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admittedly i know little of the subject but one would think, at 45 years of age, he would be a ryan goose by now
Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses
King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.
He didn't want to talk to you.
Uh.
Point of order.
King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.
This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.
King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.
He just doesnât do much about his administrative duties
But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.
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MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie
merry the fellowship leaves rivendell day to all who celebrate it
Almost like hope for evils ultimate defeat starts with something Christmas something
Ways in Which Wirt is Like a Hobbit
Not a fan of adventures and would really like to just go home now
Persistently tries to fit the fantastical events around him into his own, more mundane frame of reference
Makes up poems (but is self-conscious about it)
Stressed out by danger and awkward social situations
Is played by Elijah Wood
Saves the day by employing common sense in a moment of extremely heightened drama
Ways in Which Greg is Like a Hobbit
Very small
Making friends is his superpower
Indomitably cheerful
Has no idea whatâs going on but doesnât really care
Makes up little songs and sings them a lot
Pro-potatoes
In summary, therefore, and weighing all the evidence:
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my heart is so full of love for these idiots
when i say i like hiking, i donât mean âeight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beaconâ sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.
this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, itâs very fun, but i mostly just need to lower peopleâs expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine
"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."
#you gotta be more specific man#Hobbits are specifically famous for two Really Long Walks
Long Walks Georgs were outliers adn should not have been counted
the phantom of the opera and the hunchback of notre dame? opposite ends of same spectrumÂ
And beauty and beast falls somewhere in the middle
someone do a graph
you rang?
I couldnât resist
This is the science Iâm here for
The most interesting and most important thing about Lord of the Rings is that Frodo fails the quest. He fails the quest, he canât destroy the ring, he claims the ring for himself, only for it to be taken and accidentally destroyed by Gollum. There are so many ways to interpret that moment!
You can say: evil always defeats itself. The ring destroyed Smeagol, and Gollum destroyed the ring.
You can say: itâs divine providence. Fallible mortals cannot attain grace by their own power. No matter how they try, they will fail unless providence lifts them up. But providence will lift them up. Very Romans 9:16. It depends not upon manâs will or exertion, but upon Godâs mercy.
You can say: actions have unpredictable consequences, and here, a series of unrewarded acts of compassion finally gained their reward. There is such a thing as fate, and it is, in its own way, fair. Multiple characters had the chance to kill Gollum, and a good reason to do it too, since he tried to kill them first, and was still a threat. But Bilbo chose to spare him, Frodo chose to spare him, (during the Council of Elrond itâs briefly mentioned that Aragorn and Gandalf and a serious number of elves chose to spare him), and a few minutes before he attacked Frodo, Sam very reluctantly chose to spare him for a final time. If any of them had chosen to kill Gollum, even in reasonable self-defence, he could not have played his part in destroying the ring. But in the decisive moment, the world showed compassion to Frodo as a reflection of the compassion he had shown.
You can say what LeGuin said: Frodo and Gollum are essentially two halves of the same person. Of course the hero can only complete his goal after a violent struggle with himself, only itâs the good half of him that fails, and the evil half that in the end achieves the quest.
You can say: the last time Frodo and Gollum met, Frodo forbade him from ever laying a hand on him, and cursed him to fall into the flames if he tries. The power of the ring, or the power of Frodo wearing the ring, actually caused this to come true. (See this post about Frodo laying a geas.)
What I myself feel and say is this: Gollum thought he was attacking Frodo and taking the ring for himself. What he was actually doing is saving Frodo and saving the world. He saved Frodo from the Ring, from Sauron, from the failure of his quest, from something far worse than mere death. And heâs the only one who could do it: Sam had carried Frodo, he had fought Shelob for Frodo and would gladly die for Frodo, but he could never have hurt him, or taken the ring by force. Gollum could, but only because he didnât know why he was doing it. He was a sleeper agent of Good. He thought he was attacking Frodo and grabbing the ring for himself, when in fact he was giving his own life, to save his Master whom he loved.
âIn this phial,â she said, âis caught the light of Eärendilâs star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.â
Part of why I continue to come back to the original three Lord of the Rings films, despite their many faults, is that theyâre not trying to be part of a âcinematic universe?â They are great because they are complete, and self-contained. They have a beginning, middle, and end. They have a clarity of purpose: they know exactly what they want to say and they say it, all within the movies themselves. They have a clear focused narrative with a clear focused message. They build things up and pay them off, and only pay off things theyâve actually built up.
You donât need to have consumed any of the extended media to understand whatâs happening. You donât need to watch the writers flounder around struggling to find a central theme to their story after itâs already 8 seasons and hundreds of millions of dollars into production, rather than figuring out what they wanted to say at the very beginning of the process. And you donât need to wait for a spinoff to follow up on the ideas the LOTR movies bring upâ- because the movies themselves follow up on their own ideas. Because they are a complete, clear, tight, focused, streamlined, thematically cohesive narrative written by people who knew what they wanted to write and what message they wanted to send, and then Did That.
Iâve got to admit: Iâm very tired of âstoriesâ that arenât actually stories, but a collection of empty commercials for their own spin-offs. Iâm tired of tv shows/movies that bring up ideas they never intended to explore, because the projects werenât planned in advance and the writers were haphazardly making things up as they went along and abandoning significant thematic ideas the moment they got bored of them. Iâm tired of endless empty hollow Lore without meaning.
I love it when fantasy stories are streamlined narratives that have beginnings, and endings, and a clarity of purpose! But I guess thatâs just life sometimes.
You are in the house of Elrond. And it is ten oâclock in the morning, on October the twenty-fourth btw. If you even care
so most fanart of kaladin shows him with long, luscious, flowing locks, but like... I don't think that man conditions. I think my guy's out there using bar soap on his hair and saying that shampoo is a lighteyes frivolity that he doesn't indulge in because he's not part of the bourgeoisie. that mane's got minimum three distinct tangles in it at all times because of all the windy shit kaladin does on a daily basis. you go to touch one of his curls and it crunches.
Kaladin Stormblessed's hair follows the same rules as Disney Princesses' hair. I don't mean like Snow White who has a little help from woodland creatures (though Im sure the spren are very helpful) I mean like Pocahontas or Moana levels of supernatural hair detangling.
I have brushed matted curly hair on multiple occasions. Given Kaladin's depression and enslavement, but the lack of commentary akin to "Kaladin spent fourteen hours combing his hair" or "Kaladin shaved his head because that was the only way he could get rid of the tangles," one can only assume something supernatural is at work here.
@giftober 2024 | Day 10: cheering/clapping
Where Trevor Trinkets is the Li'l Sebastian of Sleepy Hollow.
Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story [x] + Parks and Recreation
Bonus, Ichabod after the town history play: