📆🎄 The 12 Days of The Lord Of The Rings Christmas
Plus other bonus LOTR Christmas carols!
It’s December, which means one thing: it’s time for Lord of the Rings Christmas content! In today’s newsletter:
The 12 Days of a Lord of the Rings Christmas!
On the 12th day of Christmas, my precious gave to me…
twelve dwarves and thorin
elevenses and luncheon
ten thousand uruks
nine black riders
ate second breakfast
seven palantíri
six thousand spears
FIVE ISTARI
four hobbitses
three silmarils
the two towers
AND ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL
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More LOTR Carols
Rudolph
You know Dasher and Dancer
And Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid
And Donner and Blitzen
But they were all of them deceived
for another reindeer was made
All I Want For Christmas Is…
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
One Ring to rule them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
I’m Dreaming of a…
I’m dreaming of a white wizard
Just like the one I used to know
…ok, maybe not exactly like that one. A bit less evil and power-hungry, for one.
Let It Snow
Oh the weather outside is frightful
but the fire is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Fly you fools! Fly you fools! Fly you fools!
Last Christmas
Last Christmas I gave you my heart...
Merry Did You Know?
Merry, did you know that I broke two toes kicking an Uruk's helmet?
And finally, Sannatar is Coming to Town
That’s all for this week’s Jokien with Tolkien newsletter. Farewell, friends. Go towards goodness!
Looking for even more LOTR Christmas content?
Here’s one of my first pieces on LOTR and Christmas, arguing that The Lord of the Rings is indeed a Christmas movie:
🎄 10 Reasons The Lord of the Rings is a Christmas Movie
Which Christmas movie is the best? Why The Lord of the Rings, of course.
Plus, one of the essays in my "Lore of the Rings Vol. I" is all about gifts in Tolkien's legendarium and the nativity story! Get "The Gifts of the Wise" and 9 other essays on Tolkien in paperback or for Kindle here:
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Ate second breakfast had me rollin: that’s the good stuffs right there
This was like the end of Return of the King -- just when I thought it was wrapping up, it kept going! I mean that in the nicest way possible. So much goodness.
BTW, Sannatar is top shelf. Well done.