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inthiskingdomwewillendure · 1 month

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The Return of the King in 4k

#lotr #lord of the rings #lotredit #eowyn #merry #merry brandybuck #meriadoc brandybuck #miranda otto #dominic monaghan #4k #i love this scene so much #he is so happy #and eowyn said finally fuck you i go to war #and i take the hobbit with me #i like that they did not go for the dernhelm story #wouldn't have worked in the movies #4k gif

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inkskinned · 1 year

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sometimes we just need someone to pay enough attention.

for the longest time i had been trying to read The Lord of The Rings. everyone had sung the praises for it, over and over. i'd seen clips of the movie and it seemed like it could be fun, but actually reading it was fucking horrible.

my parents had the omnibus - all the books squished into one big tome - and in the 4th grade i started sort of an annual tradition: i would start trying to read TLR and get frustrated after about a month and put it back down. at first i figured i was just too young for it, and that it would eventually make sense.

but every time i came back to it, i would find myself having the exact same experience: it was confusing, weird, and dry as a fucking bone. i couldn't figure it out. how had everyone else on earth read this book and enjoyed it? how had they made movies out of this thing? it was, like, barely coherent. i would see it on "classics" list and on every fantasy/sci-fi list and everyone said i should read it; but i figured that it was like my opinion of great expectations - just because it's a classic doesn't mean i'm going to like experiencing it.

at 20, i began the process of forcing myself through it. if i had to treat the experience like a self-inflicted textbook, i would - but i was going to read it.

my mom came across me taking notes at our kitchen table. i was on the last few pages of the first book in the omnibus, and i was dreading moving on to the next. she smiled down at me. only you would take notes on creative writing. then she sat down and her brow wrinkled. wait. why are you taking notes on this?

i said the thing i always said - it's boring, and i forget what's happening in it because it's so weird, and dense. and strange.

she nodded a little, and started to stand up. and then sat back down and said - wait, will you show me the book?

i was happy to hand it over, annoyed with the fact i'd barely made a dent in the monster of a thing. she pulled it to herself, pushing her glasses up so she could read the tiny writing. for a moment, she was silent, and then she let out a cackle. she wouldn't stop laughing. oh my god. i cannot wait to tell your father.

i was immediately defensive. okay, maybe i'm stupid but i've been trying to read this since the 4th grade and -

she shook her head. raquel, this is the Silmarillion. you've been reading the Silmarillion, not the lord of the rings.

anyway, it turns out that the hobbit and lord of the rings series are all super good and i understand why they're recommended reading. but good lord (of the rings), i wish somebody had just asked - wait. this kind of thing is right up your alley. you love fantasy. it sounds like something might be wrong. why do you think it's so boring?

#thanks for reminding me this happened #writeblr #warm up #i don't think this story translates well to the page #IRONIC!!!! :)#but yeah man i read the Silmarillion before i read the hobbit #the omnibus didn't explain what it was and i figured - you start at the beginning and then you read from the beginning #that's how books work #how was i supposed to know #EDIT IN THE TAGS: hi i think i worded this in a confusing way #the omnibus had ALL the stories in it - the silm #the hobbit #and all of LOTR #they just put the silm in the front so i thought logically it was the first book #that's how an omnibus usually works after all - the first book in the series is the first book in the tome #to be fair i GUESS the silm takes place “before” the hobbit????

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verkomy · 8 months

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me: picking up every acorn I see

my dad: take one home. plant it and watch it grow.

me: screeching noises

#somebody take this brainrot from me #I can’t take it anymore #I want to feel like a normal person again #I’m kidding #I like to suffer #the hobbit #bagginshield #tolkien #text

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la-pheacienne · 6 days

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George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

#the fact that in possibly his most famous interview tolkien literally quotes 'all men must die' LIKE #GEORGE #I SEE U #you have studied the Professor really hard grandpa just speak your truth free urself!#don't get me wrong for me the Professor will always and forever take precedence there is absolutely no question about it BUT ALSO #stop pitting two bad bitches against eachother!!#i think about all of these a normal amount #and this is why i'll never lead a normal life #ridiculously long post #but i couldn't leave anything out #i must say i cried a little when i read them all back to back #especially the last sam quote #lotr #valyrianscrolls #tolkien #tolkien quotes #asoiaf quotes #lord of the rings #the hobbit #aspa reads tolkien #aragorn #frodo baggins #sam gamgee #bilbo baggins #brienne of tarth #jon snow #jaime lannister #bran stark #daenerys targaryen

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cro-crocuta · 1 month

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So I drew another fucking orc.

