[tanoraqui]

need me a t-shirt that says “THE TOOKS SHOT FIRST”

[tanoraqui]

Tom Cotton: So there are Men all over the Shire, menacing people, locking them up, tearing down trees and good hobbit holes…all through Hobbiton, Bywater, Buckland…

Pippin: What about Tuckborough?

Cotton: Your father initiated guerrilla warfare and they’ve been at a military impasse for months.

Pippin: I love my family so fucking much.

[tanoraqui]

it’s just, you spend much of The Hobbit and parts of Lord of the Rings with the narration periodically being like, “and then his Tookish heritage reared up and said, “don’t you want to just go feral?” But it’s narration, background. We’ve never met Belladonna Baggins née Took and we never do. Pippin repeatedly follows his friends into inane danger despite being repeatedly told not to, or sometimes just goes by himself, but so do Merry, Sam, and Frodo, and hey, Pippin’s the hobbit equivalent of 17. Maybe it’s just Pippin.

And then you get to the Scouring of the Shire and it’s like, oh. Oh no. They’re all Like That.

[albabbgg]

Gandalf the white 🌙🔮

Lotr is probably the thing I've read/watched/been obssesed with the most since I was like 6yo 🙏🏻🔮

[albabbgg]

Gandalf the white 🌙🔮

Lotr is probably the thing I've read/watched/been obssesed with the most since I was like 6yo 🙏🏻🔮

[animentality]

there are people who don't like lord of the rings?

[filthyprotozoan]

no one ever talks about gimli being not even slightly tempted by the ring. motherfucker had no hesitation just walked up with his axe and immediately tried to wreck it. obviously that didn’t work but like, the ring had zero visible effect on him. amazing… gold sickness in the line of durin WHOMST?? not in gimli son of gloin

[moonward-bound]

He wasn’t going to let himself be embarrassed in front of all these fucking ELVES

[kelssiel]

the ring: gimli son of gloin you can have your deepest desires if you just take me~

gimli: oh?!

elrond: the ring tempts all who come into contact with it

gimli: my deepest desire is to not look like a lil’bitch in front of all these fucking elves

[persefoni-art]

Mairon descends into Eä

[nohomo-mrfrodo]

Gandalf in The Hobbit: You are Took and that makes you absolutely suited for adventure!

Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring: Who the FUCK let the Took come on this adventure?

[maironsmaid]

He learned his lesson

[golwenlothlindel]

Nah you guys don’t get it. For all that Gandalf complained about Pippin, he better than anyone else knew that Pippin was absolutely crucial. Pippin accomplishes a very impressive feat: not only does he manage to see something in the palantír (most hobbits would perceive nothing, as these stones were designed for use by high elves), but he manages to close his mind against Sauron. That is a seriously impressive feat of ósanwë given Pippin’s youth and almost total inexperience. The only clue Sauron manages to glean from the meeting with Pippin is that he is in Meduseld: which Pippin probably did not even directly give to him. Pippin did not tell Sauron his name, so Sauron is led to believe that Pippin is Frodo. I remind you, in the books, the Good Guys manage to trick Sauron, by making him believe that Aragorn has claimed the One Ring. They can only do that because of Pippin’s ridiculous feat of ósanwë. Far from sabotaging the mission, he is the one who allows it to succeed (albeit, not on purpose). This is why Sauron doesn’t think anything is fishy when Aragorn wins the Battle of the Pelennor Fields by controlling ghosts: that would be consistent with the idea that he is using the One Ring. Which Sauron believes that Pippin brought to him. This is why Sauron pulls out his old “play nice and weak” card from his Númenor days. He first of all believes that Aragorn is a lot more powerful than he actually is, and secondly thinks that the Ring is beginning to affect him.

He should perhaps have remembered that Aragorn is named for Fingolfin. Fingolfin’s mother-name, Arakáno, would properly be translated to Sindarin as “Aragorn”. Most people would not show up to an enemy fortress with an army they knew was far too small, and start a battle they knew they would lose. But Fingolfin famously did exactly that.

When you read the line “fool of a Took!” It is important to understand that in the context of Gandalf calling himself a fool on several occasions. Galadriel too sees beyond the veneer of foolish naivety in Pippin. She gives him and Merry belts that almost definitely were once her brothers’. A golden flower on a gift from Galadriel can only be a golden lily, the sigil of the House of Finarfin. Galadriel, while all hell was breaking loose in Tirion, raided her brothers’ rooms and took their belts from when they were little kiddos, hauled them across the Helcaraxë, and then held onto them for three Ages before giving them to two hobbits she just met. Merry, of course, is comparable to Angrod and Aegnor: his great deed is done in a moment of beserk rage, and it is a feat of strength. This then implies that she is comparing Pippin to Finrod. That’s one hell of a complement coming from Galadriel: but as I just pointed out, entirely warranted. Pippin manages to reproduce Finrod’s feat of radio silence, in the face of torture by Sauron. Which again, is extremely impressive given that Pippin is far younger and less experienced than Finrod was.

[nohomo-mrfrodo]

You see me <3

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[anthraxofeffervescence]

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

[bloodyraven1001]

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

[ariaste]

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

[pomegranateteeth]

sure fucking whatever man

[dragon-in-a-fez]

isn't that that Tolkien book

[gospelxforxthexfallenxones]

Ah yes, The Silmulsimultaniousatnululsy, a classic piece of Tolkien literature

[alyrarkhon]

[userfaramir]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING — Behind the Scenes

[insomniac-arrest]

one of the underrated lessons from lotr's Aragorn is to avoid responsibility for as long as humanly possible, possibly in the woods, possibly without showering, until the small folk need you or whatever

[insomniac-arrest]

okay, then you do need to pick up that sword eventually, and there will be wizard, so do pick up the sword at some point

[elodieunderglass]

You should only stay in places long enough for people to give you some peppery nicknames

[insomniac-arrest]

local barkeep: we call him Strider, on account of the fact he walks around a lot

Aragorn: They know too much. I gotta go

[tragicallyunaesthetic]

[florencemachines]

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

🎬 Peter Jackson

+ IMDb trivia (FotR trivia) (ttt trivia)

bonus

[witchtickles]

Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 Chapter + Movie

[the-depressed-comedic-relief]

So since the fandom has come the the (correct) conclusion that Samwise Gamgee is the absolute height of hobbit attractiveness standards, it only follows logically that hobbits see Sam working for Frodo as the middle earth equivalent of your weird eccentric rich neighbor having a hot pool boy. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[vanyamire]

some quick lotr studies :]

prints

[poscipeep]

screenshot study finished! 🍂