#all i need is the ~hobbit love~

[boromithril]

"'I'd given up hope, almost. I couldn't find you.'

'Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand.

Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

#yes i know im not consistent with quote formatting franlly idc #all i need is the ~hobbit love~ #lotr #tolkien #tolkienverse #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #samfrodo #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #sam gamgee #samfro #lotr books #lotr quotes #trotk #rotk

[prismatoxic]

"chilchuck isn't a twink, he's a DILF!" now i get why you're saying that but i feel like you've maybe forgotten what chilchuck tims canonically looks like

i'm sorry but this man is a twink. also DILF isn't a body type it's a status (and technically, an opinion) so he can be both

"but he's middle-aged!" look at him. look with your eyeballs. his age has nothing to do with the fact that he Looks Like That. he's a twink. the sooner you accept this the less angry his fandom will make you

edit bc this post has become the bane of my existence:

FAQ

Q: wtf do you mean he's a dad? he looks like a kid. A: he is 29 years old, and a half-foot. half-foots are dungeon meshi's halflings, or hobbits, or whatever you want to call them.

Q: wait, if he's 29, why the fuck are you calling him middle-aged? A: half-foots have an average lifespan of 50 years. chilchuck was originally drawn with grey hairs (you can see that in the manga fullbody) but the mangaka gave up on that over time. he's middle-aged for his race.

Q: hey, doesn't that look like a little angry face on his boot in the manga drawing? A: yea kinda

#as a proud member of the chilfucker fandom i think we should all accept his canon appearance even if we draw him way different #if you can only love him if he looks like a hobbit do you really love him at all? #by all means draw and think of him however sparks joy for you. but this is who he is in the manga and anime and you need to accept that #i love all chilchucks but i just love him in general. ideal man #chilchuck tims #tox.txt #edits made because the tags on this post are my villain origin story #i have now muted notifs!

[modernincorrectlotrhobbit]

#pic so that you guys can see all the emojis #it was a QUEST to pick ones i liked #obviously he's talking about eowyn #the doctor emoji because i always forget that eowyn says she wants to be a healer near the end of her arc in RotK #WE NEED MORE DR EOWYN #this is a universe in which boromir actually gets to see faramir fall in love #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #incorrect lotr quotes #incorrect hobbit quotes #incorrect quotes #lord of the rings #the hobbit #faramir #boromir #eowyn #faramir x eowyn #eowyn and faramir #farawyn

[kierancaz]

I wish we got more of Legolas being weird in the movies. Like I haven’t read the books yet but I love the way the fandom describes him as being a little shit and like actually really fucking weird and I just wish we got more of that and also that it came across more in fanfics.

#lotr #lord of the rings #like pls I love love love all the Legolas fics I’ve read but also I wish they acknowledged how much of an apparent weirdo little freak #one post I read says that he would just stare into the woods and said goodbye to a river and I just ???? #In the movies he’s cool #and in the hobbit he’s kinda mean but still hot so I excuse it #in lotr I think he had most of this sass cut but then again I haven’t read the books so idk #but I wish in fanfics there was more of him being a weirdo instead of like a romantic #he is a weirdo and a shit and I love him and I don’t even know anymore #I need big dumbo dummy Legolas idk what to say #enough ranting #the hobbit #gandalf the grey #legolas x reader #legolas x y/n #legolas fic #legolas lotr #lotr legolas #legolas

[deer-with-a-stick]

if netflix makes Luo Ji non-chinese I'm going to throw myself off a fucking cliff

#*incoherent screaming* #if i have to see another “but netflix has to make the characters appeal to the bigger audience” comment im going to fucking lose it #i have a bar of deviation for adaptations. examples: #lotr: its all fine and dandy i love it #the hobbit: getting a little close to dangerous territory but i'll take it #dune: perfection #foundation: no wtf #rop: DO NOT FUCKING SPEAK TO ME OF THIS SHOW #i will still watch 3bd when it comes out #but I will be fucking PISSED if what i'm seeing about the characters is real #“give them personalities” ok yeah sure im fine with that #“the plot affects the entire population of the earth” ok sure but why are 75% of the cast non asian now. #“we need diversity! plus you need the audience to appeal to the audience” im going to fucking bite you. fuck off. #no hate to the actors i'm sure they did a great job its not their fault anyway #but seriously if they made luo ji non-chinese im actually going to fucking lose it #3 body problem #three body problem #remembrance of earth's past #netflix #actually if they made zhang beihai non-chinese as well then i'm just going to- *internal screaming*

