Everyone does not, the haters are just loooooud 😅 I'm with you tho, so many more interesting stories in the legendarium to pull from. I think Serkis just wanted to play Gollum again. I truly don't mean to be ageist, but it seemed like the role tested his body to its limits 25 yrs ago...& directing?!
January 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Everyone does not, the haters are just loooooud 😅 I'm with you tho, so many more interesting stories in the legendarium to pull from. I think Serkis just wanted to play Gollum again. I truly don't mean to be ageist, but it seemed like the role tested his body to its limits 25 yrs ago...& directing?!
Very enjoyable to stumble across the fairy tale elements that get sanded down in Tolkien's later legendarium and in the Jackson portrayal. Talking purses, animal waiters, the King of All Birds, Were-worms.
January 11, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Very enjoyable to stumble across the fairy tale elements that get sanded down in Tolkien's later legendarium and in the Jackson portrayal. Talking purses, animal waiters, the King of All Birds, Were-worms.
The Silmarillion Book Review Exploring Tolkien’s Epic Legendarium Through Personal Reflection https://ken-saunders.com/the-silmarillion-book-review
The Silmarillion Book Review: Exploring Tolkien’s Epic World
Discover The Silmarillion book review, a personal reflection on Tolkien’s epic legendarium that reveals the beauty of its intricate mythology.
ken-saunders.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:46 AM
The Silmarillion Book Review Exploring Tolkien’s Epic Legendarium Through Personal Reflection https://ken-saunders.com/the-silmarillion-book-review
I’m picturing this in my head & this game franchise is the ideal way to have all the characters of the legendarium while also breaking away from the movie aesthetics. Gimme Three Kingdoms & Sengoku style Toei renderings.
January 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I’m picturing this in my head & this game franchise is the ideal way to have all the characters of the legendarium while also breaking away from the movie aesthetics. Gimme Three Kingdoms & Sengoku style Toei renderings.
Starting a tactical startup named after the most fearsome weapon in Tolkien’s legendarium:
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins’ Umbrella
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins’ Umbrella
January 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Starting a tactical startup named after the most fearsome weapon in Tolkien’s legendarium:
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins’ Umbrella
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins’ Umbrella
(I've never been good at directly asking for help/things so apparently, as a very small child, I said to my grandmother, "I had a cookie in this house once." and it immediately entered the family legendarium.)
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
(I've never been good at directly asking for help/things so apparently, as a very small child, I said to my grandmother, "I had a cookie in this house once." and it immediately entered the family legendarium.)
Lower in relative terms, yes, but I think that still makes them powerful compared to human workers. Is there any description in the legendarium of elves performing manual work? Baking lembas, weaving cloth, twining rope, yes, but all enhanced with what hobbits see as magic.
January 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Lower in relative terms, yes, but I think that still makes them powerful compared to human workers. Is there any description in the legendarium of elves performing manual work? Baking lembas, weaving cloth, twining rope, yes, but all enhanced with what hobbits see as magic.
I am considering making my novels an open legendarium setting that fans or other authors are welcome to write stories for. Does anyone have any advice for the nuts and bolts of this and how I can still make a living on these if there’s not a copyright?
January 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I am considering making my novels an open legendarium setting that fans or other authors are welcome to write stories for. Does anyone have any advice for the nuts and bolts of this and how I can still make a living on these if there’s not a copyright?
Ex: Not caring for "Tolkien's legendarium" because they are what is "insisted" by the masses as the standard for how the world building and story writing of a fantasy epic should be constructed.
January 8, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Ex: Not caring for "Tolkien's legendarium" because they are what is "insisted" by the masses as the standard for how the world building and story writing of a fantasy epic should be constructed.
...not only that the guaranteed "happy ending" comes only by way of the cross - but that it lies "beyond the walls of the world". Eucatastrophe within mortal life cannot be relied on to occur (and often doesn't, looking at Tolkien's broader legendarium).
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
...not only that the guaranteed "happy ending" comes only by way of the cross - but that it lies "beyond the walls of the world". Eucatastrophe within mortal life cannot be relied on to occur (and often doesn't, looking at Tolkien's broader legendarium).
Hello hello @legendarium.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Hello hello @legendarium.bsky.social
I have no familiarity with Frieren and thus no criticism of it, but yeah, that's not a subversion of Tolkien, it's like his number one Big Thought about his whole legendarium.
January 7, 2026 at 3:11 AM
I have no familiarity with Frieren and thus no criticism of it, but yeah, that's not a subversion of Tolkien, it's like his number one Big Thought about his whole legendarium.
I will now be taking questions on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and Tolkien's overall legendarium.
January 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I will now be taking questions on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and Tolkien's overall legendarium.
I'm the biggest Middle-Earth fan of all, but sad-to-say, homeboy had plenty of his own unquestioned biases against brown and black and gay people, and he based his legendarium in part on the historical conflict between Constantinople and the Caliphates, which is the A-#1-cause-celebre of fascism.
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
www.independent.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I'm the biggest Middle-Earth fan of all, but sad-to-say, homeboy had plenty of his own unquestioned biases against brown and black and gay people, and he based his legendarium in part on the historical conflict between Constantinople and the Caliphates, which is the A-#1-cause-celebre of fascism.