And after ridiculous amounts of hesitation, I am showing him to the world.

This is my take on Azog the Defiler. He was only briefly mentioned in the Hobbit book, however was turned into a major antagonist in the movies. I did like the fact that the movies indicated he was an "older breed" of orcs that is less disfigured and more powerful, but other than that I kinda imagined him a bit differently. So there he is.

There is one super edgy element here - this version of Azog "decorates" his armour with pieces of armour that belonged to the warriors he killed 🤷‍♀️

Also I guess this could be a younger version of this character, considering how ridiculously nice and smooth he turned out.

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greeneyed-thestral · 1 year

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#reblog if you believe balin K N E W #he looks at him like 'bilbo you don't need to tell me anything ok..? i may be old but these eyes still work quite well'#'and he felt the same about you dear lad'#bilbo can't even verbalize his feelings and thoughts -- he can just nod in silence and hide his grief behind a smile #i don't know if you've ever found yourself in a situation in which you want to confess everything but something inside you stops you #it's like you're on a cliff and you can foresee how everything is going to change if you do so your body and brain pull you back #it's a fine line between wanting to get caught and still being scared of not being able to take those words back once said #this is exactly what it looks and feels like -- and bilbo realises sometimes you don't have to say anything 'cause everyone knows #the hobbit #hobbit #bilbo #bilbo baggins #thorin #thorin oakenshield #bilbo/thorin #thorin/bilbo #bilbo x thorin #thorin x bilbo #bagginshield #martin freeman #richard armitage #the battle of the five armies #battle of the five armies #botfa

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retellingthehobbit · 7 months

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The process work of one of my favorite pages from my comic adaptation of The Hobbit! :3 The page is from this chapter.)

I could do an entire post dedicated to the background painting process alone, which took a while, but here's the basic process of what a page looks like from start to finish...my initial thumbnails are always very silly XD. Minimalist Bilbo

#not chapters #wip #I might post more wip stuff soon!#i always miss Sketchy Bilbos #the hobbit #lord of the rings #lotr #I know I keep reposting variations on this painting but it took me a WHILE okay XD #'how long did this take' A WHILE #thankfully I was able to reuse the big background painting for...a ton of the backgrounds in the chapter #if you look really close there are only three major detailed background paintings in chapter 15 #and they just get reused/zoomed in/extended to fit the panels of the page #then there are lots of basic backgrounds like starry nights and sparkles and gradients

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laora-ryn · 11 months

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Omg y'all, my husband's family had a tradition growing up that when any of them were sick (which was pretty often, since he's one of seven kids), they would watch the 1977 Rankin/Bass Hobbit movie. Their dad really loves Tolkien but was generally not a fan of letting the kids use The Tech (tm), so I think this is the compromise the older kids wrangled from him

I have heard about this movie from him and his siblings, but didn't really know anything about it myself since my parents weren't super into Tolkien, so I got into it with the PJ LOTR movies

ANYWAY so we've been sick all week and James found out that movie's on HBO, so he sat me down and made me watch it as a Time Honored Tradition

And I.

Bilbo has approximated Leia buns??? I spent an hour and seventeen minutes looking at him, but still have not figured out what is going on with this guy's hair

They really leaned hard into "there's thorin and uhhhhhhhhhh twelve other dwarves idk their names don't matter." The only ones I could keep straight were fili and kili, since they were blond, and balin and dwalin, because they have like, six-heads and brain wrinkles on their head lol

James always described Gollum in this movie as a booger, and now I understand why. They also made him blind, which doesn't make a ton of sense in the context of Bilbo using the ring to escape, but imo it's a neat design choice nonetheless

They really did THIS to thranduil oropherion I am still laughing my ASS off at this. He also spoke with a really shitty, half assed French accent for no discernable reason

And then there was? Smaug??? Who has laser beams for eyes?? And fur on his back?? And a tiger's face???? And pecs????????

I was too flabbergasted to remember to take more pictures but the conversation right before the battle went like this:

Thorin, Bard, and Thranduil: let's fuck these guys up!!

