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The Lord of the Rings
🎨 Tim Kirk (🇺🇸, 1947 - ...)
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🎨 Tim Kirk (🇺🇸, 1947 - ...)
Art for the 1975 Tolkien Calendar.
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"This is the tragedy:
Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unselfconscious of what we are -- hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones."
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Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unselfconscious of what we are -- hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones."
Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against The Human Race, p. 11
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“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
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—Emil Cioran
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Forwarded from RIGHT WING HEADBANGER SQUADS
34 Years ago. Today. January 13, 1991. THE BIRTH OF DARKTHRONE.
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Der Berggeist
🎨 Josef Madlener (🇩🇪, 1881-1967)
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🎨 Josef Madlener (🇩🇪, 1881-1967)
Der Berggeist is "The Mountain Spirit".
According to Carpenter, Tolkien bought the postcard during his trip to Europe. The envelope containing it was later found with the inscription: "Origin of Gandalf".
However, the picture was painted about 1925-1930 and if I remember correctly the postcard was published 1935 in a folder with three or four other pictures. So the postcard must come by another way into Tolkien's hands.
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