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In response to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, the Amsterdam University Press made two books on the history of Ukraine Open Access so that they are available for free.

Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian. The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014. AUP, 2016. Download here.

Motyl, Alexander and Ksenya Kiebuzinski, eds. The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook. AUP, 2016. Download here.

this fundraiser has not yet reached its goal.

Another highly vulnerable group in situations like these, and another one I will illustrate a Tolkien character, landscape or OC of your choice for in return for a direct donation (by donating directly to the crowdfund link, not through paying me! Just message/reply what illustration you would like, and donate independently).

See pinned post for examples of my work.

The fundraiser was organised by LLM students at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland.

The Ukranian NGO is aware of this fundraiser, see; https://twitter.com/fightforrightua/status/1495781139948134404?t=Z62DmINO5wJgmeT7qP7lfA&s=19

The Ukranian NGO's site:

https://eng.ffr.org.ua/

The fundraiser has still not reached its goal-- please signal boost.

From the update of 27 feb:

" We are coordinating efforts with disabled Ukrainians directly who are attempting to flee. I am happy to report we have knowledge of several individuals who have made it to the border and have been connected with our contacts. Among those fleeing are Ukrainian members of this organization who are doing the work of surviving, fighting, fleeing, and helping their disability communities and families.

IF YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO IS DISABLED AND FLEEING AND NEEDS ACCESSIBLE RESOURCES PLEASE CONTACT US DIRECTLY. We will try to help. We are working with partners across Europe to provide accessible accommodations wherever possible."

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Don't hesitate to ask for an illustration in return for a donation. I will be linking the fundraisers again when I post the completed illustrations and so hopefully spread it further.

Does this belong on a Tolkien blog?

Well, I am offering Tolkien illustrations, to start with. And I think helping to protect the vulnerable in a time of war is a meaningful way to show your appreciation of Tolkien's writing.

this fundraiser has not yet reached its goal.

Another highly vulnerable group in situations like these, and another one I will illustrate a Tolkien character, landscape or OC of your choice for in return for a direct donation (by donating directly to the crowdfund link, not through paying me! Just message/reply what illustration you would like, and donate independently).

See pinned post for examples of my work.

The fundraiser was organised by LLM students at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland.

The Ukranian NGO is aware of this fundraiser, see; https://twitter.com/fightforrightua/status/1495781139948134404?t=Z62DmINO5wJgmeT7qP7lfA&s=19

The Ukranian NGO's site:

https://eng.ffr.org.ua/

started working on illustrations for donations, will post when they’re ready. 💖

done with the first layer for the first illustration today! Couldn't help myself so the first one is a watercolour after all, not a sketch.

Thank you for donating to people who really need it.

I will be posting links to the ngo fundraisers with the completed illustrations, and hopefully spread them further that way.

this fundraiser has not yet reached its goal.

Another highly vulnerable group in situations like these, and another one I will illustrate a Tolkien character, landscape or OC of your choice for in return for a direct donation (by donating directly to the crowdfund link, not through paying me! Just message/reply what illustration you would like, and donate independently).

See pinned post for examples of my work.

The fundraiser was organised by LMM students at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland.

The Ukranian NGO is aware of this fundraiser, see; https://twitter.com/fightforrightua/status/1495781139948134404?t=Z62DmINO5wJgmeT7qP7lfA&s=19

The Ukranian NGO's site:

https://eng.ffr.org.ua/

If you need more motivation, I will draw a Tolkien character or OC of your choice for a donation of at least 10 pound to the Romani Ukranian refugee fundraiser I just reblogged (this one).

I’m having a bit of a stressful time in my own life right now so I can’t offer more than sketches (in pen, ink or pencil, up to you. might add some colour if I have time). I also don’t have the time to set up anything to check whether you actually did so, but I trust most people have something of a conscience to live with. If you lie about it know I despise you.

