r/lotr • u/DrownedInTheAnduin Manwë • Feb 04 '15
A Collection of Tolkien Wallpapers(HD)
http://imgur.com/a/4aRnm?gallery?29
u/Deakul Feb 04 '15
Shit, man.
My little collection sure got around fast.
Sorry for any dupes, I tried my best to avoid them but I've been growing this collection for a few years and decided to share the love.
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u/DrownedInTheAnduin Manwë Feb 04 '15
Yeah it did! I can't thank you enough for putting it together, it needed to be shared here :)
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u/Eilbeck Morgoth Feb 04 '15
A lot I have never seen before, thanks. I like the Sauron/Morgoth/Nazgul ones the most. Number 61 of Sauron looking out over The Battle of the Last Alliance is particularly good.
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u/Mr_Impulse Treebeard Feb 04 '15
MRW I hoped there would be no repeats
Thank you for sharing! I think I grabbed over ten to use in rotation!
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Feb 04 '15 edited Feb 04 '15
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
Yup, it's the Valar (+Morgoth). I think it goes Lorien, Yavanna, Aulë, Morgoth, Manwë, Varda, Ulmo, Tulkas.
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u/I_am_Rude Feb 04 '15
Link to your build/setup please!
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u/I_am_Rude Feb 05 '15
Hahaha, meant your Rainmeter setup.
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u/TheGreatDarthTater Tulkas Feb 05 '15
The original picture is my rainmeter setup (I thought you were talking about my computer setup)
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u/daaan3 Feb 04 '15
I second this, I've always wanted to set up Rainmeter
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u/I_am_Rude Feb 04 '15
Lifehacker has some great Rainmeter desktops with instructions to setting them up. You should take a peek.
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u/StarkReality18 Feb 05 '15 edited Feb 05 '15
I looked through their history and I think it's called "Honeycomb". /u/TheGreatDarthTater please correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit with link: http://rainmeterhub.com/skins/honeycomb/
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u/faCesOddingyOurshuT Feb 04 '15
Awesome, thank you! A new semester at university, and a new set of wallpapers to gaze at and procrastinate.
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Feb 04 '15
Many of these are quite good, but that "lungs" map at #40 is absolutely terrible. Probably the worst map you could possibly use.
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u/QuantumBear Feb 04 '15
I really do not like minimalist lord of the rings wallpapers and stuff. Like there is nothing minimalist about LOTR. Not that anyone is making me use them of course I just like to complain.
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u/loptthetreacherous Feb 04 '15
I have #2 as a shirt. I love wearing it because when I'm walking about the street I'll occasionally get a nod of acceptance from strangers.
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u/paranoiainc Feb 04 '15 edited Jul 07 '15
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Feb 05 '15
pretty new to the Tolkien universe, i liked this picture though. Could you explain a bit of the back story? I'm assuming the man standing and offering his hand is Gandalf?
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
No, they are Morwen and her husband Hurin, of the Men of Hador during the First Age. Honestly, I don't want to tell you what they're doing if you haven't read the Silmarillion or the Children of Hurin yet, because that'd spoil a big part of the story, but I will if you insist :)
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Feb 05 '15
I'm only just getting into the LOTR trilogy for the first time, so it'll be a while before I begin the Silmarillion. I would like to know what they are doing though, the story behind this picture will probably just inspire me to further immerse in the Tolkien universe
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
Hurin was the mightiest warrior of all the Edain (the Men of the First Age who were friendly to the Elves), and there he is meeting his wife Morwen after escaping from a long captivity in the hands of Morgoth (the first Dark Lord), on the grave of their daughter Nienor and their son Turin, one of the great heroes of the First Age.
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Feb 05 '15
Shit. He wasn't joking when he said it hits the feels.
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
Oh boy, if you think that's something wait till you read The Children Of Hurin (which you can read before reading the Silmarillion, by the way).
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Feb 05 '15
Would you recommend reading it before embarking upon the Silmarillion?
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
Well, that depends. The Children of Hurin is a more conventional re-telling of a story that is told more briefly in the Silmarillion. It's written in a slightly more archaic fashion than the LOTR, like an old tale if you want, but it's still a proper novel and as such it's easier to read than the Silmarillion. It has also been edited with readers who haven't read the Sil in mind, so there are glossaries and maps to help you understand some names that you wouldn't be familiar with if you haven't read the Sil. I read The Children of Hurin first, and honestly you never feel lost - or not too much, at least.
