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stigerea

Ena the curator from Infinity Nikki (I'm addicted)

bloominflowers

Infinity Nikki is so fun 🥺🎀

shinraalpha

i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

elodieunderglass

The mileage on this one is totally normal Elrond. Hey speaking of can I park him here for a while

the-birth-of-art

h/t to @namasteinside for the lol

zinjanthropusboisei

In "Unfinished Tales" there's a section where the Fellowship gets Gandalf to tell his side of the story about how he recommended Bilbo to Thorin's company and this is literally how it went down:

carsen-daily

There were just so many great additions to this post that I had to put them all in one place.

doovild

Let her be happy!

assassin-artist

"Let us go together, my dear Consort eternal."

torchwood-99

Every time Gandalf is in the room with Grime he takes every opportunity to drag him to hell.

I love him for that. I love that for Grima.

Grima deserves it all on his own merit, but remember, Theoden knew Gandalf, Gandalf was known at the Golden Hall, which means Gandalf knew Theodred, knew Eomer and knew Eowyn, probably as children.

Grima preying on, perhaps exacerbating, the decline of his old friend? Gandalf's gonna hate him for that.

So Grima working to turn Theoden against Eomer and Theodred, and getting Theodred killed? Yeah, Gandalf's gonna hate him all the more for that.

And Grima stalking Eowyn, harassing Eowyn, plotting to rape Eowyn? Gandalf's gonna really, really hate him for that.

“‘How long is it since Saruman bought you? What was the promised price? When all the men were dead, you were to pick your share of the treasure, and take the woman you desire? Too long have you watched her under your eyelids and haunted her steps.’”

Oh yeah, that's personal.

You just feel the disgust.

And then;

‘Eomer grasped his sword. “That I knew already,” he muttered. “For that reason I would have slain him before, forgetting the law of the hall. But there are other reasons.” He stepped forward, but Gandalf stayed him with his hand.

“Eowyn is safe now.”

The hand on Eomer, using Eowyn's first name, it's intimate. He feels Eomer's anger, he knows Eowyn.

And contrast Gandalf's utter contempt for Grima, with his compassion for the Eorlings, and his explanation of what Eowyn had to endure to Eomer, he's just so good to this family.

And when he says Eowyn had courage and spirit at least the match of Eomer, he knows what he's talking about.

(Now I'm just imagining Gandalf coming to the Golden Hall in Eomer and Eowyn's youth, and getting to know the two fierce young Eorlings. Heck, maybe it was Gandalf who helped convince Theoden to raise Eowyn as a shieldmaiden.)

from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras

Interesting that he goes to “Éowyn is safe now” even though Éowyn is definitely not safe now. Not safe from the effects of the poisonous whispering Gríma had already put in her ear, not safe from the hutch that she was trammeled in and which kept her from the destiny she wanted for herself, not safe from the greater peril of all of Middle Earth, and perhaps not even truly safe from Gríma himself, who might have been back in a worse way had things at Helm’s Deep gone differently and Saruman taken control of Rohan.

I wonder if this is Practical Gandalf, focusing on one specific and narrow danger that’s right in front of them and has been temporarily averted, or Magical Gandalf, who has a Maia’s foresight and perhaps can see that somehow she’ll be alright in the end.

ynnu-64

Tears in my togachaco eyes ,,,

furious-blueberry0-deactivated2

Having OCs that are 70+ years old is amazing, I can literally plan out a whole fucking life and decades of events

I love it

avpol

wizard losing a bid

wizard-council-bureaucrat

Nooo Not his dark bidding 😩

#saruman when he lost to the rohirrim

nathsketch

Devastating news today. Sorry to have to post these drawings in these circumstances 🥺

I love her a lot, she will be deeply, deeply missed 😔

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (28 December 1934 − 27 September 2024) ✨ Rest in Love.

animepopheart

★ 【華野-】「 homura 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

crowwkui

dancing at the pink pony club 🎠 prints of my Chappell Roan stuff on the way! (fighting the logistics battle rn bc I want to try to include international too 😭)

stiffyck

Bruno is so fun to draw

#What #How #The curls are so accurate???#Encanto #Encanto fanart #Bruno madrigal

trsn1030

#encanto #encanto fanart #Mirabel Madrigal #baby girl!!#the sketch is so pretty and soft

insomniac-arrest

I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people

I was like 12 and high off this shit

lotrlocked

These movies CHANGED ME

jaskierxyennefer

This is one of my favourite parts of the whole trilogy. It’s haunting.

ink-splotch

And that Pippin takes actually a happy walking song of his people, because Hobbit songs are generally happy and about food and drink and gifts and things, and *transforms* it into a mourning song.

