Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

the daughter of the embodiment of darkness which ate the original sun and moon and almost ate the devil.

That's not important. What is important is that it was a danger to Mister Frodo.

Lord of the rings

I present to you: this blessed group.

ARROW CAPACITY KILLED ME

That's because this is Silmarillion

Happy 32nd birthday to my sibling @awesomepaste who requested Boromir and Faramir being happy for their birthday present. And why shouldn't they get to be happy?

hozier’s little side quest narrations in between songs are so important to me. saw him (live !!! first time ever !!!!) today spend a solid three minutes going “i’ve just seen the most amazing bootleg hozier tshirt. if i could sell it without getting in loads of trouble i would. if i could WEAR it without getting in trouble i would. it says HOZIER and then it just has pictures of faramir from lord of the rings. oh no— oh i’m sorry, it’s a higher honor, it’s aragorn. and you have— is that boromir? and who’s that, that’s— that’s your fella from the princess bride” about a group of 3 people who had aragorn, boromir, and inigo montoya respectively on their “bootleg hozier” shirts. king.

I went to his show Friday and saw the following collection (the first is the only picture I took myself). I don’t know where or how this trend started but I fully support it

*shaking movie directors by the shoulders* NIGHTTIME AND OTHER FORMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DARKNESS CAN BE IMPLIED WITHOUT MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE

I always think of that conversation on the set of lotr where the cinematographer was asked where all the light was supposed to be coming from in scenes like the battle of helms deep, and he just responded that it comes from the same place as the soundtrack does. sometimes you need to be a little unrealistic to make your work better and actually watchable

This, incidentally, is why "NOPE" had such spectacular and clear night scenes: master cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema just plain didn't shoot at night.

Instead, they strapped a regular camera and an infrared camera together, coordinated them with lasers...

...combined them, used the naturally black sky created by the infrared as a blank canvas, added a new digital cloud line and various other effects to create a gorgeously lit night scene.

This is a ground-breaking new technique, and Jordan Peele is correct to say it could make movies better.

Good night footage is possible.

You just have to shoot it during the day.

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

Timepiece with the fewest moving parts:

Sundial.

Timepiece with the most moving parts:

Hourglass.

#sundial has some noteworthy moving parts#like the sun#and the earth

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

YOU, A REGULAR PERSON: Pink Witch King of Angmar

ME, AN INTELLECTUAL: nazgUwU

Twenty-nine. Thirty-three, thirty-four.

my liege you cannot trust this buffoon. he doesn’t even begin every other sentence with “my liege.” he‘ll never whisper in your ear the way i do it, my liege. sire. your fuckableness

I always thought the name wormtongue was derogatory but I clearly misunderstood their dynamic

i know i made the original post but come on man

Not mine. Thought to Share.

by Magali Villeneuve

by Irvin Rodriguez

(probably) by Yongjae Choi

Haven't played Magic in years but needed to share with you all Aragorn, King of Gondor.

Gilraen, Dùnedain Protector (and little Aragorn!) by Marie Magny

Aragorn at Helm’s Deep by Jason Rainville