don't do me anything... i'm natural

i just really love boromir ok? this is my tolkien sideblog; i follow from @jimmyandthegiraffes. frodo baggins stan - insult him at your peril

[asneakyfox]

one of my favorite bits in lord of the rings is something the movies didn't really try to do because it's entirely internal, but sam's carrying the ring and it starts trying to do its work on him, so he's having these intrusive visions of himself marching at the head of a vast and terrible army, and he just starts laughing because, me? samwise gamgee? sam gamgee the general sam gamgee the dark lord are you for real? man i just want to go home and do some gardening. and the ring gets frustrated and it starts trying to figure out other stuff that would actually tempt sam and it's finally like, okay, but hear me out: imagine if you could have...A REALLY REALLY BIG GARDEN

[asneakyfox]

and then he's like, i don't know that sounds like a lot more work than a regular garden actually. why don't we just get on with finding mister frodo

[lornaka]

I like how this wip looks at this stage, so I thought I'd just post it

[cart-a-hearts]

Saruman tuning into Merry and Pippin show

[metamorphesque]

The Death of Glaurung, Elena Kukanova

[aragornsrockcollection]

The hobbits in LotR, every 5 minutes: Our adventure is not like we would have liked at all, it’s not fun exciting like Bilbo’s was.

Bilbo, who has been telling the bedtime story version of a story whose tragedy still haunts him: Ha, Ha, Ha, right…

[aragornsrockcollection]

@adhd-edward-teach

Using you summing up my thoughts perfectly as an excuse to say:

Tolkien’s choice here was absolutely commentary on the way the false glory of war was sold to his generation before they were shipped off to die in WWI.

[herawell]

Éowyn is a better person than me because if my uncle and adoptive father failed to protect me from his advisor sexually harassing me, spared that man’s life, and offered him a place in the army, the place in the army that I was denied for being a woman, after I had spent five years nursing my uncle back to health and performing the other thankless womanly duties of his court, no way in hell would I have stood between him and Satan’s right-hand man.

Tolkien never touches on Éowyn’s justified anger at her uncle over Gríma Wormtongue, other than a line about her looking at Théoden with “cool pity”, which is yet another indication he’s not the feminist king fandom makes him out to be.

[torchwood-99]

It would be him calling Eomer "the last of that house" that would do it for me. Especially when you consider that Eowyn had just spent five years in a living hell looking after him because it was her duty as a member of "that house".

"You stand before my liege lord and kin!....well, sort of, sometimes he says I'm his kin. At least, when Hama says I'm a member of his family he doesn't disagree so that's kind of something I suppose?"

[gvalesdraws]

Melkor from Silmarillion that I did for the amazing Lucifer zine! (@the_cursed_zine on instagram)

[bellflowermini]

if you need someone to remember you, just know, i remember it all

[squigglyworms]

love the end of the two towers where gandalf looks into the sunset talking bout "yea frodo had to go it alone it was his destiny and there is no changing it he will be ok 😌✨" and aragorn is like "sam went with him btw" and gandalf is like "oh fuck thank god"

[boro-mir]

adele mcallister's versions of the songs in lotr (esp. lament for boromir') are absolutely definitive for me hfdjkfhls

[godsplatter]

boromir again

[katajainen]

'To the tall isle I will go, but no further. There I shall turn to my home, alone if my help has not earned the reward of any companionship.'

Quoth Boromir, one (1) day before coming to the tall isle, and two (2) days before starting his journey home all alone.

[jamie-goblin-child]

[vrabia]

the silmarillion is wild because you read it and you're like huh okay, and then you read lotr and it turns out everyone's just going around doing their own thing while the surviving elves are living through the final chapters of a post-apocalyptic horror story

[vrabia]

rivendell's a pretty chill place, right? everyone gets along splendidly. dream retirement home et cetera. solid chance the guy you're having afternoon tea with has either survived or personally committed war crimes. also the reason it's so chill is elrond has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

galadriel's been around since the beginning, like, for pretty much all of middle-earth's history you understand, she has Seen it all and despite what you may have been led to believe is at all times this close to snapping. also the reason lothlorien is so chill is she has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

i can't emphasize enough how much of a post-apocalyptic horror story thranduil lives in. homeland destroyed and half his people massacred. has fucken sauron in his backyard and the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light puttering about on his lawn. a dragon lives next door. does NOT have a magic ring and is therefore obliged to rule over his murderforest in normal time

just so we're all on the same page here, legolas' day job before joining the fellowship was to hunt the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light and it's not like, a big deal or anything. he just has to do it. he's used to it.

'elves are leaving middle-earth and it's so sad :(' they have ptsd samwise.

[peatbogpirate]

this one's from last year but I just started my rotk reread and this scene makes me giggle every time

[verkomy]

treebeard and the hobbits

you can get a print here

[mikeybooch]

"Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the trolls' lair, and he said: 'These are not troll-make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago'.."

Chapter 3, A Short Rest. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Elrond's outfit is based off of a melange of ancient dress, most notably Assyrian, with some medieval dagging in there to evoke the shape of leaves. Gandalf is based largely on the Quechua people who inhabit the Andean region of South America with some Viking touches here and there.