Meme of the Week - Crying Over Frodo (#4)

i’ve seen gimleaf fics where they each try to find out how to court by the other’s traditions. and i love those, so i think they ought to be taken a step further. and i think the way to do that would be, naturally, to make bagginshield real. allow me to explain why. ahem. after the ring is destroyed, girlfailure legolas spends two weeks poring over The Ancient Texts and stressing because his one (1) friend who WOULD help him (that’s aragorn) knows jack shit about dwarves beyond the surface (no pun intended) (well gandalf knows things but gandalf is a bitch) (he would just smile at legolas knowingly and wish him good luck instead of giving him answers).

so alas, girlfailure “shit tier ass elf” legolas is left to like, idk, sulk or something in the garden he starts at the Bestie Residence in minas tirith. and after like 2 days sam’s had enough he’s like “dude your vibes are upsetting the plants.” and legolas is like “my bad bro. it just seems i know nothing about dwarves which i probably should’ve thought about before, by elf standards, getting hitched in vegas.” and sam is like “oh dwarves? just ask mister frodo ^_^ he knows tons about dwarves!” and legolas is like “what the shit? him in particular? why does he anything about dwarves?” and sam leans in reaaaalllllll close and whispers behind his hand, “well you see mister elf, mister legolas, sir, there’s always been a very healthy amount of rumors that go around in the shire about mister frodo’s uncle, mister bilbo, and the letters he used to exchange with a certain king under the mountain.” and legolas, who was THERE, is like

Now and for always 🍃

Friendly reminder that Merry knew about the Ring before Bilbo even left. Friendly reminder that all of Frodo’s hobbit friends were spying on him through Sam to make sure that he was alright and that he wasn’t going to leave without saying goodbye. Friendly reminder that Merry and Pippin knew about the Ring and its importance to the Enemy and still decided to go with Frodo. Friendly reminder that Frodo wasn’t going to ask them to leave the Shire. Friendly reminder that Fredegar Bolger was one of Frodo’s close friends and knew about the Ring as well, but stayed behind in order to keep Frodo’s disappearance a secret for as long as possible.

hey guys. hey guys remember that au I made

Today I'm thinking about how playing Frodo Baggins is a thankless job in much the same way Frodo actually carrying the Ring was.

Like, when people talk about performances in LOTR adaptations, they talk about Sam, they talk about Gollum, they talk about Gandalf and Galadriel. All these characters that have iconic lines and big flashy moments of greatness or bravery or twistedness that let the actor show off. Frodo doesn't have any of those. What Frodo does have is the arguably harder job of making something external that is almost entirely internal, and, in most adaptations, having the most to do, just from a time-on-stage/screen/microphone perspective. But this never seems to get acknowledged and that's always kinda weird/interesting to me. I suppose people just respond to the big heroic/heartwarming/menacing moments, and not so much to littler moments of the same kinds. In the musical, in one of the dialogue breaks in "Now And For Always", Frodo says to Sam "It's not me they'll remember, you know". And that's funny because even if Sam tries to fight that in-universe with the finishing of The Red Book, it consistently ends up being true in a meta sense.

Anyway I suppose what I'm saying is appreciate Christopher Guard, Sir Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, James Loye, James Byng, and Louis Maskell or die by my blade.

Sam loves Frodo so openly, he feels devotion and affection for him. He always is and will always be the perfect example of what Sam believes is kindness and intelligence.

Sam loves him so tenderly that he can barely keep it on his chest, that he can barely shut it up, and that he can barely allow him to leave his side.

Frodo loves Sam so deeply that he can barely say it, values ​​him so sweetly that he can hardly imagine that he feels the same.

Frodo loves him so much that he wants to keep Sam away from him, he wants to prevent him from suffering any harm because of him, from dying because of him. He loves him so much that his voice and the refuge on his arms feels like the tenderest dream, what home means to him.

I was wondering if have a head cannon on how a Hobbit uses their tails in childcare, are they strong enough and versatile enough to grab little fautlings from getting into trouble ? And kittens, do little fautlings pounce on older Hobbit's tails ? I can see a confused Thorin trying deal with that issue with a disappointed Frodo crying that Thorin has no tail.

