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junkfoodcinemas · 17 days

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson

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manichewitz · 1 year

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sam and frodo’s relationship is so crazy theyre like what if we had a homoerotic adventurer’s bond that was so strong it overcame the power of supreme evil, saving not just the world but one another, and the only reason we were able to survive the violence around us was through sheer love for each other, and although we’re not canonically lovers our relationship is so much more intimate and tender than acceptable norms for male/male relationships that we transcend easily definable labels and thus become queer irregardless of whether our attraction is platonic, romantic, or sexual…and we were both hobbits

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modernbaseball · 1 year

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Fighting off both the sickness and the fear, Frodo gripped Sam's hand.

Then as he stood, darkness about him and a blackness of despair and anger in his heart. it seemed to him that he saw a light: a light in his mind, almost unbearably bright at first, as a sun-ray to the eyes of one long hidden in a windowless pit. Then the light became colour: green, gold, silver, white.

#by FAR my favorite chapter in the two towers #well. maybe if i thought about it some more id change my mind but it feels like its my favorite #i ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. i liked making this piece it went thru a lot of changes and at times i was like omg this will be awesome #and now its like. well i wont be negative. now its finished so hooray #i fucking NEVER use color theres a folder of trial and error behind this one lol. lets say the hue changer helped me a lot here #ONE THING I DO STILL LIKE IS MY STING REDESIGN #sorry to be a hater but i dont love the movie sting i think it should be cuter. sorry.#ok ill stop. ill stop #lotr #lord of the rings #lord of the rings fanart #sam gamgee #frodo baggins #jellybeans #samfrodo #if youre on mobile zoom in to my sting handle. i think its pretty cool alright

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bioluminesced · 11 months

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ring bearers

#my art #lotr #lord of the rings #the two towers #samwise gamgee #sam gamgee #frodo baggins #frodo #ow. ouch. ow ow ow ow #Sound of my psychic damage at this scene. so evil but so good #i was mad at the tts movie bc it doesnt live up to the book but i really liked this moment #grappling with the rings corruption of frodo #and how can i forget ‘Don’t you know your Sam?’#leave it to me to get hyperfixated on the thing every gay person read at age 13

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crewmannumbersix · 2 years

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Steve, reading Lord of the Rings: Hey, Eds, the dwarf and the elf are in love, right?

Eddie, taking off his shirt: I've never been more attracted to you.

#steddie #incorrect steddie #incorrect stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #lord of the rings #gigolas #i just know deep in my bones that eddie would be the kind of gay to think everyone else is also gay #and he would be right #legolas and gimli are in love with each other #i picture steve reading the copy of the two towers that looks like a gay romance novel

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kindlythevoid · 8 months

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“Gimli was lifted up [onto the horse] behind his friend, and he clung to [Legolas], not much more at ease than Sam Gamgee in a boat.”

-The Two Towers pg. 35

Friendly reminder that the one time Gimli got onto a horse for the first time and hated it so much that he was compared to Sam in a boat, who had multiple paragraphs dedicated to how much he hated boats.

#yes this is supposed to be an actual friendly reminder #I love it when books have so many details #That they are able to refer to past things like an inside joke #also refer to my Queen Beruthiel idiom post #I freaking love this comparison tho it’s so funny #(>ヮ<)•#kiki re-re-re-reads the lord of the rings #just yelling into the void #the lord of the rings #the two towers #tolkien quotes #quotes #gimli #legolas #sam gamgee #arod #arod the horse

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reynardmuldrake · 2 months

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Anytime anyone used to say how the lord of the rings movies were too violent and battle-centric I always thought like yeah okay there are some pretty nasty parts for sure and I hadn’t read the books myself then so I couldn’t really argue but now that I’m actually reading the books I’m honestly surprised to see that a lot of the violence and horror that I had just assumed were added in to the movies for shock value and drama are things that are straight from the text. Like the Uruk hai head on a spike in two towers or the catapults shooting the men’s heads who had fallen at osgiliath over the walls of minas tirith…….that shit is fucked

#lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien #the two towers #return of the king #I don’t think the movies over emphasized the violence and war #things just take a different amount of time visually vs written #in the movies it’s not like they can spend the same amount of time focussing on like shrubs the way tolkien does in the books #and vice versa it takes more time to show a fight or battle than like ‘they fought long and hard’ yknow #different mediums #I’m even more impressed with the movies now that I’ve read the books #or I’m reading them anyway #I’m literally at the part with the catapulting of the heads in rotk right now

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fippydarkpaw · 5 months

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I just cannot engage with Lord of the Rings in typical fandom style. That is a religious text to me.

#Ive tried so many times and i just CANNOT #that is a testament of love and pain and sacrifice. the fragility and strength of the human spirit #gandalf has provided me with more comfort than the entire bible #fanfiction fanart shipping its all impossible. the only thing it leads me with is arguing with goons on reddit #lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #two towers #the return of the king #return of the king #tolkien #idk if anyone else has experienced this. is it because its already perfect in my eyes???#like do i not feel the need to engage with it on the same level because i dont need to imagine anything else???

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naldoreth · 3 months

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LOTR tag meme

LOTR themed tag game! Reblog with your own answers and tag three or more people you want to get to know better! I saw it in @legolas-fan-blog and had to do it C:

How old were you when you read/watched LOTR for the first time: 11 when I watched FOTR, 14 or so when I read the trilogy for the first time

Favourite LOTR character: Legolas <3

Books or movies: I love them both equally but the movies are my comfort piece

Favourite movie: The Two Towers

Which location in Middle Earth would you want to visit most: The Shire and Rohan!

Favourite scene: this is too hard! For FOTR, the Council of Elrond and Boromir's death, I'd say. For TTT, clearly Aragorn entering Helm's Deep like he owns it, or Legolas surfing down the stairs, or Aragorn tossing Gimli... And finally, in ROTK, I'm no man and You bow to no one.

Favourite quote: "Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer". (Also "PO-TA-TOES).

What Middle Earth race would you want to be: a hobbit. I'm already half hobbit as is.

Favourite LOTR ship if you have one: Legolas/OFC (my OFC, specifically). I'm also not aversed to Legolas/Gimli and I know for a fact that Frodo and Sam are an item (and Rosie knows it and she's ok with it). I also love Aegnor/Andreth (The Silm) and Galadriel/Halbrand (Rings of Power).

Tagging @lordbhreanna and anyone else that wants to do it! :D

#lord of the rings #lotr #legolas #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king #tolkien #all things tolkien #meme #legolas greenleaf

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invisiblewashboard · 4 months

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Small Child’s Thoughts on “The King of the Golden Hall” Part 1

I am not sure about the horse guys not sleeping. Maybe Gandalf doesn’t sleep because he died and then came back, but horses and normal people need to sleep.

Eyes in the grass? (The flowers, love.) That’s just plain silly. Flowers are not eyes. But flowers in the grass is much less off-comfortable than eyes in the grass.

I kind of like all those ing rhymes in that poem. But not enough to say that I liked the whole poem.

What is Wormtongue? (It’s someone’s name.) Well, that is unfortunate on many levels.

Legolas gave up his weapons too easily. I don’t think that was a very good plan at all. It is always good to keep your own weapons close because you just never know!

So, the same way I do not care about what the outside looks like, I don’t care about what the inside looks like either.

Wow, that is very rude. I think you should not tell someone you were glad that they died. Especially if they show up and they are not dead anymore.

