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kindlythevoid · 7 months

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I have read Fellowship of the Ring more times than I have cared to keep count and every time I read Boromir’s, well, possession for lack of a better word, I have read it in fear, in discomfort, in horror, indifferently.

This was, I think, the first time I read it in pity. I looked at all the plans Boromir was making, how he would save his beloved city, how obstinate he was in his belief that the men of Minas Tirith would not be corrupted when wielding the Ring against Sauron —and I felt sad. He’s waving his hands and hollering and part of him is desperate just for the Ring, of course he is, he’s been traveling beside it with no hope for months, but he’s also desperate for hope. He’s desperate for a chance to save his people, save his brother, save his city.

Moreover, every time he calls out the Elves or the Wizards, you have to remember that he doesn’t know them. All he knows is that he traveled almost a full year to get their advice and they send him on, in his eyes, a hopeless venture. The one hope they give him is Aragorn, who promises to return and help save Minas Tirith with him, but even that all changes once Gandalf dies. They come to Lothlorien and of course it’s a welcome break, but they cannot, or maybe in Boromir’s eyes will not, help his people. And once they leave, Aragorn assumes his role as leader of the Fellowship in Gandalf’s stead more permanently and suddenly even that one, brief, uncertain hope of his is gone. Aragorn will follow Frodo. And it’s almost certain that Frodo will not go to Minas Tirith.

So is it any wonder, really, that tired, desperate, hopeless Boromir, out of his realm, out of his depth, already hanging by a thread when he joins the Fellowship and having been gnawed on by the Ring for months upon months afterwards, finally snaps once it’s clear that he will have to return home empty-handed and almost certain that somewhere far away Sauron is capturing the Ring and killing the companions that he had bonded with? Of course part of the Ring is making him lust for power, but it’s also his only “reliable” (in his mind) source of hope left to save his city.

And so I read Boromir’s (intelligent and thought out, mind you) raving and I don’t feel scared for Frodo, not after reading it so many times and knowing what ultimately happens, but sorrow for Boromir.

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mexican-browser · 2 years

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A Dumb LOTR Exchange

*at the bridge of Khazad-Dûm:*

Gandalf: Illuvatar’s ass on a stick, I wish we had a Balrog-slayer right about now.

Frodo: Why, do you know one? There can’t possibly be that many left—

Gandalf: Glorfindel of Gondolin.

Frodo: Ok, but where could we find—

Gandalf: Back in Rivendell. He was the rocking elven twink with perfect hair next to me and Elrond. Picked you morons up when you had a bad spice trip using the ring. Uppity prick was the one who suggested we just chuck that ring into the ocean like it isn’t just going to pop back up in a few centuries down the line. That’s what happened last time, you know when Isildur—

Aragorn: When Isildur hocked the ring like it was a bag of gummies at Tesco?

Gandalf: Pretty much, yeah.

Frodo: Well, why isn’t the noble Glorfindel here anyway?

Gandalf: Cuz Elrond thought we wouldn’t need him on a stealth mission. Well, surprise, we kinda f****** need him! But noooooo, you guys tooootallyy don’t need a Balrog-slayer. Now it’s my ass on the line, and I didn’t put up with the the idiocies of men and half-wit hobbits for centuries just to go down like this in an abandoned dwarven realm haunted by orcs and cave trolls! Saruman’s out there smoking pot reenacting the first act of The Lorax, Radaghast is talking to the woodland beings like a Disney Princess, and I’m pretty sure the Two Blues are either dead or ghosting me, and I’m here left dealing with a f******* Balrog! Bollocks!

*Silence as the ominous footfalls of certain death approaches*

Gimli: I didn’t understand a word he just said right now.

Legolas: No one can understand you through your own thick accent, sir dwarf, but we manage.

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lifblogs · 10 months

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“The quest will claim his life.”

— Galadriel, The Two Towers

It doesn’t, but doesn’t it? The Shire ends up not being saved for Frodo. He’s often sick multiple times a year from PTSD afterwards. He doesn’t feel like he’s truly home, and he has to leave for Valinor. In a really important way, it does claim his life.

