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Healed picture of my tattoo
I have been toying around with this idea for about 3 or 4 years now, and could never justify getting it because im a volunteer. but thanks to some generous friends and family. this is my late christmas present!
the text is an excerpt of a J.R.R Tolkein quote that goes
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
Like I said, I live in Australia as a volunteer. And have for nearly 3 years. During that time I have not stayed just in one place, I have been up and down the east coast and up several times to Papua New Guinea and now to Thailand and Burma. I dont think I have stayed put for over 4 months in this 3 year span. and dont plan on buckling down long term any time soon…
I guess you can say I have aquired a healthy case of what they call ” wander lust ”
I believe Tolkien in this poem is saying that things are not always as they first appear, nor should you assume that things will stay as they first appear to be.
so this is a reminder, and to signify that I am merely a wanderer with a purpose. I may seem to jump from here to there and back again, aimlessly chasing my whims. But in fact, my roots run deeper than they appear…even if they don’t keep me stuck in one place or opinion for too long. and im actively gaining a perception of things outside of what I would normally know.
The things I have learned while apparantly wandering around and working for free. are some of the most precious things I will ever have in my life. My preceptions of the world, knowledge of different cultures, my love for people and my relationship with God have drastically changed and through it all have gained a new passion for life and wanting to seeing others live.
The gospel account was the "eucatastrophe," as Tolkien and Lewis came to call it, the happiest of all tragedies, because it satisfies the human heart’s deepest yearnings, including the desire for an epic mythology. But this myth had the added advantage of being historical fact, interpreted through a literary text and poetic tradition.
This insight unfolded for both Tolkien and Lewis an entire literary philosophy of mythopoeics (mythmaking), inspiring them to create new mythologies for our time. They would spend the rest of their lives arguing privately about how such an understanding of myth, religion, and literature could be applied to the art of writing.
For these two frustrated poets earning a living as Oxford dons, there was one obvious consequence of their theory of mythopoeics: They had to start writing popular fiction. If God used narrative to communicate his revelation to man, and man is called to bear God’s image on earth, then one of the most noble vocations is to create new "secondary worlds" in narrative.
– Jason Boffetti
79014 combined with 79011 Dol Guldur Ambush. The two sets can only be joined on one side. The DGB set doesn't fold any more than what is shown in the picture.
The city now stood empty. Just as decay had barely set in, scrappers descended on Minas Tirith and removed statues and anything else of value. A few stones from the parapet became loose and with no one to maintain them, soon began to fall to the ground.
The Two Towers on Waterworks Road that may have inspired the second Lord of the Rings book by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Severn Trent Water are based down here in Edgbaston.
Further down Waterworks Road is the Waterworks Tower within a Severn Trent facility.
This is the Edgbaston Waterworks Tower inside Severn Trent Water Edgbaston.
Edgbaston Waterworks (Edgbaston Pumping Station) (grid reference SP0455386465) lies to the east of Edgbaston Reservoir, two miles west of the centre of Birmingham, England.
The buildings were designed by John Henry Chamberlain and William Martin around 1870. The engine house, boiler house, and chimney are Grade II listed buildings. The site is operated by Severn Trent Water. Despite the close proximity to Edgbaston Reservoir there is no current or historical connection of the water. This waterworks manages domestic water supply whereas the reservoir was built to feed the canal system.
It has been suggested, but not proven, that the towers of Perrott's Folly and Edgbaston Waterworks may have influenced references to towers in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, who lived nearby as a child.
WATERWORKS ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B16
Pumphouse and attached
storeroom, standby
generator room and
ornamented chimney stack
at Edgbaston Pumping
Station
SP 0488 SE 36/17 17.8.79
II
2.
C1870, by J H Chamberlain and W Martin. Polychrome brick; slate roof. Pumphouse.
Tall gabled building with 3 tall lancet windows and 4 trefoiled and gabled windows
in the roof. The entrance up steps and flanked by buttresses. Above, in the
gable, a roundel in a lancet head. Attached and to the right are 3 lower gabled
buildings, 2 of them now used as storerooms and the third as a standby generator
room. Their forebuildings all demolished and the exposed walls now painted At
the rear of the standby generator room stands the ornamented chimney stack. Square
in plan and with some Doric dressings. First stage with broad lancets; second
stage with 2 light Decorated style windows; third stage with single lancets with a
band of quatrefoils over; fourth stage with coupled Decorated style windows; there
a bracketed balcony with iron railings and an octagonal turret with lancets in
the sites and a truncated spire on top.
J R R Tolkien, writer, poet, philologist and academic. Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Wolvercote Cemetery, nr. Oxford.
The Gandalf cosplayer gave me a really funny look when I asked them to do the Batusi for me. I'm going to guess the Balrog did, too, but I sure couldn't see it. He did hold up his hands in a clear gesture of, "What do I do about these?" and I said, "Yeah, I get it…do the best you can."
I think he did pretty well, actually.
This photo is shot with a Pentax ME with a 135mm Porst Tele MC 1:2.8 135mm auto D on Ilford FP4 Plus 125 @100 during a pure analog photo tour in Hamburg, February 2017. Stand developed with Adonal/Rodinal ~1:100 for 70 minutes.
We didn't even realize that September 22 was "Hobbit Day", someone mentioned it on Facebook after she had started reading it. So it was just a big coincidence!