Tolkien Artwork

[Vorondil]

What have I done?! 🤯

I don't know, but whatever it was, don't do it again!

 

[Glorfindel Goldtress]

That can be arranged.

Hey! That first attachment was taken without my consent!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I won't.

At least, I'll try not to. 😳

 

[Vorondil]

I won't.

At least, I'll try not to. 😳

Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.

 

[ZehnWaters]

Here's a good one for Feanor.
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Okay, I'll stop now.

A valid assessment of him.

What have I done?! 🤯

lol A lot of thirsty* ladies out there. Venlian was notably posting thirst-traps*. The rest you can tell were the kind of art where the ladies want to heal/save someone with their love.

*As the kids say.

 

[ZehnWaters]

Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.

 

[Glorfindel Goldtress]

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Thanks for posting that! I totally understood the reference the first time.

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

Elves are the fairest out of all Eru's creation and uh, that's all I have to say about that. 👀

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

the kind of art where the ladies want to heal/save someone with their love.

Orrr . . .

 

[ZehnWaters]

Orrr . . .
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Also a thing, I suppose.

 

[ZehnWaters]

Anyhow, back to normal artwork:
I love the '80s Dark Fantasy aesthetic to these three:

 

[ZehnWaters]

Concept art for the canceled Lord of the Rings: The White Council video game:

 

[Olorgando]

Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.

Wrong. There is try. Try-and-succeed is then called do. Try-and-fail also exists.
As Wayne Gretzky is once supposed to have said, "The goals you never score are when you don't take (try) a shot".
Everything else is consultant Baloney Slices - which infest the world of commerce, making it worse than it need be; I had dealings with this bunch three times.

 

[ZehnWaters]

Wrong. There is try. Try-and-succeed is then called do. Try-and-fail also exists.
As Wayne Gretzky is once supposed to have said, "The goals you never score are when you don't take (try) a shot".
Everything else is consultant Baloney Slices - which infest the world of commerce, making it worse than it need be; I had dealings with this bunch three times.

One could argue that there is only the end result. You either did it or you didn't.

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

Needs more "stripped to the waist" Elf-hunks, though.
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Eh, I personally find people cuter with their clothes on. It tells me something about their personality.

 

[Olorgando]

One could argue that there is only the end result. You either did it or you didn't.

If you never try, you will never do.
Perhaps the misconception lies in an assumption that you must succeed, i.e. do, on the first try.
Practically all the increase in humanity's knowledge has come from repeated tries that for a long time ended in failure, certainly in the sciences.
Possibly every blind alley needs to be explored, and found to be in error (though our intuition might have told us otherwise - so many solutions have been found to be counter-intuitive). Analyzing why tries failed can narrow the field of possible explanations.
Sometimes all of these tries fail, and it needs the upheaval of a paradigm shift to break the logjam, like the "classical" one from Ptolemy to Copernicus. It wasn't quite that simple, as Copernicus still dealt in epicycles, that mania for perfect circles with sub-circles and sub-sub ... it took Kepler (aided by the for the time unrivaled accuracy of Tycho Brahe's celestial observations) to consign epicycles to the same dump as Ptolemy. Newton took that further, and his mechanics are still sufficient for the likes of NASA & Co. But not for GPS, that needs both of Einstein's relativities.

Not sure if the art work of any ilk has gone down the rabbit-hole of the in most part anti-intuitive mathematics involved in science since Newton.

 

[ZehnWaters]

If you never try, you will never do.
Perhaps the misconception lies in an assumption that you must succeed, i.e. do, on the first try.

No, I think Yoda was going for what I said. There is only success or failure. You don't have to succeed the first time, but if you didn't succeed then you failed. I think his point was the end result.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Elves are the fairest out of all Eru's creation and uh, that's all I have to say about that. 👀

We must stay focused sister!

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

We must stay focused sister!

Nah I don't want to. 😊

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Nah I don't want to. 😊

I don't want to either!