Merry Pippin and Sam from the books are actually the most hobbits ever. like. frodo having them help him in this elaborate scheme to have him move away to a house in Buckland, trying SO hard to pretend that it’s bc he’s losing money and he just feels like moving and he’s like agonizing over it to himself the whole way. They get there and merry is like go take baths you stinky shits and they’re like oh well who’s gonna go first and he’s like actually I personally arranged it so there’s THREE bathtubs because I KNEW you fucking gay assholes would fight over this. Frodo working up the courage to tell them that he can’t stay there and has to go further away and they’re straight up like “LOL dude we know, youre a shit liar also you literally kept talking to yourself about for months. Plus merry saw bilbo put the ring on and disappear so he could avoid a social interaction like YEARS ago dude. so yeah danger is whatever. Btw we’re coming with you.” like. truly epic bro moments

THE RINGS OF POWER | THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

Inktober day 9: bounce

Mr Tom Bombadil bounces into the story, flips off the lore, and bounces out.

King shit.

Aragorn: it makes me feel so much better knowing Gollum is locked up and the Mirkwood elves are keeping an eye on him

Legolas:

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Stranger Things: season 4, vol II

One Dress a Day Challenge

The Men of September

The Fellowship of the Ring / Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn

This costume wasn't originally a favorite of mine, but it's grown on me. It's one of our first hints about Aragorn/Strider's hidden depths, as he returns "home" and puts on some finer clothes than he was used to wearing out in the wilderness.

I had the good luck to see several of the costumes from the LOTR movies on display once, but I can't remember whether this one was included or not. The craftsmanship on all the costumes for this trilogy was just exquisite. Just look at the details of the stitching around the neck!

First time I read LotR, FotR!Aragorn was a sort of puzzling character. Now, as a 28 to 29 year old facing the prospect of having to attend classes with freshmen at college again next year, I get it. He has big "old research professor is being forced by circumstances to teach freshmen, and he's equal parts amused, exasperated, and protective of them" vibes when dealing with the hobbits early on.

screaming into my pillow, lying on my bed kicking my legs like a school girl, crying figurative tears of happiness

wow The Rings of Power are really going to explore Nurn, Mordor, and show us how that lovely place was destroyed and it’s people enslaved by Sauron.

I’m very excited to see this new perspective of the Men that live there before the rise of Sauron in the Second Age. And it’s impossible to tell this story without creating original characters.

Middle Earth Marathon

This is it. On August 26th, my best friend and I will watch all 17 hours and 12 minutes of the hobbit/lotr theatrical edition trilogies in one sitting. Every movie, back to back. It is going to be awesome and I can't wait.

I regret to inform you

listen to glenn gould while you do your housework. it’ll either make you feel like:

a productive little hobbit on a quest (think merry brandybuck)

or

a snobby little art hoe with better things to do (think theo decker).

i’m not wrong.

lotr incorrect quotes

y/n: don’t worry Mr Frodo you have my tongue.

everyone else at the council: 🤨🧐

y/n: Oh! of course i meant silver tongue for arguments!! don’t be so dirty…

Friendly reminder Eowyn did not just say "I am no man" in the books.

She introduced herself; name, title, ancestors, as any warrior would do - because she is a warrior and she isn't ashamed or hiding herself, she wants the Witch-King to know who kills him. She doesn't preface that she is not a man as an "oop! Found a loophole" moment because she accepts she may not be able to kill him - and in fact it is not her femininity that is his undoing - but because she refuses to hide behind a fake name any longer. Not when she is finally free from the shackles of society and is more herself than ever before. Every action she has made in society has been a lie she was forced to tell for her own safety or to avoid scorn and this may very well be her last moment - but it is also her truest. So she makes sure the Witch-King and the armies of men know who she is as she fights alongside them. Here and now; they cannot ignore her.

And it is not her sex that defeats the most powerful of Sauron's servants because if it was then what is the point? Any maiden with a thumbtack could have defeated him. But (and I really like this about the books) she is not reduced to her sex even as a positive; it is everything she has fought for to lead her to this moment that becomes his undoing. The Hobbit friend she took pity upon because he too was scorned and dismissed as weak, her ability to put aside her pride and work together with another species (something every other race in previous wars failed to do), and all the training she spent her life for.

She does not win because she is 'no man', she won because she did what the other men could not and succeeded where they failed - even when they didn't know it was failure.