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The Gimli community has not forgiven Peter Jackson

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suspension of disbelief isn’t enough i need to go back in time and stop Peter Jackson from making Gimli into solely a comic relief character when he is arguably the most well-spoken and poetic out of the whole fellowship

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Dumb au where all Silmarillion events are treated like a reality show

This is the Seduction of Mairon

(Now I imagine there is a camera man that is following all events)

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i dont think we give karl urban enough credit for his acting in this extended edition scene of eomer discovering eowyn in pelennor fields because. my goodness

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Sketch of Mairon

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gimli agreeing to go with legolas to fangorn forest

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A quick sketch of my favorite fools

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AWESOME. NOBODY WATCH IT

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Tree coming out of an abandoned chimney (source)

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A creature designed to be “cute”, created by a god that does not fully understand what “cute” looks like to humans.

#this is relevant I think

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With a dragon🐉

#him <3

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remember to do your part by giving Amazon’s Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

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Ok something that really strikes me about Lord of the Rings is just... how sad Sauron is

Like, there are constant references to loss and mourning, with him going on about how "there is no life in the void," being way too into the color black and grief and hopelessness, never healing from his loss and just spiraling down into trying to replace Melkor, calling himself Melkor, but by nature only being a part of a whole, the loyal follower who never wanted anything more than to follow

Sauron put a part of himself into the One Ring and boy does that piece of jewelery do psychic damage. And like, yeah that's kinda the point of it, but I like to see the Ring as a genuine distillation of Sauron's own despair, that inflicts nothing more than his own unfathomably deep suffering, a grief that is so incomprehensible to the human mind that it by all means should not exist

The thing is that like, human emotions are fleeting. A person can feel grief for a year or a few years, but eventually there comes a time when the wound is no longer fresh and things have stabilized. Existing in a period of eternal mourning and desperation for thousands of years is incomprehensibly bleak to any mortal mind

Especially when the only strategy for survival in Tolkien's world is to fight tooth and nail against your own despair, having the big bad guy be just so deeply eternally drowning in hopelessness is. Well it's a thing I think about. He is my pathetic little meow meow and only gets more pathetic and I watch Lord of the Rings and take psychic damage whenever he comes on screen to talk about how sad he is.

#things I NEED acknowledged if we ever get a Silmarillion adaptation #edit: no the amazon one does not count <3

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that rarest of specimens, a gay little henchman who has succeeded in fucking their boss

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Every day since finding out about Makar and Measse I mourn that they aren’t present in the published Silm

If you don’t know them, Makar and Measse were two Valar present in the earlier versions of the Legendarium. They were brother and sister and a sort of warrior gods who I guess ended up being too violent for Tolkien’s tastes in the end and were discarded. But I’m fascinated by them because in the Silm we have the Valar, who are good and pure and if they ever do something wrong it was a mistake on their part, and then Melkor, who is evil and bad and can do nothing good ever.

Makar and Measse on the other hand are such grey characters. They are Valar and work with them, but they were also some of the Ainur who sung with Melkor, and they overall love the conflict that Melkor brings to the world. They love fighting and disasters and they spend their time hunting beasts. They were against the Elves coming to Valinor, too. Measse especially would have been such a good addition, because Tolkien’s female characters tend to be very good and pure on average, so a violent, bloody warrior goddess would have made for an incredible presence.

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