There are a lot of fundraisers going around at the moment, and you cannot expect me to reblog every one of them– this is a tolkien tumblr (on hiatus), you shouldn’t use a random tumblr as a source of news or orgs to donate to anyway, there are good journalists and organisations to follow for that.

But this one happens to support fleeing/displaced people in a very direct way, and even if they did reach their initial urgent goal their current ~2100 pounds is simply not much to support multiple displaced families for who knows how long.

it might take me 1-5 days to upload your character sketch of choice because  busy. But I will get to it. You can send an ask, message, or reply to this post.

Will draw nudes, but no smut.

This is a Crowdfunder for on-the-ground, mutual aid for Ukranian Roma. Currently, it's mainly being shared amongst some UK-based Romani and Traveller activists/charities I keep up with but I thought I'd share here. It's currently the only one of it's kind that I've been seeing.

Roma will inevitably be forgotten BY EVERYONE during this war if we don't do our utmost to remember and help them in any way we possibly can, even if that is simply boosting info about how to help them escape immediate danger.

I also think this Twitter thread on the history of Ukranian Roma (from the Middle Ages to the present day) by Queer Roma is a good primer to read alongside boosting this Crowdfunder.

Btw, as I'm aware there's a lot of false info etc. going around atm, I'm highlighting that this Crowdfunder is being run and monitored by a registered UK charity based in Glasgow called Romano Lav:

This is a Crowdfunder for on-the-ground, mutual aid for Ukranian Roma. Currently, it's mainly being shared amongst some UK-based Romani and Traveller activists/charities I keep up with but I thought I'd share here. It's currently the only one of it's kind that I've been seeing.

Roma will inevitably be forgotten BY EVERYONE during this war if we don't do our utmost to remember and help them in any way we possibly can, even if that is simply boosting info about how to help them escape immediate danger.

I also think this Twitter thread on the history of Ukranian Roma (from the Middle Ages to the present day) by Queer Roma is a good primer to read alongside boosting this Crowdfunder.

Btw, as I'm aware there's a lot of false info etc. going around atm, I'm highlighting that this Crowdfunder is being run and monitored by a registered UK charity based in Glasgow called Romano Lav:

"lightworker" this "spiritual warrior" that I am wrapped in the velvet cloak of night #girl

- Lúthien.

god i know the blorbo meme is dead and gone but blorbolondë...

king blorbë of the blorbori city blorbolondë refused to grant the bloldor passage over the sea in his ships ....in response the kinslaying was instigated by bleoblor and his sons blordhros, blorglor, blorbogorm, blorbofin, blorbonthir and the blorborussa, as is told in the blorbolantë. 😔

King Blorbë beheld with dismay As down the dock and up the quay Much Blorbori bloorb was spilt that day Upon the shores of Blorbolondë

finally, a fragment of blorglor's lost epic,

what does this MEAN

Blor Blorbad was an blorben-king. / Of him the blorbers sadly sing; / the last whose realm was fair and free / between the Blorbains and the Sea.

His blord was long, his blance was keen. / His shining blelm afar was seen; / the countless stars of blorben’s field / were mirrored in his silver shield

But long ago he rode away, / and where he dwelleth none can say; / for into darkness fell his star / in Blorbor where the shadows are.

Blorbwards and forwards swayed their song

Reeling, foundering, as ever more strong

The chanting swelled, Blorbogund fought

And all the blagic and blight he brought

Of Blorbonesse into his words

Softly in the blorb they heard the birds

Singing afar in Blorbothrond

The sighting of the Blorb beyond

Beyond the western blorb, on sand

On sand of pearls on Blorbenland

Blordendil was a mariner

that tarried in Blorenien;

he built a blorb of timber felled

in Blorbrethil to journey in;

her blails he wove of blilver fair,

of blilver were her blanterns made,

her blow was fashioned like a blwan,

and blight upon her blorbos laid.

A blorben maid there was of old

A shining blar by day

Her blantle white was hemmed with gold

Her bloes of silver grey.

