#mithril shirt

[ithrilyann]

a funny little parallel (kind of) that always makes me chuckle

#bagginshield #thilbo #the hobbit #thorin #bilbo #mithril wedding #mithril shirt #bard #laketown #dos #botfa #parallels #sort of #my stuff #Ithril makes gifs

[ebaeschnbliah]

For some time Frodo and Sam managed to keep up with the others; but Aragorn was leading them at a great pace, and after a while they lagged behind. They had eaten nothing since the early morning. Sam's cut was burning like fire, and his head felt light. In spite of the shining sun the wind seemed chill after the warm darkness of Moria. He shivered. 

Frodo felt every step more painful and he gasped for breath ...

At last Legolas turned, and seeing them now far behind, he spoke to Aragorn. The others halted, and Aragorn ran back, calling to Boromir to come with him.

'I am sorry, Frodo! ' he cried, full of concern. `So much has happened this day and we have such need of haste, that I have forgotten that you were hurt; and Sam too. You should have spoken. We have done nothing to ease you, as we ought, though all the orcs of Moria were after us. Come now! A little further on there is a place where we can rest for a little. There I will do what I can for you. Come, Boromir! We will carry them.'

Soon afterwards they came upon another stream that ran down from the west, and joined its bubbling water with the hurrying Silverlode. Together they plunged over a fall of green-hued stone, and foamed down into a dell. About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry. At the bottom there was a level space through which the stream flowed noisily over shining pebbles. Here they rested. It was now nearly three hours after noon, and they had come only a few miles from the Gates. Already the sun was westering.

While Gimli and the two younger hobbits kindled a fire of brush- and fir-wood, and drew water, Aragorn tended Sam and Frodo. Sam's wound was not deep, but it looked ugly, and Aragorn's face was grave as he examined it. After a moment he looked up with relief.

'Good luck, Sam! ' he said. 'Many have received worse than this in payment for the slaying of their first orc. The cut is not poisoned, as the wounds of orc-blades too often are. It should heal well when I have tended it. Bathe it when Gimli has heated water.'

He opened his pouch and drew out some withered leaves. `They are dry and some of their virtue has one, he said, but here I have still some of the leaves of athelas that I gathered near Weathertop. Crush one in the water, and wash the wound clean, and I will bind it. Now it is your turn. Frodo! '

'I am all right,' said Frodo, reluctant to have his garments touched. `All I needed was some food and a little rest.'

`No! ' said Aragorn. `We must have a look and see what the hammer and the anvil have done to you. I still marvel that you are alive at all.' Gently he stripped off Frodo's old jacket and worn tunic, and gave a gasp of wonder. Then he laughed. The silver corslet shimmered before his eyes like the light upon a rippling sea. Carefully he took it off and held it up, and the gems on it glittered like stars. and the sound of the shaken rings was like the tinkle of rain in a pool.

`Look, my friends!' he called. `Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven-princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle-earth would be riding to the Shire.'

`And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain,' said Gimli, gazing at the mail in wonder. `It is a mithril-coat. Mithril! I have never seen or heard tell of one so fair. Is this the coat that Gandalf spoke of? Then he undervalued it. But it was well given! '

JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Lothlórien

#the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #lothlorien #jrr tolkien #gandalf #frodo #sam #merry #pippin #aragorn #legolas #boromir #gimli #mithril shirt #gates of moria #mirrormere #kheled-zâram #movie pics #peter jackson

[bioluminesced]

historians will tell u frodo was not serving insane cunt during his recovery at the house of elrond but i will refute it

#happy last frodo friday of 2023 #Today its a slay one #with book frodo #frodo #frodo baggins #lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #hobbits #the fellowship of the ring #tolkien #the mithril mail shirt is THAT girl

[sandinthepipes]

Me shaking Peter Jackson by the shoulders like a stuck vending machine: IF THEY'RE NOT GAY WHY EVERYTHING ELSE? WHY PETER? WHAT IS THAT?

