#beacons of minas tirith

[autistook]

March 8th - Gandalf & Pippin ride towards Minas Tirith and notice the Beacons of Gondor have been lit

'What is that?' cried Pippin suddenly, clutching at Gandalf's cloak. 'Look! Fire, red fire! Are there dragons in this land? Look, there is another!' For answer Gandalf cried aloud to his horse. 'On, Shadowfax! We must hasten. Time is short. See! The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid. War is kindled.'

#lotr #on this day #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #pippin #pippin took #peregrin took #gandalf #beacons are lit #minas tirith #lotr edit #middle earth #tolkien #jrrt

[letmeinimafairy]

The beacons of Gondor for @raythecomputerart , the idea came up the moment I saw this jasper. Something about hope in the darkest hour

#lord of the rings #lotr #gondor #minas tirith #beacon #mountains #jasper #miniature painting #painted stones #rock painting #miniature #painted rocks #minerals #my art

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

The BEACONS ARE LIT!!!! 🔥🗻 🔥🗻🔥

#weekend #shitshow #gondor calls for aid #light the beacons #time to paaarty #minas tirith #rohan #edoras

[bh-52]

If I could add one thing from the book to The Fellowship of the Ring's film adaptation, it's the lament for Boromir.

Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows

The West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it goes.

‘What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you bring to me tonight?

Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight?

‘I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide and grey,

I saw him walk in empty lands until he passed away

Into the shadows of the North, I saw him then no more.

The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son of Denethor,

‘O Boromir! From the high walls westward I looked afar,

But you came not from the empty lands where no men are.’

From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, from the sandhills and the stones,

The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate it moans.

‘What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve?

Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.

‘Ask not of me where he doth dwell – so many bones there lie,

On the white shores and the dark shores under the stormy sky,

So many have passed down Anduin to find the flowing Sea.

Ask of the North Wind news of them the North Wind sends to me!’

‘O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward road runs south,

But you came not with the wailing gulls from the grey sea’s mouth’.

From the Gate of the Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls,

And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.

‘What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to me today?

What news of Boromir the bold? For he is long away.’

‘Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought,

His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought.

His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid to rest,

And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its breast.

‘O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever northward gaze,

To Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days

#the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #fellowship of the ring #boromir #gondor #minas tirith #lord of the rings #they will look for him from the white tower #but he will not return from mountain or from sea #sean bean #boromir of gondor #boromir son of denethor #lotr #middle earth #middleearth #faramir and boromir #the beacons of minas tirith #lord of the rings fellowship of the ring #lament for boromir #boromir the tall #boromir the fair #boromir the bold #have you seen boromir #what news from the west o wondering wind #white tree of Gondor

[lady-of-the-spirit]

YOU KNOW THE VEGGIETALES ESTHER MOVIE???? DUDE when I was a kid I used to watch that on vhs, usually in the morning before school, it’s one of my favorites!!! Absolute nostalgia 💕

YES!!! IT WAS MY FAVOURITE OUT OF ALL OF THEM!! The story and the song and everything was just perfect ❤ I must have watched it a thousand times.

#ask #the-beacons-of-minas-tirith

[lord-vaders]

I’m rewatching the lotr trilogy to pregame for lotr trivia tonight and every other scene has me in tears this show is so fucking beautiful

#THE BEACONS OF MINAS TIRITH #THE BEACONS ARE LIT!! GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!!! #AND ROHAN WILL ANSWER!!! #fucking tears #abt jessica

[rosamundpkes]

The Beacons of Minas Tirith! The Beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid.

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

#filmedit #lotredit #tolkienedit #gifs* #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkiensource #tlotrgifs #usertreena #useraish #tusererika #usercats #userelio #userraffa #userrobin #omgari #userrainbow #filmgifs #moviegifs #fyeahmovies

[theworldsoftolkein]

The Beacons of Gondor by DONATO GIANCOLA

#gondor #beacons #beacons of gondor #minas tirith #tolkien legendarium #jrr tolkien #the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #the return of the king #the two towers

[onlyonewoman]

Current AO3 news from Facebook group:

ADMIN: “Just a few things. Yes, the attacks are still happening so site availability will be spotty at best. This is NOT an attack on the actual content. All stories, user data, etc are safe. DDOS attacks basically overwhelm the servers with requests to the point they cannot handle the load and failover. DDOS attacks last until one of two things happens, either the person/group gets bored and moves on to a new target. Or the site owner finds a way to fortify the servers against the attack. That means this could last for a while. With that in mind, let's all try to keep the panic, humorous or otherwise to a minimum. It's annoying and frustrating, certainly, but it's not the end of the world. The site will eventually be back, it's just going to take time and patience.” In short: - Our content is safe. - Our user data, stories etc are safe. - It’s a DDOS attack meaning it’s basically an attempt at overwhelming the servers, meaning: - DON’T KEEP REFRESHING THE AO3 PAGE!!! - It will last for a while, but there is no need to panic. Copied from one of the reblogs: “To simplify:A DoS or DDoS attack is analogous to a group of people crowding the entry door of a shop, making it hard for legitimate customers to enter, thus disrupting trade and losing the business money.” Also, YES, KEEP REBLOGGING to let people know! The less of us trying to reload the page the better! In the meantime, this is basically me:

Edit again, because this little post got a life of its own and now I feel like Pippin lighting the beacon of Minas Tirith :D

UPDATE AROUND 18:30~ish CET:

YAY!

