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More Reading Thoughts: Fog on the Barrow-Downs

  • At long last, our journey resumes!! And ohoho what a chapter to start off with X-D
  • Oh my word THIS is where the “far green country under a swift sunrise” line comes from. I might cry.
  • There’s something about getting ready to leave early in the morning, when the air still smells cool and clear, that’s just nearly magical. I love that Tolkien leaned into that vibe here.
  • Frodo being distressed that they didn’t say goodbye to “my fair lady Goldberry” is so darling of him X-D
  • GOLDBERRY SPARKLES WHEN SHE DANCES
  • Once again, Tolkien’s descriptions of the country they traverse are beautiful at atmospheric.
  • Oh yes. One singular cold rock, standing upright all by itself, like a finger pointing towards the sky, in an area where you KNOW there are ancient graves nearby. That’s not worrying at all. Let’s just use it as a cooling pad. Great idea.
  • And now they took a too-long afternoon nap and are surrounded by fog. Great job, guys.
  • In which Tolkien reminds us that he ABSOLUTELY can write horror…
  • “‘Where are you?’ he cried out miserably.” Oh poor Frodo 😭
  • The Wight answering “HERE! I AM WAITING FOR YOU!” is NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
  • Oh sure just leave it until the end of the paragraph to mention that the hobbits are lying surrounded in treasures with a SWORD ACROSS THEIR NECKS
  • Bruh reading the Wight’s incantation actually gave me chills oh my word
  • FRODO HACKED THE HAND OFF THE WIGHT’S ARM LET’S GOOOOO
  • The fact that Frodo falls on top of Merry specifically is making the Cousin Feels part of my brain go brrr
  • I cannot WAIT to draw this ahahaha >8-D
  • SUDDENLY: TOMBADIL
  • The severed hand is still WRIGGLING EUGH 🤮
  • Did Tom stomp on the hand like a spider??!? That’s hilarious LOL
  • THEY’RE ALIVE!!!
  • Sam being annoyed with the burial clothes is PEAK 🤣
  • The ponies are okay!!
  • Tom like “seems I’m gonna have to babysit you boys until you get to the Road so you don’t get freaking lost again” 🤣
  • Tom choosing a brooch from the treasure pile for Goldberry is adorable actually
  • THE DAGGERS LET’S GOOOO
  • One of those is gonna kill a troll, and the other is gonna stab the Witch King in the knee >:-D
  • A vision of a Man with a star on his forehead?? Aragorn foreshadowing?? 👀
  • The two stones Frodo rode between earlier have mysteriously disappeared. Thanks I hate it.
  • Turns out the line of “trees” they saw in the distance was actually a line of bushes that marked off the boundary of an ancient kingdom. But we don’t get to learn anything else about it, except that the memory of it makes Tom sad. Yet another example of Middle Earth being SO FREAKING OLD.
  • THEY FOUND THE ROAD 🥳
  • The hobbits like OH RIGHT, CRAP, THE BLACK RIDERS
  • Bye Tom!
  • Sam like “welp, I suppose he’s the nicest and weirdest person we’ll come across” 😂
  • Of course the Brandybucks visit the Prancing Pony every now and then!!
  • Frodo like “if you tell anyone my name is Baggins then SO HELP ME—”
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More Reading Thoughts: In the House of Tom Bombadil

  • BEHOLD! ANOTHER CHAPTER! We’re making it at a magnificent clip nowadays
  • Eyyyy it’s Goldberry!
  • Frodo surprising himself with the poem that springs out of his mouth when he sees Goldberry will never not be hilarious and adorable
  • It does beg the question of where the heck that came from. Does Goldberry just have that effect on people? Does it have serving to do with Elf magic, like she implies? Does Frodo just have that accidental rizz?? Who knows!
  • Frodo: “Who is Tom Bombadil?” Goldberry: “Well, he is, of course, silly :-D”
  • Mighty convenient that Tom has exactly four beds for the four travelers
  • They DO take a bath before supper >8-D (Don’t mind me, just a comic idea percolating in my head. Some of you know what I’m talking about.)
  • Tom was waiting for them. Tom was waiting for them. He’d heard word that the hobbits were coming. He wasn’t actively trying to find them, but he wasn’t surprised when he did. I don’t know why that enchants me so much.
  • Merry and Pippin like “AAAHH NO DON’T TALK ABOUT THE WILLOW TREE” is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking depending on how you look at it
  • Heeheehee nightmare time
  • Frodo has a dream about Gandalf and Black Riders. Hmm, pity. You’d think he’d have a nightmare about water, given his near-drowning and the way his parents died…but I guess this is important for foreshadowing purposes.
  • Pippin has a dream about being inside the tree. He feels surrounded and afraid. Understandable.
  • MERRY has the dream about water and drowning?? Shut up!! If I were him, I’d be way more disturbed that a freaking tree was IN MY HEAD and threatening to kill me!!
  • “Sam slept through the night in deep content, if logs are contented.” Hilarious 🤣
  • Much apologies to my girlies on the server who headcanon the hobbits with phobias corresponding to the four elements; sadly, Tolkien is not on the same page as us this time.
  • Tom: “You’d better not be late to breakfast, or you’ll get nothing but grass and water!”
  • See, Frodo gets it. Rainy days are awesome. They are beautiful and force you to slow down and admire the world.
  • “The trees were here before you, mind, and they don’t much care for your shenanigans!”
  • Ooh, so the Barrow-wights are the ghosts of dead kings that the Nazgul woke up. Fascinating.
  • Nothing makes the world of Middle Earth feel old and rich in history more than Tom’s stories
  • Goldberry’s hand being partly translucent is such a vibe
  • WAIT. Tom and Goldberry. Differences. Tall and short. Blonde and brown. One graceful and ethereal, the other down to earth and joyful. Working together, not in competition. Frodo and Sam. SHUT UP GUYS I’VE CRACKED THE CODE—
  • Tom is friends with Farmer Maggot!!
  • FARMER MAGGOT HAS SPOKEN TO GILDOR
  • Dang where’s my fantasy epic about Farmer Maggot you guys
  • And this is the part where Tom puts the Ring on his finger and doesn’t disappear, and if they’d ever included this in the movies it would’ve destroyed the gravity and mystique of the Ring altogether
  • Merry having to bite back a yell like “HOLY CRAP FRODO’S GONE” 🤣
  • WAIT I CAN MAKE THAT ANGSTY TOO aw heck the brainrot is setting in
  • “Frodo laughed (trying to feel pleased)…” Relatable, Frodo, relatable
  • Tom: “And remember, DON’T GO NEAR THE BARROW-DOWNS!” Meanwhile, the hobbits, in the very next chapter:
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More Reading Thoughts: The Old Forest

  • FINALLY making some progress in the book again, holy cow. It was beginning to feel like Fellowship really would take seventeen years.
  • I really love the thunder in Frodo’s dream from the last chapter turning into the sound of Merry banging on the door at the start of this one. It’s incredibly cinematic and mashes you feel like you’re watching a movie :-D
  • “Even Pippin is up” Even Pippin, he says! Pippin the notorious late-riser
  • Today’s vocabulary word is: spinney! It’s a British term for “a small area of trees and bushes.”
  • Aww Fatty seeing them off with “good luck to you—today and every day!” That’s a blessing Frodo is gonna sorely need.
  • Pippin: “Is it actually dangerous in here?” Merry: “Nah, the trees only bite sometimes.”
  • Tolkien is so good with suspense and writing things that give you the creeps. This is one of those times.
  • Pippin’s solution to the trees being mean is to yell at them
  • It’s really interesting to notice the pattern of hope and despair in the way Tolkien writes. Every time get the sense that the hobbits are about to give up, like clockwork, some good fortune entices them to take another step. First the appearance of the Bonfire Glade, and then the easier path, and now the hill…little valleys of despair juxtaposed with little victories, leading them forward like a breadcrumb trail.
  • Ooh the Barrow-Downs, dun dun dunnn
  • The forest slowly forcing the hobbits off the track they want to go is SO CREEPY and so good
  • There is definitely something almost hypotonic about the repetition of the word “willows” as Token describes the river scene
  • Heeheehee Old Man Willow time
  • There is something about Merry begging Frodo and Sam to follow Old Man Willow’s orders that is just DEEPLY disturbing to me. Gives me vibes like that episode of Sherlock when Moriarty is speaking through helpless people to whom he has strapped a vest full of explosives. But Old Man Willow doesn’t have a voice, so how does Merry know what he wants?? How is he speaking through this hobbit?? I hate it I hate it I love that I hate it
  • IT’S TOM BOM
  • TIM BIM
  • THOMAS BOMBADOMAS
  • In which Tom Bombadil spanks a tree for being naughty
  • Old Man Willow spitting Pippin out will never not be funny 🤣
  • The whole Tom Bombadil sequence is definitely a fever dream of “I don’t think we’re in Middle Earth anymore, Toto”, and ya either love it or you hate it
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So Meg and I were chatting on Discord the other day and came to a realization:

Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander?
Up, down, near or far, here, there or yonder?
Sharp-ears, Wise-nose, Swish-tail and Bumpkin,
White-socks my little lad, and old Fatty Lumpkin!

This is the rhyme that Tom sings when he’s looking for the ponies. The first five of them are Merry’s ponies: presumably one for each of the hobbits to ride, and one more for the baggage. (The last is Tom’s own pony.) And Meg noticed a surprising parallel between the ponies’ names and the hobbits:

Sharp-ears = Merry

Throughout the story, Merry is shown to be the one with the best head for details. He’s “sharp”, if you will; observant and intelligent.

EDIT: Merry is also the one who spies on Bilbo and Frodo to learn about the Ring! He’s got very “sharp” ears, and eyes too.

Wise-nose = Frodo

This is the easiest one. Frodo’s name means “wise” or “wisdom”, so this pony fits him well.

Swish-tail = Pippin

Tell me whose vibe fits Swish-tail better than Pippin. That’s right; you can’t. The name conjures a picture of careless jollity, which couldn’t be more Pippin.

Bumpkin = Sam

A “bumpkin” is defined as “an unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside”. As much as I would be the last person in the world to call Sam a backwards yokel, he is nonetheless the most “country” of the four hobbits, and his name literally means “half-wise”, or “lacking wisdom”.

That leaves White-socks to be the baggage pony, which likely doesn’t have much significance (aside from the fact that he’s an outlier because hobbits don’t wear socks).

We’re not sure there’s any particular point to this. We’re also not sure whether or not Tolkien did it on purpose. But either way, it’s a fun thing to think about!

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Group chat shenanigans.

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lady-merian asked:

Wild for the word asks?

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Ohhh, I love the wild places in Lord of the Rings. They just capture my imagination like nothing else. Places like the Old Forest, like Fangorn, like the woods of the Wild Men; places where there are eyes in the shadows and drums rolling in the distance. Places where things walk among the trees which are old, and unknowable, and answer to no one but themselves. You might see them. You might even befriend them. But you will never, ever control them.

Tom Bombadil is like that. He just is, and he has been for a very very long time, and it feels like he and his house and his beautiful wife just popped out of the ground one day many ages ago and haven’t changed since. There is something magical, fey, almost dangerous about him; but he’s so jolly and carefree that you’ll forget to be afraid. Tom is wild, but he is kind.

Treebeard is like that. Walking slowly but unceasingly; looking at the world through his thoughtful green-gold eyes; pondering it in his long, slow words; he has watched the seasons wheel by in his forest for centuries. His anger is slow to begin, but unstoppable once unleashed, like a huge boulder pushed down a hill. He is dangerous, in his own way—but then again, so is everything else. And he’d rather pour a bowl of Ent-draught, and share the stories of his people, and make new friends out of the young peoples of this world, if he can. Treebeard is wild, but he is kind.

Aragorn is like that. I think we don’t get to see enough of Strider the loner, Strider the wanderer, Strider the Ranger of the wild lands of the north; I can only imagine what went through his mind when he was all alone in the wilderness, and his only company was the wind and the grass and an endless sky dazzling with stars. I can’t imagine it didn’t leave a deep impression on him. By the end of the story, he’s the King of a great City; but I think a part of his heart still belongs to the wild.

