#have some Hobbit Love

[retellingthehobbit]

When Winter comes, the winter wild that hill and wood shall slay; When trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day; When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain I'll look for thee, and call to thee; I'll come to thee again!

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

#HAPPY HOBBIT DAY #lotr #samfro #hobbit day #sam x frodo #lord of the rings #have some Hobbit Love #i blacked out and hours later this just appeared on my canvas at 2:16 am #(it’s missing my girlfriend hours ) #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #sam/frodo #frodo/sam #but yeah the films have their issues but #re adapting the song of the ent and the entwives #as a song about frodo and Sam’s relationship (In Dreams) was inspired #A+ choice no notes

[spookyjarchivist]

while i do have a soft spot for “hobbits age slower than humans so 33 for them is our physical 18” i rlly dont think that’s how it is bc they get to about the same age as humans before death by old age, i also really dont think we appreciate enough a few things about what this means narratively and thematically

tolkien really said no child soldiers, no 20-something year old soldiers, they’re not really adults yet, they barely know anything of the world we’re sending them to die for it and that’s not okay, not when there are other options

he also addresses this with the hobbits specifically, frodo and bilbo are 50 when they go on their journeys, FIFTY, and we can see that they handle them differently than the others. while bilbo changes afterwards, it’s not in a coming of age like we would see if 50 really was the equivalent of ~27, he just accepts a part of himself he’s been suppressing for years, for him it’s accepting that getting older and being an adult doesn’t restrict you from the excitement and opportunities of youth. similarly frodo doesn’t change much either outside of his ptsd, all of his change is trauma, not maturity

now sam and merry are both past the age of majority, but they still grow into themselves in a way bilbo and frodo do not, they mature

but pippin, sweet beautiful pippin grows the most out of all of them. he’s the most childish, always running after his cousins and you can tell he’s not even 30, this is HIS coming of age story, before this journey he’s known nothing of true responsibilities, but by the end he’s ready for when he eventually has to take over as thain of the shire

and i think that this is a really beautiful way of saying something that has started to get really popular in the last few years

instead of being terrified of that big 30, we should be excited for it, we should embrace it wholeheartedly, because it’s the time when we’ve finally started ironing out the last of the kinks in being an adult, we’re growing into our responsibilities and and we can start learning how to cultivate that balance of responsibility and excitement and FUN that makes life living instead of surviving

#tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #hobbits #the hobbit #god i love these books so much #tolkien was so far ahead of his time #like obviously he had some issues #the race issues have had some really good talking points lately thanks to rop and people being more receptive to these discussions #but like everything else aged pretty well #his themes on gender are rarely paralleled even today by shit that passes the bechdel test #which is insane #*noodlespeaks

[gremlin-bard]

Hi I just finished the third Hobbit movie and I'd just like to apologize to the Thorin/Bilbo nation. I didn't see your vision for the first two movies but I get it now,,,,,,,,

Like, why did they look at each other like that?? Why were their faces so close together?? Why wasn't Bilbo able to say what Thorin was to him at first?? Why was it Bilbo's voice (in the end) that snapped Thorin out of the dragon sickness??? I am ???????????? Guys ???????????

#Seriously though #This movie was like 50% battles and 50% emotional scenes #and they decided to put some homoeroticism in there #for what??? to counterbalance Toriel having two straight love interests?? #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #thorin x bilbo #bilbo

[unpretty]

not being able to blaze posts that are already being blazed is a major flaw imho. if you're looking at the post normally and not seeing the blazed version there's no indication that's what's happening so the post just looks unblazable. also i want the option to see something being blazed onto my dash and immediately make it worse.

