#the tcbs

[arda-marred]

Essential viewing for any Tolkien fan who is interested in the impact of the Great War on Tolkien and his closest group of friends.

[imagineitup]

tcbs hc: being their muse

request: If you did open TCBS headcanons, I’d request headcanon of being their personal muses or engagement headcanon. But even if you don’t, your TCBS headcanon was exceptional

John Ronald Tolkien

He wants you to experience all the wonder that you make him feel

Points out specific things that he thinks are so intriguing about you

And he just builds you up

There’s something about his voice that keeps you hanging onto every word he says, and the way he’s able to come up with his stories is so inspiring and almost beautiful 

He bounces ideas off you and tells you immediately that you’re the one person he feels the most inspired around

Will drag you to forests and parks to walk among the trees and talk about magical lands, and different languages, and other worlds

Loves the moments with you’re both free and he swears that these are the times he’ll remember forever

Geoffrey Bache Smith

There’s something so beautiful about a love that feels “unrequited”, and geoffrey would be living through rose-colored glasses

That longing in his heart?  Transfers straight to his poems.

He’s so gentle in everything: in his movements, his voice, the way he speaks

So hyper-aware of everything and anything you

Makes mental notes of all the small things you do that he finds beautiful: the way your eyes light up in the dark, the smudge of ash on the jut of your chin, the way you elegantly move through the world.

Geoffrey falls in love with living because of you.  

Some days he can’t write because he’s caught up in this feeling you’ve enveloped him in, and he hopes that someday he’ll be able to capture that essence in words, but he knows he never will

Words won’t ever do you justice

But he finds himself lingering around you any moment he can

Sometimes you’ll be laughing and turn to look at him

And he’ll be staring at you with eyes full of wonder

And just to say, the love is most definitely not unrequited but geoffrey is dumb aF

Robert Gilson --> the one on the left :’) 

You would know you were his muse because this boy is not subtle

Small traces of you exist in all of his paintings, like that figure who has the same hair color as yours, or the person with the very same birthmark on their shoulder that’s a near replica to yours

Sometimes he’ll drag you to one of his portraits to point out small symbols that relate to conversations the two of you had

“Oi, and there’s the pigeon that landed on our table, remember that?”

Other cases he’ll beg you to model

If you’ll let him, he likes to trace his fingers against your hand for ‘research’.  It’s a gentle moment, but the way he studies each contour and line of your hand makes you shiver and wonder if maybe, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to have him love you

When he paints there’s so much focus and dedication in his expression that you could watch him forever, just like this

And when the sunlight streams in through the window and hits him, he looks golden and ethereal and stunning

Although he could say the same about you

Sometimes he’ll look up and lose himself for a moment because you’re just so beautiful

Everyone thinks y’all should just date already

Christopher Wiseman

There’s an emotion that comes across his features when he plays piano and it’s something you haven’t really noticed before

Christopher likes to pause for a few moments before he starts, and then he creates music with such startling grace and meaning behind each note

You’ve never thought of music as anything before, but this, the way Christopher plays?  This music is art

You’re definitely curious what goes through his mind when he plays

Because to you he’s still that teasy boy who likes to flirt and gets flustered and drinks too much

He’s lucky you’re distracted bc he still gets flustered and tries to evade and dodge the question

Honestly it’s kinda cute, with the blush on his cheeks and the way he won’t quite look you in the eye

Mumbles something about “him going to die someday” and then asks what you thought about it

Ofc ur all too happy to gush about him bc you’ve known him for so long and WOW this was something else

And the softness that comes over his expression as you talk about his playing makes you want to melt a little bit, too, even if you don’t really realize why

After a while he leans in to whisper in your ear that the reason he plays?  it’s all because of you