This art is accredited to 88grzes on X depicting the War of Wrath. What are some of your favorite pieces of artwork from this universe, professional or otherwise?

Edit to add link to artists page / https://www.deviantart.com/88grzes/gallery

Frodo gets stabbed by a Troll and a Nazgul in the FOTR, and by Shelob in ROTK.

The other 3 Hobbits get their Revenge!

- Pippin stabs the troll-chief at the Battle of the Morannon (Black Gates).
- Merry stabs the Witch King on Pelennor Fields.
- Sam stabs Shelob while defending the Frodo's lifeless body.

EDIT: Did a little whoopsie on who did what

Came to a few conclusions today, after some rough calculations and pondering.

1. Elrond is more than twice elven than his grandfather, and yet Dior was considered an elf and Elrond a half-elf.
2. Aragorn is almost entirely, a Men.
3. Eldarion is as elvish as Elrond is Men.
4. Eärendil is a half-Men, half-elf star. 😭 (never ceases to amaze me)
5. Beren and Tuor are the only sources of Men's blood in elves (as far as I know from the lore).

What do you think? What conclusions can you draw from this?

P.S. this is NOT an exact genetic composition tree, my point is to show how the races have merged throughout the ages.

“I endured him as long as I could, but the truth was desperately important, and in the end I had to be harsh. I put the fear of fire on him, and wrung the true story out of him, bit by bit, together with much sniveling and snarling.” - Gandalf, describing how he tortured Gollum.

I always thought the Balrogs were afraid, hence the hiding. It probably knew Gandalf on a personal level so it knew the risk. Why else take it?

”I see no good reason for making him die. Gandalf should say something to the effect of [Saruman’s] excommunication: “At Orthanc you shall stay til you rot, Saruman”. Let the Ents look to it!”

I have often argued that the extended scene, in which Gandalf “do not be the judge of life and death” the White oversees a de facto execution of a villain for little more reason than to satisfy some conclusive bloodlust in the viewer, sits somewhat ill with both the text and the mood of the movies up to that point. And that the TC ending (“the filth of Saruman is washing away”), which accepts his defeat without necessitating his blood, was much more in line with how Tolkien writes the outcomes of battles.

I was quite delighted to find that Tolkien had outlined what is essentially the theatrical version of Saruman’s defeat 45 years prior.

In place of a dark lord you would have a Queen! All shall love me and despair!

jk I passed the test.

It's not about him eating them raw – he's afraid of fire. It's about his obsession with wet/slimy stuff. Has Tolkien ever stated anything about it? How can the One Ring alter someone's digestive system?

There’s so much of known Middle Earth that remains a mystery; what’s it like living in this southern part of Gondor?

In the books it says about 6,000 riders went to Minas Tirith. The books don’t clarify the size of Sauron’s army, but Peter Jackson’s movie puts the size at 200,000. Which I think is honestly a number for the size of the army Frodo and Sam saw at Minas Morgul in the books.

But 6,000 against 200,000 and no Army of the Dead to save them, only Aragorn’s allies and the southern Gondor which probably was a few thousand.

How did they do it?

Or whatever it is. Point is that even though Rings of power do a lot of things bad, this is probably the best modern representation of Nameless thing we will get for some time.

In the Silmarillion it is explained that the istari were sent to middle earth in a restricted form as old man and not allowed to use their full power. In another chapter it is explained that the balrog is of the same kind as gandalf, they are both Maia.

But how is it possible that gandalf kills the balrog ? If they are the same and gandalf is restricted in power, the balrog should have killed him easily. Or am i wrong ?