I Was A Hobbit For Halloween With A Flower Crown And It Was Very Fun :)

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Celedriel Week Will Run From: April 6-12, 2025

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BRO THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING TOO

THE RINGS OF POWER: 2.05 — Halls of Stone

The way I am literally eating a yummy potato soup right now is INSANE

i love how you can feel the nutrients entering your body when you eat a really good soup

Currently resisting the urge to eat a little Debbie with a fork rn

Me fr ❤️❤️ I love both.

I have great respect for Tolkien fandom members who are Silmarillion fans and well-versed in Middle-earth lore, but are ALSO Rings of Power fans (or at least tolerant if not supportive of those who are).

Your love for Tolkien is deep, your heart is welcoming and generous, and your imagination is wide open.

I admire you, and I cannot believe there are people who would imply you are "not real fans".

I may tag specific Moots who fall under this category. Please give a shout out too if you know any. ❤️

Kind as summer, gender-bent Luthien in physical description.

Okay Tolkien fans name your favourite character without giving their name.

I'll start: Has such bad daddy issues that he fell for an obvious lie, ended up dangling by his wrist for a long while, then made a someone turn into a bird over some jewellery. Oh! and Kidnapping. Can't forget the kidnapping.

Little bunnies high in the sky

Are safe from emails and jargon.

Little bunnies flying high,

Probably don't know the element argon.

Little bunnies up in the stars

Dreaming and leaping with joy.

Little bunnies looking from afar

And have no fear of employ.

All credits to the artist @schinako

Read The Hobbit, starting reading lotr now, read the Silmarillion, starting reading the Book of Lost Tales now, and have watched all Hobbit movies, LotR movies, and RoP show.

KOTLC AND TOLKIEN'S LEGENDARIUM: READERSHIP OVERLAP

I've been feeling curious about how much overlap there is between the readership of these works, because I've seen several KOTLC people posting legendarium-related things recently (and I myself suspect that some elements of KOTLC were inspired by it, and thus find these elements interesting). So, if you could humour me and answer the question below:

Read the options CAREFULLY and vote whichever option FITS YOU BEST (I think I've covered most if not all). If you're confused about the options, the relevant information is below the poll. Also, I'd love it if you could tell me what you voted in the tags!

So without further ado:

REMINDER: If you have NOT read KOTLC (Keeper of the Lost Cities), then PLEASE do not vote.

Please REBLOG for larger sample size! Because I really am quite curious :)

If you are confused about any of these options, please read the explanations below:

If you've watched AND read some of these, please don't select the watch-only option :)

The definition of READ here (for everything but HoME where a dedicated skim or half the book counts) is if you've read the text IN ITS ENTIRETY or closely enough that it may as well be so (leaving this one up to your judgement but as a rule, let's say about 80% to 90% and with skipping only non-essential bits (LOTR prologue and appendices, geography chapter etc -- again, these may seem essential to you, but these are the ones most people seem to skip/skim)).

Also, although I doubt this will actually be a cause of debate, audiobooks count. They always count.

(rest of the explanation under cut if needed)

You do not have to have read all the Great Tales either; having read only one or a few counts.

The osmosis/pop culture option is for things like 'I mean I've watched 'They're taking the hobbits to Isengard' and/or 'I have an irl friend or beloved mutual or person I follow who's read the books/watched the movies and talks about them a lot'.

For ONLY WATCHED, fan-films and fan-adaptations (such as the many Silm-related rock operas) count.

Silm refers to The Silmarillion (1977), as in the published text only.

The Great Tales refers to The Children of Húrin (2007), Beren and Lúthien (2017) and The Fall of Gondolin (2018). For the purposes of this poll it also includes The Fall of Númenor (2022)

HoME refers to The Histories of Middle-earth (1983-1996). For the purposes of this poll, it also includes Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (1980) and The Nature of Middle-earth (2021) and (though this one's iffy) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981); if you've read Letters but not any of Silm/Great Tales/other HoME, just vote for the LOTR and/or Hobbit option.