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#fucking dwarves

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“I’m so delighted you brought that up again, ‘cause it’s been about four seconds since I’ve heard you say something about Tolkien.” (x)

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I love it how when Snape draws out his wand there are audible gasps but when Mcgonagall draws her wand there people are screaming out of the way.

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The perfect pause.

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“My philosophy is if you worry, you suffer twice.”

— Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Dir. David Yates (via wnq-movies)

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“My make-up artist Georgia, she didn’t like me playing because of course, within 10 minutes, I’d be shvitzing like buggery. And it would be undoing all of her work and bits of prosthetic ears would be coming off because the sweat would be taking the glue off, et cetera. And I would… Like a schoolboy, look around and see if Georgia… Because I’m quite scared of Georgia. And I’d look around and just sort of see if the coast is clear, and I’d go and play.” - Martin Freeman

 Behind the scenes of The Hobbit spam (112/200) | (1-100)

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#friendship goals

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middle-earth families series (i’ll probably change this name later): baggins

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we are living proof of a world gone mad but this is all we have, we spin in cycles we drift in the dark, our world falling apart chance made us brothers, loyal to the last breath i take our legacy won’t be wasted on me

our legacy, while she sleeps

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I would take back my words and my deeds at the gate. You did what only a true friend would do.

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Lee receiving Thranduil’s sword for the first time might be one of the most precious things I’ve ever seen he’s so passionate 

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Elvish blades for rivnedell c: 

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I love and agree with your headcanon about Arwen in Gondor, though it makes me incredibly sad. To think how much she has given up for her love for Aragorn, in exchange for a life not nearly as happy as she'd imagined. Whenever I'm reading The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen and reach the end, I cry for Arwen - every single time. How Aragorn's death must have struck her! I don't think she'd fully comprehended the burden of mortality till then.

(2/3) I don’t think Arwen ever truly regretted her choice, if it were to happen once all over again she would’ve done the same, to be by Aragorn’s side till the end. But I believe, while Aragorn was dying and she could feel the shadow of death crawling toward her, she panicked and dreaded mortality; and just maybe, at the back of her mind for a second, she wished she had never given up mortality.

(3/3) After Aragorn’s death she was so utterly alone in this world, there was no one left in Middle-earth who could understand her, nothing left to connect her with her past as an elf. So she passed to Lothlorien, where she spent so much happy time with Aragorn back then. But the elves were no more, her family was no more, the golden leaves were no more. And she lived there alone, till she abode the doom. (I’m sorry this got so long but I just have so many feels for my Arwen *cries hysterically*)

I always believed in Aragorn’s final moments she thought at the words of her father. He truly warned her about the fate that expected her “But you my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt, as nightfall in winter that comes without a star” And she never could have imagined what he meant. She had seen mortality before, in the form of the men of the north. She thought she knew what she agreed upon, when she and Aragorn spoke their vows on Cerin Amroth. 

But for her love she endured far more than she could think it’s possible. She agreed not only to become mortal, but also to never seeing her mother and father and even her brothers (if they chose to remain elves) again. Of never going to Valinor. Of living the remnant of her life only among men, that feared, despised or rarely admired her. Of seeing elves only in Legolas’ colony in Ithilien or hobbits when she journeyed north. Of tiring political intrigue and alliances. Of a husband that seemed now more tired, dealing with the people of all Middle Earth, than his whole life as a ranger.

I’ve always wondered if she thought the years with Aragorn truly were worth giving up her immortality for.  

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“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.”

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (via a-pale-fire)

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from ‘the songs of the Hobbit’