#tooks

[skullduggerousshenanigans]

Let's talk about Boromir

He was deeply human. Not immortal like Legolas. Not immune to the allure of the ring like Gimli. He doesn't possess Gandalf's wisdom or the innocence of Merry and Pippin. He had a Sam-like loyalty in him, but he didn't grow up with a Frodo to be loyal to in his formative years, and so he learned to be loyal to himself. Nobody handed him a quest, a divine task to fulfill like Frodo. He didn't know the love of a good dad. His honor was never hailed like Aragorn's. If he displayed goodness and kindness in his childhood, it was never praised, only disparaged as a weakness. His father valued him, yes, but never as a person or a son, only as a trophy, a marker of success. He made real mistakes, succumbed to the draw of the ring.

Even so, he came to love and care for the hobbits with the kind of love he needed so deeply and never got from Denethor. He came to love Aragorn as a brother even though he would never be as widely beloved and his heroism never as widely known. He recognized his mistake, and he lamented it. And when the moment came at which it most counted, he sacrificed all of himself to protect the hobbits, to fulfill his duty and right his mistake, but most of all because he loved them. And they loved him too, enough to hurl themselves at the orcs even though they were hobbits of The Shire.

Boromir was defined not by his swipe for the ring's power, but by this love and heroism. And in his dying moments, Aragorn made sure that Boromir knew that his honor was as true as that of Aragorn himself.

#boromir #lotr #lord of the rings #fellowship of the ring #aragorn #aragorn son of arathorn #legolas #legolas greenleaf #frodo baggins #sam #samwise #samwise gamgee #merry and pippin #gandalf #gandalf the grey #baggins #tooks #jrr tolkien #middle earth #gimli #gimli son of gloin #boromir of gondor #boromir son of denethor #gondor #lotr fandom #denethor

[deadthingposting]

Me writing a reverse thilbo fanfic looking through the hobbit family trees to find names for the company of Bilbo Baggins: I will not think too much about how many cousins of one family married cousins of another family making their family tree slightly shaped like a fucking circle, let's focus on why almost every guy here has a name that sound like a slang for dick

#thilbo #bagginshield #Baggins #tooks #brandybuck #gamgee #seriously #Tolkien #lotr #the hobbit #most girls have the name of flowers

[arofili]

lord of the rings ladies week day one | hobbits + fairy tales | mrs. took and her fairy wife | @lotrladiessource

It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife.

—The Hobbit, “An Unexpected Journey”

#lotrladiesweek #lotrladiessource #took fairy wife #tooks #took family #lotredit #tolkienedit #oneringnet #lord of the rings #lotr #the lady with the spear is adventurous mrs took; the lady in the flower crown is the fairy wife she met on her adventures :) #shoutout to that one trsb art with femslash took/fairy wife...you are galaxy brain and so inspirational #my edit #my moodboards #tefain nin

[adtothebone]

This tool showed up at Bismarck Antique Mall back in November. Can you guess what it was for?

#vintage #antique #tool #tooks #north dakota

[bumblingbriars]

Ik this means with a bow and arrow but it’s so much funnier thinking about the Tooks with old timey shotguns. Like we did not invite you here BANG

#lotr #lord of the rings #the tooks #tooks #to give or not to give pippin gun privileges #I think out of the 4 it should be Sam with the gun #only because of how hilarious it’d be #he is also the closest to a hick out of them as well #a hick in a row of close to nobles in hobbit terms

[yo-hannia]

Happy Valentine to those who celebrate. Those who don't celebrate, with happy Marguerite (just kidding)

On the occasion of the holiday, I think a picture with a story can be posted.

Reading through the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, one discovers many amusing and interesting stories that hadn't been noticed before. One such story focuses on a local, Shire's, explanation of what's wrong with the Took family, why they're so fidgety and generally adventurous. Turns out it's about (as you might expect) bad blood! Although.... depends on the point of view.

There is an old anecdote in the old country of Tookland and Tuckborough, and in old family books, that before the hobbits lived in the Shire, when they were divided into three peoples, one of the Fallowhides (who lived near Mirkwood) got a 'faerie' wife (as the hobbits called the elves before). As with much of this legend, it's not clear if it was his own wish or if the faerie kidnapped him and bewitched him, but either way, the legend exists. From this marriage came the hobbits, who later became the familiar Shire Tooks.

#art #fanart #digital art #procreate #jrr tolkien #jrrt #tolkien #lotrart #lotr fanart #hobbits #elves #tooks #lotr appendix #the lord of the rings #artist on tumblr

[zmpl]

If you don’t know your score, take the test here

#i took the RAADS during my autism assessment and got 149🥳

[anyroads]

Something so profoundly fucked up between the inverse ratio of shrinking middle class and ever increasing aggression of advertisement

#please stop no one has money #you already took it all #who are you advertising to this intensely

[the-punforgiven]

Show up at work like hi boss sorry I'm late my I was helping my mother track down one specific 90s dungeon crawler for the purposes of obtaining a muffin recipe the developer hid in the files

#shoutout to Stonekeep (1995) #took us just under half an hour to figure it out #pun's text posts

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath. #not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first. #I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*. #Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about. #I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/ #Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight - #The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room! #Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...

[icaruspendragon]

babygirl i sit hunched in ways you’d never fuckin believe

#my husband took a photo of me googling definitions sitting in the corner like a rat #and i look like an honest to god shrimp #shrimp posture #how humbling

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

#my path of self improvement has been less self righteous and personally gainful #and more just. a lot of embarrassment and pain #like i wouldnt change the path i took to get where i am now but i wouldve chosen to travel that path sooner because omg #nothing hits me like the fear that future me will feel the same way about right now me that right now me feels about past tense me

[moregraceful]

Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

#i simply. do not wish to see ads #anyway that took me and beryl 2 hours to set up DO NOT ask me anything #i was definitely better at linux systems when i was in high school lol #fresno oilers.txt

[cyanbeetle]

Punks

#I’m begging you to zoom in on this one it’s gonna get crunched #my art #this one took forever… if you catch all the band references you get a cookie

[powdermelonkeg]

If you fall for a social media prank, do you reblog/pass it on to your followers?

#took mortalityplays' poll and made it transparent #now all you dark mode users have to suffer it too

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

#i think its cute #they took the mars rover approach #humanizing the space craft making it cute making us (me) project emotions onto it #the soviets also used imagery of laika in propaganda a lot #which is pretty fucked up imo #but if i grew up in the soviet union that shit wouldve definetly worked on me lmao #the narrative of a heroic little dog going to space and being honored by the whole country #as cruely wrong as it is its very appealing #the soviets knew what they were doing man they didnt reveal how laika really died until like. the 2000s #bc they knew people really cared about that dog #they liked the narrative around her