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kindlythevoid · 7 months
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Friendly reminder that Merry knew about the Ring before Bilbo even left. Friendly reminder that all of Frodo’s hobbit friends were spying on him through Sam to make sure that he was alright and that he wasn’t going to leave without saying goodbye. Friendly reminder that Merry and Pippin knew about the Ring and its importance to the Enemy and still decided to go with Frodo. Friendly reminder that Frodo wasn’t going to ask them to leave the Shire. Friendly reminder that Fredegar Bolger was one of Frodo’s close friends and knew about the Ring as well, but stayed behind in order to keep Frodo’s disappearance a secret for as long as possible.
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mithrandirl · 2 months
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THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (ttt, rotk)
frodo + 🥺
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cattoonxd · 8 months
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"where shall i find rest?"
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shiveringsoldier · 10 months
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Earlier today I was thinking about the way that hobbits treat Frodo post-Quest.
The books say that few hobbits know or care to know about Frodo’s adventure, and that is heartbreaking by itself. He suffers all that torment and sacrifices everything out of love for his people, and they react with indifference. And it wouldn’t surprise me if some hobbits treated him with open disdain.
In the first chapter of LOTR, before Frodo himself enters the story, we see hobbits gossiping about Frodo and about his parents’ death. His parents died more than twenty years earlier, but the townsfolk can’t resist speculation that their deaths started with one parent pushing the other into the river. If they use such a tragic event as an opportunity to gossip and cast judgment, then they probably do the same with Frodo’s journey.
I can imagine hobbits staring pointedly at Frodo’s four-fingered hand, gossiping and making false assumptions about what misadventures he faced during his adventure, gossiping about his mysterious illnesses, maybe even whispering about him when he’s in sight and possibly within earshot.
Frodo wasn’t exactly a welcome member of hobbit society before the Quest, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if that gets worse when he comes back so visibly changed.
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finntheehumaneater · 3 months
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honestly, the duffer brothers have fucked up with a lot of things, but one of the big ones for me was them not letting Eddie say “i’m glad to be with you, Dustin Henderson. Here at the end of all things.” While Dustin was holding Eddie’s dying body in his arms.
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sunnibits · 1 year
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god. something about samfro is so…
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arabellachant · 2 years
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thinking about how merry and pippin will only ever remember frodo as someone they knew in their youth is so incredibly sad to me
i wonder if when they met up they talked about him, and as they got older those memories started to blur
i wonder if they still remembered his voice in the end, or how his face truly looked. i wonder how much of their friend they still had in their memories
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frodo-with-glasses · 1 year
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Hi, wanna cry?
From Return of the King, “Many Partings”:
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From Return of the King, “The Scouring of the Shire”:
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@novelmonger just pointed out something that I’d been thinking about: Both Frodo and Sam have these moments that they’re reunited with their elderly father figures, and both father figures are surprised to find that the returning adventurers had “lost” one of their belongings along the way. For Bilbo, it’s the Ring; for the Gaffer, it’s Sam’s “weskit”, his waistcoat.
And it just makes me think—I can’t put words to it exactly, but there’s some strange ache there, like an old wound that throbs under the domestic humor of these moments—something about young soldiers returning home, fundamentally different from what they were when they left, and their loved ones being surprised that they are no longer the same, that they lost something, lost a part of themselves…
As if they expected that their little boys could go on a journey like that and not come back changed.
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longclawshilt · 2 months
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Every now and then I remember how some people were trying to diminish Jon’s importance by going “oh he’s not Aragorn, he’s at best Frodo!!” which….one is just super false, Jon is an Aragorn analogue (learn how to deal with it). But also, in an attempt to disprove Jon’s importance they actually proved it. Because what you mean he’s “at best” Frodo? Y’all know Frodo is the main character, right? Not Aragorn. It’s Frodo.
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heathcliffgirl1847 · 1 year
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silly little frodo and pippin halloween costume doodle (from when they were younger obv)
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weezlbot · 2 years
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I love how, over the course of LOTR, Aragorn just amasses a little army of guys with daddy/mommy issues. 