#i have OPINIONS about the artistic choices in the hobbit movie #i just wome up from a bagginshield dream #and then laid there for like 20 minutes staring at the ceiling replaying all the events from the movie #like thorin right the middle of his gold madness gifts bilbo the second most valuable thing in the entire mountain #a fucking CHAINMAIL SHIRT OF MITHRIL #IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GOLD MADNESS #and then what whas all that talk in the tunnels where they look at each other like they hung the moon???????? #thorin the eagles?????????? #HE WAS-?????????????? #absolute madness from mr peter Jackson that's what I'm saying #and it's not like you can say 'oh but the book' #the book doesn't even have 1/10th of that whole homoerotic shit #lotr is full of homoeroticism but the hobbit? certainly not between thorin and bilbo #mr peter jackson please i am begging on my knees can you please explain your artistic choices to me becauae I'm loosing sleep over it #bagginshield #the hobbit #thorin x bilbo #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #thorin #bilbo

[ummyesisthisjasongrace]

i wasn't expecting to get into the bagginshield feels during my lotr reread but bilbo singing a song that he wrote that goes

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; [...] I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago [...] But all the while I sit and think of times that were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.

has me crying right now

#when i first read lotr i hadn't read or watched the hobbit #hits harder now #bilbo thinking of people long ago and wishing for them to return which he knows they never can nor will #he also said he doesn't have any more use for the mithril shirt apart from looking at it from time to time #remembering old times #yeah i'm emotional #lotr #the hobbit #bagginshield #rivendell

[prayforleonardo]

Gimli reaction with Frodo

#merry has an appropriate reaction here i think #It gets better when you remember that mithril shirt was a gift from Thorin to Bilbo #frodo baggins #medium naturals #lotr #lord of the rings #gimli #gandalf #merry's face lmao

[thecastlesaredamp]

I defend frodo 5 ever cause, like I'd be mean to if I was clearly a silver girlie and had to carry around a gold ring everywhere.

#frodo baggins #GOLD IS NOT HIS COLOR LIKE AT ALL #it clashes terribly with the mithril shirt just fyi

[airyairyaucontraire]

We never got to see Din’s reaction to Grogu’s new piece of armour or if he even knows about it

#depends on how often he bathes the kid or changes his clothes I guess? #but we didn’t get his reaction! #to what would have been a pretty important moment! #as well as his little mithril shirt and his mythosaur pendant #baby has got their signet on!!! #also they haven’t shown us Grogu playing with his favourite little metal ball either #the Mandalorian #mando critical

[bonniebird]

Imagine being Legolas in the mines after Frodo got stabbed and he opens up his shirt to reveal he’s been wearing your freaking baby clothes this whole time.

#the mithril shirt belonging to an infant elf and Legolas being the only one that fits the timeline is peak Tolkien lore #I bet he was loosing his mind #funniest legolas frodo interaction ever and we didn't even see legolas react

[ithrilyann]

Inspired by this and this.

#mithril wedding #bagginshield #thilbo #thorin #thorin oakenshield #bilbo #bilbo baggins #the hobbit #the lord of the rings #frodo #lotr #moria #botfa #gif set #mithril shirt #my stuff #Ithril makes gifs

[ebaeschnbliah]

`Mithril! All folk desired it ...’ 

‘It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim. The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, which you saw upon the doors. Bilbo had a corslet of mithril-rings that Thorin gave him. I wonder what has become of it? Gathering dust still in Michel Delving Mathom-house, I suppose.'

`What? ' cried Gimli, startled out of his silence. `A corslet of Moria-silver? That was a kingly gift! '

'Yes,' said Gandalf. `I never told him, but its worth was greater than the value of the whole Shire and everything in it.'

Frodo said nothing, but he put his hand under his tunic and touched the rings of his mail-shirt. He felt staggered to think that he had been walking about with the price of the Shire under his jacket. Had Bilbo known? He felt no doubt that Bilbo knew quite well. It was indeed a kingly gift. But now his thoughts had been carried away from the dark Mines, to Rivendell, to Bilbo, and to Bag End in the days while Bilbo was still there. He wished with all his heart that he was back there, and in those days, mowing the lawn, or pottering among the flowers, and that he had never heard of Moria, or mithril - or the Ring.

JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, A Journey in the Dark

#the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #a journey in the dark #jrr tolkien #gandalf #frodo #sam #merry #pippin #gimli #legolas #aragorn #boromir #moria #khazad dum #mithril #mithril shirt #movie pics #peter jackson

[8thparadox]

i do not CARE if the books say that the mithril shirt was made long ago as a commission for an elven prince. it's MY fic and I get to decide that thorin found a bunch of links that his mother was going to work on just before smaug came and when he's be ushered out of the treasury by bilbo or balin or whatever unlucky dwarf had pulled the short straw and been sent to suggest that mayby the king get some sleep.. or eat something… he goes back to his mother's old work room and carefully links the rings together (the ancient art of working with mithril all but lost to time, but Thorin remembers watching his mother when she started the project) and thinking totally normal thoughts about how he needs to protect bilbo from all possible harm.

#hey this is a funky shirt why is it so small #I want it to be his own creation!!! #also you telling me that the dwarves just kept a useless (to them) shirt around? and didn't repourpose that mithril? unrealistic. #mayby they DID repourpose it ie turn it back into rings and listen the point it the point is that Thorin would only take a break #from his search for the arkenstone not to rest but to continue working in secret on this shirt #actually new cool and hot take to add to that. um. fuck. what was it. oh yeah. BILBO'S AN UNRELIABLE NARRATOR! and Thorin is dead! (i mean #not in my fic he's alive there but in the canon story he is dead and so who would know... noone... #bilbo says and balin is like "no idea but i didn't hear about throin making it so it's #probably some ancient relic let me go look up anything that might match

[coveredinsun]

rewatching lotr, and rewatched the hobbit trilogy like 2 weeks ago, and i must say. i love this franchise for all its “i knew a guy who knew a guy” relations. like to give just one example, gimli presumes for a second, like the whole fellowship, that frodo got injured by the cave troll in moria. but he’s actually just fine! because frodo just happens to be gimli’s dad’s boss’s situationship’s nephew, and therefore has the mithril shirt that gimli’s dad’s boss gave to his situationship right before gimli’s dad’s boss led the company to battle against, among others, legolas’s dad. legolas’s old situationship from like last year (60 years ago) was also there and chose, get this, gimli’s dad’s boss’s nephew over him. i love yall

#i know thorin isnt their boss but its silly to say it that way #makes me laugh #also #the legolas/tauriel and then kili/tauriel plot in the hobbit movies make me giggle #i waited 600 years dwarf did it in one week. I WAITED 600 YEARS DWARF DID IT IN ONE WEEK. #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #frodo baggins #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #gimli son of gloin #tolkien #bagginshield #<- HONESTLY WHY NOT #coveredinsunposting

[wingedthursday]

Once a year, Castiel gets Claire (and anyone who’s willing) to binge the Hobbit & the Lord of the Rings trilogies with him — all extended editions, of course. The couch is decked out with the softest pillows and all the sherpa blankets he can find. If anyone wants to join him under the blanket he crocheted, Castiel would test them with “speak friend, and enter.” All serious. Also, he ships Thorin and Bilbo.

#development / headcanon #cas internally: he gAVE HIM A MITHRIL SHIRT THATS PRACTICALLY A PROPOSAL #cas externally: nice

[mathelaw]

thinking of goldsick thorin, not wanting to part with a single coin, searching through the treasury for the best thing to gift bilbo. finding the mithril shirt (the most valuable item in the mountain if you don't count the arkenstone) and in the middle of his madness thinking "we're going to war tomorrow bilbo needs this"... INSANE

#levels of love never seen before #bilbo baggins #bagginshield #thorin oakenshield #thorin is such a tragic character #the next day he tries to off bilbo #imagine how he felt the moment his mind cleared

[avatarobi]

When Thorin gave Bilbo the Mithril chainmail shirt, he said it was made for an Elven prince.

The only Elven prince that was born in any of the 4 Elven realms since the founding of Erebor is Legolas.

Frodo is wearing Legolas's baby clothes in LOTR.

#lotr memes #LOTR #lord of the rings #tolkien #bilbo and frodo #frodo #lotr frodo #legolas #legolas lotr #jrr tolkien #j rr tolkien #lord of the rings trilogy #lotr fellowship #fellowship of the ring #lore #lotr trilogy