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I’m entering my Tolkien phase again.

Super sorry about being so absent the last months :(

What about second breakfast?

Bonus: 

This thing from 2014 is my legacy. It’s got an insane number of notes and it still gets reblogs and likes everyday. I see people tagging it as #aclassic and I’ve met people in real life showing it to me not knowing I did it.

I was looking at it and realised that today, after 10 years I’d have done it the other way round.

I haven’t been in the Tolkien fandom for literally all of these 10 years so I don’t know if it’s been done already but here’s my updated version.

It’s…much funnier to me now lmao

Tonight, we remember one who lent his enormous talent to telling the story we have all come to love. Hail, the victorious dead!

May the Simbelmynë cover his tomb as it did the tomb of the one he so accurately portrayed.

Bernard Hill Dec 17, 1944 - May 5, 2024

Eomer's armor in 4k

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

#the burgundy pajama shirt + evenstar necklace + curtain bangs combo did so much for cinema everywhere

@lotr20 day 4: friendship | loyalty

did you mean: the love of your life

(google search & google template by @cal-kestis)

I saw a post before about how the ring’s impact on Frodo is meant to represent depression but I think it’s also meant to be war-specific PTSD, too — the way the ring makes Frodo and the other characters snap at their friends, Frodo saying he has to believe there’s a way that Smeagol can come back from what the ring did to him, the ring still having an impact on the bearers after it’s gone, and the context of Tolkien’s time spent in WW1 and most likely seeing others with shell shock

OOH THERE’S A PAPER ON IT

Okay, I highly recommend this paper because it was a damn good read and the description of the battle of Somme where Tolkien was is nasty as hell — the book version of Frodo is absolutely a shell-shocked soldier, even more so than the movie version

Rereading LOTR recently, the way Frodo kept having a resurgence of physical illness on the anniversaries of his injuries (in October for Weathertop, and in March for the pass of Cirith Ungol) really resonated with me. When I'd felt I was more or less recovered from the worst of my post-concussion syndrome and could only continue to improve, it shocked me when I had a sudden resurgence of symptoms on the one-year anniversary, almost to the day. And it took a while to get better, almost like I'd been literally injured again. And on several occasions after recovery, trying to recall information I learned when I had the PCS triggered literal physical pain, anger, and nausea as if the PCS had never left.

LOTR and its story of trauma and life after trauma is something that can be so personal.

I think the reason so many LOTR ripoffs fail is because they make their Aragorn analogue the main character, when the entire point of Aragorn is that he’s “the person the villains think is the main character, but is Not.”

Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.

Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.

And it works! Sauron is so fixated on defeating his Legendary Destined Archenemy with Extreme Main Character Energy that he completely overlooks the two ordinary little guys who were the real threat to him all along.

@tiny-steve sksjslslsk you are SO right

Concept: Sam finds out elves can die of sadness, gets very concerned, starts doing his best to make sure Mr Legolas is happy all the time just in case

This causes a terrible dilemma when Legolas expresses that he’d prefer not to be addressed as Mr Legolas and Sam doesn’t want to risk upsetting him but also that goes against everything he knows.

‘Mr Highness Greenleaf sir’

Mr Greenleaf, sir? Mr Green? Mr Leaf?

*Legolas and Gimli fighting, as usual* 

Sam: Stop! STOP! You leave Mr L- Elf alone, Mr Gimli!

Legolas: Why, thank you, Sam. You see, Gimli? Your dwarven rudeness has even upset Sam-

Sam, sobbing: He can’t take such a talking to, Mr Gimli! He’s such a sensitive soul. Much more of that and he’ll be dead by morn!

Legolas: 

Aragorn: Sam, don’t worry. it takes a lot more sorrow than that to kill an elf

Sam: but these are really sad times

Aragorn: excuse me

Sam: we’re all very upset all the time because of the quest. what if something small is what pushes him over the edge

Aragorn: it doesn’t work like that-

Legolas, genuinely panicked: what if it works like that??

Aragorn: I’m sure it doesn’t

Legolas: he had a point I AM very upset all the time

Gandalf: Legolas I assure you no elf has ever died like that

Legolas: NOT YET THEY HAVEN’T

Legolas & Sam: *both panicking*

why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs

like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it

World's most tense egg and spoon race

this somehow became the funniest thing on earth in my head and I had to draw it so

Incorrect Lord of the Rings Quotes