[fredgolds]

merry talks to kids in ithilien like ‘and remember: you’re NEVER too small to fight an unspeakable ancient eldritch horror’ and eowyn says ‘he’s right you’re not’ and faramir’s like PLEASE don’t

[fredgolds]

merry, a freakishly tall hobbit, says the same to anyone in the shire who will listen and they’re all like ‘that doesn’t sound right but i don’t know enough about unspeakable ancient eldritch horrors to dispute it’

[apathetic-revenant]

several small hobbit children come to the conclusion that the most unspeakable ancient eldritch horror around is that really big newt that lives in the pond by the Party Field and hijinks ensue

[fredgolds]

baby hobbit, fumbling with a newt: this is JUST like when mr merry fought the witch king

merry: correct! the witch king of angmar was naught but a wriggling newt unto mine brave and heroic eye!

sam: i wasn’t there but i can guarantee that’s not how it happened

[master-meriadoc]

[thewebspinner]

[not-so-blue]

And I don't expect I shall return.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001, dir. Peter Jackson

[catie-does-things]

I’ve yet to see St. Valentine’s skull on tumblr this year so here you go:

happy optional memorial of saint valentine, bishop and martyr

[hicscribere]

some cuties for all of us

[larsisfrommars]

I am never gonna get over how Merry is set up in the books to essentially be the revenging spirit of the Men of Westernesse and a bridge between Hobbit & Men's histories from the very get-go of the LOTR trilogy it makes me insane.

The fact that as early as the frickin Barrow-Wights chapter of Fellowship there's hints of what he'll do and become makes my brain snap crackle and pop like nobody's business. What do you MEAN he's the only one who recalls out loud the death of a Westernesse warrior at the hands of the Carn Dǔm (Witch King of Angmar's soldiers) when he was taken/possessed by the Wights?! I mean, they all get those Westernesse daggers from Tom but only Merry recalls a vision before that.

Then of course he's the one with a special interest in Hobbit history in Rohan and Gondor (y'know Gondor where the Men of Westernesse share a heritage with Aragorn!!) like??? AAAAH!

It's like fate ping ponged him into the EXACT position he needed to be in in order to help Eowyn take out The Witch King with a blade crafted by those who hated him most. He was always gonna be the Hobbit for that specific job even way back in the first Book of the Fellowship.

[speckledbearz]

I love sam even more for the fact that the ring couldn't even tempt him properly. He didn't want power, it tried to give him an endless garden and Sam said nah, that's too much hassle. Something vast and cruel, eternal and hungry, failed to a humble heart.

[unhinged-kitten]

i’m “house phone” years old

[chilli-ance]

'I got that dog in me' INCORRECT i got that hobbit in me

[torchwood-99]

Eowyn is depressed and needed more friends and more happiness in her life, so Tolkien gave her a friend and called him "Merry".

(and he made him travel size, which is actually plot relevant).

[lovestory49]

“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin (via thebookwormunderground)

[freenarnian]

What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”? 

[undomiel]

I wonder if people will ever say, ’Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring.’ And they’ll say ‘Yes, that’s one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn’t he, Dad?’ ‘Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that’s saying a lot.’

[tpwrtrmnky]

I'm so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.

[platonicsource]

platonic shuffle ➛ dialogue the lord of the rings: the return of the king (2003)

[foxmuldurs]

“But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding onto something.”

“What are we holding onto, Sam?”

[darklynoon-deactivated20170407]

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