The Lord of the Rings is back! Well, it never left, but Amazon is giving it a big boost with its upcoming series The Rings of Power, which will premiere later this year.
While The Lord of the Rings is set during the Third Age of Middle-earth, The Rings of Power is set during the Second, thousands of years before Frodo and Aragorn and company are even born. If you’re ever looking to get a Lord of the Rings tattoo, you have a lot of mythology to choose from. Of all the Middle-earth books that J.R.R. Tolkien had a hand in, The Silmarillion is set the earliest in the timeline, so let’s begin there.
The Silmarillion tattoos
Let’s start with a couple of tattoos we may actually see reflected in The Rings of Power. The first-ever image released from that series shows someone looking at Laurelin and Telperion, the two trees that lit the land of Aman many thousands of years before the start of The Lord of the Rings. This couple got matching tattoos of them, which is pretty cool:
"My wife and I got matching tattoos yesterday of Laurelin and Telperion! from lotr"
Another fan got a beautiful sleeve tracing the journey of of the Silmarils, a trio of sacred jewels for which a series of bloody wars are waged:
"Had some more work done on my Silmaril sleeve, depicting key events in the Silmaril which became Eärendil’s star. Finally becoming a single, coalesced idea rather than patchy, disparate bits. from lotr"
The Silmarils were created by the elf Feanor, whose skill was unsurpassed. This is the symbol of Feanor’s house:
"Got my Star of Feanor tattoo yesterday! from lotr"
From there, our story jumps forward a lotta years: