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evilmidnightlurker · 3 months

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Legolas and Gimli are Dead

LEGOLAS: You can't not-be on a horse. GIMLI: I've frequently not been on horses. LEGOLAS: No, no, no--what you've been is not on horses.

#misquotes #lord of the rings #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #legolas greenleaf #gimli son of gloin

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theheirofthesharingan · 9 months

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tolkien said sam was the chief hero of lord of the rings. also frodo wouldn't have made it out of the shire without him. sam carried frodo on his shoulders in mordor and fought shelob all alone.

tolkien said sam was the chief hero of lord of the rings.

He didn't, apparently. The chief hero quote is a heavily misquoted, perverted phrase LotR fandom has perpetuated without using any critical thinking because it serves their bias. The entire quote, within the context of the letter, means and says something else entirely.

Since we now try to deal with 'ordinary life', springing up ever unquenched under the trample of world policies and events, there are love-stories touched in, or love in different modes, wholly absent from The Hobbit. But the highest love-story, that of Aragorn and Arwen Elrond's daughter is only alluded to as a known thing. It is told elsewhere in a short tale. Of Aragorn and Arwen Undómiel. I think the simple 'rustic' love of Sam and his Rosie (nowhere elaborated) is absolutely essential to the study of his (the chief hero's) character, and to the theme of the relation of ordinary life (breathing, eating, working, begetting) and quests, sacrifice, causes, and the 'longing for Elves', and sheer beauty. But I will say no more, nor defend the theme of mistaken love seen in Eowyn and her first love for Aragorn. But altogether it would hardly amount to the excision of a single long chapter.

People miss the whole context. Here, the theme is that of Love. The characters in question are Sam (rustic, simple love) being compared to Aragorn (higher, nobler love). Tolkien also mentions Éowyn because of her feelings towards Aragorn. It's not a comparison between Frodo and Sam. LotR is a story about the hobbits and all four serve a purpose in the story. They all start out as fairytale heroes but only three return with a gain. Frodo is the tragic hero of the tale.

Furthermore, in many of his letters, Tolkien talks about Frodo as the central character.

Here is a small consignment of 'The Ring': the last two chapters that have been written, and the end of the Fourth Book of that great Romance, in which you will see that, as is all too easy, I have got the hero into such a fix that not even an author will be able to extricate him without labour and difficulty. Lewis was moved almost to tears by the last chapter. All the same, I chiefly want to hear what you think, as for a long time now I have written with you most in mind. (letter #91).

Many people think since Sam is the only one (physically) present there, Tolkien is talking about Sam; but in truth, the one character who is in 'fix' here is Frodo. The main objective of the story is how will Frodo, with Sam's help, go to Mordor and destroy the Ring. Since Sam abandons the idea of destroying the Ring and chooses to follow Frodo's 'dead body', hence endangering the fate of the world, I doubt it has to be about him. We need Frodo to save the world. And we need Sam to save Frodo. Without Frodo, Middle-earth is doomed and the story and the plot cannot go any further than this.

In another letter to David Masson (1955), Tolkien says this:

'Surely how often "quarter" is given is off the point in a book that breathes Mercy from start to finish: in which the central hero is at last divested of all arms, except his will?

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Frodo is the one who divests himself of all arms. And it's his will that's repeatedly talked about throughout the story. The central hero Tolkien talking about here is him.

In The Silmarillion, Frodo is the only character mentioned from the Fellowship. Gandalf is mentioned as Olórin, not Gandalf. Surely, it's a bird-eye view of LotR, but the sentence that was phrased as 'Frodo with the help of his servant destroyed the ring' could also have been said differently with Sam being in focus instead. In the letter #246, JRRT goes in extreme detail regarding Frodo, his heroism, his contribution to the quest, and his relevance in the story thematically. Frodo was the antithesis of Sauron and fought against him singlehandedly. The battle of wills, not any physical battle. In the Field of Cormallen, both Frodo and Sam are honoured, but Frodo is still bestowed with the highest honour for his service (they sang 'Frodo of the Nine Fingers in his honour). Tolkien's words on this:

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. The Other Power then took over: the Writer of the Story (by which I do not mean myself), 'that one ever-present Person who is never absent and never named' (as one critic has said). (Letter #192)

also frodo wouldn't have made it out of the shire without him.

