"Tom Bombadil In A Nutshell"

"Tom Bombadil in a Nutshell"

2021

Silly ol' Tom demonstrating the only possible way he could ever outmatch Sauron: by exasperating him to death.

"The Return of the Shadow"

2021

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home.

-"The Silmarillion", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Enchanted"

2019

Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

"The Witch-king of Angmar"

2020

The lord of that land was known as the Witch-king, but it was not known until later that he was indeed the chief of the Ringwraiths, who came north with the purpose of destroying the Dúnedain in Arnor, seeing hope in their disunion, while Gondor was strong.

-"The Lord of the Rings: Appendices", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Naja nivea"

2020

Cape Cobra (Naja nivea)

My favorite of the true cobra species. Highly venomous and adaptable, and also coming in a variety of different colorations, my favorite of which is the smooth, bright yellow.

"The Real Baloo"

2019

Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus)

The Sloth Bear is most assuredly the bear that inspired Kipling's Baloo, yet he is not accurately depicted as such in any of the Jungle Book's screen adaptations (at least not that I know of). A shame, since that fur and those ears would make for quite a character.