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

Legolas Greenleaf and Aragorn in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS — 2002, dir. Peter Jackson

TOP 5 LOTR CHARACTERS ⟶ 4. (10.2%) LEGOLAS GREENLEAF

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J.R.R. Tolkien, somewhere in The Two Towers.

My favourite part of the books.

(via silosenovengo)

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Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

Evidence:

Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.

And they told you science was no fun.

Science!

I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.

Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can’t see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.

But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.

you mean like

@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares 

I shall never find peace.

Also, for what it’s worth, there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth.

There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.

Yeah there is.  The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor.  But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it.

So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic.

So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That’s awesome. It also means that no matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.

Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post

Elves are flat-earthers

This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage

This post really was a rollercoaster.

for elves it was a straight line

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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*

lotr thought for the day: fandom (rightfully) gives legolas shit for being captain obvious in the films, always stating what was already blindingly clear to the rest of his companions, but think about this

what if legolas genuinely thinks the rest of the fellowship is just that dumb

he’s the oldest member of the group (aside from gandalf and let’s be honest the elves have never been quite sure about gandalf; he’s always high on pipeweed and hangs out with halflings and dwarves). he’s an elf. he was brought up surrounded by only other elves. he was raised by thranduil. this is the first time he’s hung out with anyone other than elves for any considerable length of time, and look, he just - he doesn’t know how much their nice harmless mortal brains are picking up, okay? he just wants to make sure everyone’s up to speed. he’s nice like that.

My roommate does not appreciate the messages I send her

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