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Mithgond

@mithgond.bsky.social
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I’m Mithgond, a huge Tolkien fan who focuses on economics, geography, and other obscure subjects especially concerning the imagination of the reader and incorporation of their own insights.

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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My first wildflowers of the year: something from the genus Hepatica, in Governor Dodge State Park, #Wisconsin
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Random late-night hater thoughts, #Tolkien content edition: I am tired of reading and hearing about the same ten things. It’s like people just read -about- Tolkien instead of -reading- Tolkien. I want to talk about Beregond. I want to see a video about the Lossoth. Let’s go! Read more! #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women’s Day! I posted on TikTok about Emeldir, the little-discussed heroine from the Silmarillion. While she may be given the epithet “the Manhearted,” her contribution exemplifies the crucial bravery of women in the works of #Tolkien. #luinellë
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Virgo Blade @virgoblade.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I love seeing diversity in fantasy stories, but please stop only depicting light-skinned Black people as "good" and dark-skinned Black people as "bad". It's regressive and not doing what you think it's doing. #booksky #writersky #authorsky
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Why does #Tolkien call the granary in the Shire “the Grange,” but the ones in the Pelennor “garners?” Personally I attribute this to different languages of the “source texts”—i.e. the information from Gondor would have more loanwords—but perhaps there is another difference? #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I always said I was no good at #science, but here at work I developed a hypothesis and tested it in order to eliminate it as a possibility.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/02/2025
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How the Wayback Machine is preserving outdated government websites
The Wayback Machine is helping preserve the record of government websites before they were changed by the Trump administration. CBS News Confirmed's Rhona Tarrant reports.
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Lothíriel of Dol Amroth, Queen Consort of Rohan: rare Fourth-Age character art #tolkien #luinellë
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Eucatastrophe needed
I woke up and chose Fourth Age for once Lothíriel, Queen Consort of Rohan, Princess of Dol Amroth
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What is a #Tolkien myth you can think of? Something that lives in the zeitgeist but isn’t from the text? #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hot take but clearly Haleth only became a unisex name because she was so badass people undescended from the Haladin thousands of years later named their sons after her in the hopes they would be strong. #tolkien #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Hot take but a Steward of Gondor naming his child Denethor (the 1st Age king of the Laiquendi) is like the Emperor of Japan naming his son after Æthelred the Unready. #tolkien #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What’s a question you would like to ask a #Tolkien character if you had the chance? #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Seeing IG accounts with names like “Silmarillion fans” and all they post is LotR content makes me want to make an account that solely posts arithmetic-based memes from The Nature of Middle-earth and call it “LotR movie fans.” #luinellë #tolkien
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Say, Elwë…
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
There was another set of beacon-hills in #Gondor leading along the south side of the White Mountains to Belfalas, where the Prince of Dol Amroth and his powerful swan-knights and army could be called upon. #luinellë #tolkien
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does anyone else think about how Minas Tirith has enough lampwrights—specialized potters or glass-blowers or metalsmiths—for them to have their own street? #tolkienomics #tolkien #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
What’s something obscure you’ve unearthed on a recent #Tolkien read?
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If you see this, quote with a gif of your personality type.
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a man with a mustache is talking on a cell phone in a store .
ALT: a man with a mustache is talking on a cell phone in a store .
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If you see this, post a GIF from one of your comfort shows.
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Be Careful Now GIF
Alt: Father Ted and Dougal hold ambiguous protest signs outside a movie theater.
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This might sound a little wack but I think a great form of #resistance is offering one’s time and talent for free. So much of our world is disappearing behind paywalls, and given the state of the world this will likely continue apace. Why not fight back by giving?
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What #Tolkien story of the earlier Third Age would you like to see adapted most? #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“Prince Imrahil” by Abe Papakhian. Do you suppose the knights described as accompanying Imrahil were simply well-appointed horse guards of his household? Or were they vassals in turn of the Prince of Dol Amroth, with subfiefs of their own? #tolkienomics #tolkien #luinellë #gondor
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Why do you suppose Angbor, Lord of Lamedon was the only man who stood his ground when the Army of the Dead approached? #tolkien #luinellë #gondor
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantily equipped” … Sharpen your latrine rake, Dingbor, we march off to the war at dawn! #tolkien #luinellë #gondor #tolkienomics
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A fine post by @thegermanator.bsky.social
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The morality of Middle Earth
Many years ago I ready a quote by the late C.S.
