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velvet4510 · 1 day

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NEW VERSION. :)

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magpie-trinkets · 19 hours

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unexpected encounter at the movie premiere

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Edgeworth: What are you doing here, Franziska?

Franziska: The same as you, you fool.

Edgeworth: I didn't know you liked the Steel Samurai.

Franziska: I don't. I have memorised the fan-wiki for this date.

Edgeworth: Oh? Going for the perfect date, I see.

Franziska: Of course. What about you and Phoenix Wright? Did you drag him here?

Edgeworth: He came willingly- and he has media literacy, although he tries to hide it.

Franziska: Hmph. Then, wanna test how prepared we both came for this movie? Did you do your homework, Miles Edgeworth?

Edgeworth: That's hilarious. Unlike yourself, I have actually watched every episode and have followed the series since its debut.

Franziska: You won't win against me, Miles Edgeworth. I checked my sources and discussed motifs in anonymous forums. My knowledge is perfect.

Edgeworth: Nothing beats first-hand experience, but I'll humor you. Prepare to lose, Franziska.

Both: Bring it.

#mlm wlw hostility with the von karma siblings #had this silly idea in my mind (like i always do) and i finally found the energy to draw it #the movie title is a reference to the lord of the rings return of the king #i could've put shogun but the movie plot (ace attorney goncharov) vibed more woth daimyo #my art #ms paint #ace attorney #wrightworth #franmaya #narumitsu #it could've been a cute date for both pairings if they hadn't coincided in the queue. ah well #franziska 🤝 phoenix: although not invested in their partner's interest they share the experience with them out of love #franziska doesn't know edgeworth moderates the fan-wiki... or does she?#shitpost

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cantsayidont · 3 days

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Something that bugs me a little about the reactions to LORD OF THE RINGS is the way that fans pointedly overlook the sometimes uneasy class politics that are involved in the relationship between Frodo and Sam.

This is in no way denying that it's a homoerotic relationship, which is something that comes through vividly even in the weird, truncated Rankin-Bass RETURN OF THE KING animated adaptation from 1980. However, it's important to understand that until the last few pages of the novel, Sam is literally Frodo's servant.

Tolkien is quick to stress, as stories from class-conscious societies often do, that Sam is happy and eager to serve Frodo, and willingly does so even when there's nothing in it for him, but the story emphasizes throughout that Sam is not the social equal of Frodo, Merry, Pippin, or Bilbo. When Sam calls Frodo "Master," it's not a D/S thing; Sam is Frodo's household employee (and in a sense his batman, which Tolkien said was the inspiration for their interactions), having essentially inherited that role from his father, who was Bilbo's employee. When, in the final chapter, Frodo tells Sam to marry Rosie Cotton and movie her into Bag End, he isn't proposing a menage à trois, he is offering to hire Rosie so that Sam can combine his marriage with his full-time duties. It isn't until Frodo tells Sam, on the way to the Grey Havens, that he has made Sam his heir that Sam becomes Frodo's social equal and the master of Bag End rather than the head of its staff. (Tolkien implies elsewhere that this caused Sam some legal trouble, since there was no indication that Frodo was dead or permanently gone — and if Merry and Pippin hadn't been there to witness Frodo's departure, people would have wondered if Sam did away with his master to try to steal his estate.)

Moreover, Tolkien expressly links Sam's perseverance, loyalty, and ability to resist the power of the Ring to his knowing his place. Toward the beginning, Sam's father recalls telling him:

‘Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you, I says to him. And I might say it to others,’ he added with a look at the stranger and the miller.

Later (in "The Tower of Cirith Ungol"), Sam is tempted by the Ring, which shows him wild fantasies of his overthrowing Sauron and building a garden in the vale of Gorgoroth. However:

In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

The word "free" is doing a lot of work here, since Sam is, back in the safety of Hobbiton, quite literally a hand for others to command; he tends Frodo's garden, not his own. But the point is that he recognizes his humble, inferior position in society and accepts it "freely," and that that choice gives Sam what Gandalf might have called the strength and good purpose to heroically resist a temptation that more noble and lordly types like Boromir could not.

My point is not that Sam doesn't love Frodo, which obviously he does, or the reverse, which the narrative makes plain. However, if you are not so reflexively comforted by classist fantasies of this kind, it's hard not to periodically stop and wonder, "Is this sexual harassment?"

#books #lord of the rings #lotr #jrr tolkien #frodo baggins #sam gamgee #tolkien discusses sam's inheritance struggles in letter 214 of #the letters of jrr tolkien #if you're interested

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mpanighetti · 1 year

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Had a Mountain Dew tasting party (as one does). There were no survivors.

#mountain dew #the lord of the rings: return of the king #éowyn of rohan #witch-king of angmar #ring-wraiths

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loupsgarou · 2 years

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@kalllistos rewatching return of the king atm and this made me think of you

#kalllistos #karl urban #eomer of rohan #éomer of rohan #the lord of the rings #the lord of the rings: return of the king #return of the king #rotk.#lotr #txt.

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imsupposedtobestudying-whoops · 2 months

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🗡That will depend on the manner of your return 🏹

#faramir #lotr #faramir of gondor #return of the king #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #Tromroan #my art #fan art

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dilfgifs · 4 months

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Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

#*#viggo mortensen #the lord of the rings #the lord of the rings: the return of the king #usersavana #filmedit #fyeahmovies #dailyflicks #lotredit #lotrgifs #userlindir #el

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optional · 1 year

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

#filmedit #lotredit #lord of the rings #return of the king #aragorn #usermal #usernani #userzaynab #userfrodosam #usersansa #usermakilah #ours #by mali #film

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tolkiengif · 8 months

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Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.

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uncursedswan · 1 year

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Every time I rewatch The Lord of the Rings I oscillate violently between “it’s important to show men having close, supportive friendships and I’m so glad Peter Jackson chose to show all the male characters being loving and physically affectionate with one another in a healthy, platonic way” and “damn, these bitches gay. good for them, good for them”

#there are two wolves inside me #one is gay #bisexuality be like #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #hobbit #middle earth #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #legolas greenleaf #gimli son of gloin #aragorn #fellowship of the ring #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king

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killbilled · 4 months

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Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

#lord of the rings #lotredit #the return of the king #tolkienedit #lotr #filmedit #fyeahmovies #filmgifs #moviegifs #cinemapix #dailyflicks #userstream #userdiana #*#userbbelcher #film #film*#lotr*

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dindjarism · 4 months

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Now come the days of the King! May they be blessed.

@lotr20 day seven: HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING! December 17, 2003

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lady-arryn · 11 months

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King dir. Peter Jackson

#lotredit #filmedit #sceneryedit #lord of the rings #the return of the king #**#*gif #*lotr

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mithrandirl · 20 days

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Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him.

#eomer #eowyn #lotr #lotredit #tolkienedit #rotk #rotkedit #return of the king #lord of the rings #*#i was doing something else. then slowly without warning i was making this. it was out of my control really

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andata-e-ritorno · 1 month

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