[dimdiamond]

AND Thorin ✨

AND THORIN YOU'LL RECEIVE

Look guys, my honest opinion is that Thorin doesn't get bullied enough by fans. Yeah yeah wandering prince carrying all the responsibility and the trauma of losing his family and home and yeah he's a kitty BUT HE'S A BASTARD TOO OK? He's a sarcastic bitch who will gossip you with Dwalin like schoolgirls at the back of the classroom. He keeps diary and sometimes puts hearts instead of dots. He would go to the mayor and spit on his face. Just read a bit of the book, guys, I know it's Bilbo's narration but he's a bastard too and bastards recognize each other and kiss on the mouth. However I want him to go retire in peace. Canon isn't real.

#fans spoil him and babify him and good for you guys but i need you to see him in all his bastard glory #don't be afraid of making him seem like the bad guy because he already seems like that in his story and he makes mistakes #and the fact he recognizes his mistakes it's his appeal #AND OF COURSE I'M NOT ANTI I LOVE THIS GUY #i just want characterization of him that his fault isn't he cares too much no i want his real faults because that make him interesting #anyway thank you so much again #thorin oakenshield #the hobbit

[gi-nathlam-hi]

for people being mad about this, that, and the other part of the Silmarillion which Rings of Power has altered, failed to mention, or glazed over in passing -- claiming that they have no respect for the source material, I am begging you to understand copyright laws. 

Finrod’s death? Still a cool way to go. Definitely not as cool as wrestling a werewolf with his bare hands but they don’t have the rights to that. That’s in the Silmarillion.

Disa being named Disa? Yes, it’s Dis with an ‘a’ at the end. They don’t have the rights to Dis.

The whole glazed-over kinslaying situation? They don’t have the rights to that either. They literally are not allowed to go into too much detail about it or get specific. 

Oh, and all of the details about Elvish hair/aesthetics? That’s all in LaCE. They’re not ignoring it. They don’t have the rights to that either.

And also, I can’t blame them for wanting to separate themselves a little from PJ’s (outstanding) work. PJ was a less than accurate adaption. Especially where the elves are concerned. And it was so utterly white. But his elves are NOT Tolkien’s elves. They’re missing a very distinct joy and sincerity in a strong bid to make them ethereal. And his dwarves are mere comedic relief.

Rings of Power treats Elves and Dwarves much more sincerely, I feel. Their dwarves are so noble and family orientated and smart! They still have some chaos-gremlin vibes but also the culture! the stone-songs! I love them!

And Rings of Power gives us elves who joke with each other and rib each other and elves who feel things so intensely, as Elves canonically do. I never really got that from PJ’s ethereal brooding elves.

Yes, Rings of Power gave us short-haired elves that are much more down-to-earth than we’re used to, but to me they actually feel closer to Tolkien’s work. 

I’ve seen so many complaints but so much of what they are ‘changing’ is just down to the fact that there are things the Tolkien estate has told them they’re not allowed to touch. I understand, then, the question of “then why adapt the Silmarillion” and that’s valid. But honestly I’m just begging you to understand that they’re constrained by copyright laws. That means that there are going to be deviations from canon. A lot of them, actually. But it really feels to me like they very much love and care about the source material. They’re not altering it out of disrespect for Tolkien’s work. They’re making judgements about how to tell the same story, with the characters that still feel like themselves, while having to greatly alter or leave out huge chunks of canon events. And yeah, they are squishing the timeline. Like holy shit are they squishing the timeline. But honestly that doesn’t feel like a very big deal to me. Fanfics have made more egregious sins than compacting the entire Second Age into the span of one human lifetime. 

It’s a fanfic AU. That’s all it is. And IMO it’s actually a very decent fanfic AU. There is so much love here for Tolkien’s work. Is it the best show I’ve ever seen? No, no it’s not really. But it IS a good fanfic. 