It's been many years since I read the book, so my memory might betray me, but if I remember it correctly, Sam helped them in the Old Forest because he was the only not under the spell of the tree (Old Man Willow, I suppose). In other instances Frodo took precautions himself. He knew whom to trust. The rest was handled by Merry and Pippin while they left their home and met Strider. Frodo saved his friends from Barrow Wight at the Downs, was the only one to summon courage enough to get back at the Nazgúl while the other three hobbits were terrified. Are you sure you aren't making any overstatements in your comments?

sam carried frodo on his shoulders in mordor and fought shelob all alone.

His contribution in helping Frodo and getting him to Mordor, even on his shoulder, are undeniable. He has a long list of accomplishments, for which he was generously rewarded in the end. But his accomplishments don't make him the 'true hero of LotR', definitely not greater than Frodo.

I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing — no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.

This was Frodo's condition while they were nearing Orodruin. He still didn't give up. No one else, I repeat no one else, was put through these conditions, not even Sam. There comes a time when the Ring physically forces Frodo to put itself on. He resists it and then finds Galadriel's phial. When Sam carries Frodo on his shoulders, he states Frodo hardly weighed more than a hobbit child. It was either Sam was rewarded for his kindness or Frodo had actually lost so much weight that he didn't even weigh more than a child at that time.

'All gave some and some gave all' is a quote I read somewhere. Frodo was the one who gave all he had. He was the kindest, bravest, and most selfless hobbit. Tolkien might have meant Sam to be the chief hero/main character, but that means that for a 'supporting character', Frodo is far more heroic, relevant to the story, because without him, the story wouldn't even exist.

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I hope this answer was convincing enough for you, anon. Thanks for reminding me why I grew to dislike LotR fandom so much. Apparently, anything pro Frodo must be responded with "sam is the true hero" and "tolkien said so" without looking at the context of the phrases because it helps you with your own bias.

#frodo #lotr frodo #frodo baggins #tolkien #jrr tolkien #lotr #ask #anon #i don't write for anything other than naruto on this blog but this ask had me do it #i gave up on LotR fandom a long time ago for this reason #and haven't written anything for years #for a fandom that has tons of scholars and the books that inspired modern fantasy literature lotr has some of the dumbest fans #though sometimes exceptions are necessary i guess #anyway if you love frodo we might be best friends already

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thephantomcasebook · 1 year

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Btw Elio also said it was planned for Aegon III to have a second Velaryon bride, since 1999. So Jaehaera being too old for his kids wasn’t the only reason.

Yeah, Elio and Linda say a lot of things.

Like "Rise of the Dragon"?

Notice how it doesn't fit the canon of "Fire & Blood" and leaves things out or changes things entirely? Like how in "Fire & Blood" Aemond and Helaena die on the same day. But now it's all jumbled? Or how they left out entire battles from Daeron's Southern campaign that brought the Reach to heel?

That's cause they have their own preferred canon and characterizations that don't match up to GRRM's established lore a lot of times. If they don't like it, it somehow disappears and then reappears altered or changed, and then GRRM and their website have two conflicting dates, people, and events, of things. their meddling or "Keeping track" of the ASoIaF lore has often led to GRRM double speaking and misquoting events.

I also don't believe for a second that GRRM had the idea for Aegon III's regency crisis all the way in 1999. That's like Tolkien saying that he had Faramir planned in the narrative all the way in the 1930s. Or that Galadriel was always fully formed in his mind and didn't take shape while writing the Lorien section of Lord of the Rings.

Anyone who has ever spent any appreciable amount of time on the message boards of Westros.org back in the day know that's utter bullshit.

The patent GRRM: "No, I didn't change my lore, this has always been canon ... I had this all planned out since, you know, 1994!"

Yeah, sure, you did, Pops.

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dearlittlefandom-stalker · 1 year

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These are specifically quotes from the movies, which I count as separate from the books. Also these are possibly misquoted, I’m going off memory here

#lord of the rings #the hobbit #polls #tumblr polls #Quotes

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glorfindelridesagain · 2 years

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Elrond: Do you ever think before you speak?

Glorfindel: I think “wow, that’s hilarious” then I say it.