#small child's thoughts #lord of the rings #lotr #the two towers #jrr tolkien #tolkien #read aloud #first read through #he says off-comfortable instead of uncomfortable #no I do not know why he does this #it’s not a consistent thing #it’s a recent development #wormtongue is an unfortunate name

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topnotchquark · 9 months

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There has been talk that Daniel left Renault to go to McLaren because of internal politics and a messy management dynamic in the team but no. The real reason Daniel left was because he understood that a driver-team principal dynamic filled to the brim with salacious, beautiful nosed, sad honey-amber eyed, olive skinned, authentic Mediterranean sexual tension that he shared with Cyril would simply have broken the space time continuum. Him sticking around with Cyril who obviously deeply loved him would have been too much. Which is why he had to uproot himself and sign up to be in that shitbox papaya with that ugly fraud Mak Frown. Daniel did that so the scales of the universe don't tip due to all that collective beauty being in one place.

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arc-en-disco · 8 months

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#realising watching LotR is spending at least two glorious hours staring into Elijah Wood's teary transparently blue eyes #as the weight of the world is beaten into him with every step he takes #beautiful addict #the prettiness of being consumed #we think we know what it means being a ring-bearer but we do not. know. a single. thing.#Frodo Baggins #hero of the Shire the songs we sing in your honour are countless!!!#The Two Towers #the Lord of the Rings #SOMEBODY MAKE ME A GIFSET OF THIS SCENE #Nazgûl #Osgiliath

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manichewitz · 6 months

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this comment was on a video of sean astin saying that he loved that people wrote gay fanfiction about sam and frodo and thinks they should’ve kissed

#people will come up with any reason for two men to do gay things without it being gay #let the men be gay #please #samfro #sam/frodo #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #lotr #sean astin #elijah wood #the hobbit #lotr movies #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king #.txt #alex talks

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is-that-sand-in-my-waffles · 5 months

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The first several chapters of The Two Towers are a truly unparalleled reading experience. Boromir's funeral. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli running for three days straight. Tolkien going off about the eldritch nature of ancient forests. Merry and Pippin Whump Adventure Extraordinaire. Stupendous, Outstanding, 10/10.

#lotr #lord of the rings #the two towers #9 year old me was reading this and going INSANE #Baby Me reading about Merry and Pippin undergoing several days of physical and mental trauma: I am so normal about this.#This isn't going to shape my future fic preferences in any way shape or form #If Tolkien was going to do two things it's invent languages and have exactly the right attitude about trees #Everything about Fangorn makes me Feral #The Two Towers was my favorite of the three btw

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torchwood-99 · 2 days

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Ok, been sitting on this for a while, been trying to talk myself out of it, but here goes.

The book doesn't sell me on the love Theoden had for Eowyn.

I tried to read it and find something in his actions towards her that tell me he has proper regard, proper respect for her, that gives any weight or meaning to his love for her, but I can't find anything. He dismisses her before the entire court, doesn't consider her an heir or a proper part of his house, and has to have her virtues called out to him by other people, when she has been serving him for years.

Return Of The King sees him spout platitudes and declare her "dearer than daughter", but none of this is backed up by his general actions to her.

He loves Eowyn, fine. But he doesn't love her the way he loves Eomer, or probably loved Theodred. He doesn't love her as a fully realised being. Nor as someone to take pride in and carry on his legacy. He loves her a crutch, a tool, and something between pet and person.

He has affection for Eowyn, but his love feels more like a trivial thing, than something with any real worth or regard to it.