The song is from Fellowship, before all the heavy plot hits and they’re still in the Shire. It’s about walking, and how eventually all the bad things that scare or sadden you will fade away and you’ll be home warm by the fire.

And Pippin takes it, changes the lines, the key, and sings a song that is truly fit for Denethor’s great hall.

fiddlepickdouglas

Knowing Billy Boyd gave his own melody to it and everyone had chills after hearing him sing it. This is how you get actors involved with the story and character, this is how amazingly well these films were cast. Fans have been singing that haunting tune in echoing halls and caves and towers for 20 years now and it never loses its beauty.

moonybyte

Home is behind

The world ahead

And there are many paths to tread

Through shadow

To the edge of night

Until the stars are all alight

Mist and shadow

Cloud and shade

All shall fade

All shall

Fade

photogirl894

And even better: Billy Boyd composed the tune to the song and then performed it for Peter Jackson and everyone else while filming. They only did one take! That very first take is the one that’s used in the film! He’s just that good!!

freenarnian

Every now and then I like to pull up this video of Billy Boyd being endearing and silly and choked up about Boromir’s death scene, and then performing this song upon request:

theoriginalsuki

I sing it as a lullaby to my children but I use the original “away shall fade” to make it less sad because they’re just babies. uwu

prismatic-bell

Not even my fandom and I have chills.

prismatic-bell

You know what, I’m not done. Every aspiring writer should watch that scene and keep in mind the axiom “every person is the protagonist in their own mind,” because Denethor and Pippin are having TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS.

Here’s the translation of how it goes.

WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: can you sing, Master Hobbit?

WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: I want entertainment and you’re from far lands. That’s a novelty here.

WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I don’t care that I just sent my son to his death. Entertain me.

WHAT PIPPIN SAYS: yes. Well, well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls.

WHAT PIPPIN MEANS: yes. But not for you. And our songs aren’t for people who engage in such cruelty.

WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: yes, but I’m embarrassed because mine are simple folk, and you’re very grand and regal. There’s no way I could be of any use to you.

WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: and why should your songs be unfit for my halls? Sing me a song.

WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: we’re all equals culturally. I’m a benevolent ruler, I don’t think your songs are inferior to those produced by my skilled musicians. Let me engage with your culture.

WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I have literally already forgotten about my son. I’m more interested in entertainment and food, things you normally adore and which I’m making a mockery of by my actions. So sing to me songs of those things you love, entertainment and food. My son doesn’t matter to me and shouldn’t matter to you.

And then Pippin sings.

WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: what a pretty little song.

WHAT PIPPIN IS SAYING WITH THE SONG: fuck you for doing this to your son, who I love. Fuck you for doing this to me, as I mourn. Fuck you for making a mockery of the things I love, when it’s clear you don’t care for them any more than you do for YOUR SON. Your child, who you should want to protect. If you won’t mourn in these halls, by everything I hold dear I swear SOMEONE will.

Pippin can’t say any of this out loud. But his word choices are extremely deliberate. And so are Denethor’s! He does not see himself as a bad person! I don’t know enough LOTR to know if he’s a villain or just an asshole, but the important thing here is HE THINKS OF HIMSELF AS NEITHER. He’s a good guy who’s had to make some hard choices, that’s all. It’s the editing that tells you he’s not actually that at all.

This is a MASTERCLASS in “everyone is their own protagonist” and if this is the standard the movies rise to all the time I understand why y’all love them so much, because holy shit. That’s incredible.