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dicksoutforboromir · 6 years

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if the fellowship had google:

frodo:

gimli:

legolas:

samwise:

aragorn:

pippin:

gandalf:

boromir:

legolas:

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eruvadhril · 6 years

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I keep seeing artsy shit with “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” written on them and it pisses me off every damn time because the missing “those” throws off the whole rhythm of the line, Tolkien fuckin knew what he was about and wrote that entire poem in amphibrachs on purpose, goddammit, it’d be like if every fuckin Halloween there were creepy moody artsy pictures of corvids with “The Raven Said Nevermore” on them and 90% of the people making them didn’t even know any better because their only exposure to the poem is this one mis-quoted line that they keep seeing repeated on fuckin artsy Instagram posts

#tolkien #lord of the rings #poems are the worst things to misquote because the incorrect rhythm is immediately identifiable #This post brought to you by the fact that I'm looking at iron-on patches on Etsy

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recovery-from-myself · 6 years

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There is good in me, and it’s worth fighting for.

#affirmations #positive affirmations #positivity #encouraging #self compassion #lord of the rings #misquote

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innerspeaker · 3 years

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tag 9 people to learn more about their interests

Tagged by red @jackharkness, thank you so much!!! ♥️♥️♥️

MUSIC

fave genre? post-punk and indie/alternative rock

fave artist? too many to name, to be honest; as for bands, the first that come to mind are definitely muse, interpol, radiohead and queens of the stone age but like, the list could go on forever; then last year i crossed paths with miss phoebe bridgers’ work and she became one of my favourite artists of all time, too. also i have an entire sideblog dedicated to arctic monkeys and another one for linkin park, so...yeah

fave song? “i appear missing” by queens of the stone age

most listened song recently? “trouble’s coming” by royal blood (in the wise words of a wise man i recommend it to everyone instead of drugs)

song currently stuck in your head? “all eyes on me” by bo burnham cause i’ve just read red’s 8 songs tag game

5 fave lyrics?

“I sucked the moon / I spoke too soon / and how much did it cost? I was dropped from moonbeams and sailed on shooting stars” — sail to the moon, radiohead

“Driving out into the sun / let the ultraviolet cover me up / went looking for a creation myth / ended up with a pair of cracked lips / Windows down, scream along to some America first rap, country song / A slaughterhouse, an outlet mall / slot machines, fear of God / Windows down, heater on / big bolts of lightning hanging low / Over the coast everyone's convinced it's a government drone or an alien spaceship /either way, we're not alone / I'll find a new place to be from, a haunted house with a picket fence to float around and ghost my friends” — i know the end, phoebe bridgers

“And I was on the island and you were there too / but somehow through the storm I couldn't get to you / oh St Jude, somehow she knew / and she came to give her blessing while causing devastation / and I couldn't keep my mouth shut, I just had to mention / grabbing your attention” — st. jude, florence + the machine

“Shock me awake / tear me apart / pinned like a note in a hospital gown / deeper I sleep / further down / the rabbit hole never to be found Don't cry / with my toes on the edge it's such a lovely view / Inside / I never loved anything until I loved you” — i appear missing, queens of the stone age

“I guess what I'm trying to say is I need the deep end / keep imagining meeting / wished away entire lifetimes / unfair we're not somewhere misbehaving for days / great escape, lost track of time and space” — r u mine?, arctic monkeys

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or silent volume (i try to keep an average volume actually but my phones always reminding me to turn it down so) I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on

BOOKS

fav book genre? i used to like fantasy/dystopian books the most but i just enjoy narrative books and novels in general

fav writer? george orwell my beloved, the greatest journalist ever and also the most misunderstood and misquoted author ever (not me going fully political on a tag game but everytime a r*ght p*rty politician mentions him i literally die inside)

fav book? “1984″ by george orwell (unfortunately, what i said about him right before applies for this absolute masterpiece of a book, too :(((( )

fav book series? the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien

comfort book? i dont really know??? i dont want to repeat myself so i wont name the book with number in the title once again, so i’d say something i read during my childhood, probably, like “the secret garden” by frances hodgson burnett, the warmth and comfort that book irradiate are unparalleled tbh

perfect book to read on a rainy day? i’d say something introspective and not too long, like “identity” by milan kundera??? i usually don’t choose what i wanna read depending on the weather, so i dont know if that’s an actual nice fit

fave characters? scarlett o’hara from gone with the wind, frodo baggins and legolas from lotr, lady macbeth from the macbeth, clarisse mcclellan from fahrenheith 451

5 quotes from your fave books that you know by heart?

