Middle-earth [formerly LotR] in New Media

Post by **Elentári** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:28 am

narya wrote:What's Curunir the Not-so-White doing in there?

Presumably because he was a Maiar aligned with Aulë...

Post by **Elentári** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:05 pm

Grandmother's stunning knitted models of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit characters

If knitting's not your thing, how about Marzipan Smaug atop a treasure of golden sprinkles and rich chocolate soufflé

Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:26 am

Those are wonderful! Kudos to your grandmother!

And that dessert is appropriate, as dragon-sickness is very similar to my chocolate-sickness...Must eat all of it.

Sat Jan 18, 2014 5:04 am

Pssst, PtB, I don't think it is actually Elen's grandmother.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:01 am

But it might be!

Post by **Elentári** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:39 am

My grandmother will be 99 in May....but she was a great knitter...

Post by **Elentári** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:23 pm

Don't be shy...

Amazing paper sculpture by Deviantartist FarTooManyIdeas who created this piece just from the pages of Tolkien's novel. It is a fantastic likeness of Smaug who is hunting for a tiny Bilbo who has managed to escape fron the book’s pages!

Post by **Alatar** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:45 am

Middle Earth modeled...

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025558/wha ... om-space#1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHHS5Q_m0g

Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:30 pm

And then there is this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/t ... -the-world

Post by **Elentári** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:41 pm

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:And then there is this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/t ... -the-world

Lord of the [Coffee] Beans...

Post by **Elentári** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:23 pm

LEGO The Hobbit Official Buddy-Up trailer

Post by **narya** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 5:31 am

Now for something very different - LotR in Very Old Media. I saw these two plaques in the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, California. Am I the only one who sees LotR in these?

Post by **Elentári** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:27 am

Fascinating, narya! I wonder if Professor Tolkien knew about this like he did so many other cultures' mythologies....

Post by **Elentári** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:33 am

An audio/visual interpretation of the Music of the Ainur:

http://youtu.be/nz9t38CpdXM

Post by **Smaug's voice** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:31 pm

Elen - I loved the music in it!

And here's an amazing .gif on the Music of the Ainur!:

http://mirachravaia.deviantart.com/art/ ... -417186294

Also, since I can't see any other thread, Happy Tolkien Reading Day to ya fellas!

Post by **Passdagas the Brown** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:21 pm

narya wrote:Now for something very different - LotR in Very Old Media. I saw these two plaques in the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, California. Am I the only one who sees LotR in these?

Very fascinating! Tolkien does suggest, in one of his letters, that the dwarves do share characteristics of Semitic peoples from the Levantine region, but he never makes the explicit connection to actual human "dwarfs" in Egypt.

It is more likely that Tolkien's dwarves' skill with fashioning metals comes primarily from the depiction of dwarves in the Norse Eddas, Voluspa, etc., where they are small, unlovely creatures (usually quite evil and greedy) that craft great treasures from gold, etc (I believe they fashioned some of the key items and weapons of the Norse gods, including Thor's famous Mjolnir and Odin's famous Gungnir). Tolkien made the dwarves a lot nicer (and a lot more human), while retaining some of that wickedness and greed.

Post by **narya** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:47 am

I don't know how I missed this the first time, but I just spent a delightful evening watching the LOTR triology ala LEGO. Just an hour and a half of the G-rated parts of LOTR, using the original voiceovers, mattes of original backgrounds, and highly flexible animated Lego people for all the characters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CvoG3nY3Q

Post by **Morwenna** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:32 pm

Very fascinating! Tolkien does suggest, in one of his letters, that the dwarves do share characteristics of Semitic peoples from the Levantine region, but he never makes the explicit connection to actual human "dwarfs" in Egypt.

It is more likely that Tolkien's dwarves' skill with fashioning metals comes primarily from the depiction of dwarves in the Norse Eddas, Voluspa, etc., where they are small, unlovely creatures (usually quite evil and greedy) that craft great treasures from gold, etc (I believe they fashioned some of the key items and weapons of the Norse gods, including Thor's famous Mjolnir and Odin's famous Gungnir). Tolkien made the dwarves a lot nicer (and a lot more human), while retaining some of that wickedness and greed.

It wouldn't surprise me, however, if the Eddas drew on some of the Egyptian material!!

These things get around! Just ask any folklorist.

Post by **Passdagas the Brown** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:48 am

Morwenna wrote:
Very fascinating! Tolkien does suggest, in one of his letters, that the dwarves do share characteristics of Semitic peoples from the Levantine region, but he never makes the explicit connection to actual human "dwarfs" in Egypt.

It is more likely that Tolkien's dwarves' skill with fashioning metals comes primarily from the depiction of dwarves in the Norse Eddas, Voluspa, etc., where they are small, unlovely creatures (usually quite evil and greedy) that craft great treasures from gold, etc (I believe they fashioned some of the key items and weapons of the Norse gods, including Thor's famous Mjolnir and Odin's famous Gungnir). Tolkien made the dwarves a lot nicer (and a lot more human), while retaining some of that wickedness and greed.
It wouldn't surprise me, however, if the Eddas drew on some of the Egyptian material!! These things get around! Just ask any folklorist.

That's a great point - though I'm not sure if there's strong evidence of cross-pollination between Germanic and Egyptian mythology in the literature. Nonetheless, there are so many gaps in our knowledge of ancient and dark age peoples, that to quote Carl Sagan "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." There could very well be a connection, and its nice to think there is!

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:30 pm

Popping in to note the title change on the thread. Alatar pointed out in the Geeks thread in Bag End that "LotR" might make people assume this thread was only for creative works related to LotR, or even more restrictively, the LotR films. When I responded that that hadn't been my intention at all, Elen suggested the new title. I'm phasing it in.

This thread is for creative works (in media other than film or text, or such was my intent, though anything interesting is welcome here) that are related to or set in Tolkien's Middle-earth. I think the candy Helm's Deep I introduced in the first post set the tone fairly well, although many serious, actually beautiful works have also enriched this thread.