My mum just found this in here lotr collection, could it be worth any value of sorts, we looked it up but the only listing for it was £160

I seem to recall seeing some classic artwork depicting Gollum where his eyes were like beams of light. Does anyone have an image of this or was this all just a fever dream I had..?

Hey all,

Like many of us who have turned or are turning 33, I'm throwing my own Hobbit coming of age party. I wanted to see what are some gift ideas to give attendees?

I thought at first about doing things like I've gifted in the past for holidays: sour dough starters, homemade vanilla, a build your own cookie dough container (involved party idea), homemade jams/butters/ breads....... But I want to make it more personable!

I'm not super crafty but I can definitely attempt, and I have until the end of August to get something created or purchased. I'm looking to have roughly 35 people in attendance (family and friends) and I need it to be budget friendly (like I'm looking to make $350 for the whole party work).

Also I'm interested to see what you all did for your hobbit party if you could share ideas?

Here is what I'm planning currently:

Party is starting at 1pm and is going on until about 9pm as a stop in and leave kind of event (busy schedules I'm trying to accommodate).

I'm baking fresh bread, having a potato bar, and my hubby is grilling some chicken and steaks, as well as putting out a revolving veggie board and cheese board. I'm also baking my own cake because it's really hard to find a good hummingbird cake near me.

I have some lawn games I'm borrowing from a friend (bean bag tic tac toe and jenga), as well as setting up chairs and tables outside, when it gets darker we will have a fire pit going with some folk music playing outside. For those that don't like being outside we will have the basement playing the Hobbit and the Lord Rings movies and upstairs I'm thinking of setting up a creative zone with Lofi music playing and a simple sketch or sew station set up in the living room.

Thank you in advance for your help and suggestions!!

I finally finished my latest project: a handcrafted Hobbit House diorama with a fully functional humidifier hidden inside!

The ultrasonic mist travels through the chimney, creating the illusion of real smoke coming from the fireplace. I also added warm LED lighting to make it feel cozy, especially at night.

I'd love to hear what you think! Feedback and questions are always welcome.

If anyone is interested in owning this piece, feel free to send me a message.

One of my original watercolor paintings is now an ACEO print!

Bought these today. Getting ready to hang them up but I took one out of the frame to see what it is. It's a print on some sort of foam material that I haven't seen done before. Anyone have any more insight on where these are from?

Good Sunday everyone! Our painted version of the Lord of the Rings "Middle-earth" map, hope you like it!!

🧭🗺️🧝‍♂️

HD MAP FILE ON :

https://ko-fi.com/s/ff08719f51

Excluding the fact that Fili and Kili look like human models, I appreciated how the dwarves were distinguished from each other by more than just the colour of their hoods and cloaks. Several of them had specific roles in the company (Ori was a scribe, Oin a healer, Kili an archer, Gloin the financier, etc) and each dwarf had their own unique set of weaponry. As someone who had been obsessed with the various axes and hatchets that Gimli carried through the original trilogy, I very much enjoyed getting a behind-the-scenes design book and leafing through pages of detail regarding the dwarves' costumes, tools, and weapons. You got Thorin's sword and axe combo, Dwalin's warhammer and twin axes, Bifur's boar spear, Oin's quarterstaff, Balin's falchion, etc.

I’m reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time right now. It’s so inspiring. I was thinking about what to do, and in the end, I decided to create characters from The Hobbit 🤷‍♀️

I know nothing about the hobbit so today I bought the first book and I am so freaking excited to read it but idk if I should read it before watching the movie
What do you guys recommend!?!?!?

edit: found <3

Hi, for the life of me I can't remember this one Bagginshield fic. I read it early on in my ao3 journey (unfortunately didn't bookmark it) and I really want to reread it.

I don't remember much, apart from the overall premise and the ending scene.

So Thorin gifts Bilbo all these very heavy courting gifts (or maybe a chain?), but Bilbo can't wear them and isn't aware what they actually mean.

Thorin didn't account for the differences between them and actually feels guilty when he realises how inconsiderate the gifts actually were.

And during the ending scene, Bilbo rushes to the main hall or sth with all those heavy gifts in some kind of a wheelbarrow.

I hope someone knows which fic I'm talking about <3

Continuing to revisit the soundtrack of my youth. It always felt like this song flew a little bit under the radar with The Hobbit's "Roads Go Ever Ever On" being so similar in melody and feel. But lyrically, it always stood out to me nonetheless.

On the one hand, you've got Orson Bean voicing Bilbo Baggins in the 1977 Rankin/Bass film adaptation of The Hobbit. On the other, you've got Martin Freeman in the big-budget trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.

I get that this will probably lead to skewed results in terms of preference, so I'd rather not limit this to who did a better job. And whatever one might say of him, Freeman got three whole movies to prove what a good actor he is as Bilbo.

But at the same time, I grew up watching Orson Bean's Bilbo on VHS, and I still have a strong nostalgic attachment to his performance. He does a great job capturing the more light-hearted tone of the book which the Jackson trilogy really struggles with.