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Also described by #Tolkien in the Pelennor are byres, which are specifically cow-sheds, as opposed to barns that provide stableage for horses. Large numbers of oxen were employed in the evacuation of Minas Tirith before it was besieged. #tolkienomics #luinellë #gondor
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
What the heck is #Tolkien talking about when he says “oast?” An oast is a kiln for the drying of hops, primarily used in the brewing of beer. Hops have been cultivated since at least the early Middle Ages, giving a good indication of the technological level of #Gondor. #tolkienomics #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’ve been researching another aspect of the economy of #gondor: feudalism! It’s not just a social and military system, but an economic arrangement that was part of what made the kingdom great. #tolkienomics #tolkien #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It’s only been 9 days since I got off TikTok!? Feels like a month. And did everyone who didn’t delete it just go back on? A lot of people just kinda went quiet.
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
What’s your #estel, friends? #tolkien #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
‘There was trouble away in the South, and it seemed that the Men who had come up the Greenway were on the move, looking for lands where they could find some peace.’ The Fellowship of the Ring, ch. ‘At the Sign of the Prancing Pony’ - This passage is more relevant than ever. #tolkien #luinellë #estel
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My last #tolkientok meme. I feel like it was an appropriate way to close out my career. #tolkien #luinellë #memearillion
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Alright #Luinellë… what are some songs that would fit right into the Ainulindalë? Wrong answers only. #tolkien
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I’m glad everyone who said “2025 is going to be my year” has snapped out of it by now. We all know whose year it’s going to be. They all sat up there in nice little rows. Not ours, not even their beguiled followers’ and duped voters’ year. Their year.
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Where am I in Middle-earth? #tolkien #luinellë #middleearthplaces
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Another favorite #tolkien artist is Roger Garland. Always something interesting in his paintings, such as the cogwheels that rotate the tower of Minas Morgul in this one. #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A fine bit of estel from my favorite Tolkienian philosopher. #luinellë #tolkien #estel
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Who’s your favorite #tolkien artist? #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Escape to it, be inspired by it, take solace in it, and always learn from it! #tolkien #luinellë
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
What’s the next Tolkien book you’re going to read cover-to-cover? Why? #luinellë #tolkien
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Lady Aragilian | ᛅᚢᚨᛋᚢᛏᚢᚠᛁᛅᛁᚢᛘ @lady-aragilian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
#ARAGILIAN || In winter there are many moments of stillness, during which I must find some activity with which to occupy my mind & hands. Recently, this has been recalling & drawing out with ink & parchment tales of the legends of the very beginning before even the creation of the trees of fair…
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Looking at January’s picture in the 2025 Tolkien Calendar and thinking about this January has me deep in my feels. #luinellë #tolkien #johnhowe
A brilliant white ship passes out through an ominous door flanked by menacing carvings of dragons
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I examine one of my favorite Sindarin place-name roots: #luinellë #middleearthplaces #tolkien #sindarin #tolkientok
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“brith”
This Sindarin root, said in the Silmarillion to mean “gravel,” appeals to me in its almost (or possibly actual) onomatopoetic nature. The soft crunch of gravel in a creekbed under light footsteps—suc…
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What’s your favorite elvish word? #luinellë #tolkien
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My other blog tries to capture my musings of childhood as, prior to live-action adaptations, I went out into the world and found the landscapes of the text in my own environs. #tolkien #luinellë #middleearthplaces #tolkientok
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The marshes along this stretch of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway in October remind me of Strider and the hobbits crossing the Midgewater Marshes at the same time of year. No neekerbreekers, but s…
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“Work of the Enemy! Such deeds he loves: friend at war with friend; loyalty divided in confusion of hearts.” - The Return of the King ch. ‘The Pyre of Denethor’ #tolkien #luinellë #tolkientok
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Mithgond @mithgond.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I ain’t going back if it’s gonna be like THAT 😬
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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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Lady Aragilian | ᛅᚢᚨᛋᚢᛏᚢᚠᛁᛅᛁᚢᛘ @lady-aragilian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#ARAGILIAN || While our armory is filled with weapons of many kinds and my adoptive dwarven father #KragnirStonebeard bade me learn the styles and techniques of as many as possible, he understood that as one of the race of men - while I do enjoy the use of a dwarven axe…
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