Yes to all of that but I also raise you: Little Hobbits get taught that interlinking tails is a way to say “I love you“ and that you can die from sadness so always tell people you like that you love them. Frodo is distraught when we realises Thorin can’t say he loves Bilbo bc he has no tail.

this is not normal;…!!!! AUGAHAHHHHH LITTLE GUYS HAVE TAKEN OVER MY LIFE!!

part 1 part 3

They were led then to seats beside Faramir: barrels covered with pelts and high enough above the benches of the Men for their convenience. Before they ate, Faramir and all his men turned and faced west in a moment of silence. Faramir signed to Frodo and Sam that they should do likewise.

'So we always do,' he said, as they sat down: 'we look towards Númenor that was, and beyond to Elvenhome that is, and to that which is beyond Elvenhome and will ever be. Have you no such custom at meat?'

'No,' said Frodo, feeling strangely rustic and untutored. 'But if we are guests, we bow to our host, and after we have eaten we rise and thank him.'

"we have no deep ancient prayer-adjacent rituals we say thank you though 🙂👍"

By bamboocarbon-ver-2-0

This was not my artwork, but I liked it a lot. Imagine a scene if Boromir survived and got to talk to Frodo again after the Ring was destroyed (bc he would have gone to Minas Tirirth). It would have been a wonderful scene. Frodo would have most definitely forgiven Boromir for trying to take the Ring. It would have been lovely to see their friendship mended.**

On that note, I also love how Boromir calls the Hobbits "the little ones" bc it sort if shows a softer side to his character. Since he is mostly tough and all, it's nice to see how he protects them and gives them a cute name like that.

**If you'd like me to write a fanfic/imagine on this, please feel free to ask in the replies to this post. I have quite a bit of imagines I'm working on right now but I can still do it!**

DID DALLAS LIU JUST SAY. START SHIPPING ZUKKA. I-

I AM GOING TO-

ZUKKA CONFIRMED???????????

He's hilarious like Mai and Suki are right there, they have been cast, Yue is also right the fuck there and these two went "nope, all in on the queerbait train."

I hope they keep it up LMAO

god. something about samfro is so…

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

I'm on book 4 right now (Sam-Frodo-Gollum pov) and it's interesting how much the narration changes, where the previous chapters were more of an account of events, with the characters being fleshed out only through the dialogues and their actions, the Sam-Frodo chapters are very intimate, with access to Sam's most personal thoughts (whether pleasant like the "I love him" directed at Frodo, or ugly like thinking of murdering Gollum), the narration itself sometimes can't help but give an opinion ("It is doubtful if he ever did anything braver in cold blood, or more unwise.").

Maybe my opinion is tainted by my prior knowledge but the narration style itself certainly fits the idea that the book was written by Frodo and Sam, with their parts written from experience and the rest - from hearsay

'It is true that if these hobbits understood the danger, they would not dare to go. But they would still wish to go, or wish that they dared, and be shamed and unhappy. I think, Elrond, that in this matter it would be well to trust rather to their friendship than to great wisdom.'

If I had a copy of lotr I was in the business of hilighting I would hilight and underline this a hundred times. This is it, this is the thesis statement of the whole dang story

Plus the first part of this gives me a whole lot of emotions about the nature of heroism in this story and about Gandalf especially, none of which i can properly put my finger on right now--

Something about how the way this quest gets started...Frodo is all "I am pretty sure this is gonna suck and we are gonna die" even Elrond basically admits he has No Clue how or if their goal is even achievable. But they go anyway. And from an internal-but-also-fabley-meta perspective, that is the right thing.

They let the baby hobbit tag along on the world's most Evil Recycling Run because whether he really is brave or just desperately wants to be doesn't really matter, he loves his cousin and he's going, damn it

I'm internally dissolving into a pile of tears and I can't explain why lol? Characters who try with no guarantee of success, in jirt-world, are met with such grace. It underpins every word and this is just one example.