the feminine urge to sit alone at prom and listen to the offspring whilst writing batman fanfiction

The true coming of age marker is donating all your old pedal pull and stick horse race trophies back to the county fair.

Darn, I think it must have been the theatrical version. I only have the disc, not the box, and the disc doesn't say anywhere that it's the extended release. I guess I'll have to try and find all the extra scenes on youtube lol

the lotr trilogy are the best movies on earth but one thing i’ll never forgive them is the complete lack of aragorn and éomer friendship. i know i already made a post abt it but i honestly cannot believe these two talked One time in the movies while in the books they became literal besties. what do you mean they promised they’ll fight together, draw swords together, upon literally their first meeting, then repeated the same promise later again and again. what do you mean “Since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs I have loved you, and that love shall not fail.” what do you mean “And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old.” LIKE HELLO?????

I sure do wish I could figure out how to do italics and bold on this app

I'll admit I'm only one movie in so far, but one missing detail that was, to me, *glaringly* obvious, was the lack of Gimli's Galadriel infatuation. Like, in the book, that was a *large* part of his character, and it helped to add some levity to some scenes- which I suspect is part of why it was left out, honestly

the lotr trilogy are the best movies on earth but one thing i’ll never forgive them is the complete lack of aragorn and éomer friendship. i know i already made a post abt it but i honestly cannot believe these two talked One time in the movies while in the books they became literal besties. what do you mean they promised they’ll fight together, draw swords together, upon literally their first meeting, then repeated the same promise later again and again. what do you mean “Since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs I have loved you, and that love shall not fail.” what do you mean “And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old.” LIKE HELLO?????

So I just got around to watching the first of the Lord of the Rings movies (extended edition of course) and they made me realize just how much Gandalf's death must've weighed on Pippin.

Like, when they come out of Moria, you see Pippin curled up on the ground with Merry holding him and at first you think "that's so sad look how much they're grieving that Gandalf is dead" but Pippin could reasonably blame himself for the death. He caused that corpse to fall down the well and let all of Moria know they were there, which probably alerted the balrog.

But!

Consider *book Pippin*.

Book Pippin did not poke an arrow and accidentally knock a corpse over the edge of the well. In the book "he groped for a loose stone, and let it drop. He felt his heart beat many times before there was any sound. Then far below, as if the stone had fallen into deep water in some cavernous place, there came a *plunk*, very distant, but magnified and repeated in the hollow shaft."

That was *not* an accident.

And that would be a lot of guilt for even someone like Aragorn or Boromir, someone accustomed to things going wrong and losing people, but Pippin is not even an *adult* yet!

Hobbits come of age at 33. Pippin is 28. Even if you are conservative about it and take that 33 to be more equivalent to 21, he is *seventeen years old*. If you go by the technical, legal adulthood of 18, he is *fifteen!!*

Like. Wow.

Imagine being fifteen and being the probable cause of death of an extremely powerful, possibly immortal being who has been involved in the history of your family (it's mentioned in The Hobbit that Gandalf has taken many Took boys and girls off on adventures through the generations) and community for probably centuries, because you were *bored and curious*

Like-

Can't wait to watch the rest of the movies and get emotionally whammied even more 👍

It's crazy to walk around and see other people just going about their lives.

Like "oh hey, there's a whole person with a history and friends and family and worries and joys and likes and dislikes and their life is probably a whole different perspective than mine" and then I turn my head and there's *even more individuals just casually existing-*

The new world contained within a single stranger is so vast and that's crazy

At first I was just gonna post my own original strange thoughts here, but then I realized that I can also reblog the kind of stuff that I think about, and also this blog is a little empty and also I keep posting things meant for this blog to my other one, so here have this

crying because an elf prince, dwarf lord and a fucking king of men dropped everything and ran over 100 miles with barely any rest, to rescue a couple of halflings (who were worth nothing outside the shire, and functionally little more than a burden) because they were their friends.

screaming and throwing up because the golden boy of gondor, the steward's eldest son and his pride and joy; noble heir of the house of húrin, sacrificed his life for those self-same halflings

There is truly nothing like a good hamball

I came to a realization, recently, that most (certainly not all tho) women probably don't have to practically fold themselves in half to wash their hands in public bathrooms.

They just.

Hold their hands out.

And wash them.

I will forever long for that one to truck stop bathroom in Illinois with sinks tall enough not to stoop at.