Here's a view looking over the limb of Enceladus with Saturn in the background, made from images captured with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on December 19, 2015 #OTD from a distance of about 25,000 km (15,534 miles)

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"Turgon de Nevrast descubrió el valle escondido de Tumladen, que se extendía al este de las aguas superiores del Sirion, en un anillo de montañas altas y escarpadas, y ninguna criatura llegaba allí salvo las águilas de Thorondor" - De los Noldor en Beleriand, El Silmarillion

Eclipse lunar Septiembre 17, 2024

Kvothe art by Donato Giancola

In thrust we trust

Launch and return are fundamental techniques for Starship’s fully and rapidly reusable design

There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

'O Earendel, brightest of angels, sent to mankind over middle-earth...' It's the winter solstice, when the medieval church sang 'O Oriens' - a prayer for light in darkness. It inspired an Anglo-Saxon poem, which in turn inspired Tolkien's myth of Eärendil aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-an…

Leaving the Shire I created an illustration of the time when Frodo, Pippin and Sam left the Shire

Vista aérea de Mordor, 1940. Esta fue una de las primeras concepciones de la geografía de Mordor. Tolkien modificó las posiciones de Barad-dûr y el Monte del Destino a medida que avanzaba la historia.

Full Video of Starship 8.

Gil-Galad during the war against Sauron. The Last Aliance of Elves and Men. The Second Age. by Martin Mottet

Manwe pardons Melkor “Before the gates of Valmar Melkor abased himself at the feet of Manwë and sued for pardon, vowing that if he might be made only the least of the free people of Valinor he would aid the Valar in all their works, and most of all in the healing of the many

#EclipseLunar

#BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1

"Tolkien is not a psychological absolutist but a moral absolutist: no person is absolutely good or evil; but goodness and evil themselves are absolutely distinct." - Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien

🧵 ¿Por qué cayó Saruman? No fue por falta de poder. Ni por ignorancia. Fue por algo más oscuro… y más común. 👇