#Lotr #Lord of the Rings #Eowyn #Theoden #I don't think this is Tolkien's intent #I think I'm meant to believe that Theoden was awesome to Eowyn and did love her more than a daughter #but Tolkien never gave me a reason to believe that #can someone find me a moment in the books where Theoden's love for Eowyn feels like something substantial #where he loves her for who she is and not for the services she has provided #where he shows any respect for her capabilities and pride in her person #and not just going along with it when other people point them out to him #I love them in the films and I want to believe in their love so much #but Theoden's love for Eowyn in the books just feels perfunctory and leaves me feeling empty #I don't think this is how their relationship is meant to make me feel #Eowyn put her life on hold and endured hell for Theoden's sake #and we never even get an implication he regretted what she endured for his sake #we never see a hint of Theoden regretting how he snubbed her before the court #almost every scene between the two of them in Two Towers lacks warmth or regard between them #the minute Theoden's recovered he sends Eowyn away as though she's not longer of use to him #he forgets her bloody existence before everyone in the hall #he has her wait on him while Eomer Aragorn Gimli and Legolas all get to sit with him #and in turn all Eowyn can do is look at him with cool pity #and at their parting she focusses more on Aragorn than Theoden #she clearly isn't feeling the love right now and why should she?#it makes Theoden calling her daughter and showing her some morsels of affection in Return of the King feel empty #like now yeah he can be bothered to acknowledge Eowyn a bit now that it suits him #but when other stuff is going on she falls to the back of his mind #there's enough unseen moments or gaps where perhaps if Tolkien had written them I might have believed in Theoden's love for Eowyn #such as their parting before Pelennor which was described as “painful”#but that pain could have meant a variety of things

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solarprominence · 2 years

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ok my brain has been mulling this over for YEARS but i'll never write it simply because i don't think i'm the right person to, since it's deeply racially charged, but you know how greek plays have been translated by white cishet male scholars for years, and now we're getting versions of greek plays that are totally different and shown in a new light by diverse modern scholars? and you know how the lord of the rings is diegetically written by this translator by the name of tolkien who translated it from its original westron?

well i've been thinking a lot about the orcs. they've been written as a clear-cut, morally evil race with all sorts of negative value statements put on them and lots of subtle (or not subtle) racist features. what if another author besides the diegetic tolkien, some modern elvish scholar, translated the story, or added notes from their own historical studies on orcs, and found that the translator was deeply biased against orcs, and in fact even says many things that aren't true about them as a race? they're implied to be naturally violent, ugly, destructive, unhygienic, non-empathetic, and have no apparent appreciation for art, music, or craft of any kind. but this conflicts with the archaeological research that's been finding artifacts from orcish homesteads across the anduin, in the brown lands and mordor; beautifully crafted pottery and weaving, and well-tended farms, artful weaponry, excellent construction work with its own type of architecture (an incredible find when they had been assumed to be an entirely nomadic people up until then), evidence of schooling, and altogether much evidence of rich culture and strong community bonds. with all of this, how could anyone assume the orcs were evil? they were people. and eventually, they were soldiers, commanded in a war they had no choice but to fight. and the studies of the cultural impact of saruman's reign, and the introduction of the uruk-hai, have been practically nonexistent, which this middle earth scholar finds tragic. imagine having an entire city's worth of new adults spawn practically overnight. how were they fed? clothed? taught? how did they learn language so quickly? and, for the (still significant) few that survived the war, how/where were they housed? how were they treated by the rest of orcish society? they had been taught to be soldiers and knew nothing else— how did they learn a new way of existing?

i want a new translation of lord of the rings, where the "historical inaccuracies" in the portrayal of the orcs that led to cultural misjudgements of them are brought to light. where tolkien is shown to be an incredibly biased narrator. but it's not really my story to tell. someone please write this

#it started out as an angry rant abt how racist the books are in general #and then turned into 'what if he was an unreliable narrator. abt this race he made up'#i get that there are higher messages about elves being a symbol of the good ol days pre world war and whatnot #and he had to contrast them with bad guys they didnt have to feel bad abt killing #but uhhh too bad u should always feel bad abt killing lol #things i had to google to write this:#the word diegetic #what language was lotr supposed to be translated from #what was that mud race called again #what was the river that seemed to separate the good guys and the bad guys (actually i checked my copy of the two towers for that)#im sure i got other shit wrong too no worries lol #pls dont read any of this in bad faith #lotr #tolkien #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #tw racism #this isnt even touching on the issues with the word 'race' to refer to fantasy creatures #or on the actual '''''evil''''' human race that was in the books that was based on middle eastern stereotypes

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