“Perhaps one didn’t want to be loved as much as to be understood” — 1984, george orwell

“As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren’t going to lick me. I’m going to live through this, and when it’s over, I’m never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill, as God is my witness, I’m never going to be hungry again.” — gone with the wind, margaret mitchell

“You said I killed you, haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe, I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” — wuthering heights, emily bronte

“These walls - are you going, gentlemen? - these walls are solidly put together”; and here, through the mere frenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that very portion of the brickwork behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom. But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend! No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb!” — the black cat, edgar allan poe (i just want to add: i know this is supposed to be frightening and terrifying, but i think this is one of the funniest parts of a book ive ever read,it makes me crack up every.single.time, truly peak comedy tbh)

“There was another crash. Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearth stone. The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. How small, thought Winston, how small it always was!” — 1984, george orwell (jdshkjhk ive got one braincell and it was wasted to read one (1) dystopian book only and it shows)

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending (so, i had this bad habit i read the last line of a book before even knowing what it was about and it ended up spoiling me the whole book a couple of times (which is like. obvious and absolutely fair??? but im different :) ), so i decided maybe it wasnt a great idea and im not doing it anymore, i eventually read the last words just for fun but im trying to get rid of this habit, too) | reliable or unreliable narrator | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND MOVIES

fave tv/movie genre? drama/mystery/thriller/noir

fave movie? i know what my favourite animated movie is, surpirsingly: “sleeping beauty” (1942)! as for movies in general, again, i’m gonna name a handful of these cause i cant really choose just one: the three colous trilogy by krzysztof kieślowski (”three colours: red”, in particular), “the double life of veronique”, “parasite” by bong joon-ho, “jaws” by steven spielberg, “paris, texas” by wim wenders and “we all loved each other so much” by ettore scola, but, again, the list is potentially endless

comfort movie? “the terminal” by steven spielberg!!! also “the postman” by michael radford, “my neighbor totoro” by studio ghibli and “cinema paradiso” by giuseppe tornatore

fave tv show? this is so difficult so ill pick my favourite 5 too: 1) twin peaks, 2) bojack horseman, 3) f.r.i.e.n.d.s., 4) better call saul, 5) this is us

most rewatched tv show? definitely bojack horseman

5 fave characters? dale cooper (twin peaks), leia organa (star wars), dr frank-n-furter (the rocky horror picture show), cosmo brown (singin’ in the rain), walter white (breaking bad)

Tagging: @inejghafta, @jennifersbod, @drewbarrymoore, @alexcabotgf, @surrendertothesounds, @donniesdarko, @ruinism, @1918, @bronteskafka and whoever wants to do this!!

#tag games #jackharkness #thank you so much for tagging me this was one of the best tag games ever!!!💕#i feel very basic and like the most undecided person ever whenever im asked whats my favourite anything my brain just shuts down #drugs mention tw //#long post tw //

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evilmidnightlurker · 2 years

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Last of all Batman stood alone. Then he cast aside his grapple, and wielded a batarang two-handed; and it is sung that the 'rang smoked in the black blood of the Parademon-guard of Desaad until it withered, and each time that he slew Batman cried: 'Nanyë i lómë! I am the night!' Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive, by the command of Darkseid, for the Parademons grappled him with their hands, which clung to him still though he hewed off their arms; and ever their numbers were renewed, until at last he fell buried beneath them. Then binding him, they dragged him to Apokolips with mockery.

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“What a pity that Batman did not stab that vile clown, when he had a chance!”

“Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Tim. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Laugh so. With Pity.”

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There was Bruce, the Wayne, who in Gotham is called Batman; and he trained first the Robins, the Boy Wonders, that were the offspring of the slain, and they were with him before aught else were recruited. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of vigilantism; and they sparred before him, and he was glad.

#misquotes #batman #jrr tolkien #the silmarillion #the lord of the rings

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rorytelling · 3 years

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I hate when someone is like "Whoa Mandela effect!" When they're just misquoting something. We've diluted it to mean "any time you misremember anything"

"Luke, I am your father/ No, I am your father" is not a Mandela Effect. The reason you think he says "Luke" is because every TV show/movie/kid on the playground who has parodied that scene since the movie came out in 1977 has stuck "Luke" in there to make it more obvious that they're doing a Darth Vader impression. You're not remembering the movie using a different line, you're remembering all the times people have misquoted it.

Same with "Run you fools/Fly you fools" from Lord of the Rings. The original release says "run", but it was dubbed over with "fly" in subsequent releases to match the line in the book. There's no timeline splitting going on here, just editors retroactively fixing little mistakes and confusing everyone who saw Fellowship of the Ring in theaters.