And so does mine.

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More Reading Thoughts: “Homeward Bound”

  • The irony of reading this while I’m sitting in the airport waiting to leave on my trip is not lost on me lol
  • Aww, poor Frodo :-C That’s downright cruel, having to cross the Ford again on the same day he was stabbed in the shoulder.
  • And he hurries past Weathertop and can’t even look at it! D-: Someone comfort my boy
  • Ahhh, so this is where the movies got the idea for it to be raining when they arrived in Bree
  • “Do you think you killed him with that apple, Sam?” “I’m not so hopeful, Mister Pippin.” PFFFT
  • Butterbur rushing out with a cudgel in his hand because Nob wasn’t specific LOLOL
  • Butterbur: “Just spare me half an hour to talk.” Narrator: Three hours later…
  • The hobbits, realizing in retrospect that they’d been wearing armor the whole time and that is Very Strange: “Oops”
  • Sam: “Oh for Pete’s sake THE KING. IS. STRIDER.” Butterbur: “8-O 8-O 8-O SAYETH WHAAAAT??”
  • I love Butterbur’s simple perspective on everything. “Well, kings and wars and elves and the lot are none of my concern, I just want to be left alone in peace.”
  • Butterbur: “Nob! Now what does that remind me of?” Merry: “Not another letter you’ve forgotten, I hope.” HJSKFDKHSJFJ MERRY 🤣🤣🤣
  • YOU SASSY SON OF A BRANDYBUCK I LOVE YOU
  • This is why Merry is very quickly becoming my favorite hobbit. Intelligent, sarcastic little turd. He’s the best. :-D
  • BIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLL 8-D
  • BILL THE PONY I LOVE YOUUUUU
  • And now Frodo can say he’s writing a book without lying!!
  • Someone: “A song!” Everyone else: 😡 Frodo: 😳😬🫣
  • I’m loving the suspense about what’s happening in the Shire. It all builds slowly, one clue after another, until you really start to get an inkling that something is very wrong.
  • (And then of course Gandalf goes and spoils the surprise but we’re gonna ignore that)
  • “You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high…” Yeah especially Merry and Pippin
  • Gandalf’s metaphor of two old rocks having a chat lol
  • Frodo: “I wish I could see Bombadil again. I hope he’s okay.” Gandalf: “Trust me, he’s fine. And as usual, he couldn’t give less of a damn.”
  • Merry: “It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.” Frodo: “Not to me. To me it feels more like falling asleep again.”
  • Mmmmn I’m gonna be chewing on that for a while. That’s so poignant, and says so much about their personalities and how they view their adventure, but I can’t quite put my finger on it yet…
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Anonymous asked:

For the ask game, would you do "dew", "dusk", "dawn", and "moon" please?

Dew

So this one prompted me to go on a word-search for the word “dew” in LotR. I knew it sounded familiar, but couldn’t recall in what part of the book I’d seen it. Of course there are references scattered throughout the story, especially when characters wake up in the early morning, but to my surprise—and also no surprise at all—I discovered that they are most abundant in the chapters that have to do with Tom Bombadil!

Goldberry’s dress is described as “green as young reeds, shot through with silver like beads of dew”. When the hobbits wake up in the morning, Tom’s kitchen garden and the shaven lawn beyond are “grey with dew”. Goldberry calls to them on the hilltop when they depart; and “a light like the glint of water on dewy grass” flashes under her feet as she dances.

It brings to mind a sort of strange, natural beauty; delicate, ephemeral, and mysterious. From where does the dew come in the wee hours of the morning, when it suddenly forms to bejewel the sleeping grass with diamonds? To where does it go when the sun rises, and his bright face floods the brown earth with warmth? You can’t control the dew—you can’t make it appear or disappear—but if you’re in the right place at the right time, you can still witness its beauty, before it’s gone and vanishes like a dream.

Seems rather apt for Tom and Goldberry, really.

