tbh i don’t know what i’m doing

erulasse | 26 | any pronouns asexual & agender

[erulasse23]

hello everyone!

I post mainly about tolkien (trop, silm, lotr, the hobbit), but i am also into project hail mary, ryan gosling, stranger things, star wars, and more. expect a mix of meta, fanfic, memes, and thirst posting. I am a huge multi-shipper. you name it, I’ll try it.

charles edwards stole my heart two years ago and I’ve never gotten over it. come talk to me about celebrimbor any day and any time.

my writing: ao3

rygos side blog

layout by @malkaleh 🩵🩵

[gnomescarfcomics]

[hikarielizabethbloom]

Only you can show what you are. You choose by what you do.

Gandalf's journey mirrors Sauron's. Both are on a path to rediscover themselves... Gandalf's one could have led to darkness, Halbrand's to light. However, in the end, their true nature was revealed. Gandalf chose goodness, Sauron's evil. Their actions defined their future. And I love it.

[hikarielizabethbloom]

Bringing this back because, apparently, we're in the Sauron vs Gandalf era, and I'm so ready for it!

[troprewatch]

Pre-Season Three Rewatch

Who’s excited for Season Three coming November 11th?! (115 days away but who’s counting?)

We’d like to invite you to another TROP Rewatch, starting this Friday, July 24th, in the lead up to season three. Feel free to use the Reforged prompts listed on our blog to create as you watch, or just follow along and enjoy getting back into the world of Middle Earth.

[erulasse23]

TROP Season Three

I expected the Sauron cover, but Gandalf?! fascinating!! and confronting a Mûmakil too. could it be that we will actually get a real, fleshed out Rhûn plot this season? some decent world building??

[erulasse23]

so far with promo is seems like season three is going to focus on sauron and gandalf, maybe with an opportunity for some parallels as both of them are coming into their full power: sauron forging the One and gandalf continuing to learn more of who he is and what he can do.

[erulasse23]

TROP Season Three Promo Begins!

I know we saw his full face already on the building wrap but a full body shot got me EXCITED!!!

is it just me or does he look slightly pathetic and bedraggled?? the scruff looks born of desperation and not intentional, he’s wearing light armor with a tunic, it’s like he’s not quite reached his full power yet. I think this feeds into the theory that we’re going to see him struggle this season forging the One and perhaps in battle too, sending his armies to pick fights with the elves while he is locked away working.

[iathrim]

“He has dwelt in the West since the days of dawn, and I have dwelt with him years uncounted; for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains, and together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.”

Celeborn and Galadriel ⤍ THE LORD OF THE RINGS

[assiraphales]

frodo getting criticized for decades for not doing much / not being a hero compared to sam is fitting when you consider mental health and strength is often trivialized. frodo carried the most dangerous and insidious item in middle earth for YEARS. ancient beings (elves, gandalf, etc) were taunted and tempted by it. boromir was corrupted within weeks without even touching it. men and hobbits turned against their brethren for it. killed for it. and frodo, with a wound from a morgul knife, bore it’s weight when no one else could. had it been anyone else, middle earth would have fallen.

no, he couldn’t have done it without his samwise. but isn’t that a lesson in itself?

[tweeky-the-possum]

~{Modern-Day Pippin Took AU Moodboard}~

[izinika]

[outofangband]

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The Fields and forests of Celebrant, southeast of the realm of Galadriel, Lothlórien and north of Rohan. It was here that Eorl, the founding king of Rohan, won a decisive victory at the Battle of Celebrant. I imagine it to be mostly empty in the later third age but remnants of those who have lived there can be found throughout

[mcpayne]

and in response to Andy Serkis' "all white shire" comment, i'm going to quote Tolkien himself:

"But I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White."

[gauntletgirlie]

That’s right racists, you can’t hide behind Tolkien or being a Tolkien “purist”. Tolkien won’t let you.

[thephoenixandthecrocodile]

TLDR: you can’t value the potentially troublesome and/or racist beliefs of ONE dead person more than ALL your fellow human beings. If given a chance to CHOOSE to include people who have historically been pushed to the sidelines for racist reasons and upholding a racist ideal of an idyllic whites own paradise you should choose inclusion over exclusion

At this point I want to scream at people that we don’t HAVE to be faithful to the horrible beliefs of our predecessors. Like even IF Serkis was right (and he’s not) WE can choose to NOT repeat the mistakes of the past.

Tolkien wasn’t perfect and there is racism and bigotry in his works AND there was also a lot of anti-bigotry in his works but we’re not bound to the perspective of one man. We can choose to pick up where he left off and further correct the harmful tropes and inherent biases in his books.

No matter what Tolkien intended, Middle-Earth belongs to everyone and is home to everyone and we can choose to reflect the beauty of our diverse world by welcoming EVERYONE into our own interpretations and reimagings of Tolkien’s world.

When WE create something (even if it’s a reinterpretation or built off of someone else’s work) WE get to choose what values we want to imbue that work with. If we truly believe in antiracism and fighting against white supremacy, racism, fascism, etc. then we must actively choose to include the voices of people who historically have been pushed out for racist reasons.

By actively choosing to hide behind this weird logic that Tolkien wanted a pure whites only Shire so we just CANT cast people of color as hobbits, you are actively choosing to uphold the white supremacist and racist thoughts that are harming the world today. Then you’re using the dead professor as your shield to retain the goodwill of people willing to give you the benefit of a doubt (or who just don’t care). It’s insidious and a great way to cover your own troublesome beliefs. Additionally it creates this mental wall where you don’t have to question your own inherent biases.

Also, even IF that was truly Tolkien’s intention (which it wasn’t) WHY would you want to uphold that intention of all intentions? Why wouldn’t you want to dismantle that disgusting idea as soon as possible? You can love Tolkien and his world and also say you know what that’s a fucked up idea. Let’s not do that. Or yeah no professor that’s your bigotry/racism/biases popping up and I’m not going to tolerate that

There is this weird tension between remaining faithful to a book/comic and acknowledging that the mere act of adapting a work requires you to take someone else’s work and make it your own and by doing so YOU are actively choosing what to retain and what to reimagine. Your adaptation will NEVER be the book because the book is the book and your adaptation is YOUR take on the book. You, ultimately, are responsible for what is included and what isn’t and what you, either subconsciously or consciously, add to the adaptation.

Finally England/Europe has always had POC!!!! So this entire conversation is bullshit. Include BIPOC in your projects people!!!

[eithniel]

Water

[siryanissee]

Whaaaa a Fëanáro redraw (i'm kinda not convinced by this but oh well here it goes)

[punkedsolar]

The Mallorn Trees of Lothlórien

"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey." - Legolas, Lord of the Rings

[romulusthewolf]

god smut is so hard to write.

first you gotta do the build up and then the actual fucking and the fucking is pretty easy but you never know how long the fucking should last, and eventually you're like "okay I'm tired of this" so the characters cum, but you're not done yet because you can't just end it at "he fucking nutted everywhere" you gotta keep going, and the characters have to chat a little or cry or think about how horrible they are or something and then you kinda don't know when to end that either so now you're 2k words in and you might have put too much self hatred and not enough sucking dick. so you wrap it up, and think well it's done now.

or sometimes you have it all perfect in your mind and you knock the whole thing out in 2 to 3 hours.