Gandalf: STOP you fools!!! As we speak there is a FOURTH army of goblins on its way here!!!

Thorin, Bard, and Thranduil:

Thorin: King Thranduil, my dearest friend and greatest ally, I would be honored to join forces with you to defeat this evil

Thranduil: oh mighty king thorin, it would be an honor [I wish I was making this up, if it weren't made in the 70s I would've thought it was a meme]

Also, at the end, bombur shows up in front of Bilbo only to keel over and die, before we cut to Bilbo's conversation with gandalf:

Bilbo: how many of our original thirteen remain??

Gandalf: seven :(

Bilbo: and thorin??

Gandalf: soon, it will be six :((((

No explanation for this or like, explanation of who else they arbitrarily killed off or anything

So anyway, this movie was An Experience (tm) and I wanted to share and also, y'all should watch it if you get the chance bc lol

#mine #the hobbit #lotr #i think thranduil takes the cake for me #but smaug is such a 'wtf???' that he gets an honorable mention too #sry for long post lol

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deer-with-a-stick · 4 months

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if netflix makes Luo Ji non-chinese I'm going to throw myself off a fucking cliff

#*incoherent screaming*#if i have to see another “but netflix has to make the characters appeal to the bigger audience” comment im going to fucking lose it #i have a bar of deviation for adaptations. examples:#lotr: its all fine and dandy i love it #the hobbit: getting a little close to dangerous territory but i'll take it #dune: perfection #foundation: no wtf #rop: DO NOT FUCKING SPEAK TO ME OF THIS SHOW #i will still watch 3bd when it comes out #but I will be fucking PISSED if what i'm seeing about the characters is real #“give them personalities” ok yeah sure im fine with that #“the plot affects the entire population of the earth” ok sure but why are 75% of the cast non asian now.#“we need diversity! plus you need the audience to appeal to the audience” im going to fucking bite you. fuck off.#no hate to the actors i'm sure they did a great job its not their fault anyway #but seriously if they made luo ji non-chinese im actually going to fucking lose it #3 body problem #three body problem #remembrance of earth's past #netflix #actually if they made zhang beihai non-chinese as well then i'm just going to- *internal screaming*

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socksracoon10 · 3 months

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𝕺𝖍, 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙'𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙? 𝕴 𝖈𝖆𝖓'𝖙 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉 𝖔𝖋 𝖒𝖞 𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘.

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞! 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞! 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰: 𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙: 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: Being Best Friends With Legolas (Headcanons) Being an Elf and falling in love with Thorin (Headcanons) Waiting for Nothing (Legolas) More fics to be added! 𝐏𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐧: Pirate (Will Turner) The Banter of Thieves (Jack Sparrow) Curious of The Seas (Jack Sparrow) Being Davy Jones' and Calypso's Daughter (Headcanons) More fics to be added! 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬: - 𝙾𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜: 𝒜 𝒮𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝐹𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒞𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓅𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒟𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝐿𝑒𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝑀𝑒 𝒞𝓇𝒾𝓂𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝐿𝒶𝒸𝑒 (𝑀𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉) (Series - On Hold) 𝔅𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔈𝔶𝔢 (Masterlist) (Series - On Hold) - 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚕: 𝐼'𝓂 𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 (𝐵𝓊𝒸𝓀𝓎 𝐵𝒶𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓈 𝓍 𝐹!𝑅𝑒𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇) 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐞? (𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐱 𝐅!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫) (Series - On Hold) - 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚋𝚊𝚕: Two Sides - Will Graham x F!Reader Between Two Fires - Will Graham x F!Reader 1:34 - Will Graham x F!Reader, Hannibal Lecter x F!Reader - 𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖/𝙼𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚘𝚞𝚜: 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐬 (Sherlock Holmes x F!Reader) 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 (Robin Hood x F!Reader) 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬 (Bernard The Elf x Elf!Reader) 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚘𝚛 (Dark!Laurent LeClaire x F!Reader)

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enbysiriusblack · 4 months

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remus loves folklore books, lily loves fantasy books, regulus loves classical books, peter loves comic books, emmeline loves detective books, dorcas loves poetry books, mary loves romance books, james loves sci-fi books, marlene loves rock magazines, sirius loves play scripts