#I’m having way too many feelings over here #I literally cried earlier from the warg attack #The Lord of the Rings #The Two Towers #The Return of the King #sorry I wasn’t losing it #and making posts while watching The Fellowship of the Ring #I just really couldn’t focus

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ariadne-mouse · 4 months

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Council of Elrond, worst cross-functional department meeting ever

#op #tolkien #the fellowship of the ring #lotr #truly the amount of sass at that meeting #Boromir coming in with 'you couldn't survive without our support organization'#and Legolas like 'Aragorn could have your job any time he wanted'#and Gimli like 'let's just do budget cuts'#and Elrond like 'no we're too reliant on the system as it is it needs to be sunset with proper procedures'#the hobbits are interns who nevertheless become vital to the cause and are the reason for its success

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aspiringnexu · 1 year

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LOTR but it works like Undertale in that when you die everything resets. But like a hardcore version of Undertale where you die and have to start at the very beginning.

Everyone in the Fellowship is aware of it and it first comes about because Gandalf dies and they all end up back in Imaldris and very confused (it happens in Lothlorien for them because Gandalf takes a few days to kill the Balrog and then die and it takes a bit for Manwe to kick him back). So they set out again with the weirdest sense of Deja Vu and this time they make it through Moria without even meeting the Balrog because Pippin remembers not to touch the arrow. Then Boromir dies and back to square one.

And this keeps repeating over and over and over as their actions to keep one from dying accidentally cause someone else to die until they have all of the steps down pat and no longer give a shit except managing to move on from the fucking Anduin. They’ve been stuck there for days (not counting the time it took to march there from Imladris, through Moria, and through Lothlorien, over and over and over and over again).

Rinse and repeat as Sam accidentally falls to his death via One Slippery Rock, Legolas gets nailed by a very lucky Orc in Moria, it turns out Gimli can’t swim and neither can Legolas or Aragorn when trying to pull a fully armoured dwarf to the surface, Aragorn gets run over by Eomer, Merry and Pippin take turns getting skewered by hungry orcs, and Frodo gets murdered by Gollum (who is the only other one to know about the resets and is pretty cranky by the time he catches up).

And without fail, every single time one of them dies they get sent back to Imladris. At first its terrifying, then just plain confusing, then terribly depressing, and then... well they get used to it. Death no longer has meaning. The Quest suddenly seems a lot more cheerful. The end of the world is a lot less daunting when you know you can perpetually keep it from ending until you make sure you can fix it.

Though it is a bit confusing for everyone else during the Battle of Helm’s Deep when Gimli and Legolas are having their competition.

“Legolas! Two already!”

“I’m on seventeen!”

“Eh! I’ll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!”

Later

“Final count fifty-one thousand two hundred and eighty-two.”

“Well that’s not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling! I myself am sitting pretty on fifty-one thousand two hundred and eighty-three.”

#LOTR #lotr headcanons #more like lotr crack aus #frodo #samwise gamgee #pippin #merry #aragorn #legolas #boromir #gandalf #gets to the point where the stakes have no meaning so lets have some fun #Sam finds out that Gollum is actually essential when he just stabs him and then they reset again #when they meet eowyn she becomes part of the loop and she remembers what's going on #she stabs wormtongue on more than one occasion #when faramir meets Sam and Frodo he remembers too #by the time they actually complete the quest its been years #and Legolas and Gimli's headcount is worryingly high #like 'more than the number of Orcs still in Arda' kinda high #Arwen also eventually becomes part of the Fellowship when she joins the whol remebering the resets thing #Just sneaks out in full armour like Mulan because she's spent the past sixty resets just sitting around #she is so BORED

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tathrin · 4 months

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My dumbass forgot how to walk down stairs today and now I'm sitting here with my dumbleg propped up on a pile of pillows, somebody take pity on my stupid painful self and distract me with some comments on my silly little elf-and-dwarf fanfics maybe?

