[willowcrowned]

tbh I’ve always found it very funny that Elrond is like “there’s no point bringing Glorfindel on the quest, even though he’s a balrog-slayer. You won’t need balrog-slayers” and then thirty pages later they run into a balrog

[yeris]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) dir. peter jackson

[rihfenty]

BOROMIR + his bond with Merry & Pippin The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

BONUS:

[rihfenty]

lotr meme · one movie [1/1] return of the king

[asystolle]

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

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

[leepacey]

It has been remarked by some that hobbits' only real passion is for food. A rather unfair observation, as we have also developed a keen interest in the brewing of ales and the smoking of pipeweed. But where our hearts truly lie is in peace, and quiet, and good tilled earth — for all hobbits share a love of things that grow.

[penny-anna]

the thing w there being potatoes in lord of the things is that there ARE actually at least 2 built in explanations for it:

1: they don't have potatoes; the references to potatoes in the Shire were added by Tolkien-the-translator as part of a wider localisation. when Sam mentions potatoes he's actually talking about some other vegetable

2: given that Middle Earth was historically ruled over by the Numenoreans who come from a lost kingdom on the other side of the western ocean, it could be that Numenor was in or had contact with ancient America and brought potatoes back with them

2 is kind of a stretch tho interesting to contemplate; 1 however on some level i think is the correct answer. the Shire's resemblance to England is 100% canonically a localisation thing. The Shire is England bcos it's the main characters' home and the intended audience of the book was English people.

the decision to incorporate post-colombian exchange plants like potatoes and tobacco isn't innocuous but it was a purposeful decision with reasoning behind it beyond 'they have potatoes because I said so'.

[witchtickles]

Fellowship of the Ring: Book 2 Chapter + Movie

[atdawn]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS The Two Towers

[samwwise]

[elrikk]

watched lotr for the first time recently and eowyn is definitely my favourite character.. wanted to draw her so here it is

[salmonhere]

The Tale of Beren and Lúthien

[anocana]

i respect ppl who think frodo & sam were sucking & fucking constantly when the narrator wasn't looking. but personally i think the furthest they went was an awkward attempt at mutual handjobs one night in mordor which started as sam trying to do something anything that'd make frodo feel good & frodo insisted on doing it for sam too & sam closed his eyes & tried to imagine it was rosie cotton while frodo tried to remember the shire or focus on the texture of sam's rough hand or the unyielding heat in his own grip or think about anything other than the great burning wheel & neither of them succeeded. & frodo never got fully hard & eventually pushed sam's hand away but kept going & sam felt like he had failed & part of him wanted to push frodo's hand away too but instead he came harder than he had ever in his life & they never talked about it again

[jodeeeart]

Couple of Aragorn studies in oil

[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 🙏🏻🔮