#the battle of helms deep

[crownofstardustandbone]

“Now for wrath, now for ruin, now for a red dawn!”

#the battle of helms deep #lotr rewatch #I SOB 😭😭😭😭 #lotr

[e-liza-bug]

when i was a little kid and my dad showed me the lotr movies for the first time i was absolutely entranced by theoden’s monologue before he rode out in the battle of helms deep. like i was reciting that shit from memory. rlly had me at age 8 out in public like “the horn of helm hammerhand shall sound in the deep ONE LAST TIME…. let this be the hour when we draw swords together.. fell deeds awake… now for wrath… now for ruin… AND THE RED DAWN” so fucking hype

#lord of the rings #lotr #the two towers #theoden #rohan #the battle of helms deep

[nibeul]

the prince and the king

[id in alt] | inspiration for Aragorn's design comes from @/tzitzki

#it's setting in y'all #I have a wip of legolas n gimli too that I'm gonna try n do tomorrow.. cuz atm im tired #might look for some helm's deep stuff to redraw too since I love that battle n the ambience wld be good practice #lotr #lord of the rings #legolas #aragorn #nibeul art

[elladanns]

I'll never forget what we lost 😞

Helms Deep Arwen forever in our hearts ❤️🥲

#lord of the rings #arwen evenstar #arwen #arwen undomiel #helms deep #battle of helms deep #rohan #the lord of the rings #lotr #the two towers #lord of the rings the two towers #aragorn #elrond #the silm fandom #liv tyler #viggo mortensen

[skyerana]

Funny anxiety dream last night...

So I'm at the Battle of Helm's Deep but for whatever reason I was tasked with making a chocolate raspberry cheesecake.

The catch? It had to be vegan.

Why? They wanted to launch it into the Uruk-hai army.

They figured Uruk-hai love chocolate raspberry cheesecake so they'd start eating it, but then get really really depressed that it was vegan, so they'd just turn around and leave.

Do you know how hard it is to make cheesecake in Middle Earth? Especially during a battle when they don't really have supplies? And then they hit you with vegan??

Like, they've breached the walls and I'm trying to figure out what to do and things are dire. And I'm looking at Theoden and Aragorn as they're explaining this vegan cheesecake plan and going "you're shitting me" and Aragorn very seriously responds "we shit you not".

The thing is? It worked. How did they know Uruk-hai love chocolate raspberry cheesecake?

Also I'm pretty sure I made the crust out of lembas.

#Lord of the rings #two towers #lotr #the two towers #vegan chocolate raspberry cheesecake #cheesecake #chocolate raspberry cheesecake #anxiety dreams #anxiety dreams are weird #battle of helms deep

[autistook]

March 3rd: The Battle of Helm's Deep begins

Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?

#lotr #on this day #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #aragorn #aragorn helms deep #helms deep #battle of hornburg #haldir #legolas #legolas lotr #lotr haldir #battle of helms deep #ttt #the two Towers #lotredit #lotr edit #tolkien #middle earth #tolkien edit #on this day in middle-earth #jrrt

[jaxi-the-dragonborn]

night scenes in lord of the rings I love you

#Thank you battle of helms deep for letting me see what’s happening #Lotr

[journen]

Lol blame @allthingskenobi for this idea - Obi-Wan entering some room like Aragorn does during that one scene in The Two Towers. HAHAHHAHAHAHAH once i heard this idea i had to draw it. It’s honestly a crossover I never knew I needed!

Now available as a print!

#ngl Obi Wan totally would dramatically open a set of doors like Aragorn does sooo i want to see this in the Kenobi series now 🤣 #or a friend said it looks line he’s crashign a wedding #crack fic incoming? #obi wan kenobi #art #star wars #obi wan kenobi art #obi wan kenobi fan art #star wars art #star wars fan art #sw obi wan kenobi #sw obi wan #obi wan #aragorn #lord of the rings #lotr #the two towers #lotr ttw #battle of helms deep #ewan mcgregor #kenobi series #tatooine #crossover #fan art #artwork #journen #my art #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art

[dancingbluelight]

source!!