(and Robert Aramayo is absolutely killing his role, holy shit). 

#the rings of power #not inviting negative discourse #i'll block you #but healthy discussion is valid and welcome #the script can use some work at certain points i feel #and sometimes i feel it needs an extra edit #but so far i love all the characters and it DOES feel like it comes from a place of genuine love #and also the prop design and set design and costume design departments are KILLING it #and ALSO we get orcs!!!! with prosthetics!!! not fucking CGI orcs!! and they are doing scale work!!!!!!!!!! #i will NEVER forgive the hobbit for its use of CGI #and also for how badly they fucked up the costumes

[xyrw]

The second I need to draw a house my brain explodes and this scene’s sketches are not the exception

But nevertheless I enjoy creating these backgrounds because you know, Bard animatic things

The second Procreate Dreams is available in AppStore I’m uploading there all the materials I’ve done specially for it

To be honest it’s like one of my favorite projects because it’s not like I’m doing something for work or carrier, I’m literally back to the feeling of a hobby and a bit cringy scenarios. Love them though; feeling really nostalgic

#artists on tumblr #fanart #cinematography #animation #fan animatic #lotr fanart #the hobbit #i’m a professional and god i use it to draw fanart of all the shows i wanted to when i was like 10 #bard the bowman #love when art is fun #and tbh I’d love to post it only here and maybe on YouTube #like no place where I need to behave lmaooo #yeah that’s it

[mystery-star]

Digital Art I did of Fíli back in 2020.

#the hobbit #fili #fili the dwarf #fíli #fíli durin #art #my art #digital art #illustrator #damn I miss making those #they were so much fun #i should do more #fili deserves some love #also yes welcome to my hobbit posting rn #i am kinda back in the fandom and you have to endure it with me lol #my blog does need some diversity haha #(not that i don't love russell and all) #hobbit

[edwardallenpoe]

*dark, brooding male character with a bunch of trauma and the weight of the world on their shoulders, hair dark and oily and lined with silver from stress, bearing through his situation with gritted teeth and probably not having a happy ending* me: hmmm yeah this is awesome but there's something off...

*headcanons him as a butch lesbian* me: ohhhh ffukc.... Oh ggod. I'm gona throw ufp..

#Thorin Oakenshield #Will Graham #Spock #Crowley #Sherlock Holmes #Yeah it's my favorite past time. No I don't change anything else about them. #They still use the same pronouns same names. They usually don't have different bodies either. #They are the exact same except they're being dykes about it and it makes me go feral #I love it #I need more of it actually #This is half the reason I got into the hobbit #I needed Thorin to be a lesbian #Also learning dwarves grow beards regardless???? The possibilities????? #My dwarven wife can have the longest beard and I can braid it for him #Is that too much to ask for #happy lesbian visibility week #wlw post #lesbian #my headcanons #he/him lesbian #butch lesbian #Fuck forgot to tag the blorbo of all time #The Winter soldier #bucky barnes #He was my first victim #I love my gimbus

[kierancaz]

I practically live in the Legolas x Reader tag. It’s almost embarrassing at this point.

#i’m just obsessed #desperately trying to find more fics of him #ao3 has none ?????? #and like COULD I write my own headcanons and one shots for him? sure but I don’t want to #i have like 4 ideas rn but I don’t feel like doing any bc I don’t trust my current writing abilities #either way I love him and I need more fics for him fr bc I’ve read all the ones tumblr has shoved in my face 😭 #lord of the rings #lotr #legolas #lotr legolas #the hobbit #legolas x y/n #legolas x reader

[tathrin]

📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)

Answers for this LotR ask-game.

Ahh okay so at this point I have to confess something terrible: I still have not seen the third Hobbit movie. I'm sorry! I just couldn't do it. The fuckery of it all, especially in the second movie with Mirkwood and Thranduil and Legolas ("a lowly Silvan elf" what the FUCK what the fuck PJ WHAT THE FUCK), was just too much for me. Character-assassination is one thing, and I thought after Denethor I knew what I was going to be getting with Thranduil but NOPE! It was literal world building assassination and I just CANNOT.