You’ve got Frodo, an orphan. You’ve got Faramir, whose father tried to kill him, and Boromir, whose father thought he shat gold and put him on an impossible pedestal his whole life. Then there’s Eomer and Eowyn, who are also orphans and have the added strife of Theoden’s corruption and death. Legolas’s mother may or may not be dead, and his father has Problems in the movieverse, and even in the book-verse he’s going through a lot and may not have the time to give Legolas the attention he needs. Gimli, Merry and Pippin all have high-ranking influential fathers that they’re trying hard to succeed, and while that’s not as bad as dead dad or abusive dad or both, it still has to impact the psyche somehow. 
idk all these guys see Aragorn--strong, leaderly, wise Aragorn--and just go. please parent me
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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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hobbithabits · 8 months
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At the end of all days I am and will always be a bagginshield baddie, so I present you with this:
Bilbo, a few years past after the journey, before he’s taken in Frodo, lamenting everything that happened to him. He tries so hard to push away the thoughts that come up every night, but as always, he fails. But really, who is it hurting for him to sit at his own table and think about people he’ll never see again? Just him. There’s a part of him that’s almost glad people don’t come knocking as often as they used to, because anyone who saw him often enough would be able to tell he’s lost his appetite. His stomach aches from the emptiness, but the emptiness that spreads through his chest aches much more.
~“Our home”~
Did he even mean that to include Bilbo? Would Thorin have ever thought to include Bilbo in something like that? The fantastical version of the mountain king in his head assures him that it would never be home if Bilbo wasn’t there. Bilbo wonders if he would’ve stayed if Thorin had lived, but it’s more convincing himself that he had the option to leave at all if Thorin was there.
Every night at his kitchen table, Bilbo breaks apart into pieces again over an unfixable past. Every dream in the hours that follow glue the pieces back together enough to last another daytime on his own. He should stop the game and give up on it, and he knows that kind of dreaming would get him in plenty of trouble with the meddlesome wizard, but the bright sunny happiness he feels every morning when he wakes up to the thought of his love’s smiling face is something he can’t let go of.
It lasts for years this way until he welcomes darker hair and bluer eyes into his home, and suddenly he is in bed earlier and out of bed early enough to make breakfast for two. In the evening he’s settled into his armchair, sitting right across from someone who is new but so familiar. There are still the fantastical dreams at night, the ones that make it out that Frodo was his own son, raised with the help of a kind, gentle king from another land. He wakes up the morning after them and is okay that it’s not real. When he spins tales to Frodo and dear Samwise, he always ends up back in the world of a peaceful king with a son whose eyes shone like the brightest sapphires.
Thorin was not a legend to him as he was to the dwarves of Erebor. Thorin was a story, the same beautiful being told in as many ways as the mind could muster. His love lived on unnamed in hundreds of tales, leaving none but Bilbo to treasure the thought of his king.
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deer-with-a-stick · 7 months
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The more time I spend explaining Tolkien lore to my brother the more I realize that Tolkien was just batshit insane
#yes the world is flat and a globe at the same time#and yes if you go off the edge you fall into the void with Satan 1.0 (assuming the Straight Road doesn't just railroad you)#he calls Valinor “The place under some trees where everyone smokes weed” and honestly I wish they would do that instead#bilbo and frodo bring weed to valinor quick#i tried to explain the miriel-finwe situation and he's so confused#“so they died and they were all sad even though they didn't have to stay dead?? but she couldn't come back because he remarried??”#“but then he dies and says 'yo ill stay dead instead' and she's find now??”#does the big God just keep making elf and human souls or do they just. appear#i told him about Gil-Galad Son of Plothole#he is quickly realizing that yes#the valar are a bit incompetent#its fine#elrond's dad is a star his mom is a bird and his great great grandma is an angel#my sister gave up two seconds in despite sparking this by asking me about elf lore#apparently she actually just wants to know about legolas but not legolas' father because of the hobbit movies#let me rant about feanorian politics it'll be interesting i promise#shut up about your elf backflips you wanna hear about nirnaeth arnoediad and the kinslayings#tolkien#lotr#lord of the rings#silmarillion#the silm#is this a shitpost? idk#he's batshit insane but the world is great i love it#we still don't know where hobbits come from#they appeared one day#like potatoes#i had one tidbit of legolas lore and that was#the guy showed up several years late in a homemade boat with a dwarf#incomprehensible screaming
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kaereth · 2 years
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Got a kofi to draw some stuff for fun/something I wanted to draw and so here’s some Sam/Frodo :^) I’ve been re-listening to LotR as I work the last few weeks and it’s made me remember how much I adore these two.
First pic is a redraw of the scene where they fell asleep together just before being lead to Shelob, second is some dream world where they get to dance and Be Happy For Once.
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glitteringaglarond · 10 months
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And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
This is so peaceful and beautiful, but part of me has always been a little bit confused...
Who wrote this part of the Red Book? Who got Frodo's final perspective before leaving Middle Earth? Did Sam later consult with Aragorn and those who were left of the Wise and determine what Frodo's dream in the house of Bombadil was all about? And then combine it with some of Bilbo's translations to extrapolate what Frodo's final moments would have been?
Somebody explain
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