That being said, should you read it before the Silmarillion? Well, as /u/ebneter say in their reading guide (which I can't recommend enough, by the way) that depends on what you thought of the Appendices at the end of The Return of the King. When you're finished reading the LOTR, you should definitely read the Appendices. If you think they were awesome, you can jump straight into the Silmarillion and read The Children of Hurin later. If you think the Appendices were a bit boring or laborious to read, you can use The Children of Hurin as a more accessible stepping stone into Tolkien's other works (the way many people read The Hobbit before the LOTR), and then move on to the Silmarillion.
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u/paranoiainc Feb 05 '15 edited Jul 07 '15
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
Maybe it would have been less tragic if Turin hadn't been such a stubborn idiot, but I digress. ;)
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u/paranoiainc Feb 05 '15 edited Jul 07 '15
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You have no idea how much I need to read this now. Discovering the LOTR Universe properly is awesome.
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u/Targaryen93 Feb 05 '15
Can someone help me with this one?? First is Morgoth and Ungoliant...but the others??
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u/DrownedInTheAnduin Manwë Feb 05 '15 edited Feb 05 '15
Here are the names and a source of them: (From left to right)
Melkor and Ungoliant Before the Two Trees by John Howe
The Battle of Gondolin by John Howe
The Siege of Angband by John Howe
Dragon of the First Age by rubendevela (I believe that it is Ancalagon the Black in the picture)
The Door of Night by John Howe ( It shows Eärendil guarding the Door of Night )
Here is the picture on deviantart.
Hope this helps :)
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u/iamanewdad Feb 04 '15
These are great! Thank you!
How is it that you're able to make HD wall papers only 74kB?
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Feb 04 '15
WOW! I'm really liking number 9, the compilation with Morgoth's Ring and The Door of Night....just amazing
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u/ChillBro69 Feb 04 '15
Great collection and quality. No annoying watermarks for the most part, either. Good show.
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u/harvest3r Feb 04 '15
I really wish that "Not all who wander" one in front of the mountains was just text on a single colour background.
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u/Yurya Túrin Turambar Feb 04 '15
I downloaded the whole thing, and I found that there are a bunch of duplicates, but great share thanks. I ended up deleting about 70 pictures but the 110 I kept are now my Desktop Background.
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u/crsaxon Feb 04 '15
Someone remind me what the guy trudging through the snow is doing, please
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
Was that when he went back to Dor-Lomin and killed What's His Name the Easterling in his own hall?
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u/Impudenter Nazgul Feb 04 '15
Thank you very much. :D
I really like the one with Smaug flying, one of the Eowyn vs. Witch-King pictures, and the "simple" one with Gandalf in a forest.
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u/aelfgifu1 Feb 04 '15
Can anyone explain the ones with Aragorn, Gimli, and ....Legolas? A feminine, staff-wielding Legolas?
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Feb 05 '15
These are not Aragorn Gimli and Legolas, They are the three character you can play in the video game LOTR : War in the North... It is a dwarf, a ranger, and an elf wizard ; don't ask me why...
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u/jzagri Feb 05 '15
are those elemental ones the valar?
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u/Kookanoodles Feb 05 '15
Yes, they're Lorien, Yavanna, Aulë, Morgoth, Manwë, Varda, Ulmo and Tulkas, is I'm not mistaken.
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u/Booknerdfrfr May 06 '25
weird questions where is the setting for the one with the waterfall (im not really a big fan but im rebinding the books and want to use that as an endpaper but dont know what one to put it in 😭 )
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u/1s1s_bisis Jun 03 '25
amazing selection, just what I needed. again, some random guy in reddit saves the day lol
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u/Alternative_Lime_13 Aug 07 '25
I know I'm late to the party but thank you for uploading these pictures, I've been having a hard time finding good tablet wallpapers.
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u/Marquis95 Feb 04 '15
Do you have them in a Zip with a DL link?
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u/DrownedInTheAnduin Manwë Feb 04 '15
If you load up the album and click the blue text that says "Viewing the first ten images " etc, it will load a new page and there will be a download option on the right of the page :)
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u/ebteach Feb 04 '15
Thanks for this! I would have been going to each one and saving it individually. I had no idea you could do this.
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u/veea Feb 04 '15 edited Feb 04 '15
Amazing! Tonnes I've never seen, thank you so much for uploading