nerdery

she/her

[paperplateprose]

writing challenge!

open up your document and put words in it

[paperplateprose]

writing challenge!

open up your document and put words in it

[angedemystere]

[bewitched-frog]

Blah, blah, blah, something, something, Yavanna and Aulë mirroring Bilbo and Thorin

I’m this close (🤏) to coming up with designs for Aulë & Yavanna just for some bagginshield shenanigans

[valtsv]

we all like to complain about the love triangle in the hobbit movies and fair enough it’s a horribly overused and lazy trope but let’s be real it was BARELY  a love triangle…like all legolas ever does to indicate he’s even remotely interested in tauriel is watch her talking to kili with a vaguely annoyed expression on his face in the desolation of smaug, which is in character for legolas given that he stares disconcertingly in the wrong directions for about half of his total screentime in the lord of the rings, and then say that one throwaway line about how his dad “ is my king, but does not command my heart” that never gets brought up again and which, given that it’s in the nature of tolkien’s elves to be as overdramatic as possible and embellish every sentence they utter with unnecessarily flowery nonsense, could honestly just be legolas telling tauriel they’re really good bros. even the scene where he puts himself between her and thranduil’s sword fits the bill, since the lotr films already demonstrated multiple times legolas’ tendency to be canonically absurdly ride or die for his friends.

[valtsv]

BROKE: legolas is jealous of kili because he sees him as a rival for tauriel’s affections

WOKE: legolas is jealous of kili because he’s worried that he’s going to rob him of his only friend

[dirtycomputermp3]

tauriel: kili and i are going out later tonight just so you know

legolas: oh and i wasn’t invited? you guys are just hanging out without me? and rubbing it in my face?

tauriel: no it’s a date i’m literally dating kili

legolas, not listening and already crying: i thought you were my best friend but i guess you’re just a fake

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Also want to add,

Eomer: I would have your head, dwarf, if it were a little further from the ground.

Legolas, who up until then hadn’t particularly shown any attachment to Gimli either way: YOU WOULD DIE BEFORE YOUR STROKE FELL!!!!!

[faustandfurious]

Whenever I read LotR and reach the battle between Eowyn and the Witch-king, I get the impression that the reason why the prophecy loophole works isn’t that the Witch-king is unkillable except for some illogical weakness nobody had thought about yet for misogynistic reasons, but that the Witch-king himself derives so much of his power from the fear he instills in others and from his own belief that he is unkillable. Eowyn doesn’t fear him, because she doesn’t fear death. When she twists his words right back at him, she’s not trying to exploit a prophecy loophole, she’s just making a play on the double meaning of the word «man» with fairly standard battlefield bravado.

But, crucially, it gets the Witch-king wondering if there might be an actual loophole in the prophecy. He starts doubting his own invincibility. There’s no logical reason why a woman might be able to kill him if a man cannot, but prophecies are tricky things. What if …

And this is what undoes him, in the end. This last minute doubt. The Witch-king, deep down, believes that Eowyn can kill him, thus making it possible for her to do so.

[faustandfurious]

The elves care about the prophecy. The Witch-king cares about the prophecy. All the old, powerful beings of Middle Earth play by the rules of prophecy and live by the logic of Norse Sagas and Germanic legends.

Eowyn marches up to the Witch-king like Jared (19), goes “that sign won’t stop me because I can’t read”, and because the storybook logic, the fairytale logic, of the prophecy allows for her kill him, the Witch-king as a creature of stories and nightmares has to play by his own rules and die by her sword.

[faustandfurious]

As people have pointed out before, the phrasing of Glorfindel’s words about the Witch-king allow for quite a number of the inhabitants of Middle Earth to kill him, if we’re only looking for possible loopholes in the prophecy.

not by the hand of man shall he fall

According to this, the Witch-king could technically be killed by elves, dwarves, ents, hobbits, orcs or maiar. Why doesn’t Legolas kill the Witch-king? Why doesn’t Gandalf?

As mentioned, elves are very aware of the story logic that governs Middle Earth. They see their own place in the narrative, they know which foes are beyond them. Gandalf, too, knows that he cannot be the one to kill the Witch-king, and the Witch-king knows that Gandalf cannot kill him. Through their combined beliefs, the outcome of their fight is predetermined.

Eowyn doesn’t know what she can or cannot do according to story logic. The Witch-king has killed her Theoden. She sees no reason why she shouldn’t avenge him. And when she hears the Witch-king tell her that no man can kill him, she simply decides that that rule doesn’t apply to her.

Eowyn isn’t the only person who could have been the exception to the rule, but she is the first person who decides to genuinely, honestly believe that she is the exception to the rule, and this is why she ultimately kills the Witch-king.

[luminarai]

still obsessed with the idea of bilbo being a (very) unreliable narrator

[seadeepspaceontheside]

KILI YOU DUN MESSED UP YOUR UNCLE.

[catofcream]

Yes! I really apreciated how they ended the hobbit movies  ( ◑ ‿ ◑ )

(I realised that I didn’t  post this as mine before)

[hobbitunderthemountain]

how to react after saving the leader of your company by bilbo baggins

[totallynottinsel]

this can go both ways

bagginshield meme may day 8

[moth-sapphic]

Bilbo is Thorin's hear me out and the rest of the company are like we do NOT understand but whatever makes you happy dude

[blacksmithsghost]

Maybe that's why Thorin is so jealous. Someone as cute as Bilbo falling for him? That's a once in a lifetime strike of luck, he'll maim whoever tries to take the hobbit from him

[deustiel]

BotFA AU: Thorin confesses in Khuzdul; Bilbo recognizes the term from listening to Kili talk about Tauriel.

[richardrmitage]

[socialmaya]

[orchidvioletindigo]

It should 100% be illegal for companies to make you give them your payment information when you sign up for a free trial version of their product. It is not necessary and there is no good fucking reason for them to do it. It’s blatantly just so they can steal forgetful customers’ money.

[saint-batrick]

oh hey, thanks for reminding me to cancel a free trial i had going on.

[tattooedzombigirl]

Reblog to save an unnecessary charge cause it also reminded me to cancel a trial lol

[writerswritecompany]