Finished!!! the salt recipe also replicated!! and ready to use in camping! xD i have a small cotton sack to store the extra salt ;)
If anyone interested, i am making a few, DM me
That calligraphy feels actually amazing. Now I wanna learn French to read it lol
If Dwarfs are such master builders, why would they make a set of stairs you couldn't climb?
First time watching The Hobbit movies and i was struck by just how emotional I found this scene. So simple, yet so evocative. Home is where the heart is.
I am like 20 minutes into the third movie and I'm just confused.
First of all, WHY did they drag this out into a trilogy. This could've been wrapped in two movies. The first one was such a nothing burger. Then the second is literally called THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG and they STILL DON'T FIGHT THE DRAGON. 4 hours of buildup and we just get to see smaug wake up from a nap before the sequel ends. Then in the THIRD movie he's dead in FIVE MINUTES!!!
and this detail made me so irrationally angry but WHYYY did Baggins use that ring so stupidly?? You literally have a magical tool that turns you invisible and you decide to take if off in the presence of a DRAGON?? just kept running around and conversing with the monster that destroyed a whole kingdom when he could've just stayed invisible and GRABBED THE FREAKING STONE!!! Same with the spiders. You have these giant spiders trying to kill you and your friends and you take the ring off BEFORE you've freed them all?? He could've killed those eight legged freaks if he just USED THE RING WISELY. why TF did he take it off at the worst moments?
Also how powerful are the wizards supposed to be? I'm not familiar with the books so I don't know the lore. I just don't understand why Gandalf's solution everytime they got into trouble was to run for their lives. I know he summoned those eagles when the orcs had them cornered on the edge of that cliff but he was just hanging there while they waited for them. Then when he encountered the necromancer and found the missing dwarf king, he suddenly had powers?? They didn't help much there but something like that wouldve been useful when the dwarves kept getting into trouble. The wizards seem to have more wisdom than magic.
Anyways those are just some thoughts I had to get out. I still have like 2 hours to go on War of Five Armies so we'll see what happens. So far I think the elves look really cool and I quite like Bard. Really tired of seeing these orcs on my screen though. Just boring and ugly.
I recently went to a flea market and came across this 5 disc collection. It wasn’t until I got home that I realized some of the text on the cover was in French? Ig my question is why? Is it a knockoff? Everything else inside doesn’t have this.
lol it looks like they swapped out Richard Armitage for Nicholas Cage for one scene.
Bilbo: “The Thorin I met in Bag End would never have gone back on his word, or questioned the loyalty of his kin.”
Thorin: “Well… GOSH kind of a lot’s happened since then.”
I used to have three American first edition, first printing copies of this book but sold one, which was an ex-library copy missing the dust jacket, for $6,000. This one is my best copy and is in excellent condition.
The way to denote that this is an American first printing is the illustration of the bowing hobbit on the title page.
Description: Hi everyone! I just finished forging this tribute to Fíli's hunting knife as seen in The Hobbit movies. I was always fascinated by the angular, geometric Dwarven design.
The details:
Blade: Hand-forged high-carbon steel, paying close attention to that unique geometric tip.
Handle: Textured dark wood for a rugged grip, with aged brass bolsters and an angular Dwarven-style pommel.
Sheath: Distressed leather with brass accents to complete the adventurer's look.
It felt amazing to bring a little piece of Erebor into the real world. Now, if I can just find some orcs to test it on... (just kidding!).
Let me know what you think! *Khazâd ai-mênu!*
#ForjaDeDurin #FilisKnife #TheHobbit #TolkienArt #Blacksmithing #Erebor
My grandfather has recently passed, I was going through his old books and found this, I highly doubt its the 1st edition or anything like that, but im having trouble identifying the edition.
Thinking back on the movie trilogy for “The Hobbit,” I remembered that a regular theme for Tolkien was that showing mercy even to those who seem undeserving can lead to good things happening. The mercy Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam showed to Gollum at different points enabled the Ring to be destroyed. And Theoden sparing Grima Wormtongue led to him stabbing Saruman, rather than the hobbits or other “good” characters having to do it and sully their names and natures.
So when it comes to Alfrid, who was created for the “Hobbit” movies, I wondered if there was a similar thing intended. Characters gave him numerous chances, and he always picked the selfish and cowardly path… but was there anything good that came from everyone letting him go?