Now let the song begin! Let us sing together
Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather,
Light on the budding leaf, dew on the feather,
Wind on the open hill, bells on the heather,
Reeds by the shady pool, lilies on the water:
Old Tom Bombadil and the River-daughter!

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nerdy-catfish asked:

Ahahaha >:D Watch out, because my dictionary app has a bookmark feature and I use it on a lot of weird-sounding words 😁

How about I start off with Sanguine?

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Ooh! I do love a good, obscure bit of vocabulary >:-D

So in the old “science” of humors back in ye olde medieval times, it was believed that persons with a predominance of blood would display such traits as a ruddy face and an optimistic disposition. Seems silly today, of course, but some of the cultural associations still persist; take Santa, for instance, who’s often portrayed with red cheeks and nose because it makes him look even more jolly than he would otherwise.

So from this idea, we get these two definitions for “sanguine”:

  • optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation
  • (of the complexion) florid or ruddy

There are a more than few characters in LotR who fit both descriptions. Hobbits in general have red cheeks, as noted by Butterbur. Tom Bombadil is described as having a “red face”, and to call him “optimistic or positive” would be the greatest understatement of the century. And Quickbeam, while not completely red-faced, is described as having ruddy lips, and he laughs easily at many things as he and Merry and Pippin spend time together.

I would like to say that there’s a character who fits both these two AND a third definition—“blood-red, bloody or bloodthirsty”—but unfortunately everyone I’ve listed up there only uses violence when necessary and takes no particular pleasure in it, so it would be a bit of a stretch.

Good word, sanguine. Very weird. Very old. I like it. :-D

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rohans-daughter asked:

bemused

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Bemused is just the feeling When you meet Tom Bombadil And bemused is how you're feeling When you leave him

Seems not a power in this world Can ever stop his merry song And not a sorrow in the world Can grieve him

Old wight, darkest night Fog on the old barrows But Bombadil's got just the thing To beat him

Sing hark, in the dark The shadows and the spectres Flee all of them together When they meet him

But one day you must take your leave And get back on the road And Tom will go, his little house To greet him

And if not for the knives on belts And songs your friends all share, You would swear that you had only Dreamed him

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Last words.

Details under the cut.

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HOO, boy, this is the longest one yet, and the one I'm most proud of! I did make a few mistakes here and there—and yes, I skipped two paragraphs on page 121–but I think I got the most important stuff, especially the singing.

Obviously, that's not my art in the thumbnail. I WISH I could paint like that!

(Standard disclaimers: Yes that's my voice, no it is not trained, yes I recorded this on my phone, and no I do not know how to write any of the songs in sheet music otherwise I would.)

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Thoughts from the last few chapters

A Knife in the Dark

  • Ah okay phew Fatty Bolger is fine. Scarred for life, maybe, but alive. That’s the important thing.
  • Butterburr is such a simple man and a good host that even the potential of any of his guests getting hurt, regardless of whether or not they actually were, makes him go >8-O
  • Aragorn: “We’re gonna be delayed for three hours :-|” The hobbits: “Well at least we get breakfast!”
  • Tolkien brings the WHOLE STORY to a SCREECHING HALT to assure us that the hobbits’ ponies made it back to Tom Bombadil who eventually sold them to Butterburr and they lived happy lives ever after and I’m not saying Tolkien was a horse girl but Tolkien was a horse girl
  • One thing we missed in the movies was that ALL OF BREE comes out to watch the hobbits and Aragorn leave and if that isn’t small-town energy then I don’t know what is
  • Did Tolkien ever visit the American Midwest?? Because those Neekerbreekers sound a whole lot like the hellish half-cousin of cicadas. Not that cicadas aren’t hellish to begin with.
  • SAM DOES POETRY and we’re all very proud of him
  • Aragorn: *nerds out about Beren and Luthien* Me: *SNOOOOORE*
  • Ah yes, Thingol. King Thingol. Turin’s barely-there foster dad, Thingol. Dad Joke Man of Doriath Thingol. ….That Thingol?
  • FRODO STABBED THE RINGWRAITH LET’S GOOOOO
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