Listening to the #LOTR audiobook, and here's the the Council of Elrond. Can't help but think this chapter is to blame for how much nerds like having meetings.

LORD OF THE RINGS - on the stage #LOTR

This Summer at @WatermillTh . It’s going to be amazing!

Tickets 🎟 now on sale to Friends

Become a friend, here: https://www.watermill.org.uk/the_friends_of_the_watermill

#theatre #Ramadan #farming

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Maybe it’s time for another hashtag drop:
#StarWars #DoctorWho #DnD #SuperWhoLock #Buffy #Firefly #LOTR #Discworld

Maybe it’s time for another hashtag drop:
#StarWars #DoctorWho #D&D #SuperWhoLock #Buffy #Firefly #LOTR #Discworld

One of the enduring mysteries from #LordOfTheRings is the nature of #TomBombadil. I won't recap that mystery here, because there's plenty already out there you can read:
- https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
- https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Theories_about_Tom_Bombadil

My own theory is that Tom Bombadil was necessary for the creation of Middle-earth, and he's just stuck around since then. The purpose of Middle-earth was to be where Elves and Men, the Children of Eru Illúvatar, lived. The world was made *for* them. But the creation of Middle-earth required the work of the Ainur and took time, and the Elves didn't awaken until well into the Years of the Trees, and Men even later, many thousands of years after Middle-earth's creation.

Tom's remarks indicate that he predates pretty much everything. He remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. And he is also known by the title Master, with the implication that he's master of everything.

My theory is that Tom Bombadil's role is just that: Master. In the first days, there weren't any Elves or Men, so there was no one for Middle-earth to be *for*, or to be its master. But the world was meant to be for someone, so until the Elves came along, Tom got to be who the world was for. That let the world be for someone, so the fundamental nature of the world didn't have to change when Elves and Men came along. Tom Bombadil was a placeholder – a part of the construction scaffolding that Eru Illúvatar used to create Middle-earth. Eru Illúvatar made Tom before anything else, so that the rest of the world would make sense, at least until the other Children could fill that role. He doesn't fit into any other boxes because he is unique, and he is unique because he was made to fill a unique purpose.

There isn't much in the canon to back up my theory specifically, but I believe it is consistent with canon and even JRRT's non-canon lore.

#JRRT #LOTR #FanTheory

Random #LOTR question: Why did #JRRT never mention a weapon made from #mithril? Mithril was used to make armor, helmets, and gates - all defensive things. Even the ring Nenya was created to preserve, not to destroy. Do you think there's something about the nature of mithril that makes it unsuitable as a weapon? I don't like the idea of assuming those weapons existed but Tolkien never mentioned them, so I have to think it was intentional, and therefore it means something. But what?

#StarTrek #Tamarian #LOTR

#Autism #Autistic #LOTR How are you doing?

RT @InstitutILIADE: #Tolkien #LOTR
Le lien entre la Terre du Milieu et notre monde est fait, et nous pouvons quitter le sentier avec une conscience renouvelée du caractère profondément mythique de l’œuvre de ce « barde anglo-saxon ».
https://institut-iliade.com/parution-tolkien-leurope-et-la-tradition/

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