#why am I mad about this? i dunno #cuz of I'm not mad about something important my brain supplies me something stupid #mandela effect

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roses-ruby · 4 years

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Oh lord papi pd is like da sexiest man, how can some ppl not love him?¿istg these ppl got zero taste and zero brain lmao 🤪ne ways stan papi pd and manager sejin 🥴🤘

bruh they got a problem with a company working like a…company. At the end of the day they are distributors and we’re fucking consumers, stop getting personal about shit that shouldn’t be personal. These are the same bitches using Amazon and Iphones complaining about an entertainment company being evil boohoo. Band PD is BTS’ boss, they may or may not get along but for the sake of mutual profit, they have boundaries. It’s really that simple. But they overreact and treat him like some dictator…and for what?

The funniest thing is how they pretend to be moral and high-ground and all, but when that Hollywood Reporter article came out, one of their ring leaders was kekeing on twitter talking about how it’s probably the most ‘genuine’ article about BTS because ‘finally someone wasn’t kissing their ass and showed us how the members really are and not like the image they pretend to be’

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Imagine…ignoring blatant racism and xenophobia to laugh about a minority artist being insulted and misquoted by an old white man and his toxic ignorance. It reminds me of that “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty” meme but instead it’s “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at meanie BigHit calling me a consumer”

I’d stan Band PD over them any day.

#that anon unfollowed i think but i kinda wish they saw this #because i honestly think they are brainwashed #R:Ask #favorite angel

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rhube · 5 years

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Just had another Game of Thrones realisation

Which I have updated my article on ‘The Long Night’ as Epic (and Arya Stark as a hero) to reflect.

It’s a colossal reference I can’t believe I missed and I just have to share, so I’m putting it under a cut:

Lads, she fucking EOWYNS the Night King:

Arya as No One

Oh my God readers, I just had a revelation. This moment is ALSO a deliberate callback to Lord of the Rings – the most famous fantasy epic of them all. I’m talking about the moment when Eowyn declares that she is no man, and kills the Witch King.

There was some discussion in the previous episode about what could kill the Night King.

Arya has been asking people what can. Gendry tells her to stop asking. They’re death. Implicitly: no one can kill death. And Arya smirks – she’s killed death before. She killed it in the House of Black and White when she killed the Waif, who, as mentioned above, gets the same Terminator/death-coming-for-you theme tune as the Night King.

As asks again of the war council: will dragon fire kill him?

They hope so, they say.

But it doesn’t. Dragon fire cannot kill the Night King. Jon Snow cannot kill the Night King. Theon Greyjoy cannot kill the Night King. The implication seems to be: nothing and no one can kill the Night King.

And so, No One does.

Arya rejects that identity at the end of her training in the House of Black and White. She says that she is not No One, she is Arya Stark. But is she, still? The deaths she brings, these are not the deaths of the people on her list, they are those other have asked for.

Alright, she kills all the male Freys, and that’s a personal revenge. But she is also avenging Walder Frey’s violation of hospitality on a colossal scale that demands divine retribution.

She kills Littlefinger, but again, she does so at Sansa’s request.

Throughout season eight we see her questioned:

The Hound – wasn’t he on your list? I took him off.

Beric Dondarrion – wasn’t he on your list? For a while.

Melisandre, are you going to kill her? They share a look, and Melisandra answers the question by misquoting herself. Years ago she told Arya she would close many eyes forever: brown eyes, blue eyes, and green eyes. And many speculated that Melisandra would be killed by Arya as she had green eyes. This time, she says “brown eyes, green eyes, and blue eyes“. And we recognise that the White Walkers and the dead all have glowing blue eyes. On first watching, I thought that merely meant that Arya would kill a lot of the dead. But read this instead: Arya kills all of the blue eyes dead people, when she kills the Night King.

This conversation isn’t merely a confirmation that Arya has taken Melisandra off her list, it is a request, from the servant of the Red God to the servant of the God of Death: to kill the Night King.

And because Arya is now No One, she doesn’t kill Melisandre, because she no longer cares about her own list. She kills the Night King instead.

Read the rest of the article.

#eowyn #arya stark #game of thrones #the long night #epic

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glorfindelridesagain · 2 years

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Glorfindel: How are you feeling?

Thranduil: I am an iPhone without a case. I’m worth a lot and have a lot of good functions, but I could just shatter randomly

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after the coronation:

gandalf: truly a beautiful wedding between arwen and aragorn, i’d say;

a queen was also born on that day.

legolas:

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