Don't get me wrong, Lee Pace did an amazing job and actually seeing Mirkwood was amazing and it was genuinely delightful to see Orlando put those ears on again; but the OuTrAgE that filled my heart at the yeet-ing of what minimal canon we even have for the Mirkwood elves was just intolerable, and while I did mean to go see it, really I did, I just...couldn't actually get the motivation to go before it was out of theatres. I've heard the EE are better (less studio fuckery) so I'll watch them someday! Honest! I just...haven't. yet.

And as to the Lord of the Rings trilogy...man, I don't even know how to do this. In terms of which is the best film, or in terms of which one I enjoy watching most, or in terms of which on hits me in the heart hardest or...? I don't know if I can objectively rank my feelings about these movies even in my own brain because RotK ends with Into the West and I have FeelingsTM about the Undying Lands and Sea Longing okay. So the last scene of RotK at the Grey Havens is a fucking spear through the heart every time and I can't even describe the knot of feelings it engenders, and I think overall TTT may be my favorite but also it has Plot Issues that piss me off even more than the Plot Issues in RotK I think,...yeah, we're going to do this in terms of Film Crafting rather than personal favorites because I'm having too many feelings lmao. So! In order of most-well-done-movie to least:

Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

Return Of The King

The Desolation of Smaug

An Unexpected Journey

#look there are some REALLY LOVELY MOMENTS in the hobbit movies #(all three of them; i've seen enough stuff floating around the internet to know that even about the one i haven't actually seen lmao) #but the ratio of beautiful moments to what-the-fuckery is just so skewed to the latter #and the cartoonish unreality of most of the effects do NOT help #it's like somebody watched the mumakil bit from rotk and went ''more of that but dial it up to eleventy-one!'' and i just... #do y'all know how FUCKING EXCITED i was to see the White Council??? #to see GALADRIEL? #to see sauron thrown out of dol guldur? TO SEE THE WHITE COUNCIL!??? #because as soon as i heard ''three movies'' i knew I KNEW (i hoped) that they had to be adding that it #because how the fuck else were they going to pad-out that tiny little book into three whole movies? OBVIOUSLY with the white council!!! #and then...we got a chase scene in the mines that made the podracing look like it deserved an oscar #and the most cringe-inducingly-artificial cgi armies at war that i think i've ever seen even IN video games #it was like watching galactic battlegrounds middle-earth edition wtf #did y'all literally just make one elf and one dwarf and copy-past them a million times into the scene wtffffff #but i still need to make it clear that i DO love the good bits that's what makes the bad parts hurt so much! #like: does the fact that the elves coming to helm's deep make no sense and also VANISH from the plot as soon as it's over irritate me? YES! #but the battle itself is filmed with so much HEART that i don't care I DON'T CARE #i still cheer at ''no orc horn'' i still weep at haldir's death (GODS that MUSIC!) i still watch the whole thing RAPT and ENTHRALLED #but 80% of the hobbit's actions scenes don't DO anything they're just empty pixels with less purpose than the droid factory on geonosis #and there should be SO MUCH HEART because that's WHAT TOLKIEN IS auuuughhhhhh #and the fact that they missed the entire fucking EVERYTHING about MIRKWOOD of all fucking places...! UGH #DO YOU KNOW HOW AMAZING THESE ACTORS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THESE ROLES IF THEY'D ACTUALLY BEEN FILMING THIS STORY??? PJ WHY! #lotr movies #hobbit movies #middle earth asks

[toadstoolillustrations]

Going to check a scene from the hobbit films is like oh this an incredibly homosexual scene. what were they thinking that has to have been on purpose right. and why is it actually making me feel things. man these films could have been at least decent... I can admit the casting was solid, and the few good scenes like this show that there was some bit of heart put into them... And then it immediately cuts to the most absurd and simply made up shit and I think ah. Never fucking mind.

