Let’s be real, Tolkien would have been way more ok with the addition of the bunny sleds in The Hobbit movies than he ever would have been with the gratuitous battle scenes
Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit” in the first place, when it was originally intended to be an oral bedtime story for his children.
(found in the forward to The Hobbit Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1987)
‘Damn the boy’
Hurray for Christopher Tolkien, forcing consistency on his father’s work since 1929.
No wonder he grew up to be his father’s literary executor.
so apparently when jrr tolkien was a professor on the first day of class he’d wait until his students were in the lecture hall and seated and starting to wonder whether they were all in the wrong room before throwing open the doors at the back of the hall and striding down the aisle reciting the first 50 lines of beowulf in old english so moral of the story if you don’t know anything about jrr tolkien aside from lotr you are missing out my friend
Why did I think of that Two Towers scene when Aragorn arrives at Helm’s Deep and throws open the doors in the most dramatic way but with Tolkien instead
jrr tolkien: i really love my wife. i will make her into a beautiful, unearthly half-angel princess who beat satan almost single-handedly and won an argument with the keeper of the halls of the dead
jrr tolkien: i really love my best friend. i will make him into a grumpy old tree who never gets to the point
willowfoot 