiel
    Tiro! Êl eria e mór
    I ’lîr en êl luitha ’úren
    Ai! Aníron…

    A rough translation is:

    From darkness I understand the night;
    Dreams flow, a star shines.
    Ah! I desire Evenstar.
    Look! A star rises from the darkness.
    The song of the star

  6. Learn To Speak #Elvish In 8 Minutes | Basics of #Sindarin #yt #lotr #SillySh

    youtu.be/DT-xR-R9VkU

    O mór henion i dhû
    Ely siriar, êl síla
    Ai! Aníron Undómiel
    Tiro! Êl eria e mór
    I ’lîr en êl luitha ’úren
    Ai! Aníron…

    A rough translation is:

    From darkness I understand the night;
    Dreams flow, a star shines.
    Ah! I desire Evenstar.
    Look! A star rises from the darkness.
    The song of the star

  7. Insightful line from Tolkien's Silmarillion.

    “But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest. And soon he may rest from toil indeed while others reap and sow in his stead. Ever Melkor [the Devil] found some ears that would hear him and some tongues that would enlarge what they had heard. And his lies passed from friend to friend as secrets of which the knowledge proves the teller wise."
    #books #philosophy #tolkien #lotr

  8. The cockerel is one of a group of five young white leghorns. They are very appealing birds to keep. We used to have a white leghorn called ‘Shadowfax’ so have named these girls Filofax and Tampax! The boy we keep has to be Gandalf the White, just because.
    #ChickensOfMastodon #LOTR

  9. The cockerel is one of a group of five young white leghorns. They are very appealing birds to keep. We used to have a white leghorn called ‘Shadowfax’ so have named these girls Filofax and Tampax! The boy we keep has to be Gandalf the White, just because.
    #ChickensOfMastodon #LOTR

  10. The cockerel is one of a group of five young white leghorns. They are very appealing birds to keep. We used to have a white leghorn called ‘Shadowfax’ so have named these girls Filofax and Tampax! The boy we keep has to be Gandalf the White, just because.
    #ChickensOfMastodon #LOTR

  11. The cockerel is one of a group of five young white leghorns. They are very appealing birds to keep. We used to have a white leghorn called ‘Shadowfax’ so have named these girls Filofax and Tampax! The boy we keep has to be Gandalf the White, just because.
    #ChickensOfMastodon #LOTR

  12. The cockerel is one of a group of five young white leghorns. They are very appealing birds to keep. We used to have a white leghorn called ‘Shadowfax’ so have named these girls Filofax and Tampax! The boy we keep has to be Gandalf the White, just because.
    #ChickensOfMastodon #LOTR

  13. It was a wrap on Lord of the Rings: Two Towers in Concert last night as we rounded out our sixth show - three in Calgary and three in Edmonton.

    It’s a marathon, not a race, but every audience was amazing and so worth it. It was so fun to see all the creative costumes in the audience!

    #yyc #yeg #yycarts #yegarts #lotr

  14. It was a wrap on Lord of the Rings: Two Towers in Concert last night as we rounded out our sixth show - three in Calgary and three in Edmonton.

    It’s a marathon, not a race, but every audience was amazing and so worth it. It was so fun to see all the creative costumes in the audience!

    #yyc #yeg #yycarts #yegarts #lotr

  15. It was a wrap on Lord of the Rings: Two Towers in Concert last night as we rounded out our sixth show - three in Calgary and three in Edmonton.

    It’s a marathon, not a race, but every audience was amazing and so worth it. It was so fun to see all the creative costumes in the audience!

    #yyc #yeg #yycarts #yegarts #lotr

  16. It was a wrap on Lord of the Rings: Two Towers in Concert last night as we rounded out our sixth show - three in Calgary and three in Edmonton.

    It’s a marathon, not a race, but every audience was amazing and so worth it. It was so fun to see all the creative costumes in the audience!