#gravity you asshole #lotr fanfiction #gigolas #i had sooooo many plans to write when i got home from work today too!#(yes being distracted planning the scene i was about to write MAY have been a contributing factor to the falling-off-the-stairs SHHH)#but i am in no fit state to handle the emotional delicacy of galadriel gifting a piece of celebrian's jewelry to celebrimbor #before she sends the fellowship off to unforge the one ring so i'm just blehhhhhhhhhhh instead #blehhhhhh

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youssefguedira · 1 year

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lotr au snippet for you all this evening please enjoy them <3 (as always for @spacegirlsgang!)

Yusuf nearly doesn't approach him at all.

Regardless of what Andy had said, when he reaches the small balcony she'd pointed him towards (more of a ledge, really, given its lack of any kind of railing) and sees Nicolò sitting there, his legs hanging over his edge and his back to Yusuf, shoulders slumped like he's carrying the weight of the world, it feels like something he shouldn't be witnessing. So he almost turns and goes back the way he came, certain that Andy, or one of the hobbits, or even Sebastien will do a better job, because Nicolò hates him – but his job is, in part, to make people smile. He is not as much of a fighter as everyone else in this cobbled-together company, but that he can do.

Either way, before he can do anything, Nicolò turns and looks at him over his shoulder. He doesn't say a word. Yusuf is pinned in place by his gaze.

"Hi," Yusuf says after an uncomfortably long pause. "Andy– I wanted to see if you were okay."

Nicolò's lips quirk up into the tiniest of smiles at that, so slight Yusuf wonders if he'd imagined it. He turns away, his back to Yusuf once more.

"I know I'm not – I know we aren't friends, really, but. If you wanted to talk," Yusuf ventures, trails off mid-sentence when Nicolò shows no response. Maybe Andy was wrong, and he doesn't want company. Certainly not Yusuf's, at the least.

He decides to try one more time, at the least so he can tell Andy he did try, and because it wouldn't be right, he thinks, to leave him like this without one more attempt.

"Can I sit?" he asks.

Nicolò is silent long enough that Yusuf considers leaving, but then he looks over his shoulder once more and nods.

So Yusuf makes his way across the short space from the door to the ledge Nicolò is sitting on. He lowers himself down carefully, conscious of the fact that it's not particularly wide and there's barely an inch of space between them, and then swings his legs over the edge to mimic Nicolò's position. Below them, Lorien, in all its magical, eerie glory, and above them, through a break in the canopy of leaves, the stars. Somewhere, the elves are still singing the lament for Quynh, though it's faint, now.

"I'm sorry," is what Yusuf says, because he can't think of anything else. From this distance, Nicolò's eyes are red-rimmed, and he looks – he looks tired.

"Thank you," Nicolò responds. He doesn't look at Yusuf. Just keeps staring ahead.

"I didn't know her well," Yusuf says, "but. She was kind."

Nicolò is silent for a long time. Then – "She was my sister," Nicolò says, so quiet it's barely audible.

And Yusuf doesn't know what to say to that, because what can he say? So instead, he sits in silence, and waits.

After a while, Nicolò speaks again. "Tell me about something."

Yusuf nods, probably too quickly. "About what?"

"I don't know." Nicolò tilts his head then, finally looks at him properly. "You're a storyteller, no? Tell me a story."

There's something so quietly vulnerable in his voice, so exhausted, that Yusuf couldn't refuse even if he wanted to. "Okay," Yusuf says. "Okay."

So he does.

#neon writes #tog lotr au #the old guard #kaysanova #this takes place mid fellowship or so? it's our lorien sequence immediately after the mines of moria #at which point quynh falls to the balrog and everyone has a bad time about it #there's more to this scene but this part specifically was haunting me so. here #this is like. the very first baby step in a relationship arc full of baby steps. but it's a lot to me #the whole lorien sequence is just. if i think about it for too long i get a little bit teary #AND andy quynh and nicky in this au are so so important to me they're Family.#so behold. this #tomorrow? who knows #userlyde #userlinax #ANYWAY everyone go look at mary's lotr au boards theyre so pretty

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ladytauria · 5 months

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for the ask game <33 jaytim in lotr au maybe?

Tim is an elf—fairly young, as elves go. (Think Legolas, I suppose.) Jason is human. I think? I want Jason to be the ring-bearer. I know as far as LOTR canon goes a human would have been a p terrible choice but, we’re just going to ignore that :) Jason is unusually resistant to the ring’s power, but not like… completely so.

Jason is initially reluctant to take the journey but volunteers because it’s the right thing to do. He’s a voracious reader, he’s studied the histories and listened to the old stories. He knows exactly how terrible things will get if the Dark Lord (it’s gotta be Joker, right? altho maybe Ra’s is more fitting? or someone else completely?) isn’t stopped. Tim is a more eager volunteer because he does Not want to be stuck in his home forest anymore. He was quite sheltered, I think, though he definitely snuck out a lot. (&! maybe! met Steph? who definitely tags along as well.)

Jason & Tim don’t get along very well initially. I don’t think they hate each other or anything but Tim definitely says something insensitive about a human carrying the ring, especially after the last one. Jason fires back, & it just… sets the tone going forward.

However! When the Fellowship (Bruce, Dick, Babs, Steph, Cass, Jason, Tim, maybe Damian and/or Duke) splits up, Tim & Jason are the ones who end up venturing to Mordor together, and are forced to rely on each other in order to survive. Traveling solo also forces them to get to know each other, which they had maybe done a bit of?

The ring’s influence does eventually end up getting to Jason despite his best efforts, but, ultimately the ring is destroyed without fully corrupting him. When all is said and domed he’s self-deprecating about it—maybe telling Tim he was “right all along” not to trust him to carry it. Tim disagrees, though, and commends him for resisting as long as he did and commends him for his heart. They end up sailing away together to live in the immortal lands of the elves, eventually <3

Bonus: I don’t think things work like… 1:1 with the original characters. But—Bruce is the one to notice a need for the fellowship in the first place & brings them all together. He’s also the initial leader, until Moria, where he “dies.” Dick takes over after that, and maybe has a legacy as a king. Babs ensures Jason & Tim are able to escape, but instead of losing her life, she loses her ability to walk after a well-placed arrow hits her. Cass & Steph have an initial rivalry or dislike of each other but then begin to care for one another.

[ au ask game ]

#i was initially unsure how to do this but then it just!! flowed #also i probs could pull out of the batfam for the fellowship #and maybe should #like maybe roy could come with jason???#also: i didnt add it to the bonus but - harvey dent as saruman <3 #i was gonna have bruce be the aragon esque figure #with the whole prince of gotham thing #& then make alfred the gandalf one but #like #dick just fits better imo?#i dunno i could go the other way too #i’m gonna stop before i end up with an entirely new au planned out lmfao <3 #thank u for the ask this was fun!#au asks #asks and answers #jaytim #waffleinator-inator

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curiosity-killed · 7 months

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One of the joys of loving a piece of media for your entire remembered life is getting to engage with it from different perspectives and having different elements hit new chords as you grow, but the destruction of the forest at Isengard has engendered basically exactly the same horror and outrage as a six, sixteen, and twenty-six year old and tbh I think that’s the way jirt probably wanted it

#i too feel that a treeless place is an evil place (unless it is treeless due to natural ecological reasons)#parking lots and golf courses = evil #anyway I’m watching the extended edition fellowship #and a) realized I haven’t watched the extended editions since college :O #b) Ian mckellen is one of the only exceptions to my lack of desire to meet celebrities #Bc between lotr and magneto he’s the face of good chunks of my childhood #and i think I would probably just start crying if I met him #and c) growing up is going from idolizing the elves to realizing ur basically a hobbit #small love food love growing things love home hairy feet #so it goes #personal

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kindlythevoid · 8 months

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“But I must admit … that I hoped you would take to me for my own sake. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”

Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring pg. 194

BREAKING NEWS: AREA MAN THAT FITS MYSTERIOUS LONER ARCHETYPE ACTUALLY DESPERATE FOR FRIENDS AND OPENLY ADMITS IT WITHOUT FANFARE

