@bisexualcyborg (reposting bc i think tumblr ate my first attempt)
bisexualcyborg replied to your photo “I saw The Fellowship again last weekend and promptly reached for the…”
CARO ILU
SARAH ILU2 <333
Lilou and I marathoned the movies right before christmas
U wanna know how much i FUCKING CRIED about the parallels of Frodo’s journey with illness, and about Sam’s UNERRING loyalty and how obvious it is that he’s staying for himself as much as for Frodo
Bc it was A LOT
Also the ending “how do you pick up the threads of a life” (badly quoted but yknow the bit. cue me CRYING MY EYES OUT.)
Didn’t help that the last time I read the full tolkienverse series (lotr+hobbit+silmarillion+etc) was the summer when i was sick
I can only imagine the amount of crying that occurred bc my eyes already get watery when I think about Frodo & Sam and especially when I remember the Grey Havens but it doesn’t hit nearly as close to home for me as I’m guessing it does for you *hugs*
it’s not my first rewatch (tho haven’t reread in a looong time) but this time I am ready to give it the attention it deserves, and also to drag up all the memories bc I am def not the same person I was nearly two-thirds of my lifetime ago (saw the first movie when it came out in 2001) but also in a way I am and that is…interesting.
like, I had no idea what fandom was. I barely knew what the internet was or enough english to get by. at first it was just me and a friend reading the books and geeking out and working it into school assignments at every possibility (I remember so much singing. plays. a fashion show. poetry. an ad for wizard fuzzy slippers named Gandies) we wrote fix-it fic before we knew what fanfic was. and then the internet started to become more commonplace and there were forums and fansites and Elfwood to discover (ohnooo I just found out it shut down in 2016?? i am cry) I don’t actually remember if we had much access to fic back then, the only things I remember were a LotR version of Big Brother the Dutch tv show (an AU if you will) and a verrrry long fic in which Frodo gets a girlfriend (Sam got one, it seemed only fair at the time) I’m sure that if someone had told me about Frodo and Sam living together forever I would have been 100% into it but I was so clueless. so incredibly clueless (didn’t know about shipping, didn’t know queerness as anything more than a vague concept)
On a more fun note: I STILL HAVE ALL THE FUCKING FEELS ABOUT GIMLI AND LEGOLAS OKAY. THEY ARE SO GAY AND SO FANTASTIC. SUCH A SIMULTANEOUSLY FUN AND BEAUTIFUL AND HEARTWRENCHING ROMANCE. I’M SORRY FOR THE SAP BUT G O D
(Have you read sansukh. if you care about the lotr dwarves at all you NEED to read sansukh. even if not tbh. it is a GREAT fic and follows the whole journey of all the members of the fellowship)
SO now that I’m the me I am now I can explore all this again, differently, and am for sure planning on reading fic, so thanks for the rec, I will check it out!!
Also going walking in the woods with a backpack, some rope and fake elvish brad was The Childhood Experience. My backpack was leather and my rope was Way Too Heavy to be elven rope but i loved it anyway
I am so glad you had a similar Childhood Experience bc personally I don’t know anybody else who used to drag rope around for no reason other than “elves!!” I also tried for a while to walk toes first (instead of heel first) bc I had somehow got it into my head that’s how elves walk (don’t ask how that went) (it didn’t :P)