[...]

But from the Blorb has come no word

And on the hither shore

No tidings Blorbenfolk have heard

Of Blorbod evermore.

-- the lay of Blobodel

Three Blings for the Blelven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Blarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Blortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Blark Lord on his dark throne

In the Land of Blordor where the Shadows lie.

One Bling to rule them all, One Bling to find them,

One Bling to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,

In the Land of Blordor where the Shadows lie.

The brorld was young, the blountains green,

No stain yet on the Bloon was seen,

No blords were laid on blream or blone

When Blurin woke and walked alone.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A blight from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blorbo that was broken,

The browless again shall be bling.

In the beginning Bleru, the One, who in the Blelvish tongue is named Blorbovatar, made the Blainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him. In this Music the World was begun; for Blorbovatar made visible the song of the Blainur, and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. ...

Ónen i-Blorbo Bledain, ú-chebin blorbo anim

Blelen blíla blúmenn' blormentielvo... 🙏😔

Bla Blorbereth blilthoniel,

Blilivren blenna blíriel

Blo blenel blaglar blelenath!

Ba-chaered blalan-blíriel

Blo blaladhremmin blennorath,

Blanuilos, ble blinnathon

Blef blaear, bli blef blaearon!

god i know the blorbo meme is dead and gone but blorbolondë...

king blorbë of the blorbori city blorbolondë refused to grant the bloldor passage over the sea in his ships ....in response the kinslaying was instigated by bleoblor and his sons blordhros, blorglor, blorbogorm, blorbofin, blorbonthir and the blorborussa, as is told in the blorbolantë. 😔

King Blorbë beheld with dismay As down the dock and up the quay Much Blorbori bloorb was spilt that day Upon the shores of Blorbolondë

finally, a fragment of blorglor's lost epic,

what does this MEAN

Blor Blorbad was an blorben-king. / Of him the blorbers sadly sing; / the last whose realm was fair and free / between the Blorbains and the Sea.

His blord was long, his blance was keen. / His shining blelm afar was seen; / the countless stars of blorben’s field / were mirrored in his silver shield

But long ago he rode away, / and where he dwelleth none can say; / for into darkness fell his star / in Blorbor where the shadows are.

Blorbwards and forwards swayed their song

Reeling, foundering, as ever more strong

The chanting swelled, Blorbogund fought

And all the blagic and blight he brought

Of Blorbonesse into his words

Softly in the blorb they heard the birds

Singing afar in Blorbothrond

The sighting of the Blorb beyond

Beyond the western blorb, on sand

On sand of pearls on Blorbenland

Blordendil was a mariner

that tarried in Blorenien;

he built a blorb of timber felled

in Blorbrethil to journey in;

her blails he wove of blilver fair,

of blilver were her blanterns made,

her blow was fashioned like a blwan,

and blight upon her blorbos laid.

A blorben maid there was of old

A shining blar by day

Her blantle white was hemmed with gold

Her bloes of silver grey.

[...]

But from the Blorb has come no word

And on the hither shore

No tidings Blorbenfolk have heard

Of Blorbod evermore.

-- the lay of Blobodel

Three Blings for the Blelven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Blarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Blortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Blark Lord on his dark throne

In the Land of Blordor where the Shadows lie.

One Bling to rule them all, One Bling to find them,

One Bling to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,

In the Land of Blordor where the Shadows lie.

The brorld was young, the blountains green,

No stain yet on the Bloon was seen,

No blords were laid on blream or blone

When Blurin woke and walked alone.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A blight from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blorbo that was broken,

The browless again shall be bling.

In the beginning Bleru, the One, who in the Blelvish tongue is named Blorbovatar, made the Blainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him. In this Music the World was begun; for Blorbovatar made visible the song of the Blainur, and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. ...

Ónen i-Blorbo Bledain, ú-chebin blorbo anim

Blelen blíla blúmenn' blormentielvo... 🙏😔