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The Wonder of Tolkien

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Swept up in the beauty, depth & wonder of Middle-earth. Joyfully sharing all things Tolkien 📚 Hopeful because of Jesus ⚡️ YouTube channel: youtube.com/@TolkienWonder

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 6h

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 19h

love this

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 23h

Why use CGI when you can toss flaming rocks?
Pretty sure they had different safety standards back then. Got to love it.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Tolkien has officially been upgraded from Author of the Century to Author of the Millennium. Sources say it was inevitable.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Deleted Scene: Gandalf teaching Frodo Sindarin.

Reminder: there’s still hundreds of hours of unseen footage in a vault !!

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 2d

There will never be a greater set of movies than LOTR - not even close.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 3d

Friends: What's your retirement plan?
Me:

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

Always glad to point people to your amazing book friend!

The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

The Worlds of JRR Tolkien
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The Letters of JRR Tolkien
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Pity Power & Tolkien's Ring
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The Fantasy of JRR Tolkien
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Tolkien & the Great War
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

Tolkien and the Great War
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

The Fantasy of JRR Tolkien
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

Pity Power and Tolkien's Ring
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

FIVE Tolkien books you should read!
They will expand your view of Middle-earth, encourage your heart and help you learn more about Tolkien's life.

Links below to all of them 📚👇

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

"Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth."

- Tolkien, RotK

The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 4d

Tolkien and Lewis: our home aesthetic.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 5d

Inside these pages is a world that feels wholly strange and yet familiar, new and yet ancient, distant and yet ever so near.

The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 5d

This is my favorite set of LOTR - and it looks like they are doing a reprint (with it being available October 14th). Amazing art by Alan Lee and thick paper!

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The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by Alan Lee Box Set: Illustrated by Alan Lee

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 5d

Just finished The Two Towers and now onto RotK. This is my third time through the books and I am constantly amazed at the way it makes me feel like I am reading it for the first time. Fresh wonder and awe, what a treat!

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 6d

“Frodo undertook his quest out of love – to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could; and also in complete humility, acknowledging that he was wholly inadequate to the task.”

- Tolkien, Letter 246

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe when people online say ‘go touch grass,’ what they really mean is: go read Tolkien and wander the green hills of the Shire or the hidden valley of Rivendell.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 7d

The Ring
by Nia Kovalevski

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 7d

Had to complete our set. Though LEGO retired these, we were glad we could still find them.

The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 8d

This is talked about less than it should be - but Tolkien and Lewis were amazing and timeless writers because they were fervent readers of good books and literature.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 8d

Why not read Tolkien and have a slice of apple pie at 10pm? Isn’t this adulting at his highest form?

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 8d

If you didn't know, Tolkien was an amazing artist with a wild visual imagination. Here are 31 high-resolution pieces from his hand!

Tolkien, The Artist

Over 30 stunning pieces from the Professor

www.christopherstites.com

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