The War of the Rohirrim is not without its flaws, but in retrospect props to it for adapting a minor Legendarium story, expanding on a female character given little canon narrative, and not relying heavily on returning actors
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The War of the Rohirrim is not without its flaws, but in retrospect props to it for adapting a minor Legendarium story, expanding on a female character given little canon narrative, and not relying heavily on returning actors
Snakk med meg om:
-Tolkiens legendarium
-klimavitenskap og klimamodellering
-akvarellmaling
-snodig (herre)mote
-vitenskapsfilosofi
-kvantemekanikk
-rare sykdommer jeg har lest om på Wikipedia
-Tolkiens legendarium
-klimavitenskap og klimamodellering
-akvarellmaling
-snodig (herre)mote
-vitenskapsfilosofi
-kvantemekanikk
-rare sykdommer jeg har lest om på Wikipedia
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
January 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Snakk med meg om:
-Tolkiens legendarium
-klimavitenskap og klimamodellering
-akvarellmaling
-snodig (herre)mote
-vitenskapsfilosofi
-kvantemekanikk
-rare sykdommer jeg har lest om på Wikipedia
-Tolkiens legendarium
-klimavitenskap og klimamodellering
-akvarellmaling
-snodig (herre)mote
-vitenskapsfilosofi
-kvantemekanikk
-rare sykdommer jeg har lest om på Wikipedia
it's not JRR's fault (well...), but, sorry: the underpinnings of all Middle Earth Legendarium are reliant on 20th c ethnonationalist understandings of race and nationality (which go pretty nice with fascism). you can't invent Orcs without this being the case.
Because they are stupid.
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
January 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
it's not JRR's fault (well...), but, sorry: the underpinnings of all Middle Earth Legendarium are reliant on 20th c ethnonationalist understandings of race and nationality (which go pretty nice with fascism). you can't invent Orcs without this being the case.
- gardening
- linguistics
- Tolkien’s legendarium
- Homestuck (lmao)
- fiber crafts (man I miss knitting)
- linguistics
- Tolkien’s legendarium
- Homestuck (lmao)
- fiber crafts (man I miss knitting)
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
January 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
- gardening
- linguistics
- Tolkien’s legendarium
- Homestuck (lmao)
- fiber crafts (man I miss knitting)
- linguistics
- Tolkien’s legendarium
- Homestuck (lmao)
- fiber crafts (man I miss knitting)
Just like how aspects of Tolkien's life bled to his works (especially Middle-earth legendarium), his diaries blended his personal fear, happiness, amusement, sadness, intellectual interests, and comments on mundane things. 4/12
January 6, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Just like how aspects of Tolkien's life bled to his works (especially Middle-earth legendarium), his diaries blended his personal fear, happiness, amusement, sadness, intellectual interests, and comments on mundane things. 4/12
#News #Legendarium #Tolkienverse | Sir #IanMcKellen y #ElijahWood se reencontrarán como #Gandalf y #Frodo en
' #ElSeñordelosAnillosLaCazaDeGollum ' La producción comenzará en mayo.
Fuente: @DiscussingFilm, @Gollumgram (x.com/DiscussingFi...)
' #ElSeñordelosAnillosLaCazaDeGollum ' La producción comenzará en mayo.
Fuente: @DiscussingFilm, @Gollumgram (x.com/DiscussingFi...)
January 6, 2026 at 3:32 AM
#News #Legendarium #Tolkienverse | Sir #IanMcKellen y #ElijahWood se reencontrarán como #Gandalf y #Frodo en
' #ElSeñordelosAnillosLaCazaDeGollum ' La producción comenzará en mayo.
Fuente: @DiscussingFilm, @Gollumgram (x.com/DiscussingFi...)
' #ElSeñordelosAnillosLaCazaDeGollum ' La producción comenzará en mayo.
Fuente: @DiscussingFilm, @Gollumgram (x.com/DiscussingFi...)
a good summary of the tolkien legendarium is "the valar are really bad at their job"
January 6, 2026 at 12:11 AM
a good summary of the tolkien legendarium is "the valar are really bad at their job"
The Silmarillion Book Review Exploring Tolkien’s Epic Legendarium Through Personal Reflection https://ken-saunders.com/the-silmarillion-book-review
The Silmarillion Book Review: Exploring Tolkien’s Epic World
Discover The Silmarillion book review, a personal reflection on Tolkien’s epic legendarium that reveals the beauty of its intricate mythology.
ken-saunders.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
The Silmarillion Book Review Exploring Tolkien’s Epic Legendarium Through Personal Reflection https://ken-saunders.com/the-silmarillion-book-review
Tolkien fans be like "I love Nimloth the Fair I think she and her descendants represent the rise and fall of humanity in the legendarium and their ability to rise again no matter how many times they fall." and Nimloth the Fair is a tree.
January 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Tolkien fans be like "I love Nimloth the Fair I think she and her descendants represent the rise and fall of humanity in the legendarium and their ability to rise again no matter how many times they fall." and Nimloth the Fair is a tree.
Happy 134th birthday, dear Tolkien. Forever grateful for his words & legendarium.
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Happy 134th birthday, dear Tolkien. Forever grateful for his words & legendarium.