#secondly movie aragorn is canonically scripturally biblically a textbook horse girl. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT

[philtstone]

I don't know much about LOTR but I know Aragorn's weird. He's a weirdo. He doesn't fit in. Have you ever seen him without that stupid helmet? Wait no don't kick that

lmfaoooo

my great hope is that everyone who has not yet watched lotr now observing my unhinged posts will be compelled to watch lotr. i feel this way not only because i think its a beautiful story but also and more pragmatically because i genuinely think that for whatever flaws it may have its a very special phenomenon in filmmaking history.

(i would never presume to insist anyone has to read the books. theyre bangers though)

that said if you, gentle reader, never do watch lotr. and ur seeing my crazy posts. yes. the biggest takeaway from all of this is indeed that aragorn, prophesied king of the realm and the best dude you will ever meet, is a weirdo

many tolkien characters are weirdos in out-of-story-context. and then several tolkien characters are weirdos in in-story-context, too, which makes them great fun. in fact, it could be argued that there's so much cross-cultural race and power-level mixing in the proverbial dnd party (and all subsequent side quests), that every single character is at one point perceived as a massive weirdo by any other given character in the story.

and theyre all the good guys <3

#except gollum hes a weirdo and also a mongrel creature. but still deserving of great compassion <3 #dont quote me on this & please remember im always a little unserious #theres some commentary to be made here on neurodivergence of the author & corresponding character traits but i have complex thoughts on #philology of such lables and philosophical quibbles with the concept itself despite its practical modern uses. SO. i wont go there #point stands tho ..... #phil reads lotr #and for those jumping to say movie aragorn is too cool or whatever first of all book aragorn is also very cool. #secondly movie aragorn is canonically scripturally biblically a textbook horse girl. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT