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Can you tell me why Frodo is so important in lotr? Why can't someone else, anyone else, carry the ring to mordor?

but someone else could.

that’s the whole point of frodo—there is nothing special about him, he’s a hobbit, he’s short and likes stories, smokes pipeweed and makes mischief, he’s a young man like other young men, except for the singularly important fact that he is the one who volunteers. there is this terrible thing that must be done, the magnitude of which no one fully understands and can never understand before it is done, but frodo says me and frodo says I will.

(when boromir is thinking of how he can use the ring to defend gondor, when aragorn is thinking of how it brought down proud isildur, when elrond is holding council and gandalf is thinking of how twisted he would become, if he ever dared—)

but then there’s frodo, who desires nothing except what he has already left behind him, and says, I will take the Ring.

it is an offer made out of absolute innocence, utter sincerity. It is made without knowing what it will make of him—and frodo loses everything to the ring, he loses peace and himself and the shire, he loses the ability to be in the world. It’s cruel, the ring is cruel, it searches out every weakness you have and feeds on it, drinks you dry and fills you with its poison instead, the ring is so cruel.

and frodo picks it up willingly. for no other reason except that it has to be done.

(the ring warps boromir into a hopeless grasping dead thing, the power of the palantir turns denethor into an old man, jealous and suspicious, it bends even saruman, once the proudest of the istari, into a mechanised warlord, sitting in his fortress and bent over his perverse creations—all the best of intentions, laid waste)

but there’s a reason gollum exists in the narrative, which is to show—well, to show what frodo might have been. because even as frodo grows mistrustful and wearied, as the burden of this ring grows heavier and heavier, he is never gollum. he is gentle to gollum. he is afraid—god frodo is so afraid for 2/3 of these books he is so tired and afraid, but he keeps moving, he walks though it would pull him into the ground, because he asked for this, he said he would.

someone else could have carried the ring to mordor, I suppose. the idea of a martyr is not dependent on the particular flesh and blood person dying for some greater purpose. but such a thing has to be chosen, lifted onto your shoulders for the right reason, the truest reasons, and followed into the dark, though it would see you burnt through and bled out.

I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.

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“My interest in acting came from reading books, and my most satisfying parts have always been those that have come from novels. … Some people like working from a completely blank page so they can create something. That’s exciting as well but I’m less confident with that than if I’m given a really good starting point. I love working on a character who comes from a novel because not only have you got what’s in that text to work with but you can also look into the writer, and the more you find about that author the more you understand what it is you’re working on.”

Richard Armitage

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Fanon: Steve is a goody two shoes, Bucky is a bad boy

Reality:

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Bucky when Sam stops wearing the suit he designed and begged the Wakandans to make:

Yes I spent 45mins on a meme just to make a shitpost tyvm

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someone: hey how are y–

me: I can’t believe the Winter Soldier shot Nick Fury through the wall in Steve Rogers’ apartment from the roof of a building opposite using only the line of sight Steve’s point of view gave him through the kitchen window. Do you know the kind of skill and technical ability that takes? He didn’t even need to see his target to shoot him twice. He just had to see where Steve was looking and calculate the angle. Holy shit. Bucky Barnes is an incredible marksman and I don’t know if Hydra capitulated on that or if that was all just his own skill being put to assassin use but holy shit. Holy shit. I just. Holy shit

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Bucky Barnes + text post meme

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things I think about:

Chris Evans thinks Steve is a virgin, but Hayley Atwell is convinced Steve and Peggy consummated their relationship.

now, you might think a disagreement of such proportions would send fandom into a tailspin. whom do you believe? MUST WE PICK SIDES? IS THIS WHAT THE PLOT OF CIVIL WAR IS REALLY ABOUT?

luckily, the answer is simple

Steve and Peggy disagree on whether or not oral counts

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Charlie with a thick beard>>>>>

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很想念......16年的包真好看啊......SLCC也历历在目，怎么老的这么快啊......

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sebastian stan + long hair side profile

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He came out quite some time ago I think 🥺

Last time he mentioned he had a stable partner (and implies him coming out by saying ‘he’ and ‘they can’t have kids traditionally’) is pre-COVID if I remember it correctly

It just seems like not enough fans to care/realise…🥲

wait. richard armitage came out!?!?

i'm so happy for him!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Sebastian when he got the news he be working with Tom Holland again.

Sebastian: “Tom Holland? What do you mean Tom Holland!”

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Between the Arkenstone, the One Ring, and that cache of magic swords Bilbo uncovered during Thorin and company’s confrontation with the trolls that just happened to be the former property of the High King of the Noldor, Bilbo and Gandalf’s relationship is just a constant process of Bilbo showing up with some random artifact of world-changing significance and Gandalf sagely stroking his beard and making a pithy remark while internally screaming “WHERE DO YOU KEEP FINDING THESE THINGS”.

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What if Bucky hadn’t been captured?

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I’m still adamant about the fact that I’m absolutely not collecting copies of Les Miserables but sometimes you see an illustration and spend ~3 years looking for that edition at a price that won’t break the bank bc damn these Chiostri illustrations are So Much and exactly how I picture Enjolras (or Enyolras in Italian apparently) when I’m reading.

This is an illustrator who understood the intense sexiness of the Le Cabuc incident, who dedicated a full page glossy illustration to it, and would not apologize and I love that.