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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

No, wait, our lord and savior needs his own hashtag. #GROND #tolkien #luinelle

Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Day 4 of my little poetry challenge. The theme is “The Shire” Is this even a poem? Well, yes. Doing this activity increased my appreciation for Tolkien’s prose. There is such a rich variety of words and sentence structures on this single page. #tolkien

Page 93 from the Three is company chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring. Circled in green and connected by green lines are the words, The gentle land, trees and meadows rolling over the green hills.

Tolkien Daily Poetry Challenge
1. fellowship
2. mallorn
3. Frodo
4. The Shire
5. eagles
6. Treebeard
7. travel
8. Anduin
9. food & drink
10. Mirkwood
11. farewells
12. Elwing
13. fate
14. the sea
15. Lúthien
16. Neldoreth
17. ships
18. Sauron
19. Mordor
20. oaths
21. mountains
22. Gondolin
23. battles
24. Eowyn
25. The Glittering Caves
26. the sun
27. the moon
28. Varda
29. The Two Trees
30. estel
31. your choice
Need Structure?
Acrostic. A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase.
Haiku. Three lines. 5 syllables. 7 syllables. 5 syllables.
Cinquain. Five lines. 2 syllables. 4. syllables. 6 syllables. 8 syllables. 2
syllables.
Found. Pick a page in a book and choose words from it to make up your poem.
Sonnet. 14 lines. lambic Pentameter.
Shakespearean rhyme scheme: abab
cdcd efef gg.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Day 3 of my Tolkien themed poetry challenge. I was tired yesterday and coming up with anything was difficult. The theme is “Frodo”. #tolkien

Sometimes
when courage wakes
it burns with gentle fire
and yet endures beyond the end
of hope.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Day 2 of my little Tolkien themed poetry challenge. You are welcome to join me though I know some folks probably have English class ptsd. Today’s theme is “mallorn”. #tolkien

In winter under all the rustling leaves
Whose gold still lingered o’er the silver boughs,
There is the sound of water running clear,
And there I paused and harkened to the sound.
It seemed to me the echo of a time
When under shining flowers a voice would ring,
Like elvish bells with sweet and crystal chime,
To speak with wonder of the rising Spring.
The world is older now, and faded gold
With papery whispers waves above the stream,
The wind upon my face is keen and cold
And golden flowers only bloom in dreams.
For long ago the ones who loved these trees,
Took silver ships across the sundering seas.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today is the first day of the little poetry challenge I’ve set myself. It’s a bit awkward sharing my poor efforts but hopefully things will improve day by day. Do join me. The theme for today is “fellowship” #tolkien

From the day we met
every moment has been full of
light and the dark corners of my
life have been
overthrown and drowned.
We met by
strange chances and
happened upon a world
in which united hearts find
promise of a fairer world.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Hello friends! I created this little challenge for May to encourage myself but I invite you to join me if you’d like. Hopefully it will be fun. #tolkien

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There’s sun on the other side of the mountains, it seems.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My mother’s teenage bedroom was in the basement of her house, which is important because she gave me her old copies of The Lord of the Rings and one night when I was a kiddo I was lying in bed reading and

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’m laughing over the idea of Sam Gamgee visiting a camping supply store. You could definitely improve a trip to Mordor with some of this stuff. #tolkien #luinellë

Camping water storage bags and water filters

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m going to Paris in a week. Anything I should eat? Or do? Or buy?

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

After shoveling loads of snow from the driveway yesterday I was able descend into town to get to the office, and there’s barely enough snow down here to chill a hobbit’s toes!

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It’s snowing! The pine siskins are noisy when they are flying together.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

February has finally come. Here is an acrostic poem I wrote a while back.

Herald

For as long as the cold of winter
Embraced me, I slept
Beneath the soil and
Remained still and quiet,
Until the light reached down
And drew me up with dewy fingers, and
Rising, I unfolded the banner that says,
Yet again, spring has come.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Since we know that no one can resist the One Ring, how long would you hold out and what would you use it for when you gave in? #tolkien #luinellë

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Can anyone recommend a good English translation of The Kalevala?

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What if Míriel approved of Indis and supported Finwë marrying her because she loved Finwë and understood and supported his desire for a large family, and this was part of why she was so determined not to leave the Halls of Mandos? #tolkien #luinellë 1/2

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It’s been a difficult week. This about sums it up for me: #tolkien #luinellë

Suddenly, caught by the level beams, Frodo saw the old king's head: it was lying rolled away by the roadside.
'Look, Sam!' he cried, startled into speech. 'Look! The king has got a crown again!'
The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.
'They cannot conquer forever!' said Frodo. And then suddenly the brief glimpse was gone. The Sun dipped and vanished, and as if at the shuttering of a lamp, black night fell.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I decided a few months ago to try to be more sociable. Intense social anxiety makes many things challenging for me, but talking to nice people online is helping. I joined an in person book club! Yay! It’s a small accomplishment but I am proud of myself.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Oh my god why did I look at my student loan balance

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.

Large pale purple clematis flowers climb up a garden obelisk surrounded by deep purple poppies and salvia.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The albatross chick is hatching! I find this so exciting every year. youtube.com/watch?v=sVuZ...

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My books have come! I am excited! More books! #tolkien #luinellë

Two books by Verlyn Flieger: Green Suns and Faerie and There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Times being what they are, I might as well share this. If you or someone you know is looking for a potential lifeboat, my little blue city in WA is desperate for 911 dispatchers. It’s a difficult job to fill. Reach out to me if you’d like more info.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Random dudes IRL, I’m willing to give directions, but don’t ask me where I live, don’t tell me your plans for where you want to live, no, I don’t hope to see you around again. Jfc. How much of this is cluelessness and how much is creepiness?