#ao3 #ao3 hacker attack #don't refresh the page #content is safe #just don't overload the system

[anghraine]

I feel like the lighting of the beacons scene is kind of a microcosm of my issues with the LOTR films as a whole, in that:

Cinematically, it's absolutely gorgeous and stirring

The visuals are lifted even further by the score

It's a reference to a thing that is actually in the book, just highly re-contextualized (the beacons exist in the book and have already been lit, but serve a different function; it is the Red Arrow that is used to ask for Théoden's aid, with the specific remark that Denethor is asking for aid and not demanding it; the messenger who brought the arrow is caught and decapitated on his way back to Minas Tirith and so Denethor can't know if the message got out without using the palantír)

The lighting of the beacons in the films is tied into the story they're telling, in which basically all the NPCs other characters are much more self-doubting and self-sabotaging and it's up to Our Heroes to get them to do the right thing or the heroes just do it themselves (see Treebeard, see Théoden, see Faramir...)

Specifically, the necessity of lighting the beacons in the films is a direct byproduct of making film Denethor malicious and incredibly incompetent

The quiet, almost incidental tragedy of the messenger's death in war—not in a big battle, not in any glorious way at all, just this random guy being casually chased down and killed—is lost in favor of something dramatic and show-stopping and cool.

It is dramatic and show-stopping and cool! But sacrifices were definitely made in order to work it into the story at all and I think those sacrifices were very representative of the films' adaptational approach.

#rip to hirgon. and denethor's characterization #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #pj critical #denethor #big giving faramir's dream to éowyn as part of a shippy scene with aragorn energy #anghraine rants #hirgon

[kitnjon]

The Beacons of Minas Tirith! The Beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid.

And Rohan will answer.

#lotredit #tolkiensource #dailytolkien #cinematv #oneringnet #tolkienedit #lotrdaily #tvandfilm #dailyworldcinema #cinemapix #lotr #lord of the rings #the return of the king #gifs:original #my post

[fixing-bad-comic-art]

Gave her thicker limbs and more realistic proportions; fixed up her costume so it doesn’t look painted on; gave her some actual shoes instead of whatever footie-pajama thing she had going on (campbell does that often); and tried to make her facial expression slightly more serious and not so cookie-cutter.

submitted by @the-beacons-of-minas-tirith

#submission #natasha romanov #natasha romanoff #black widow #marvel #marvel comics #j scott campbell #misogyny in comics #sexism in comics #bad comic art #fixing bad comic art #fixes #not my fix

[emilylorange]

i'm now in a beacons of minas tirith situation where if a new photo of an exhausted celebrity drops it gets carried to my notifications

#mdtas #disney afternoon #mighty ducks animated #wildwing flashblade #OCs #winterwing #art #digital art #digital painting #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #ben aflac

[iamnotshazam]

i saw the LotR films before ever reading the books and i love both. i turn now more to the books than the movies for enjoyment.

but i also feel like the three movies just. fucken. cracked it out of the park with some important things and i had NO idea how good i had it as a little nerd delving into the extended edition dvd extras. if i were a fan in the gritty-obsessed 90's hearing rumors of these movies, i would have expected at best stuff like: B-list acting that occasionally broke through with honest emotions. some skilled costuming and weaponry popping up in important scenes but mostly just knock-off viking opera aesthetic. homebrew DND imagery that made it painfully obvious by contrast which scenes they actually spent money on the set design and dressing.

and WETA and New Line and everyone on this!!! they did NOT accept lower standards cause it was fantasy! everyone else would have. This was genre filmmaking, this would have been perceived at the time as more like How the Grinch Stole Christmas than a Cecil B Demille-level epic movie. And the costuming department, composer, propsmaster and set designer all said "NO" and put their whole pussies behind it!

Jesus Christ the quality in those movies! Ian McKellan has undershirts like Gandalf the White might have! Bernard Hill has realistic quilted padding underlayers all made in the style a Rohirrim tailor and armorer would have made! Minas Tirith has a rat catcher because someone took a doodle and decided that would make sense in the lived reality of a massive city! Movie makers do not usually do this. It is NEVER about what isnt seen or necessary for the shot. You are judged professionally not by if you can cut corners in order to help production and still seem good, but by HOW MUCH.

I cannot blame anyone who worked on the Amazon series in the hands-on creative roles because the results are what they have been trained to do. Blame executives. Blame executives! Of course chainmail is going to be, i dunno, plastic or sewn into the edges of costumes if you dont have the money or time for real chain mail! And because it cannot be overstated how unusual the LotR trilogy filmmaking process must have been. It's like being given an average lower middle class family grocery budget and told to make a fancy Christmas dinner for 20 all by yourself with no help versus having a trained staff, a blank check, and Martha Stewart on retainer. That's not an exaggeration. That's the rhetorical gulf that someone (Valar BLESS them) in the bureaucracy had to wade across to convince execs to buy into the details. The Lord of the Rings movies are WEIRD.

And it shows. Bookfans bitch about the story changes, the balrog wings, the characterization differences. (Denethor was a reasonable person and even outsider Pippin could see he was very admirable to the people of Gondor, which made it sooooo much creepier when he suddenly snapped but i digress) but NEVER about the music. the filming locations. the set designs. the costumes. the props. the things that i really think count the most to help invest people in a different world!

No one ever complains about taking out the scene where Rohan is summoned to Gondor's aid with the Red Arrow, because yeah they could have made it work, they made the importance of other props like Anduríl and, oh yeah, the One Ring very clear, but they had a better idea.

The beacons.

The beacons were not in the book.

Not in the same way, really, because while incredible to think about the narrative style was close third person, and you cannot follow beacons to rhapsodize about them when you're a tired hobbit getting saddle sore crossing national borders with a grumpy old wizard. Pippin sees the Beacons of Gondor at a distance when he's falling asleep and Gandalf tells him they're a mustering signal within Gondor. Which makes sense, really, they require some upkeep and would be awkward for two nations to negotiate how to handle - nevermind. That's it. That's all the beacons are in the text.

Someone adapting the script saw a moment that was ho-hum in the book but realized ! 💡⚡️That would look really great on camera! And it is now routinely listed as one of the most important cinematic moments of anything, ever.

There are so many things I still want to ask Peter Jackson, "Why???" but the original trilogy movies overall? Work. They work and they do more than work, they helped elevate an entire artform that I don't honestly know that much about and oh god i usually dont ramble about them like this im embarassed is this already acknowledged in tumblr tolkien circles? or are we just split into different little fandoms in order to keep the peace?

#tolkien #peter jackson #weta workshop #gondor #rohan #gandalf #pippin #theoden #the lord of the rings #lotr #denethor #the movies . . . is good? the movies is good!!! #jrrt

[fadran]

I would like to point out that Merry and Pippin spanned the gap between Rohan and Gondor long before Aragorn even returned to the White City. Pippin became a close friend to Faramir and lit the beacon of Minas Tirith, while Merry rode with Eowyn to defend the ancient alliance. Theoden, King of Rohan, was slain on the soil of Gondor to uphold the honor of their allegiance; and Eowyn, dearer than daughter, slew the most ancient foe of Rohan to avenge him.

And then she marries Faramir.

Coincidence? I think NOT

#lotr #merry #pippin #faramir #eowyn #just imagining the two hobbits playing matchmaker with their little mini-monarchs #they set up a blind date but SURPRISE - they’re both princes of their respective kingdoms #I miss boromir. he would’ve had so much fun planning this stuff with Merry and Pip

[nihilizzzm]

Boromir x Aragorn & Boromir and Faramir headcanon

We all saw the interview with Sean Bean and other people about how he didn’t want to fly with a helicopter. So here I propose you:

Boromir is afraid of heights. Not just afraid, terrified. And I am not talking like hiking the mountains high, that’s okay, it contains constant contact with the ground. Cliffs are worse. And he does not like being close to the edge.

Faramir knows, they climbed all over the citadel together as children, and Boromir always refused to go to the certain parts of it. Faramir had to manipulate him to get him to go with him to the highest tower, because he always had something more important to do.

F: You are just afraid!

B: No I’m not!

F: yes you are!

B: I could do it right now!

F: than do!

So Boromir went and hated every moment of it. And at first Faramir was making fun of him but than he had to help him get down. And Boromir was constantly saying that he is not afraid and he will kill Faramir if he would ever tell anyone.

So Faramir didn’t tell anyone. Aragorn figured it out himself. He never made it obvious that he knew. At first he was amused and thought that Boromir is just stubborn bastard as always, but with time he realised the man is just too proud to admit it.

So he started making excuses for them both when anyone proposed some activity that had anything to do with heights. Suddenly Boromir is very needed somewhere else, or suddenly Aragorn wants to do something else and he doesn’t want to do it alone. Or simply just has a better idea of activity he might need his boyfriend for.

Faramir knows that Aragorn knows. And Aragorn knows that Faramir knows. Boromir is still acting like nothing is wrong and he is absolutely fearless. But he was holding Aragorn’s hand when they went to check the new Minas Tirith beacon.

#lotr #boromir #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #aragorn #aragorn x boromir #aramir #faramir #lotr headcanons #aragorn x boromir headcanons