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"[Bilbo] was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep!" #inktober #drawing #tolkien

22/11/01 07:03

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"When the wolf came for Beren, Felagund put forth all his power, and burst his bonds; and he wrestled with the werewolf, and slew it with his hands and teeth; yet he himself was wounded to the death." #Inktober #tolkien #silmarillion

22/10/31 07:50

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"It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. ‘But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund’s daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless!'" #inktober #tolkien #drawing

22/10/30 04:49

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"‘Let go! Gollum,’ [Frodo] said. ‘This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you’ll feel it this time! I’ll cut your throat.’" #tolkien #Inktober #lotr

22/10/29 07:10

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"The Company of the Ring stood silent beside the tomb of Balin. Frodo thought of Bilbo and his long friendship with the dwarf, and of Balin’s visit to the Shire long ago. In that dusty chamber in the mountains it seemed a thousand years ago..." #inktober #tolkien #lotr

22/10/28 07:41

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"When it was Bilbo's turn he would see gleams in the darkness round them, and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place." #Inktober #tolkien #hobbit

22/10/27 06:42

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"Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight." #Inktober @tolkien

22/10/26 06:35

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"In that dreadful light Sam stood aghast, for now, looking to his left, he could see the Tower of Cirith Ungol in all its strength. The horn that he had seen from the other side was only its topmost turret." #tolkien #inktober

22/10/25 09:08

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"The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dûr he was, and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and he said: ‘I am the Mouth of Sauron.’ But it is told that he was a renegade..." #inktober #tolkien #twotowers

22/10/24 05:50

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"The night deepened. There came the soft sound of horses led with stealth along the lane. Outside the gate they stopped, and three black figures entered, like shades of night creeping across the ground." #inktober #tolkien #lotr

22/10/23 08:14

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"Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer...knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented..." #inktober #tolkien

22/10/22 09:04

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"Therefore Morgoth came...and he issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable unblazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star..." #inktober #tolkien

22/10/21 07:10

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"The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. And behold! it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear..." #inktober #tolkien #lotr

22/10/20 09:34

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"The sun was already westering as they rode from Edoras, and the light of it was in their eyes, turning all the rolling fields of Rohan to a golden haze. There was a beaten way, north-westward along the foot-hills of the White Mountains..." #inktober #tolkien

22/10/19 07:35

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"The light of the clear autumn morning was now glowing in the valley. The noise of bubbling waters came up from the foaming river-bed. Birds were singing, and a wholesome peace lay on the land." #Inktober #tolkien #lotr

22/10/18 05:40

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"'What I say,' said Bilbo gasping 'And please don’t cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. I’ll cook beautifully for you, a perfectly beautiful breakfast for you, if only you won’t have me for supper.'" #inktober #tolkien

22/10/17 09:54

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"But Eöl, though stooped by his smithwork, was no Dwarf, but a tall Elf of a high kin of the Teleri, noble though grim of face; and his eyes could see deep into shadows and dark places..." #Inktober #silmarillion #tolkien

22/10/16 03:48

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"Without any clear purpose [Sam] drew out the Ring and put it on again. Immediately he felt the great burden of its weight, and felt afresh, but now more strong and urgent than ever, the malice of the Eye of Mordor, searching, trying to pierce the shadows..." #Inktober #tolkien

22/10/15 07:05

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"A mile, maybe, from Parth Galen in a little glade not far from the lake he found Boromir. He was sitting with his back to a great tree, as if he was resting. But Aragorn saw that he was pierced with many black-feathered arrows..." #inktober #tolkien #lotr

22/10/14 06:05

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"Frodo woke and found himself lying in bed. At first he thought that he had slept late, after a long unpleasant dream...He lay a little while longer looking at patches of sunlight on the wall, and listening to the sound of a waterfall." #drawing #inktober #tolkien

22/10/13 06:30

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"Out jumped the goblins, big goblins, great ugly-looking goblins, lots of goblins, before you could say rocks and blocks. There were six to each dwarf, at least, and two even for Bilbo; and they were all grabbed and carried through the crack..." #inktober #tolkien #hobbit

22/10/12 07:07

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"There they made the gates of the hall of Thingol...Beyond the gates wide passages ran down to high halls and chambers far below that were hewn in the living stone, so many and so great that that dwelling was named Menegroth, the Thousand Caves." #Inktober #Tolkien #Silmarillion

22/10/11 06:37

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"Gandalf in grief and horror turned his face away and closed the door...And then Denethor gave a great cry, and afterwards spoke no more, nor was ever again seen by mortal men." #Inktober #tolkien #returnoftheking

22/10/10 01:46

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"He stepped down from the rock, and picking up his grey cloak wrapped it about him: it seemed as if the sun had been shining, but now was hid in cloud again. ‘Yes, you may still call me Gandalf,’ he said..." #tolkien #inktober

22/10/09 10:23

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"Over the lip of the little dell, on the side away from the hill, they felt, rather than saw, a shadow rise, one shadow or more than one. They strained their eyes, and the shadows seemed to grow." #Inktober #tolkien #drawing

22/10/08 04:48