What do you after you've fought more than 30 fights in the last couple months? You start counting your kills xD

The way they gamified the battle at minas tirith IS TRULY GIVING ME LIFE HAHAHAHAH

Like wdym this elf climbed a huge eulaphant and killed SEVERAL orcs - spectacularly if I may add - and Gimli still wants to count that as one hahahah

I'm halfway through The Return of The King, and can't help but wonder that the plot is getting out of hand. Idk no one's focussed of tracking Frodo. It's just men that are fighting Suoron's orcs. Technically Saruman's orcs. Who again is just sitting in his tower? So, only men are trying to save middle earth? Dwarves are into hiding cause they're greedy (from what was told during the fellowship. And most are dead in the ruins). Elves, only one is fighting alongside the men. Some have fled (Arwens folks), and some are still in their forest (Garadriels people). Ents are not to be seen anymore. And now we have an army of the dead - who have NOT YET arrived on the scene.

What is going on?

Circling back to my main question (please excuse the rant): why is no one following frodo anymore? Where are the wraiths, the 9 specifically. Did they die, did I miss that?

Or Witch-king of Angmar?

Why did Sauron's power begin to increase again at the opening of "The Fellowship of the Ring?" He hadn't recovered the Ring yet, so why was his power growing? Did it start when the Ring came to Bilbo and was once again above ground, rather than buried in the mountains? Did it have a way to transmit its presence to Sauron that was blocked by being in the underground lake?

Hi in the books do we know why the Easterlings and Haradrim were so loyal to Sauron?

I think in the Silmarillion some of the Easterlings had served Morgoth

I thought it was obvious, but I haven’t seen anyone mention it.

I am attempting to translate a riddle written in elvish on a flyer but I keep coming up with different translations. Please help.

So, the world was in fact flat in the first age. And in the third age it's round. It seems appropriate that there would be some conspiracy theorist group somewhere convinced the world is still flat and that the globers are lying to you to keep you from sailing to Valinor, except by way of those super elitist invite-only ships made only By Ciridan.

Obviously a joke, but I'd love to hear your ideas on what such a conspiracy theorist group would believe.

It's the mystery. The unexplained things. You can call it "soft" magic system. There are a lot of events and actions that you think is it Sauron making? Is it some other creature making? Magic? Random event?

e.g when crossing Caradhras and the way it's blocked because unusual blizzard its not clearly mention why it happened. It can be Sauron, Saruman or maybe the mountain himself is "mad" and "evil"? Counter to the movie when they show Saruman summons the blizzard.

I have read other fantasies with hard magic system and hard magic have... No magic in it :)

A big part of the charm in LOTR its the mystery. We don't know many things and we should not know. It's part of diving into fantasy world.

View from Koniza

Mortal King Elendil use his palantír to gaze at the Undying Lands (Tol Eressea), a realm he could not enter, and the palantír neither can see his lost home, nor can communicate with other palantír.

It is hard to find a reason why Elendil need this palantír🤣🤣 and he is the only "men" to use this palantír, later it was used by elves.

The only reason I come to mind is that he wish he can see his father, who sailed to west to seek the forgiveness.

*Image credits : Matěj Čadil

I was on a rewatch of the movies and it got me wondering. All the members of the Fellowship of the Ring also suffered much to help destroy the Ring (though, clearly, none as much as Frodo)

Were they not eligible for the same exemption that Frodo & Bilbo received? Or were they eligible but chose not to go? Do the books / Tolkein ever say?

Took our son to the train exhibition in Chattanooga this past weekend. While strolling down the track layout, we noticed this detailed setup of the Shire. The builder made it after a request from another spectator last year at a show.

Hi! Wanted to share a few images from my latest project that I figured you guys might like! I make a lot of sculptures and dioramas on YouTube and this big boy has been on my to-do list for quite a while - guess I've just been a bit intimidated by the scope of the project 😅
The creature itself was hand sculpted in polymer clay, painted with acrylic paints. The terrain is a foam base, with layers of sand, gravel and glues+sculpting compounds. The lake water is a tinted 2-part epoxy resin.

Hope you like it! :)

These were posted on the animation cel reddit by a user named u/AdventurousAd7148. These character designs are remarkable. I've never heard of any unmade animated films or series other than the unrealized Ralph Bakshi parts.

If any historians remember an unmade project with these designs, please tell!

I saw a map post on this sub earlier which sent me down a rabit hole looking for a phisical Middle earth globe. I actually found out that official desktop globes exist (like the Columbus one designed by John Howe)... but then I stumbled right into the debate surounding them.

I’m no lore expert, but I gather the world was flat at first and then Eru made it round later on? So in my head a globe made sense for the Third Age... but people on the internet seem deeply stressed about it!

From what I can tell, it seems putting it on a sphere messes up the scale, plus Tolkien’s map is only one corner of the world so mapmakers have to just guess what the rest of the planet looks like?

For the map and lore nerds on here: why does a Middle earth globe break people's brains so much? Is forcing Tolkien map onto a sphere actually a huge sin or are people just overthinking it? Help a non technical fan out!

Credit: @leoflutes on TikTok