#thorin is dying and mr richard is putting his ENTIRE pussy into it and in fairness freeman or whoever else is also doing the sobbing #and i go alright. ok. they didn't fuck up too bad. ty mr richard for taking the gay angle nobody asked u to but by god u delivered #AND THEN. smash cut to lady elf (who they only included for a kili love interest. ok) #and legolas is also there and is?? leaving?? (he was also in some kinda love triangle. ok) #and his dad??? tells him to find aragorn???? and they play the fellowship motif???? #as if we all don't know the boy was like. 10 at this point. ok #and then they start mentioning legolas' mother. (???????OK) #what the fuck was going on here i just want to talk #toadtalks #it is 2am im sorry i dont like these damn films #the hobbit #the hobbit movies #th #hobbit trilogy #👍👍as much for blacklisting than wanting ppl to see lmao #im so mean abt them rn im sorry!! i know people like them!! godspeed!! i just need to bitch

[bambino1294]

why is researching for a fic like this

#bam writes #rambles #this isn’t even for a fic that’s gonna be posted anytime soon #it’s a fucking sequel to a fic still in its planning and outlining stages #and before anyone asks yes it is a hobbit fic #every time I open a tab to check something I open like six more to make sure I have all the right info #I need to dig out my copy of the silmarillion tbh but my shit is everywhere rn #plus researching and writing is more fun than reading according to my brain #at least wikis condense info for me 😭 #doing all this research and I’m still gonna butcher parts of the timeline for the hell of it #I’m joking it’s for plot #reconfiguring stuff just making sure I have names and lineages and places and such #but I’m still gonna fuck around with it #I’m actually having a lot of fun I love researching #it just always mean I have a window with sixty tabs of the tolkien gateway open at any given moment #the things I do for my movie-only five-minutes-of-screentime blorbo #praying I stay on my Figrid kick for a while so I can get some stuff done #got a oneshot in the works #got two wips to finish #and then my bigger upcoming wips #this duology. as we can see. that requires *a lot* #plus the *potential* outsider pov time loop fic *if* I can get it to work the way I want it to #fiinf

[elen-ancalima]

literally the best game of all time

#this is from the walkthrough of the hobbit text adventure #all the npcs have ai which means that there's a random chance people you need to beat the game will be killed by a warg #i love it. and the art is so cool i'll make a post once i beat it #the hobbit

[genderfluid-druid]

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#ok we're gonna try to finish this story in under 30 tags ok let's go #SO. 'hahaha yeah wow that's crazy that you know him! we did date yeah. (does not elaborate)' #but. okay confession time. i know this was a questionable choice. it was selfish. it fed the brain gremlin that craves validation #but i never blocked M on snapchat #so even though we never talked. i could see when he viewed my stories. and i won't lie. there is a smug part of me that enjoyed #letting him see me go on about my life. #i am a flawed bitch. so sue me. it was a manageable amount of contact that didn't send me into spirals #and he DID keep viewing them. #he even messaged me once! i don't know maybe a year ago. it was totally out of the blue. 'saw this book and thought of you' on a picture of #a nice edition of The Hobbit. i didn't respond. i had to have a petty moment for all the times during the Bad Era when i tried to message #him and he took too long (in my shitty estimation) to message back. so i left him on read. for like a year #okay you can see where this is going so I'll cut to the chase #'i ran into a friend of yours' is a perfectly reasonable conversation starter. it can be the whole conversation if it needs to be. #well. it wasn't #idk. my world state for the last six years has been 'M doesn't care for me and there is no world in which we ever have a civil chat again.' #well. that doesn't track with 'it's past my bedtime but i don't mind staying up to chat' and 'i would love to get an earful about podcasts' #and 'let's chat again' and 'it was really great to hear from you' #idk. i don't know what emotion i should feel. anger is gonna be the first one that makes it to the surface i think #got a good healthy dose of anger happening #grief. i do think there's some grief. mmhmm yep there it is #there are probably some positive emotions but those are the most strenuously repressed and i don't think I'm ready to let the collar off #i have made a lot of choices in the last six years to protect my mental health specifically because of how that relationship ended #so even just talking to him is. well for one thing it's playing a bit fast and loose with the health i have managed to build up #i feel good. my life has been good lately. my therapist moved me from monthly to once every three months. my social life is the most #thriving it's ever been #i am possibly in a place to unbox some things that were thrown in the attic as an emergency measure #i should talk to my therapist