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Nazgul Sucks Ass

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“Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly. The outstretched neck she clove asunder, and the hewn head fell like a stone. Backwards she sprang as the huge shape crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread, crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away. A light fell about her, and her hair shone in the sunrise.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Frodo may be Bilbo’s actual adopted nephew, but Merry and Pippin are his younger cousins, and Sam is his old gardener’s son whose family he clearly has a soft spot for and who he taught to read and write, and Gimli is the son of one of his old adventuring friends, and Legolas is, similarly, the son of the Elvenking who named him an elf-friend, and we know Aragorn is canonically his friend as well, who he very possibly could have met as a small child in Rivendell when he passed through, so really, like 7/9 members of the Fellowship are people he can employ weird elderly relative (or the honorary equivalent thereof) energy on if he wants to and I think that’s very powerful.

the fellowship is 7 people who Bilbo Baggins can employ weird elderly relative energy onto PLUS 1 person who can employ weird elderly relative energy onto Bilbo Baggins PLUS Boromir.

I love found family as much as the next girl but the fact that Bilbo goes home at the end of the Hobbit is so fucking funny to me. “Yes, we had a life changing experience together and I’ve saved all your lives. What of it? I miss my arm chair. Good morning.” ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS.

thinking about how thranduil went to war over diamonds because his wife never got to wear them before she passed and how him retreating into mirkwood and barely letting anyone out of the kingdom after her passing was because of the immense loss he had felt and how everything he did (even the cruel things) were because he wanted to keep his people safe and how the battle of the five armies and seeing all the loss of life was what brought back his compassion and made him realize he should have been more worried about his son than some diamonds because his son was what truly mattered and was a living symbol of their love and how he was able to sympathize with tauriel because he knew what it was like to lose the love of his life and saw the same thing happening to her and GOD IM IN PAIN