Have Orodreth and his valinorean unicorn before the year ends!

People will see silm art and be like ooo that’s a hot chick

I’ll say, that is a GUY thank you vm

They’ll be like, oh but at least she’s cute.

Yes beloveds, he is male as well.

Oh. Are there girls in your fandom then?

Me: Yes. I can count on my hands if you’d like?

Miv and Charlie are literally like annoying siblings i can't i love them sm

"Sauron is one of the greatest villains in the canon of literature, genre writing, filmmaking... all of it. He is not just dangerous and ruthless and brilliantly strategic in all the ways that great villains are. He's unique, in that Sauron is a seducer and a deceiver who tricks you into doing evil for him." - Patrick McKay

"Truly the spine of this season, and arguably the entire Lord Of The Rings mythology. The story of deception and betrayal between them is something we feel very lucky to be part of. The two Charlies, as we call them, go places I think people will be surprised by. It's almost a psychological thriller. The noose is tightening more and more." - Patrick McKay on the relationship between Sauron and Celebrimbor

petting the hasan

The Fellowship gets on the topic of their ages one night and Boromir comes to the dawning realization that he has absolutely no idea how old any of his companions are supposed to be at all

Boromir, pointing at the hobbits: I don’t know how your ages work

Boromir, pointing at Legolas and Gimli: I definitely don’t know how either of your ages work

Boromir, pointing at Aragorn: I thought I knew how your age worked but apparently I was wrong

Boromir, pointing at Gandalf: I especially don’t know how your age works

Gandalf: It doesn’t, but carry on

Listen I will die on this hill. I don’t care what it says in the assorted apocrypha, if you go by the Actual Text of LOTR you can make a very good argument that Boromir is the youngest member of the group. 

The hobbits are the only ones given official ages in the text, and are between fifty or fifty-one and twenty-nine. Elves and dwarves notoriously age slowly, and Gimli is the offspring of one of Bilbo’s pals, so okay, we’ve established that he’s old enough to call the hobbits young, and Bilbo confirms for them that Aragorn is Pretty Old For A Bigjobs. Gandalf is, of course, eternal.

But we are never given any context for Boromir and Faramir’s ages, except that a) they are humans and, though Sons of Gondor, not much longer lived than most Bigjobs, and b) Faramir is A QuiteYoung Man. I was absolutely convinced, when I read the books as a youngun, that Boromir, being in ‘the flower of manhood’ iirc, was probably between 25 and 30.

And it would be Freaking Hilarious, okay, for Boromir to finally get around to actually asking how old this baby-faced hobbit carrying The Ring is, and get told ‘oh, he’s only fifty, but he’s very steady for his age.’

Boromir: ?!?!?!

And then Pippin and Merry start asking everyone how old they are because this is fascinating are we all official adults here except for Pippin or what.

Boromir: …. Pippin isn’t an adult HOW OLD IS PIPPIN.

Pippin is just 29, which is why everyone calls him Pippin, it’s gonna be at least another 20 years before he can make Peregrine work. Why, how old is Boromir?

Boromir, who would rather DIE than admit to being 28 right at this moment: …. 43. 

All the others, weighing up his apparent age compared to theirs: Sure, sounds legit. 

Gandalf, who knows for certain, does not say anything because he is absolutely certain that telling Pippin that he’s older than Boromir will be an unmitigated disaster. 

LOTR Heritage Post

As everyone reading the post probably knows, Pippin was only 28 during RoTK and makes a particular point of being ALMOST 29, LIKE PRACTICALLY 29 RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY, DEFINITELY 29 THIS VERY YEAR, in a conversation with a child where he does not necessarily come off as the more mature. He was probably making such a clear and important point because hobbits are considered “full” adults (emotionally) at 33. That’s why Elrond’s heart misgave sending Pippin on the journey - he was contextually underage. That is, of course, nerd stuff and not especially interesting.

What is interesting is that Elijah Wood was an actual teenager when acting in the movies but Billy Boyd was 33, the same age as Cate Blanchett playing Galadriel. Born in 1968, Boyd is 9 years younger than Sean Bean (Boromir) and 8 years older than Dominic Monaghan (Merry).

It takes a very concentrated type of energy to be the eldest actor in the hobbit grouping by a healthy margin, and play the youngest character, and there is probably a lesson for all of us. It’s probably something like keeping a flexible mindset, drinking lots of water, staying in touch with friends of different ages, etc. It also goes to show how little reference point younger people really have for being 33.

Sometimes it does feel weird talking about NSFW bans because you either see it discussed in the sense of "NSFW bans are bad because the systems just randomly shoot innocent queer people!" or "The NSFW was bad (supposedly) but all the weirdos who jacked off to porn went away so things are nicer now" and its like

man that's great meanwhile I don't think Mastercard should decide if I pay someone to draw Cynthia from Pokemon being brainwashed or not.

This is a charcoal drawing that I made a while back. It’s Galadriel’s brother, Aegnor. He is described as having golden hair. The light in his eyes was fiery, especially in anger and war, and this was the reason behind his name. His hair was also described as being “strong and stiff, rising upon his head like flames”.

I love that everyone still uses the " It's [current year] why are we still doing [Blank]" format because as the years pass by, it gets exponentially funnier. I was watching an old TV show, and they literally said verbatim "For god sakes it's the 80s women should be allowed to wear anything they want without getting harassed" and I almost died laughing because it's literally the science fiction year of 2025 and people are still policing what we can or cannot wear