[seraaphinamorgenstern]

“They are closer than friends. Closer than brothers. Though Obi-Wan is sixteen standard years Anakin’s elder, they have become men together. Neither can imagine life without the other. The war has forged their two lives into one. “

[prequelsnet]

if you are to leave, your highness, it must be now.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY AND NATALIE PORTMAN in STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999) dir. George Lucas

[emdapaladima]

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY as Sabé

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)

[caripr94]

Matthew Stover in ROTS novelization: This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over; nothing can be done to change it.

Star Wars Fix-It Fanfic Writers: Hold my beer.

[emipon]

🧡 Queen Amidala and her Handmaidens 🧡

[frodo-baggins]

20 years of The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (released in the US December 18 2002)

[anghraine]

I doubt I'll live to see it, but I was just thinking of how interesting it would be to have an adaptation of LOTR with largely diegetic music. Not ironically, either! There's so much music in LOTR, and Middle-earth's world-building is so deeply interwoven with literal music—and it's not that I don't really enjoy a lot of the non-diegetic Middle-earth music that exists, but a version in which you really feel how deeply musical the world is for the characters would be so cool.

[birdylion]

One thing that really stuck out to me on my recent and ongoing reread was that especially at the beginning, the hobbits really have a song for anything. When they arrived in the house Fredegar Bolger prepared for them, they even sung a bathing song as they washed the traces of their recent journey to Buckland away!

As the story goes on, the songs become fewer, and perhaps that shows that the hobbits now have to deal with situations beyond their cultural sphere - situations for which they have no songs.

I'm now at the part in the Two Towers when Frodo, Sam and Sméagol/Gollum are in front of the Black Gate, and Sam wonders if there are Oliphaunts on the other side. He doesn't sing it, but he presents what he knows about them in the form of a poem.

Why I'm telling all this: I knew that music is literally what Middle Earth is made of, and I knew the importance of music in Elvish culture. But I had forgotten how important it is for the Hobbits, too. For everyone, really. When Aragorn tells a story, he does it in the form of a poem or song. When Tom Bombadil walks through his forest, he sings. When the Hobbits enjoy their walk, they sing, and when they take a bath, they sing, and they remember what they know about the world in beautiful, rhymed words.

It really would paint a remarkable picture of Middle Earth to hear all these songs, or even just some of them.

In the same way that the story of LotR is set in an era of bygone glory and greatness, which becomes visible when we notice how much the characters talk about things that used to be, or walk past ruins, it also shows societies that focus on an oral tradition of history-keeping. (The big obvious exception being the archives of Minas Tirith.) And I think that comes best across in the poems and songs.

[aeddfgynvael]

Yennefer and Geralt

NastyaSkaya on Deviantart

[thelockedtombstuff]

Just finished reading Nona

Take this very ugly drawing and leave I need to be alone and process

[lonelyroommp3]

just had the shocking revelation that people splicing together screenshots of various real movies that clearly do not go together to produce goncharov gifsets is going back to 2012 tumblr at its peak. this is superwholock edits. this is rise of the brave tangled dragons. and most accurately and importantly this is frankenstein’s monster-ing gifs of karen gillan and ben barnes and whoever else it was to create a meandering epic of a visual format fanfiction for the marauders off harry potter

[sugurugetos]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RINGS OF POWER 1x01 — A Shadow of the Past

[blueberrynewt]

not to be lewd but who’s gonna stand with me in the halls of healing after the battle of the pelennor fields and hold my hand and tell me that the chill in the air is just the damp of the first spring rain and say “i do not believe this darkness will endure”

[fukutomichi]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power / S1 / 2 Sep. 2022 - 14 Oct. 2022 Favorite moments: Episode 5 - Partings

[uglygirlstatus]

rendition of my favourite scene

[wordbunch]

Let me just point out that, when Frodo gets stung by Shelob and Sam thinks he's dead, Sam says that if he could make just one wish come true, it would be to find Frodo again, after Sam finishes the quest.

This lil gardener Hobbit took up the most powerful magical artefact to end it once for all, because at that point it seemed obvious that Frodo won't, and his ONLY wish was to see him again laying in the same place, when he comes by after destroying the ring.

He could have wished that he was home. He could have wished that Frodo came back to life. He could have wished that the whole ring chaos was over. But he would have wished perhaps for the simplest thing of all - just to see Frodo (technically, just his body) once again

have a good rest of the day/night

[glumshoe]

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

[glumshoe]

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

[glowingghosty]

[jul-likes-magpies]

@spicetdusk yes Exactly

[lukore]

so… Gideon huh?