    #yyc #yeg #yycarts #yegarts #lotr

  17. It was a wrap on Lord of the Rings: Two Towers in Concert last night as we rounded out our sixth show - three in Calgary and three in Edmonton.

    It’s a marathon, not a race, but every audience was amazing and so worth it. It was so fun to see all the creative costumes in the audience!

    #yyc #yeg #yycarts #yegarts #lotr

  18. Q: Why Were Arnor And Gondor Separate After Isildur Died?

    ANSWER: I received the following question from a reader in November 2025:

    Why were Armor and Gondor sundered after Isildur’s death, if long-range communications with the Palàntiri was a thing?

    Technically, the realm of Elendil persisted until Third Age year 861, when Amlaith and his two (unnamed) brothers divided Arnor into three […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-were-arnor-and-gondor-separate-after-isildur-died/
  19. I’d Visit the Shire Tomorrow. Mordor Can Keep Its Property Values.
    What’s a movie or book that inspired you to travel? When people ask what movie made me want to travel, the answer is easy. It’s The Lord of the Rings. Not because I want to dodge Orcs, get stabbed by Ringwraiths, or
    #adventure #dailyprompt #Dailyprompt2828 #hobbits #LordOfTheRings #lotr #nature #NewZealand #scenery #Travel

    Read The Whole Post By Clicking The Link Below:
    ericfoltin.com/2026/07/20/id-v

  20. A pencil portrait of Pippin! Say that three times fast. I used to do a lot of Lord of the Rings subjects, both from film and book sources. Some of my earliest sales at science fiction conventions back in the 1970's were of Lord of the Rings fan art. #lotr #lordoftherings #pippin #billyboyd

  21. Probably going to delete this, but if you want to hear what kind of music I was working on ten years ago, here's a cover I did of Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye from The Hobbit soundtrack.

    I've been deleting my tracks off of Soundcloud and wanted to share this track one last time, even tho it's kind of cringe-y and I hear all the mistakes. But it's also kind of nice to hear how much I've improved since then.

    #OldMusic #MusicMonday #TheHobbit #TheLastGoodbye #LOTR #NewMusic #CoverSong #dulcimer

  22. [caption id="attachment_17070" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Why did Amlaith of Fornost agree to divide the kingdom of Arnor with his brothers? Was he acting out of weakness or strength? Here is what we know.[/caption]

    The conflicts between various Númenorean factions can be portrayed as clashes between conservative and liberal elements. Is there sufficient evidence to deduce what went […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/politics-just-politics/

  23. [caption id="attachment_16034" align="aligncenter" width="720"] The history of Arnor is complicated and challenging. Home of the original High Kings descended from Elendil, Arnor eventually declined into division and diminished royalty until Aragorn restored the House of Elendil. Why did the kingdom and its successor states fail? Here is an essay originally published on MERP.COM that explores […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/waiting-for-a-king-like-you/

  24. [caption id="attachment_14561" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien disagree on many details about how Middle-earth’s cultures should have looked and operated. But J.R.R. Tolkien was clear about how the cultures mingled over time. Here is what we know.[/caption]

    Q: Were There Any Cultural Melting Pots In Middle-earth?

    ANSWER: Yes. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about numerous […]

    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/were-there-any-cultural-melting-pots-in-middle-earth/

  25. “There flowered a WHITE TREE, and that was for GONDOR; but SEVEN STARS were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil
    that no lord had borne for years beyond count. And the Stars flamed in the sunlight, for they were wrought of gems by ARWEN, DAUGHTER OF ELROND; and the crown was bright in the
    morning for it was wrought of mithril and gold…”

    Digging our #new #household #flag #gondor #lotr #nerds

  26. @5ciFiGirl Yes! It’s so good! ❤️

    Did you see the behind-the-scenes video of how he made the song? They put in so much work!

    #LOTR #Tolkien #BillyBoyd #Music #Soundtrack #LordOfTheRings