#someone cue the one post about how Aragorn just misses his friends the whole time because he has so many and someone is always not there #friend squad Aragorn #this man was built for a large friend group #he really did jump from group to group #the elves to the rangers to the hobbits to the fellowship to the three hunters to leading armies with his homies #man is surrounded by friends at all times or else he gets sad #always willing to help out too in order to spend time with friends #what a guy #so glad he gets his friends sorted #love this man #the lord of the rings #aragorn #the fellowship of the ring #tolkien quotes #quotes #kiki re-re-re-reads the lord of the rings #just yelling into the void

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doctorspork · 1 year

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I am starting to look for jobs and somehow the most stressful part is just writing the freaking email and finding a way to professionally say “please give me a job”

#I HATE this i don't mind the talking on the phone part i just hate the sending the email part #like wtf do i know #am i too pushy? not forward enough? WHO KNOWS i'll find out if i don't get a job i guess!!!#spork talks #fellowship #medblr #pgy5 #~i don't get how any of this works~#after years of applying to med school and residency via a VERY strict format #the open ended-ness of this is freaking me out

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middle-earth-mythopoeia · 2 years

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REALIZATION: It’s possible that after Legolas goes to Valinor, if Arien is taking a break from her Sun duties, he’d actually get to meet her at some point! Which means... I’m picturing him excitedly dragging her over to Gandalf and saying, “Look, I finally found the Sun!”

#Legolas #look I just love the idea of the Fellowship continuing to annoy Gandalf in Valinor #(he's not really annoyed he loves it)#Gandalf of course is like yes you DID find the Sun and guess what? You found her FAR TOO LATE to melt the snow on Caradhras #my writing

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fuckyeahelijahwoodfan · 3 months

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John Rhyes Davies at New orleans comic con , meeting elijah and others and being so kind and wonderful human being that he is ..

#elijah wood #my precious #john rhys davies #gimli son of gloin #lord of the rings #the respect and friendship they have is just 😍#these guys are too much #fellowship of friendship

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chevs-and-spiders · 2 years

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lazy boromir doodles

#lotr #lotrfanart #boromir #pippin #merry #The Lord of the Rings #bro i just.#love how he LEAPED with 2 hobbits under his arms +armor... a strong man #and that he caught sam too #<33333 #he just takin care of them hobbits huh #carrying the whole fellowship out here w his strength love him sm...

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rings-of-power-realm · 2 years

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Sent to me by a Twitter Moot Orlando Bloom on Instagram supporting Ismael <3

LOTR Cast supporting our Rings of Power Cast makes me so happy! <3

#the rings of power #ismael cruz córdova #orlando bloom #positivity #a true fellowship <3 #they truly did put everything into this #been bummed out by the haters lately and it makes me sad I can't go on insta #or barely anywhere for fear of seeing negative hateful comments #I just have to remember the rop cast knows they have support #and my beloved LOTR cast are behind them too #that means everything <3

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eowyn-igneelcheshire · 1 year

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Would Legolas be able to see as far in this world as he does in Arda? Because if you think about it, Elves are only able to see so far because- on top of their already incredible eyesight- Arda was originally flat and became round but still appears flat to the Elves. Earth on the other hand was never flat- so would the whole "the world looks round for everyone else but flat for the Elves" thing still apply? Or would they just be seeing everything in 4k all the way up until the curvature makes it impossible to see any farther?

#Personally I prefer the idea that Elves wouldn't be able to see as far on Earth #It would be the funniest thing #The fellowship ends up in our world #And Legolas immediately has an existential crisis at not being able to see as far #He just fucking panics #And starts trying out different glasses because he thinks his sight has just gone to shit #And completely loses it when none of the prescriptions work #And then someone explains he just can't see as far because the Earth is round #And he's just staring at the person explaining it like #??????#Because it's like “Arda's round too wtf does that have to do with my sight???”#I don't think Legolas knows that the world's flat for elves #or more accurately #I think it'd be funnier if Legolas doesn't know the world's flat for elves #I just think there's more comedic potential #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #tolkien elves #legolas #the silmarillion #tolkien #lotr headcanons #theories #lotr theories #middle earth #arda #tolkien tag

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