JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh)

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

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Red Cross worker distributes snacks and juice to volunteers who just gave blood:

As a Dawn, I approve and co-sign this plan.

My goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be: 1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! 2. Treacherous as the Sea! 3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth! 4. All shall love the new me, and despair!

The @www.jrrjokien.com "No Peace in Middle-earth As White Oliphant Gift Exchange Goes Terribly Wrong" piece was what I needed to read today. www.jrrjokien.com/p/no-peace-i...

GANDALF: Can you see anything? FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it. GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."

witch-king of angmar be like: GROND, is this true?

This from @amymantravadi.bsky.social via @www.jrrjokien.com last week was a nice perspective. www.jrrjokien.com/p/is-eowyn-a...

but they were, all of them, deceived, for another rapture was predicted

taking immediate psychic damage by checking my phone and flooding my brain with all the terrible things going on in the world the instant my eyes open in the morning:

me looking through my hoodies the instant the first hint of Fall arrives:

I have tossed out the shrimp that we got from Walmart and which you were probably saving for dinner Forgive me the were radioactive so contaminated and glowing

TOLKIEN: the Paths of the Dead was an *evil* place READER: ok TOLKIEN: even the TREES were evil READER: cool TOLKIEN: *so* evil that not even Legolas could long endure the trees READER: oh %*$@

(the headline announces that Mel Gibson's upcoming "The Resurrection of the Christ" will be split into two films; the 'graphic media' is a still from The Passion.)

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air bud implies the existence of earth bud, water bud, and fire bud. long ago, the four buds lived together in harmony. then everything changed when the fire bud attacked

but they were, all of them, deceived, for another air bud was made

Kids, Superman is the number one movie in America, but you know who else was sent by his Father in the Heavens to Earth as a baby? Open your Bibles with me...

It started out with a kiss cam, how did it end up like this?

This is where I post from:

This is where I post from:

Prime Day was originally a pagan festival before Emperor Bezos changed the date of the celebration at the Conference of Nicaea

the tariffs will continue until morale improves

The Founding Fathers on July 4th, 1776:

I have dumped out the billion flies that were in the airplanes I know you are probably wondering why I'd do that Forgive me it's to fight maggots: flesh-eating "man-eaters"

it was the “I wish it need not have happened in my time” of times, it was the “lmao! well it has" of times

Today in Jokien with Tolkien, guest author Marc Sims begins a series on how Tolkien’s writing presents an imaginative blueprint for how Christians can categorically, decisively, and intentionally reject the despair they will inevitably feel. Read it here: www.jrrjokien.com/p/tolkiens-g...

Once more, with feeling…

ARAGORN ○ く|) GIMLI: / 〉 Nobody tosses ￣￣┗┓ a Dwarf! 　 　 ┗┓ ヾ○ｼ 　　 ヘ/ 　 　 　 ノ 　 　 　 　 　 ┗┓

BREAKING: Big, Beautiful Battering Ram GROND passes the Great Gate of Minas Tirith!

"Things that have not yet come to pass" include ChatGPT being actually able to do the job of any of the people/things it's supposed to be replacing.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well, I gazed into the Mirror of Galadriel and I saw things that were…things that are…and some things…that have not yet come to pass.

Read the account of this tragedy here: jrrjokien.substack.com/p/man-betray...

therapy isn’t enough I need to sail across the heavens as a star with a Silmaril upon my brow

Bilbo, Thorin, and the other Dwarves arriving at the Lonely Mountain looking for Smaug:

RIVENDELL. DO NOT DROP THAT RING IN THE LAVA. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR HOBBITS HOME, NOW!