#original #did i send an unhinged ask to tumblr support about hobbit love? maybe so. #anyway i have to wait for the current blaze to wear off #which i did not realize at all until support politely informed me of the facts #in general i would like if all versions of a post (including the ones reblogged onto my dash normally) #showed some indication that it's 420 somewhere #also i hate that i don't know if i can reply to support saying 'thank you and good job' without throwing off a metric somewhere #i know some support things are like. you should only reply if they didn't fix the problem the first time. otherwise it's bad. #can i send a kudo to the support person

[enbysiriusblack]

remus loves folklore books, lily loves fantasy books, regulus loves classical books, peter loves comic books, emmeline loves detective books, dorcas loves poetry books, mary loves romance books, james loves sci-fi books, marlene loves rock magazines, sirius loves play scripts

#sirius would read beginnings and ends of loads of books to seem more well read than he is #but he does not have the patience for an entire novel. loves reading/acting out plays tho #he'd love duchess of malfi fr and anything tennesee williams #marlene hates reading. finds it hard. and boring. magazines are as far as she's willing to go #james is a sci fi kid!! he also reads really fast but then loses attention after like 10 minutes and takes a break for a day or so #aroace mary who loves fictional romance <333 so real #emmeline tries to work out the mystery before the book detective. she's usually wrong. the girl's a failure and i love her for it #comic book peter is so me. dc not marvel!! okay he can read some marvel. occasionally. only spiderman tho. #regulus is a snob. never read a non classical book for leisure once in his life #fantasy lily!! she's such a hobbit/lord of the rings fan btw #remus is living up to his name and his boyfriends nickname #marauders era #marauders #remus lupin #lily evans #regulus black #peter pettigrew #emmeline vance #dorcas meadowes #mary macdonald #james potter #marlene mckinnon #sirius black

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Silvans Before the Sun

Head-cannon that the silvans of Greenwood have the largest population of elves that were born before the sun and moon, you just can’t tell because, unlike those that are from aman, they do not have the light of the trees in their eyes to indicate their age.

This, coupled with the very chill carefree spirit of most wood elves means that pretty much no one realizes that there are any elves in Greenwood at all that are from the years of the trees.

Legolas introducing a friend of his to glorfindel: and this is Glorfindel, Imlardis’s warrior captain.

Friend: you’re from aman, weren’t you? I remember the day we first got word that the noldor came back to eastern shores at the beginning of the first age-

Glorfindel, who thought Legolas’s friend was only a few millennia old: huh

The twins, who have known the friend for a while and thought the same: hold on, wHAT-

#silvans #lord of the rings #lotr elves #silmarillion #the hobbit #Greenwood is the casual home of some of the most ancient elves in existence #there are actually a few elves that predate the time elwe finwe and ingwe first went with orome #this shocks everyone not in the know #as usual #the silvans love their secrets #the shock factor is amazing #wouldn’t it be hilarious if thranduil was straight up as old as finwe #but no one realizes it bc they thought oropher was younger than finwe but that’s false #shamelessly pushing my ‘Miriel and Thranduil are twins’ agenda #the twins @ legolas: how old are you? #legolas: not as old as I could have been but older than you think #the twins: ??? #legolas greenleaf #thranduil #shamelessly pushing my ‘miriel and thranduil are twins agenda’

[stiltonbasket]

tumblr: what if you made your followers pay to see your blorbos?

us: no! bad!

tumblr, now sweating: p-pay to inflict your blorbos...on strangers who don’t follow you?

us:

#memes #on a serious note @staff yall have got to start checking the blaze posts #i saw a post full of medical misinformation targeted at type one diabetics earlier #telling them that they DONT NEED INSULIN if they eat right #the cat pics and hobbit love are great and I endorse them #but blaze is essentially advertising and i'm assuming tumblr ads get some kind of human approval #which blaze posts do not #anyway that's my two cents #stilton squeaks

[girlscience]

i am so goddamn tired of every single fantasy story being about men. i am so goddamn tired of women being side characters and love interests and set dressing and an afterthought. i am so goddamn tired of women who are powerful but feminine. women who are "dressed to kill" and they are wearing eyeliner and a dress and heels. i am so goddamn tired of women always being healers and having water magic. i am so goddamn tired of men going on adventures and dying nobly. i am so goddamn tired of never being able to find a story about women that i can fall in love with. i am so goddamn tired of all fandom being about men.

