LOTR + text posts

In love with the fact that Dean met an angel of the lord and was immediately like ‘yeah, I want to make him think about me having sex with my huge dick’.

The reason they put the death penalty on the table for Luigi is as a threat. Both to the people of America and to Luigi himself.

They want him to take a plea. They want him to plead guilty. To swear in front of a court of law that he did the crime and the NYPD solved the case.

They don't want to have to prove it. They don't want to take it to trial and have the world see what a farce it all is.

So they said "say you're guilty or we'll kill you".

That's why the death penalty is on the table. To remind him and the American people that the punishment for not blindly agreeing with the police is death.

Not all who wander are lost. However if you see a dark haired dwarven King walk past you for the fourth time in a row, he likely is lost. Very lost. Please show him the way to Bag-end

I’m fine with Thorin being taller than Bilbo, but there’s something unsettling about seeing tall!Thorin (Richard behind the scenes in costume)

Like, Richard in makeup and a hoodie? Beautiful, majestic

Richard in his full costume standing next to Ian? Terrifying

Imagine 6’2” Thorin Oakenshield running at you at full speed

Merry, to Frodo, lying face-down on bed, regretting being alive: And then I called him dad.

Boromir, to Aragorn, sobbing: And then he called me dad.

I have a hilarious year of the trees take: Maedhros and Fingon are together (romantically) and Celegorm and Aredhel are completely platonic, but everyone thinks it's the other way around (namely Feanor and Fingolfin)

Like Celegorm is getting CONSTANTLY lectured by his dad and all of society for his relationship with Aredhel, whereas Maedhros is off fucking Fingon by a waterfall somewhere and everyone's like "Oh theyre such good friends :)"

Celegorm would be PISSED. He just wants to go camping with his homegirl (and for her to join the hunters of Orome) but all the parents are trying to tear them apart cause they think they're fucking. Whereas Maedhros and Fingon are giggling together at court, writing each other the sappiest love poems, and dance together at every social gathering and no one suspects a THING.

Bonus points if all of the cousins are in on it, and none of the Feanor/Fingolfin/Finarfin generation ever figures it out.

That idea seemed to impress Colin. He thought it over and then answered her slowly.
“If I were her ghost—my father would be fond of me,” he said.

-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Do you know what I think about a lot?

Merry and Pippin's parents. And their uncertainty.

It's well implied that Gandalf informed Sam's father of his whereabouts, and obviously Frodo was living well on his own by the time of his journey. But neither Merry nor Pippin were ever supposed to go with Frodo. And probably never told anyone they were leaving either. Not expecting to be gone so long...

How long did it take their mothers and fathers to realize that their boys had gone missing? What did they feel when they realized they didn't know where they had gone? Fear? Worry? Anger? Regret? ... Grief? As more time passed who thought the worst, and who still kept up hope that one day their sons might come home?

Paladin and Eglantine's only son. What was it like, for Pippin's sisters, to lose their brother they had known since a baby? Pippin was so young. Just a curious boy. What trouble did he get himself into?

Saradoc and Esmeralda's only child. What was it like for Merry's parents, having a suddenly empty nest where their child once was? Merry was so independent. A courageous young man. Had danger finally got the better of him?

Even during the Scouring of the Shire, did they think of their Merry and Pippin, lost somewhere unknown, hoping wherever they were, they were safe? Because perhaps there was fear soon there might not be a Shire for them to return to.

What was it they saw the day they returned? A ghost? A miracle? A glimmer of hope? A miscreant who never bothered to tell their parents where they went? A knight, so unlike the boy they knew? Or simply their son. Changed, but home at last.

Hobbit ages and aging

I just have to say a few things about what I see all over the place about this topic.

