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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson.

#i just watched this part today! #lotr #the two towers #q #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee

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i brought the two towers to read at my doctors appointment today, and when the doctor came in the room, we had a conversation about lotr for a few minutes before doing the actual appointment 😅

#✅ green flag #AND he listened to my concerns! #we love to see it #doctors #personal

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“Oh yes we could! Spoiling nice fish!”

#samwise gamgee #lotr #the two towers #q

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she’s just like us fr

#i forgot they were engaged until i saw this tbh #katy perry #orlando bloom #legolas

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lotr meme ≡ 4/6 characters: samwise gamgee It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t, because they were holding on to something. There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.

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Thranduil's anger was actually beautifully raw in this scene where he is confronted by Tauriel, who was behaving like the child she was (compared to her king). My dear girl, who exactly do you think you are drawing an arrow on your king in front of his own people, and then hurling such an insult as "There is no love in you"?!

Thranduil fans who have theorized endlessly on the facts surrounding Legolas's mother know better. There is tremendous love in the Elvenking's heart, which is why it was then filled with equally tremendous pain when the object of that love was taken from him.

Is Tauriel arguing that there is no love left in him ever since his wife died? Did she not see his face as he surveyed the dead bodies of the Mirkwood elves he led into battle?

Let's review:

It would seem that this was a king who valued the lives of his subjects as though they were all his children, and a good father will not stand for anyone threatening his family. One could fairly argue it was already generous of him to sacrifice as much as he did at that point. Unlike the High Kings of the First Age who lost their entire kingdoms in wars, Thranduil had control over his pride and refused to needlessly give his people up to slaughter. Is that not a form of love? I am not arguing that he made the correct moral choice to refuse further aid, but to say that his refusal to send more elves to fight was because he had "no love" is preposterous and insulting.

And finally, just to stick the nail in the coffin of Tauriel's self-righteous, ignorant accusations, what did Thranduil look like when he said goodbye to his son after letting him walk away from their home?

I do believe that is the face of a father who just gave up his last shred of happiness just so that his son could go seek his own happiness.

Love. Not even the coldest of fronts that he puts up and harsh words he hides behind could deny the obvious proof in his actions.

In conclusion: Tauriel, despite being captain of the guard, raised in Mirkwood, and supposedly a beloved friend of Legolas, knew nothing about her King. The shame is on her alone.

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#thranduil

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no but my type is just grown ass men who are babygirl.

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it is simultaneously ridiculous and also completely understandable how attached the non-book reading side of the lotr fandom got attached to Haldir in exactly two scenes.

110/10 would marry

#haldir #he’s my special little guy

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“Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far.”

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J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 192; The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (via ringbearerfrodo)

#also i highly recommend reading this whole letter #and there are several others where tolkien talks about frodo #and describes him as essentially a victim of ongoing psychological torture #and he gets really pissed at people who blame frodo or say he failed #comparing that to blaming a torture victim who ‘breaks’ and spills secrets after weeks of torture #it’s both an interesting take on frodo’s character #and also (imo) some very interesting insight into the way tolkien himself thought about frodo #because he’s not a civilian talking about torture survivors #he’s very much speaking as a war veteran (tags via @fialleril)

(via joannalannister)

#frodo baggins #tolkien

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Did Howard Shore's LOTR score become a deeply-ingrained part of your personality or are you normal

#reeeal far from normal friends #lotr #lotr soundtrack

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Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

#i love him your honor #eomer #lotr #q

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You are allowed to smuggle in precisely one f-bomb to anyone of your choosing. ¡Tell us who, when, and where!

¡Please reblog and explain your choice in the notes!

#gandalf sweep #you shall not FUCKING pass!

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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring dir. Peter Jackson

#lotr #q

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Yeah, I’m doing great, thanks for asking

*has had Into the West on loop for three hours*

#why is it me

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“Bree”

The sixth of eleven new watercolours depicting places in Middle-earth (and Númenor) for an upcoming book.

#bree #the prancing pony #lotr art

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i finished reading the fellowship of the ring for the first time!!!

• one lasting impression i have is that i love boromir so much. when it started snowing on the mountain, he was so concerned for the halflings, it was so sweet. there were many instances like that where both he and aragorn fiercely defended the hobbits, or carried them, and i may pass away if i think about it too much.

• b-bill… 🥺 i was genuinely so sad for sam to have to send his beloved pony away to certain danger. if i didn’t already know from tumblr tolkien lore that bill lives, i would be really sad right now.

• damn, the movies really did gimli dirty, didn’t they? (don’t get me wrong, i love the movies and i have little to no problems with them) but literally no one wanted to go to moria because they knew how dangerous it was going to be. in the movies, it was like gimli was trying to convince the company to go that way. just a difference i noticed!

• i just put the book down, just now, to come type this bullet point because i needed a breather. i am currently, right now, on the edge of my fucking seat!!! (im laying in bed but you know what i mean)

my heart is beating out of my chest! like, i know what’s gonna happen, but they’re sooo close 😫 imagine never having read the books, and the first movie comes out, and you don’t know that gandalf comes back. that would be so insane/devastating.

• lmfao because of that one post on tumblr “when watching fotr with your friends and the balrog shows up you can tell them, this is where legolas starts screaming in the book” but friends. he’s not screaming. he’s wailing it (honestly valid, i would react the exact same way but for a minute just picture movie legolas wailing upon the arrival of the balrog and tell me that’s not funny).

• i like that we get more detail and interaction with the elves in lorien. book galadriel comes across softer, friendlier, less scary (maybe that’s just because movie galadriel scared me with that one scene when i was younger).

• i kept waiting for boromir to die, and i was like, he’s (tolkien is) running out of time here! how can we get to that part AND adequately say goodbye to him?

when i had like 5 pages left i was like yeah there’s no way. i went to my husband all stressed about it and he told me it doesn’t happen until the second book! i was like ohhhhh, okay.

• i can’t wait to start the two towers! of the movies, it’s my favorite and i’m interested to see how that differs.

#reading lord of the rings for the first time #reading lotr for the first time #lotr #lotr books #fotr #lotr fotr #the fellowship of the ring

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Dir. Peter Jackson

#babe ♥️ #aragorn #aragornposting #lotr #the two towers #q