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you're in anfauglith with a beautiful elf, and she won't tell you that she wants your skin, but she wants your skin

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kinda gay to be a vampire queen and take off your skin to give to a beautiful girl
you're in anfauglith with a beautiful elf, and she won't tell you that she wants your skin, but she wants your skin
ARAGORN in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
back when I made my masked ainur post for Tolkien Fashion Week, I was also playing around with some gandalf designs. I couldn’t settle on one I liked so I dropped them … but in retrospect, I think I like both haha
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002 | dir. Peter Jackson
now look, i'm not here to tell you that you can't dig too greedily and too deep, but if we find you've failed to provide the miners with appropriate PPE, this operation will be facing some hefty fines
no fucking wayyy 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
{from @japagel_nails on ig.}
(*covering my ears and furiously imagining a universe where Túrin is happy*) Alternate timeline where Beren and Lúthien come back to visit Doriath after the quest for the Silmaril. Here, Túrin twisted his ankle in the woods and Lúthien is carrying him home. (Beren is giving moral support.)
Originally posted on the SWG here.
I think there's a broader problem behind the LotR-is-progressive-actually thing, which is. hm. probably the actually dangerous part.
which is the idea that if someone has sound values, it means they're coming from the same political position.
no one ideology or philosophy has the monopoly on ideas like "total war is bad" or "you should be nice to people" or "power corrupts". these are ideas that the majority (not all! but most!) of the world holds. you cannot believe that everyone who holds these beliefs is politically aligned with you, or sets the same boundaries on those ideas.
this is how you get drawn towards abhorrent ideologies. you want to believe LotR is progressive because it contains good and resonant political ideas you (a theoretical progressive) hold as part of your progressivism. this is also how people who start out on the left come to believe in "protect women" transphobia, or classical conservatism, or neoliberalism, or even nationalism and borderline fascism. this is the ideological pipeline.
and I don't think that means you throw the whole man away. I think there's a danger that you go the other way, and you start to say "well, they don't really hold those values" or "they don't mean those values", or even "those values, as stated, are bad actually".
I think it's so important, in media criticism if only as practice for life, to recognise and hold the competing ideas of "these are genuine, good values that come from recognising a real issue in the world, and I may be able to learn from them" and "the framework here is not one I accept or like, and this creator is not my political ally."
more specific tolkien thoughts under the cut
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson
flammifer of westernesse
CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.
Aragorn n Legolas r so funny to me bc people who don’t know lotr well see gruff manly ranger and elegant princely elf but they don’t know what i know. they don’t know that Aragorn is the long haired sensitive softboy writing sad poetry on his livejournal about not being able to show his girlfriend the awesome new song he wrote for her on his guitar meanwhile Legolas is doing backwards kickflips over gimli at the skate park bc gimli double dog dared him then he and gimli climb the tree at Aragorn’s house n yell at him through the window to come play halo
sometimes I need to draw a little Frodo being happy, just for the vibes
Saruman tuning into the Merry and Pippin show
the fact that the tra la la lally elves don’t show up when frodo et al. arrive in rivendell implies a few options to me:
they are only there some of the time or at certain entrances (possible but prosaic, includes the potential for tra la la lallying as shift work)
elrond’s magic has some kind of built-in warning system and they cleared out to avoid potential danger (plausible and realistic considering that i don’t think team tra la la lally is either interested in fighting or skilled in emergency response)
the changing political climate and increased danger around rivendell resulted in all tra la la lallying activities being moved inside the valley (which begs the question of where, and if they just manifest barbershop quartet style beneath guests’ windows)
elrond didn’t know about it until bilbo unwittingly mentioned the experience over dinner, and all roadside tra la la lallying was brought to an end (either petering out without the allure of secrecy or simply by the power of elrond’s consternation)
the whole thing was contrived solely to troll the dwarves (elucidates the standout conformity of only these elves to historic ‘tree-dwelling hippies’ stereotypes)
bilbo fully made it up (this was revealed when merry and pippin cheerfully asked elrond when the tra la la lallying would start, and elrond said ‘gesundheit’)
assuming the tra la la lally elves are real, though, i’m so certain that it was a celebrían-manufactured conceit made permanent by her shameless use of a parting wish to a weeping and dock-bound elrond right before they were sundered for centuries. she was leaning over the rail of the boat to valinor shaking her fist and yelling that they had to sing the song she wrote and not some sad sappy poem meant to attract maglor. yes, with all the tra la la lallies. or else.
Burden
The die is cast. Now comes the test, in which my boast shall be made good, or fail utterly. I will flee no more. Turambar indeed I will be, and by my own will and prowess I will surmount my doom – or fall. But falling or riding, Glaurung at least I will slay.