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#silmarillion #lotr canon #lotr drafts #this was fascinating op thank you! #i didn't come across this until after it was over but i'm not sure what (if anything) i would have guessed #but getting all the info like this afterwards was still a lot of fun! #celebrimbor #sons of feanor #nerdanel #amrod #amras #idril #elenwe #maedhros #maglor #fingon #fingolfin #finwe #finarfin #aegnor #miriel

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17, Legolas

17: What’s a book, movie, or show you think [character] would like?

Hmm, you know, this is not one I've spent a lot of time thinking about! When I cast my mind back over the books I've ever read (which I pretty much immediately forget everything about as soon as asked to recommend something), I found myself landing on the Monk & Robot books by Becky Chambers. I think he would be delighted by them, and I think he would also find a lot of beauty in different kinds of beings finding friendship across distance and gaps in understanding. They might be a sea-longing episode comfort read for him.

I'm trying to think of a good movie for him and I feel like I haven't seen enough Studio Ghibli, but from what I know about them, I think there's at least something there that he would love! Something with colorful animation and a lot of earnestness and heart.

Thank you for the question! Anyone, feel free to ask more from this list!

#oh this feels SO RIGHT? #wow yeah perfect choices imo #legolas #lotr headcanons #ask meme #lotr

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Sometimes I just stop and remember that Rex underwent brain surgery performed by astromech droids.

#to be fair astromech droids are the most competent things in star wars #he's probably better off than anyone else who had such a procedure in that galaxy #rex #clone wars #tcw #star wars #astromechs #droids

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The Beast that Bothers

#omg yes okay sound on #cats #animation #cartoons #funny stuff

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#OH NO #i'm not crying you're crying (i'm lying we're both crying) #grandmothers #grandparents #death #d&D #dungeons and dragons #stories #the ones that really matter #gnomes #games #love #family

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The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Favourite relationships – 3/10: Aragorn & Éomer

#aragorn #eomer #just a couple of sword bros being bros #kings being kings #lotr canon #lotr

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Knowledge is empowering

#gender #funny stuff #queerness #gotta love homophobes being SO fucking dumb that even when they try to pull dumb shit it backfires entirely #homophobia #electricity #plugs

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Fandom Problem #4809:

When someone who hates a genre is hired to write for a franchise in that genre. Congrats! You're so busy deconstructing tropes you don't like that you've destroyed everything the fans liked!

#rian johnson #the last jedi #sw tlj #writing #doing it wrong #genre #tropes #bad writers

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Thranduil isn't unkind, he's just unfriendly. 

Unfortunately for him, a lot of people seem to view the words to mean nearly the same thing. 

An unkind person would not have saved the dwarves when they trespassed in his forest and kept them well fed (even by dwarven standards) regardless how unhelpful and rude they had been to him and his people. An unkind person would not have rushed to the aid of a human village, an unkind person would not have taken Gollum from Aragorn and treat him with pity. An unkind person would not have been chosen to be King of a good and kindly people. An unkind person could not have withstood the darkness in Dol Guldur as long as he did. An unkind person would not have raised a son like Legolas.

An unkind person usually goes out of their way to be unkind, Thranduil has many opportunities to do so. And never really does. 

That doesn't mean however, that he's friendly. He won't sugar coat anything no matter who he's talking to, according to some he's blunt and direct to a fault. Like a bolt of lightening. 

He isnt here to make friends, he has enough friends.

He sees no reason for pleasantry chit-chat with people he doesn't know or barely tolerates in the name of being 'Polite.' If he doesn't care about something, you will know very quickly. He isn't here 'to be the bigger person,' there's no time for that. He's here to get shit done, and get it done quickly and accurately. Because there's always at least seven other things wanting his attention. 

And if he hurts your feelings, or ignores all the expected pleasantries and you find it offensive. Well, that sounds like a 'you' problem, doesn't it? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

#thranduil #lmao #lotr meta #the hobbit #lotr

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The idea and scenario of this comic belong to THESPARCLETHATISBLUE, I was merely an artist on this one. I cannot find their blogpage, but if someone knows, I will happily tag them here.

#the CAT flmao #and sauron looking SO FUCKING PROUD OF HIMSELF ahahaha #sauron #morgoth #comics

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#fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck #okay MOM #but i'm putting this back in the queue to curse us all again later so i hope you're happy!

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welcome to Valinorland where no one dies except for that one time with the trees but we don’t talk about that

#fantastic #utter perfection #impeccable expressions too #gimleaf #this ship sails itself all the way to valinor #and then if necessary chews it way through the gate #legolas #gimli #celebrimbor x narvi #aman #comics #lotr #gimleaf art

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over and over and over and over and over and over

joe & nicky

print available here

#oh this is stunning #old guard #fanart

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

#enshittification #clothing #fashion #truth

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Man, I thought you all would be mad at me for dark!Boromir but I forgot you're a bunch of sadists

#boromir #ooooooooh #terrible i love it #the one ring #lotr au #boromir lives #lotr

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I think there's no better fandom to be a nerd in than the Tolkien fandom. Mostly thanks to the professor himself. People I know be like "You're learning a language just because of a book?! Girl, you're so obsessed!"

Well, at least I'm just learning a language, not inventing one! And at least it's just one language, not ten! You think my hour long rants are annoying? You can be glad my current obsession-level is maybe 5% of Tolkien's, or we'd be having an entirely different conversation right now.

Really, Tolkien was the worst of all of us, and no one can tell me otherwise. You can also see in the way he wrote his characters that he was just fangirling the entire time. I literally see him waking his wife in the middle of the night, like "I can't sleep, I just keep thinking about Fingon, he's so cool and epic and tragic and aahhhhhh!". I also think nothing makes a better story than the author being just as much in love with the characters as the fans are.

#lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #favorite authors #lotr #writing #fandom

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#rain #water #nature #inspiration