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He/They. Queer as hell. Grown ass man blogging about memes and hyperfixations. JJBA, MP100, Star Trek, Marine Bio, and Bugs are some of them. On this blog we support and respect asexuals!! If you’re a terf, nazi, pedophile or bigot of any kind you can go fuck yourself :)
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Figwit Lives

Following the release of The Fellowship of the Ring movie in 2001, internet fandom fixated upon the unnamed Elf extra who appeared sitting beside Aragorn during the Council of Elrond.

The extra, played by Bret McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords), was dubbed “Figwit” by fandom. “Figwit” stood for “Frodo is great… who is THAT?!”

Despite appearing in the film for less than three seconds, Figwit was everywhere in fandom. There were calls for Figwit action figures, a flood of Figwit fanfics, NSFW Figwit fanart, and whole websites devoted to Figwit - such as www.figwitlives.com, which is, somehow, still running.

Peter Jackson took notice of the Figwit fandom and brought McKenzie back for a speaking role in the third film to play the Elf escort that addresses Arwen:

And then cast him as Lindir in the Hobbit movies:

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