Today is Trewsday, the 4th day of Astron by Shire-reckoning.

#Hobbits

Today is Monday, the 3rd day of Astron by Shire-reckoning.

#Hobbits

Time for second breakfast.

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« The Stone Trolls », 1999

by Alan Lee (British painter and illustrator, born 1947)
Watercolor illustration from JRR Tolkien 's "The Lord of the Rings", 1999

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RE: https://toot.wales/@thehubble101/115944717837085499

The 'Age of Men' is not going well ... last few days to read my essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' for free at Speculative Insight. If you're in the BSFA, please remember the voting deadline is 23.59 GMT on 19 February.
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@rootkat/116022639318339024

Ok y'all with the "Why didn't the Eagles just fly to Mordor?" bit:
1. The Eagles are sentient, divine-adjacent beings — not Middle-earth Uber.
They serve Manwë, King of the Valar (the angelic powers who shaped Arda; the world Middle-Earth is in the middle of...). Not Gandalf. Not Frodo. They act of their own will. No one commands them.
If they refuse to fly the Ring into Mordor, that's not cowardice — that's wisdom and self preservation.
2. Mordor is a heavily surveilled wartime fortress with air defenses.
Nazgûl on Fell Beasts patrol the skies. Archers line the walls. Sauron is actively searching for the Ring and expects a powerful challenger to wield it against him.
A giant magical Eagle flying straight at Mount Doom carrying the One Ring (Or carrying a Hobbit carying the Ring...) would be the least stealthy move imaginable.
The mission succeeds precisely because it is small, quiet, and overlooked.
Hobbits are underestimated and stealthy (read The Hobbit).
Eagles are not.
3. The Ring's corrupting force scales with native power and ambition.
The stronger the being, the greater the temptation — and the greater the destruction if they fall.
Sauron wielded it for ~1,800 years and dominated vast regions of Middle-earth with it.
Boromir falls after months of exposure.
Galadriel contemplates godlike tyranny after moments.
Gandalf — also a divine being — refuses it outright out of wisdom (like the Eagles).
The greater the being, the faster and more catastrophic the corruption.
Frodo possesses it for 17 years and is subtly worn down long before the Quest; far more rapidly once he bears it openly. He resists longer than anyone powerful could — but even he ultimately fails at the Crack of Doom due to prolonged exposure.
Bilbo keeps it for 60 years, mostly using it as a disappearing trick — yet it unnaturally stretches his life and gnaws at him.
Gollum holds it for 472 years and becomes a cave-bound tyrant over… fish.
The Ring does not create ambition.
It amplifies what is already there.
4. If raw power could have solved it, the story wouldn't exist.
And honestly? That's Tolkien's quiet genius.
The same object that empowers a dark lord to enslave nations reduces a small, broken creature to ruling over a puddle.
The entire story hinges on humility defeating domination.
And maybe now more than ever, we need stories where the small, the overlooked, and the underestimated bring down authoritarian power — not by matching it, but by outlasting and outsmarting it.
#Tolkien #LOTR #Eagles
#Hobbits #Resistance #Authoritarianism

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us”

As for me, I’m gonna stand with down home regular people… hobbits. I care more about people than money. Not billionaires. The current administration care only about the rich. #hobbits #celticmusic #isleofskyescotland #lotr #billionaires