The vast majority of Eomer’s “Men”:

My headcanon is that due to the rural nature of Rohan and its overall decline, a huge number of the Rohirrim were actually women in disguise, not just Eowyn. And that it was an open secret that only the royal line didn’t know about that local lords fielded women riders to bolster their dwindling numbers

happy birthday king

big naturals gandalf was in my dream last night. saw him in the distance in a field

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Their roles are interchangeable tho

The Silmarillion: of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

Tolkien being like

One of my favorite historical deepdive topics is the friendship between CS Lewis (the author for The Chronicles of Narnia) and JRR Tolkien (the author for The Lord of the Rings).

There's so much good stuff to talk about like how Tolkien nearly broke off his friendship with Lewis because he wanted to put Santa Claus in his books, or how Tolkien got pissed about CS Lewis being called an "ascetic writer" in an interview because he watched him sling back 4 beers at lunch the day before. Plus the fact that Tolkien famously hated his work being taken as an allegory or metaphor, meanwhile Lewis was like "if one person doesn't understand that the lion is Jesus I'll shoot myself"

But I think my favorite piece of their history together is the letter CS Lewis sent to JRR Tolkien describing Aslan.

Because you think back on this time period and go "everyone was so stuffy and uptight and miserable, they're nothing like us"... but then the first ever drawing of Aslan by CS Lewis was this

“So elves and wizards are legit but little guys under 3,8 ft are not?!”

“Halflings!” laughed the rider that stood beside Eomer, “Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children’s tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?”

“You didn’t think that Halflings were real?” asked Aragorn. “That’s like, super racist, dude. Are elves also imaginary?”

“It’s 3019, I thought we were past this,” muttered Legolas. 

Elrond: the fate of Middle Earth rests in you getting the ring to the fires, Frodo. 

Frodo: oh my! so then we should leave immediately, right? 

Elrond: nah, you can chill here for another few weeks.

Elrond: Also if you make it to Lothlorien, feel free to kill a month resting there too. No rush. 

How does he fit so well ???!!

The Tolkien girlies need to to see this bread by @denisav_hungryshots on tiktok

imagine you’re on a road trip with the love of your life and your boyfriend like, insists you pick up this fucked up little hitchhiker who’s like 4 feet tall and looks like he’s literally about to die, then you hear the hitchhiker conspiring to KILL you and your boyfriend and steal your shit, so you tell your boyfriend and he’s like “oh no he’s harmless you’re lying” and basically this fucked up danny devito sized slimeball breaks up your relationship and your boyfriend leaves you on the side of the road!! that’s what happened to samwise gamgee.

Y'all need to see this omfg this is so good holy shit I'm so normal about this

I love EVERY single thing of this scenario!

Silly Silvergifting fic idea:

Celebrimbor knows that Annatar is Sauron.

Sauron knows that Celebrimbor knows.

They continue working together and getting closer and closer anyway because now Celebrimbor thinks that Sauron genuinely wants to turn over a new leaf as Annatar, and Sauron is convinced that Celebrimbor secretly wants to help with the world domination plans. They are both idiots.

Gollum’s lowkey adoreable tbh i would like to keep him as a pet❤️

“They have a cave troll.”