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Me: I’m really coping okay even though things are terrible in the world Also me: I’m still awake and I just impulse bought a board game about cheese

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I went out to the coast today. Here is a minute of waves and roaring sea for anyone who needs it. Maybe it may bring you some of Uinen’s mercy or Ossë’s wrath or Ulmo’s wisdom. Whatever you most need now. #tolkien #luinellë

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thinking about this quote from Morgoth’s Ring and the concept of the long defeat. Defeat is not the end while there is still something in the world that is beautiful. #tolkien #luinellë

Melkor’s final impotence and despair lay in this: that whereas the Valar (and in their degree Elves and Men) could still love ‘Arda Marred’, that is Arda with a Melkor-ingredient, and could still heal this or that hurt, or produce from its very marring, from its state as it was, things beautiful and lovely, Melkor could do nothing with Arda, which was not from his own mind and was interwoven with the work and thoughts of others: even left alone he could only have gone raging on till all was levelled again into a formless chaos. And yet even so he would have been defeated, because it would still have ‘existed’, independent of his own mind, and a world in potential.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Everything is madness and sucks so I am eating oranges. This one is freakishly large. I feel like a small hobbit eating large fruit.

Very large peeled orange held in two hands

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Folks, I think I might need a stronger form of escapism. Does one exist? This is from On Fairy-stories. #Tolkien #luinellë

But there are also other and more profound ‘escapisms’ that have always appeared in fairy-tale and legend. There are other things more grim and terrible to fly from than the noise, stench, ruthlessness, and extravagance of the internal-combustion engine. There are hunger, thirst, poverty, pain, sorrow, injustice, death. And even when men are not facing hard things such as these, there are ancient limitations from which fairy-stories offer a sort of escape, and old ambitions and desires (touching the very roots of fantasy) to which they offer a kind of satisfaction and consolation.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Hobbits may love mushrooms but I love these ugly oranges. I’m not sure how many I could eat. Upsetting numbers, probably.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

#luinellë #Tolkien Game time? You’ve been given a secret mission to sneak into Angband and break out some prisoners. You can select three companions. No Beren/Lúthien. Who are you taking and why? Non-Silmarillion readers, same game but Dol Goldur and no Gandalf. 1/2

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I forgot that I had run out of ibuprofen at work which is sad, but to make matters worse, the murder of crows didn’t show up to visit me today. 😢 They are probably off having fun without me.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Frustrated because last time I worked on this I was tired and missed some individual stitches. Filling them in is making things messy but it’s not worth it to undo things to make it perfect. Still, the first little house is almost done.

A partially finished cross stitch of a blue beach house surrounded by palm trees.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My #Tolkien tbr pile was starting to stress me out, so to make myself feel worse I combined it with my other tbr books. Not picured: the 200+ items in my not-started Audible queue. Folks, I’m not a reader, I’m a book dragon. 😱📚🐉

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’ve been wondering, if Maedhros and Maglor had, instead of stealing the Silmarils, given themselves up to Eönwë and begged for help as Maglor wished to do, what result? #luinellë #tolkien

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A year and a half ago I was given a very cool education/career development opportunity. And for almost a year, I have regretted taking it. It has been crushing the joy out of my existence, a constant drain on my time and energy and a source of stress. 1/4

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Years ago, my roommate’s cat decided (possibly with feline prescience) to vomit in my room and bury it with a couple of HP books. I never replaced the books. I believe I have another couple of books that would be good for such a purpose, though I don’t have a cat right now.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I enjoy the albatross cam so much every year. The chick should hatch in just a couple weeks or so. www.youtube.com/live/fDhIv9i...

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Weird thought for the day: what happens to elf kiddos in Aman who die by accident? Like if little Maitimo did a header into his dad’s forge, what happens next? Surely things like this did occur. #tolkien #luinellë

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I am coming to terms with the fact that I do not, in fact, have a desk chair. I have a sweater chair. They live there now. I have to get their permission to sit at my desk. Someday I may try burrowing under them like the baby in Spirited Away.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Reading On Fairy-stories reminded me of this magnificent fairy tale by George MacDonald. Any other George MacDonald readers among you #Tolkien enthusiasts? #luinellë

The cover a book The Golden Key and other stories, by George MacDonald. On the cover is an illustration of a girl, a boy, and a deer. The girl is holding a rabbit and the boy is holding a large golden key.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This passage from On Fairy Stories is really tremendously encouraging. #luinellë #tolkien

But that is not true. The seed of the tree can be replanted in almost any soil, even in one so smoke ridden (as Lang said) as that of England. Spring is, of course, not really less beautiful because we have seen or heard of other like events: like events, never from world’s beginning to world’s end the same event. Each leaf, of oak and ash and thorn, is a unique embodiment of the pattern, and for some this very year may be the embodiment, the first ever seen and recognized, though oaks have put forth leaves for countless generation of men.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Do any of you folks play Wingspan, or is that another one of my granny hobbies? 👵🏻😅

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I can remember all kinds of Tolkien minutiae no problem but don’t ask me where I put my damned glasses.

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Jane Ellen @janeellen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Play a game? #luinellë Name: Jane Home: Port Angeles, WA 🇺🇸 Favorite Tolkien animal: Bill the Pony Ent/Entwife: Entwife 🪻🌾 Last meal on earth: Moules et frite, white wine, tirimisu Farthest from home I’ve ever been: geographically 🇳🇿 culturally 🇯🇵 Pets: Clover

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