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Laura Michel @aislings.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober Day 7: Ósanwë.

Though you are long gone,
I treasure memories of
Hearts and minds touching.

#Tolkientober2025 #Haiku #Tolkientrewsday

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Erin @chandlerin.bsky.social · 2d

Fresh-from-the-oven ficlet for #Tolkientober Day 6: Seafarers
I thought, "Okay, this could be about Galadriel and Halbrand on the raft or it could be about Numenor," and then I thought, "fuck it, it's both."
#tolkientober2025
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Raquel ⚔️ TROP era 💍 @raquelnekro.bsky.social · 2d

#Tolkientober

Day 6: Elrond 🌿

#tolkientober #inktober #elrond #peredhel #trop #inks #traditionalart

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Myrs @myrsinemezzo.bsky.social · 2d

Sticks of Power gets a bit meta with yesterday’s #Tolkientober prompt #3 Hope, and nothing gave me hope like Arondir and Bronwyn’s ill-fated love. Miss you, love you original otp 😭

Stick figure Arondir holding hands beneath a tree with stick figure Bronwyn. Hearts surround them. A stick figure artist watches them on the tv screen box crying while an arrow points to the artist that says “Myrs w/ her feels”

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Myrs @myrsinemezzo.bsky.social · 2d

So what if Halbrand did actually somehow whip out that armor for Galadriel in Númenor? Sticks of Power continues with #Tolkientober Day 4 “Armor”

Stick figure Halbrand Sauron gestures behind him to plate armor with a star on the front. He says “I made sure it had a Féanorian star!” Galadriel looks at with a frustrated stick figure face and the thought bubble that reads “…seriously?…”

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Myrs @myrsinemezzo.bsky.social · 2d

Behind but catching up on Sticks of Power! #Tolkientober - Day #3 Crown with some trouble in not-quite paradise for Halbrand Sauron and Galadriel

Stick figure Halbrand Sauron saying “I alone can see your greatness” while stick figure Galadriel looks down from the raft onto the reflection of them wearing crowns. Her thought bubble reads “Then why is your crown bigger than mine?!”

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Derek Barrantes @molluskshell.bsky.social · 2d

#Tolkientober Day 6: Seafarers

“The sea is always right.”

Elendil the Tall, a mariner and seafarer like most Númenóreans but also the man who would lead the Faithful to the shores of Middle Earth.

A colored illustration of Elendil in Númenórean seafarer attire.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 2d

#Tolkientober day 6: seafarers

“Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Andiun and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship had passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring.”

A watercolor painting of a calm sea reflecting a fiery sunset, with the white sails of a small ship shining near the horizon

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Robin Propst @robinpropst.bsky.social · 2d

Tolkientober: Seafarers
- Círdan beholding the blessed shore at last
#Tolkientober
#Tolkien

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Reflective Rambling / Nalana / Cassie @reflectiverambling.bsky.social · 3d

Day 5 of #tolkientober "Hope"
"Estel" the name given to Aragorn by his foster father means hope...and I feel like this moment really captured that feeling for my beloved Pelargir,the war,and for the cursed as well to finally having the chance to fulfill their oath.
#fanart #tolkien #aragorn #lotr

grayscale figure against a green background and highlights of a man in cape trying to draw sword. Long hair. shadowy slightly humanoid and armored forms of warriors.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober day 4: hope

The Phial of Galadriel, the light of Ëarendil Gil-Estel, the star of hope

May it be a light to you in dark places

A watercolor painting of a phial of glass and ornate silver, shining into an indigo blue background within an oval border of green leaves and small golden flowers

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Laura Michel @aislings.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! ^^

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober

Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

Hope: Adar extends the ring to her on his palm and her fingers close over it, brushing his skin, the dancing light of his fëa, stirred to the surface, but always, she understands now, present, and hers, tested in its own way, and the ring between them, a promise. A lasting peace. A lasting hope.

Tolkientober prompt calendar day 5: hope

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Gnome Scarf @gnomescarf.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober

Hope

Aragorn closing his eyes and holding up Narsil to his chest

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

Armor: Elrond exchanges his robes for armor, and she finds she does not very much like the shift. Not so long ago, she had accused him of playing courtier, of not knowing evil as she has known it. But she does not, in the end, wish for him to. A sword in his hand where a pen should be.
#Tolkientober

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober

Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

Creation: The ring on her finger whispers as it slips back into place—a quiet, tinkling murmur, like the hush of a river. Nenya, a creation made to save her kind, perhaps his, all kinds of Middle-earth. Visions of peace dance for the first time in her mind. That too, a creation entirely new.

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

Gardens:

The scent of flowers floating on the wind awakens memories long-buried by ash, dust, sand—blood. Her hair had caught the golden light of the lanterns as she’d spun and laughed. A garden. A glade. She’d been dancing. And there had been the scent of flowers on the wind.

#Tolkientober

Tolkientober prompt calendar day 2: gardens

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Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober #Tolkientober2025

Galadriel @lady-of-the-light.bsky.social · 3d

Creation: The ring on her finger whispers as it slips back into place—a quiet, tinkling murmur, like the hush of a river. Nenya, a creation made to save her kind, perhaps his, all kinds of Middle-earth. Visions of peace dance for the first time in her mind. That too, a creation entirely new.

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lyblacktea.bsky.social @lyblacktea.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober Day 5: Hope

For this prompt I could only think of the most truly hopeful scene in all Tolkien adaptations for me🖤🤍

P.S: Inspired by "The Swan" by Hilma af Klint✨

#Adar #Galadriel

Colour illustration (in browns, blacks and blues) of Adar and Galadriel standing in front of each other with a hand extended. Adar has Nenya on the palm of his hand and is offering it to Galadriel, who hesitantly extends her hand to take it.

The scene is split in two halves by the tone of the background, very dark behind Galadriel and very bright behind Adar, so Galadriel's figure is silhouetted against the dark background, and Adar's is silhouetted against the light background.

There is a halo of blue light around Nenya, also enveloping their outstretched hands.

There are forms of trees and roots in both backgrounds, white in Adar's half and black in Galadriel's one.

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Raquel ⚔️ TROP era 💍 @raquelnekro.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober

Day 5: Gil-Galad 👑

#tolkientober #inktober #gilgalad #trop #inks #traditionalart

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Child of Twilight Art @lomionart.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober - Day 5: Hope

A little Maeglin collects fireflies in Nan Elmoth. We all start out hopeful after all, before we become jaded 😭

(NB repost of one of my old #Tolkientuesday works)

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Bladorthin le Barde @bladorthin.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober
Jour 5: ESPOIR

"Par monts brumeux, cimes glacées
Jusqu'aux cavernes désolées
La harpe et l'or avant l'aurore
Il faut partir lui réclamer."

Hobbit, I

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEP...

Le Hobbit : Par monts brumeux (chanson des Nains)

YouTube video by Bladorthin & Niphredil

www.youtube.com

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Gnome Scarf @gnomescarf.bsky.social · 3d

#Tolkientober

Armor

Bilbo wearing a helmet and scale mail armor that's too big for him

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Erin @chandlerin.bsky.social · 3d

A little vignette for #Tolkientober Day 5: Hope
"That, then, was where Galadriel felt her hope die: where the stones of Sauron’s fortress lay scattered under the stars."
#tolkientober2025
www.tumblr.com/lilyhandmaid...

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MADIlusttra @madilusttra.bsky.social · 3d

#TOLKIENTOBER Day 4.... I don't want to paint it, I don't want to paint it, I don't want to paint it...

#Tolkientober2025

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