#sirius would read beginnings and ends of loads of books to seem more well read than he is #but he does not have the patience for an entire novel. loves reading/acting out plays tho #he'd love duchess of malfi fr and anything tennesee williams #marlene hates reading. finds it hard. and boring. magazines are as far as she's willing to go #james is a sci fi kid!! he also reads really fast but then loses attention after like 10 minutes and takes a break for a day or so #aroace mary who loves fictional romance <333 so real #emmeline tries to work out the mystery before the book detective. she's usually wrong. the girl's a failure and i love her for it #comic book peter is so me. dc not marvel!! okay he can read some marvel. occasionally. only spiderman tho.#regulus is a snob. never read a non classical book for leisure once in his life #fantasy lily!! she's such a hobbit/lord of the rings fan btw #remus is living up to his name and his boyfriends nickname #marauders era #marauders #remus lupin #lily evans #regulus black #peter pettigrew #emmeline vance #dorcas meadowes #mary macdonald #james potter #marlene mckinnon #sirius black

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tangerinesteve · 2 months

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watching the hobbit movies and the lotr movies back to back makes me laugh strictly because in the hobbit movies Saruman rocks up to the creepy tower to help Gandalf out of his lil cage.

And then in lotr Gandalf rocks up to his creepy lil tower. and all i can image is Saruman watching Gandalf coming and he's like "im about to do something so fucking funny. Just watc- there's no one else here. It's just me and this fuckin ball. *sigh* whatever this is gonna be hilarious. " And then he fuckin spins that bitch like a top and locks his ass up.

#listen ive been watching them over and over cuz nothing else is making me feel better #and i find it funny that he showed up to help but was obvious like ...no no its chill I'll take care of this guys no worries.#and then boom. evil wizard.#saruman #lotr #the hobbit #mine #sorry guys just tryin to be silly

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meadowsofmay · 1 year

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aragorn and legolas definitely bonded over their deceased parents, one night sitting next to the fire in the middle of one of their countless adventures before fellowship journey happened — maybe, aragorn was the first one to talk, something struck him before, reminding of the wound and legolas followed, sharing his story that he knows very little of but nevertheless enough to show aragorn he is not alone;

or legolas started it all, being lost and confused and feeling helpless in the whirlpool of his emotions because he just doesn't know enough and he can't decide what to do about the relationship with his father, and aragorn tried to help him navigate through it.

#you can't tell me they didn't take it as an opportunity to get closer #i bet they started with it and only after sharing the most traumatic experiences they were like 'so what's your favorite color?'#aralas #aragorn #legolas #aragorn son of arathorn #legolas greenleaf #lord of the rings #the hobbit #lotr headcanons #lotr fellowship #may thinks thoughts

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yellow-faerie · 1 year

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Still can't get over the way the Tolkien fandom sees the name Samwise Gamgee on a poll and just...

#someone needs to take that hobbit out the polls #I mean I love Sam as much as the next gal but...#maybe it's the Silm girlie in me that thinks Elrond should be doing a lot better right about now #Queued

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writercoracain · 5 days

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i know everyone loves autumn vibes but where are my spring writers. where is my fantasy slathered in sunlight and soaked in balmy heat. where are my cottages with the windows flung open. buzzing bees flitting about a garden. forestfolk bumbling about collecting acorns and climbing trees in full bloom. where is my sidequest to a pond where our adventurers take an afternoon to rest their feet and water their steeds. where is the slow kissing behind a willow on the eastern shore of a long fogotten isle. i want summer garb and billowing dresses. knights in half their armor, catching a breeze while they wait their turn at the local tournament. barmaids in overalls and strappy sandals pouring specialty summer ale brewed with seasonal flowers and golden wheat. jaunts through a warm kingdom, searching the nightmarket for goods from far off places while neighbors dance under bottled candlelight.

#fantasy writing #writing community #cozy fantasy #i want summer vibes in a fantasy setting #take me to the shire #wip inspo #romantasy #pure hobbit vibes

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haitani-trash · 6 months

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nothing will ever bring me as much nostalgia and comfort as the lotr films

#l speaks #even the hobbit #I know it’s a controversial take but I do actually like the first two hobbit films #like they’re not GREAT but they still give me the same comfort as the LOTR films #also I like laughing at cgi leggy #LOTR #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #the hobbit

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