[samthekind]

i just want frodo and sam to be happy and i'll do it myself if i must

[samthekind]

When Sean Astin saw my drawing he grinned and said "Aw, hobbit love" so I'm going to be thinking about that forever

[x688plsloveme]

Telling my friend about the bagginshield fic I’m writing and they hit me with this lmaoooo

[dagordagorath]

You bring great evil with you.

[motherfucker-unlimited]

[doomsbury]

it is imperative to protect your service tops from the horrors of imminent doom and your inevitable mortality this season. prepare them.

[jamespsulliv4n]

I might be a visionary

[ehohadele]

Frodo!!!! that is really a study of Joaquín sorolla’s Italian girl with flowers lol

[youraveragemiscellanyenjoyer]

Lord of the Rings nation are yall on tumblr

[shamelessly-obsessed]

My delusions are returning

[poscipeep]

screenshot study finished! 🍂

[poissond-avril]

the hobbit true secret ending<3

[gilsart]

here at the end of all things.

[eizneckam]

I love Sam but the Sam glazing by LOTR fans has to stop.

[ach-sss-no]

#and if you don't understand that frodo gollum and boromir are the most important characters in that story i feel like you're missing something

I sometimes find it genuinely alarming when people don't seem to understand what Frodo's role in the story is or why he's like that. I do understand that Frodo's struggle is mostly internal and he's not the POV character and Sam is way more visible and relatable, so I'm not shocked that Sam is generally liked better. but sometimes it goes way beyond 'I prefer the more active and personable character', it's more like Frodo walks into the story 'hello I am a person who is not physically strong taking on a burden much too difficult for any living person because I want to do the right thing but i'm struggling intensely because it's difficult' and people look at that concept- which is not really that complicated!- and go 'what the heck is this? ew'

[eizneckam]

It's also like... listen, guys. "If Sam had taken the Ring-" the quest would have failed because he would have killed Gollum. I feel like people don't understand that this is a severe flaw of Sam's. He's a nice boy with a good heart but he just does not have pity in his heart until it's too late. Sam's inability to understand why Gollum acts the way he does dooms Gollum's redemption to failure. Unlike Frodo, who perseveres in the (vain) hope that Gollum can be redeemed, Sam does not until near the end of the book - when Gollum attacks the pair on the mountainside, he spares Gollum because, having carried the Ring now, he "dimly" grasps at what it would really mean to be Gollum. It's too late, though, because his earlier mistrust of Gollum has already set him against the hobbits for good.

And I know, the scene where the Ring tempts Sam with being "Lord of the Garden" is funny and awesome, but people forget that A) Sam had been wearing the ring for all of a couple days (compared to Frodo's 17 years in the book), and the Ring was clearly desperate and at the end of its tempting rope. Tolkien himself said that "no-one", not even Sauron himself (if he were inclined to do so), could destroy the ring at Mount Doom. The temptation at the ultimate moment would be too great. In fact, in the initial draft, this is exactly what happens to Frodo - the Ring shows him a vision of him using it to protect and save the hobbits from Sauron, and that's what causes him to finally put it on. (Presumably, Tolkien cut this because it didn't make sense for Frodo to narrate this moment.) So Sam's vision doesn't seem so ridiculous or out there now.

And ultimately, the whole point is that Frodo fails. He gives up everything on this quest he knows he is never going to come back from. He keeps going when it's obvious to him that they're all going to die. He keeps going when it's obvious he's not up to the task and never was. The fact that he only stumbles at the very end should be seen as a testament to his mental fortitude, not a failing. Frodo is all of us. We all love to think we would be Sam, or maybe Bilbo, or maybe Faramir wisely saying "I would not take it if it lay by the roadside" (note how Faramir, the smart guy, refuses to even look at the thing - in fact, notice how all the people who best "resist" the Ring's temptation do it by simply removing themselves as far away as possible from it!). But in reality, we would be Frodo. We wouldn't be up to the task, because who would? Instead, what saves Frodo is not his heroic willpower, but his mercy. Because he took it in his heart to have pity on Gollum, a fellow hobbit corrupted and twisted by the Ring's power (just like Frodo), the creature is there at just the right moment to destroy the ring. That's the message of Lord of the Rings. You have to understand that, right?

[samthekind]

there's not enough samfro kissing content.... so here's my contribution

[samthekind]

Hi I haven't been on here in [checks notes] a while, but this summer I'm going to meet Sean Astin aka Samwise Gamgee and this is such a wild opportunity that I never even thought to ever hope for and I need to figure out how not to malfunction in the process !!!

[thatonefaecreature]

Where does Pippin (in the movies) think apples come from? The first time he’s weird about apples it’s after the second breakfast scene where Aragorn throws an apple at him. Instead of looking towards the direction the apple was thrown from he looks straight up? Which is understandable if he’s not paying attention I guess, but then he does the same thing after the battle of Isengard. He’s standing in water, the apple is floating at his side and his first reaction is to look straight up

Anyways, conclusion: Pippin does not know where apples come from and has assumed it’s the sky

[diamndogs-deactivated20240402]

“I learned that he had never married. I thought that odd though I guessed why it was and the reason that I guessed was not that most of the Hobbits gave me - that he had early been left very well off and his own master. No, I guessed that he wanted to remain ‘unattached’ for some reason deep down which he did not understand himself - or would not acknowledge, for it alarmed him.”

— Gandalf talking to Pippin about Bilbo, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth (via dheiress88)