#i have spent the past several weeks becoming increasingly upset about this #hannibal? men. lotr/the hobbit? men. stargate atlantis? men. dragon age inquistion? men. one piece? men. #the handful of superhero's i periodically read about? men. transformers? men. every goddamn anime i've ever loved? men. #the witcher? men. fantasy anachronism? men. literally every single fantasy adventurer series? men. #it's men and men and men and men and men and men and men and men #i just want ONE. one single goddamn story about women that is as well written and well made and as deep as everything else #i want ONE story about a women or women who are noble and honorable and fight in the face of impossible odds #and i don't want them to be pretty and small and feminine #make them hairy and fat and muscular and tall and wear steel toed boots and carry swords and fight monsters and sleep in the woods #and eat stew and carry heavy packs for long distances and be intelligent and sneaky and cowardly and fearful and brave #make them laugh and cry and scream and fall in love and write poetry and books and songs #make them wrestle and pick on each other and pull each others hair and sit around campfires #MAKE THEM GODDAMN PEOPLE #there are books out there about women going on adventures. they exist. i've read some #but they are not the majority and they never get big #and so many end up being poorly written or a romance or a combo of the two #i don't WANT to have to read genderbends just to read about women #i don't want to scroll tumblr and just see men on my dash #all i have ever wanted my whole life is to be a fantasy adventurer. and none of them. not ONE of them looks like me #i am tired of watching youtube critiques of fantasy shows/movies/stories and them just shitting on the women characters #i am just so tired of it

[abutterflyobsession]

I pull out so many random facts about the making of Lord of the Rings that people usually respond with, 'how do you even know that?!'

oh, friend.

my brother, a most pretentious lotr fan, snatched up the extended edition hot off the shelf and for weeks it was the only thing on the tv all day long. I've seen every commentary, every special feature . . . twice. maybe more. I didn't have a choice.

#a butterfly obsesses #I've forgotten so much but still #maybe I just don't hang out with nerdy enough people and the rest of you know all this but: #billy boyd every time Minas Tirith is on the screen: I love Minas Tirith #Dominic Monaghan: shut. up. #sean austin forgot to put his waistcoat on for the scene where they all say farewell to frodo so they had to reshoot the whole thing #everybody had to cry again. but the second recording ended up blurry and they had to reshoot a 3rd time. nobody was happy with sean #when sam shows up to fight shelob his hand and sheathed sword appear first like the start of a duel in a western #that's actually peter jackson's hand #sean austin could 'see' shelob when they were filming those scenes. he could very vividly imagine her. #after he saw some cgi test footage of her he lost the ability to imagine her and had to work to get it back #dominic or billy I forget but one stole a skull from the scenes with the army of the dead #after pirates of the Caribbean came out they had to change the design for the army of the dead because the ghost designs were too similar #they built a huge dead Oliphaunt for the battlefield (peter wanted it to be bigger tho) #the people linking up plastic rings for the chain mail wore away their fingerprints on their pointer fingers and thumbs #they basically thawed a frozen stream so andy serkis could dive in and chase a fish in the ice-cold water #I want to say it was billy boyd who had to get a dental procedure done and opted to do with without being numbed #because he had to shoot a scene right after. however he sweated so much his hobbit feet came off #by the time they were put back on the medication would have worn off anyway #viggo mortensen got part of a front tooth chipped off and wanted to finish the scene before having it fixed but they forced him to go #when auditioning horses for the scene the horse kneels down to let the wounded aragorn get on a horse was disqualified for sit on the dummy #the HUGE ring they used for perspective shots

[froqgy]

the hobbit movies are so.... they should not have been 3 movies LOL. lotr is so much stronger in many ways.