#the lord of the rings #lotr humor #lord of the rings #uruk hai #lotr memes #memes #funny #helms deep #battle of helms deep #halloween #halloween candy

[tanadrin]

today was the whole-trilogy extended editions we-die-like-riders-of-rohan-in-a-26-degree-movie-theater marathon of lord of the rings, and i gotta say watching these movies two decades later,

they're still delightful

it's funny how they seem more and more an artifact of the period they were produced in (not in a bad way, mind)

it is annoying how little peter jackson trusts his audience. like. all major landmarks have to be within line of sight of each other. voice overs have to unambiguously lampshade every plot beat that was foreshadowed earlier in the movie. gandalf all but literally says at the end of the two towers "see you next time in... return of the king!" moments in the books that are already hella cinematic like the paths of the dead have to punched up just a little extra, like with an indiana jones skull slide. and it's just not necessary! trust your audience!

you can really tell what dialogue is from the books, and what dialogue is original attempts at tolkien pastiche, because even if you don't know the books encyclopedically, the walsh-boyens-jackson team is just. not at all up to doing the pastiche well. this isn't counting the lines that are absolutely cringe, like "let's hunt some orcs." or all of gimli's dialogue. god they do gimli so dirty turning a prince of the dwarves into the drunken comic relief.

when did we decide all dwarves were scottish, and they all used the same vaguely modernist angular architecture? i think it was before lord of the rings. was it in the 90s? the 80s?

was the Tomato Incident a spontaneous choice by john noble or a directorial decision? did they have to do multiple takes?

it's so fun watching these movies in theaters now because the bits that gets everyone to laugh or cheer are the ones that have seeped into pop culture in weird ways. "they're taking the hobbits to isengard," of course. "po-ta-toes." but also just aragorn kicking the helmet got a big giggle from the audience, because everyone was Thinking The Thing.

some extremely committed soul came in cosplay, with a thick elven-style cloak and everything, despite the fact it was unusually hot today and the Babylon's ac was not coping well. i don't know how they survived. i hope they survived?

#not even getting into the ways in which jackson's attempts to simplify the events around helm's deep #end up rendering the battle kinda incoherent #bc bret devereaux has already covered that ad nauseam

[marisatomay]

this literally looks like the kind of green screen work you see on high school morning announcements but without even the courtesy of being well lit i cannot do this anymore

#‘it’s at night of course it’s not bright!’ buddy i can see every INCH of the battle of helm’s deep in LOTR don’t play dumb with me

[kindlythevoid]

Incredible. I’m half-way through the Battle of Helm’s Deep (book) and of the three times Legolas has shown up, twice he has said that he needs to look for more arrows. The only time that he hasn’t said that was because he was using his knife. Incredible. What a legend, scouring for arrows in the middle of a siege.

#I love it when Tolkien is Realistic Battles #just yelling into the void #the lord of the rings #kiki re-re-re-reads the lord of the rings #legolas #The Battle of Helm’s Deep #the two towers

[middleearthmistress]

Legolas, after the battle at Helm’s Deep: If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that an elf's life is a precious commodity. Just because we have great hair and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a battle.

#incorrect lotr quotes #source: zoolander #two towers #battle of helm's deep #legolas

[nibeul]

legolas should've gotten injured during the battle of pelennor fields or the final battle of Mordor. I have a few reasons for this—none of which are for "angst potential" or whatever—but the main one is because this moron was given armor for helm's deep and then decided to completely ditch it right after

#the other more serious reason is because I think it would've added more to his character #just in terms of fighting style #to show that he's not really used to this open battle field sort of situation since he normally has the trees of Mirkwood to cover him #even on the hills when they're going to helm's deep or at helm's deep itself there's something that plays into what he should be used to #but the battles of Mordor and pelennor fields are both flat open fields #but also the armor thing is funnier to think about #lotr

[alphacrone]

it’s so wild being a kid and watching media where children have to wield swords or fight villains and you’re like. yeah obviously that makes sense. and then you see it again as an adult and are FUCKING HORRIFIED

#this isn’t even about children’s media #i’m rewatching the battle of helms deep and they’re showing the kids being fitted with swords and helmets #and it’s like JESUS CHRIST I UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION NOW

[tolkienillustrations]

Helm’s Deep by Jeremy Bennett

#LOTR #Tolkien #Helm's Deep #Battle of Helm's Deep #Jeremy Bennett