The Babe with the Power

my favorite lotr behind the scenes pics pt. 2

so my english teacher put up new posters in her class and

this is the exact energy that i strive for 

This will always be my favorite gifset. Ever.

im morally obligated to reblog this every time i see it

of course I do think it's a shame peter jackson made the decision to not include the scouring of the shire in the movies, but it's one I can forgive pretty easily, because it's not done thoughtlessly. in the book it's shown that both the shire changed, and the hobbits, too; meanwhile the movies abandon one of those things but through that they underline the other more heavily - it results in a different emotional tone of the ending, but it's still strong and still very bittersweet and sad. we get the books' story about the ruthlessness of war, the fact that it doesn't spare anything and nothing can be REALLY saved from it vs the movies' story of a more personal trauma, of not being able to come back because while your home is still right where it was, YOU aren't, not really. either way, Frodo doesn't really come home, and I'd say this is the most important thing that needed to be preserved in the ending of the story

there’s something so special about falling in love with nature every time you see a little detail like a fallen leaf on the ground that’s slowly turning brown... or spotting a tiny mushroom that’s sprouting from a tree... or just getting a warm feeling when you see the moon, i’m in love with the little things of life

Bilbo says 'my poetry is pretty mediocre' and 'I think elves are just entertaining me for the fun of it' and then drops the most heartwrenching wonderful beautiful epic hopeful dramatic soulful poem you've ever heard and excuse me while I stand in the corner and contemplate the meaning of life.

He asks for advice and only gets 'add a green rock', thanks Aragorn, very helpful. That's all Bilbo. Half of the poems in lotr are Bilbo's. It's all Bilbo.

Bilbo mentions Gandalf and Elrond are trying to keep him in Rivendell since he is in danger due to the enemy looking for him and yeah, understandable, but also if I was Elrond, I would also like to keep Mozart at his most productive living under my roof. You know Elrond is absolutely delighted by having Bilbo around. Obviously for more reasons than the regular supply of banger poems but. You get it.

there should be plushies of the strange but endearing creatures that live in medieval texts margins

bubble tea should be free as a public service given to girls who are in need of a little treat

peter jackson wanting to be involved with amazon's lotr or new warner bros films is insane. girlie the hobbit destroyed you. the studio crushed you like an ant and forced a lethal amount of work on you every day for three years with no prep. they made you lie through your teeth to keep production going and destroy a nation's labor laws in the process. you have not directed a movie since that wasn't a documentary made from archive footage. haven't stepped foot on a film set because they remind you of the green screen battleground where you tried to shoot three movies at once without scripts. babygirl. what are you doing

exactly. return to your roots sweetie

Jesus

This is so satisfying to watch

WIKIPEDIA MONSTER COMPILATION PAGES FOR PEOPLE

Excuse me, but are they in fact **looks at notes** blorbos?

apparently i’m a millennial woman

I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the “grimdark” and “gritty” settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it

It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassion—for our friends, for our families, for the strangers we’ve never even met—that will save us in the end.

Everybody who wears The One Ring in LOTR starts to refer to it as ‘My Precious,’ and Tolkien’s right that is super creepy, but what I really love is that everybody does it, which says to me that this super powerful scary evil sentient ring has a favorite pet name and just, like, will not respond to anything else.

Hey uhh @piyo-13 you cant hide brilliance like these in the tags

look i’m just saying, even as educated as frodo is, would he really KNOW the true name of sauron? like shit, of any of the elves left in middle earth by the time the events of LotR actually happen, only círdan and galadriel are old enough to remember that sauron existed in valinor (not counting old sindarin/avari elves because iirc sauron was never called mairon on the shores of ara [except possibly by melkor wink wonk]), let alone what his name was. so to everyone in ME, he’s always been sauron, and there’s no connection to “precious” in any linguistic sense… but mairon remembers.

no you’re a hundred percent right!! no one would know, and it wouldn’t make sense to anyone except maybe Gandalf, but that shredded little piece of sauron’s souls remembers

Oh, wow.   

this is why i love lotr fandom. this right here

so what you’re saying is there’s a tiny piece of sauron’s soul tucked smug into the Ring just going around introducing itself as “i’m babey”

This post has justified every second of every minute, hour, and collective day I have ever spent on Tumblr. It was all worth it for this.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 3.08 “Lovers Walk”

disabled people deserve more than the bare minimum to live tbh. and i don't mean in the "oh we have extra costs that makes being disabled more expensive" - which is true, but i'm counting those in the budget to live. disabled people also deserve enough money to buy treats, nice clothes, fund their hobbies, take a trip away, and so on. being disabled shouldn't force you into a life of frugality and poverty

I was overstimulated and now I’m evil

In Brazil people were like this waiting to see across the spiderverse

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Legal issues with the Tolkien Estate aside, you couldn’t remake LOTR anyway. Why? Because of the theme music. Yeah. Like what are you going to do? “Yes, we need a score that lives up to Howard Shore’s Lord of The Rings, or is at least cool enough to, y’know, do it’s own thing.” Like, you can’t. You just straight up can’t. Go ahead and remake Star Wars with different music why don’t you. You’re hearing the Fellowship theme in your head right now, aren’t you? You know you are. It’s that powerful. What can you do? Nothing. That’s it. That’s Lord of The Rings. Goodbye.

I’m weeping RIGHT NOW.

I CAN hear the shire theme.

It sounds like the home I’ve never known. The home I’ve always known. The sound of love and joy and loss and sadness and peace that cannot be unentwined.

My soul is aching and in bliss.

From like 4 bars of music that I just hallucinated after reading the OP.

No, you can not remake that.