#the increased use of cgi where it was not necessary...how many scenes just draaaaaagged on... #lotr split up fights w perspective changes... overall i think the lotr journey is more interesting but id have to #look at the books too. bjt if we're just talking about movies. #why did i feel like there were more tasteless jokes in the hobbit movies too... #some of the stuff was comically stupid LOL the scene were azog floated under the water under thorin fjejrjekddkejjrj #i like the stakes and the involved parties of lotr a lot more. i guess it benefits from the set up of the hobbit...? #WHAT WAS THE POINT of having thrain die saying tell my son i loved him. then thorin died wihtout knowing

[morporkian-cryptid]

Update: I'm writing Hanafuda again!!! :D

I'm doing research on travelers accommodation in Buddhist temples for a heist scene, and now I want to go back to Japan so baaaaad... 😭 Also those places usually include shared hot baths and super pretty zen gardens and an awesome traditional vegetarian meal and participating in morning prayers and meditation, and I'm gonna have to concentrate on the heist itself instead of going off on a tangent describing life at the temple. I'm not sure I can add an onsen scene but I really really want to...

#i want to because 1) i fucking love onsens and 2) perfect occasion to have goemon and jigen naked around each other (pining fuel) #and to show off jigen's tattoos #but on the other hand 1) it would make the chapter even longer and 2) i'd have to decide what surgeries trans!jigen has had #and i still haven't made a decision about that #(i will have to because SPOILERS there's gonna be a smut scene at some point) #lupin iii #daisuke jigen #goemon ishikawa #the hobbit writes #fic : hanafuda #anyway I wanna go back to Japan TT

[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

[nolonger-roses]

frodo is such a complex and sad character

after all the things he went through, the two stabbings, losing his finger, the hunger and thirst, the fatigue, all the emotional trauma and losing himself in the process. After everything, he still saw his home get damaged. And the worst parte is that no one acknowledged what he did. He wasn't treated as the hero he was nor was he important

And at the end, when he realised that he couldn't go back, that all the pain wouldn't go away, he accepted himself and left in order to heal. He did the right choice again

He saved the world by losing himself but I don't think he regretted it. He made a world were his loved ones could live, just not him.

#sometimes we have to be like frodo and accept that we are damaged in order to heal #and some fans with the bs of who is the real hero #can't you just accept that all were?? #that was the whole point #trusting and loving other to save each other because THAT is strength #I love him sm #frodo #lotr #lord of the rings #hobbit

[stardryad]

Commission made for dear Laura of Fili and Laurel, her hobbit oc, chatting into the night! ✨

#There's also some company around them (which I may have loved making heh)🦉🦊🐰 #the hobbit #fili #hobbit oc #Laurel #lotr #tolkien #commission #this painting was made in so many waiting rooms you have no idea #I grabbed my tablet everywhere I knew I could stop for a moment lolol

[gatheryepens]

I watched The Lord of the Rings with my friends today and I’m really enjoying it. We only watched the first two since we didn’t have enough time to watch the last one since it was four hours LMAO. I’m really enjoying the characters and the worldbuilding, if anyone has read the books do you recommend?

#bookblr #booklr #bookish #the lord of the rings #gatherbeingbookish #I probably won’t be reading it anytime soon #since my book scheldule for the next few books is kind of set #so I’ll probably read it around late 2023 maybe early 2024 #<- she says lol #but if anyone’s read the books I’d love to hear your thoughts #I know they are quite lengthy so it will definitely take me a hot minute to read them #but film wise my friends and I are planning on finishing the film next week some time #and maybe starting the hobbit #but had we carried on watching we would’ve finished at like 11pm 😭😭 #trying to soak up all the time we have left before they go off to uni hehe #gatherrambles

[nieithryn]

In total contrast to my selfish self-advertisement-

Still working on my relations document, and man, the animated Return of the King (1980, Rankin-Bass productions, AMAZING, watch it) had some music that Speaks to both my personal soul, and those of my muses.

And none of it is on spotify for easy playlisting! This is sacrilege, this sucks, what if I wanna have Glenn Yarbrough accurately portray a part of my muses' soul?

#not such a stranger (ooc) #(Anyway I love the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit and ROTK shamelessly) #(And it really does have some amazing music)