• Age 33 is when hobbits are "of age" legally. In modern culture, we see this as age 18, but in victorian or even Regency England, men came of age legally at 21. (If you divide these numbers you get .64, which you can then use to multiply a hobbit's age to get what their rough human equivalent.)
• Based on those calculations, this means that age 50, Frodo would have been basically 32 years old in human terms.
• 30-somethings don't necessarily look all that old! I know there's some younger people who think mid-thirties means you have a bunch of wrinkles already, but do you have any idea how many actors have played high schoolers in their thirties??Even if Frodo's aging wasn't being delayed by the Ring, he still wouldn't look that old, ok? He's not a 50-year-old human.
• Sam and Merry are essentially in their mid-20s (Merry is 38, Sam is 42)
• The only main hobbit character who is still a "tween-ager" is Pippin at 29, which converts to 18.5 years by human reckoning.
• Personally, I don't think the movies make the hobbits out to be teenagers (exception of Pippin maybe) despite how young they look. Lots of people in their 20s still look like teens. But I don't think our boys behave like teens - yes, even Merry and Pippin. There's plenty of 20-somethings who behave like that. Hell, Billy and Dom are both over 50 now and they still play pranks on Elijah and act like a box of puppies.
• The only true teenage actor, Elijah, portrayed a level of maturity and responsibility in Frodo that would easily be attributed to an older person, so despite his appearance, his behavior makes it plenty believable that he's older.

Ok I'm done. 😆

Headcanon whatever makes you happy, but this is my piece.

I do wish people knew more about Book!Frodo vs. Movie!Frodo. Like, I love Elijah Wood and I love his performance but Book!Frodo is a lot more scrappy and not quite as pure of heart, despite still being a pretty nice guy. Because it leads to a lot of fanon that because Frodo is quiet and nice, he's therefore helpless, sanctimonious, and childlike.

Like Frodo is probably the most polite of the four hobbits, but he's also the oldest. A lot of his interactions with Merry and Pippin specifically read like he's an older and wiser big brother who enjoys teasing them. The movie kinda acts like Frodo is naive to a lot of Merry and Pippin's hijinks, but the books are clear that Frodo was also out there stealing crops from Farmer Magot, and it was probably his idea in the first place.

He's not above practical jokes, or being petty, or losing his temper. When they first set out from the Shire, a cute character detail is Frodo choosing to wake up everybody in kind of funny ways, scaring Sam awake by making him think he's slept in and is late for work, and yanking Pippin's blankets and basically rolling him down a hill. He's king of veiled insults and trying to let out his depression in funny ways like saying "Let's not worry about tomorrow, it probably won't come." Like when Sam thinks Frodo's messing with him when he starts saying Sam should be called the Stout-Hearted, it's not like there isn't a precedent for that kind of thing.

The movie also omits a lot of Frodo's badass moments and qualities, like when he manages to just barely cut the Witch King of Angmar on Weathertop, or when he makes his stand at the River while being chased by Nazgûl, or when he slices off the arm of the Barrow-wight, or when he confronts Sarumon. He also is the only of the four hobbits who can speak some elvish and is definitely the most worldly because he's spent so long with Bilbo. Usually most of the hobbits look to Frodo for advice or guidance.

And to be clear, he is nice and modest and very polite and compassionate towards others. Like he's always making an effort to be kind. But he has layers, and is a mature adult who I think is reduced by a lot of his sweet cinnamon roll characterization. In actuality he's more like cool older bro who lets you stay up late when he babysits and who's trying not to let anyone else know he's in the middle of a break down.

Faramir: Writing things down is nerdy? What do you do?

Eowyn: I pass it down through ancient traditions of oral storytelling, songs and tapestries like a cool person.

Looking for a specifical gif of Sam for a reply I stumbled with this and couldn't help staring for a bit:

Originally posted by lady-arryn

Samwise Gamgee, the man that you are.

I don't think people who say Merry and Pippin just stumbled along to Frodo's journey because "they dumb" really get how similar it is to the books in terms of devotion and friendship.

Sure, in the books they're like:

"Yeah, we knew. For a long time. We have been preparing. There's a whole conspiracy and shit. We are coming with you. End of discussion."

But in the movie?

Yeah, sure. It's by an accident. At first. The second things move forward and danger presents itself, they barely ask any questions. They just trust him and go with him without any preparations. Without any hesitations. They just grab their shit and go

"Alright, where we headed my dude?"

Originally posted by frodo-sam