#Flow Rings

[epiclad]

"Godrick the Golden. Miquella and Malenia. General Radahn. Praetor Rykard. Lunar Princess Ranni.

Willful traitors all."

[shorelinnes]

bbmas - hyunjin

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

Boy, Tolkien really knew how to write water metaphors to capture large movements of people. The Dike at Helm's Deep is boiling with swarming companies of orcs who advance like the tide, flowing forward, being pushed back, and flowing forward again to reach a higher point each time. The riders of Rohan pour slowly but surely onto the Pelennor Fields like rising waters from a breached dam. The leading edge of Éomer's charging cavalry line roars like a breaker foaming toward the shore. It’s all so great.

Not for nothing, but this is another place where PJ really captured something of Tolkien's words in his films through just the visual imagery. There is absolutely something distinctively liquid about the way that Éomer, Gandalf and crew pour over that ridge line and down into Helm’s Deep in Two Towers, and you can totally see the wave-like nature of the cavalry charge outside Minas Tirith later on. It's easy to directly replicate words like dialogue and basic physical characteristics and plot points in an adaptation, but to evoke the same metaphors and capture the implied imagery as well? That's next level.

[the-lonelybarricade]

It's the way his expression shifts at the end after he studies her face 😩

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think the thing i'm most disappointed about with riordanverse fandom now versus like 2014 is not only has the fandom not gotten any less racist or queerphobic or ableist (in fact in some regards its gotten worse!) but now it's just boring too. like there's no fandom infrastructure anymore - the community these days is almost entirely source material-driven - and you deviate from canon even slightly people get weird about it. whatever happened to the post-HoO fanon boom. the fandom needs to get weirder again. and self-sufficient. and less offensive.

[sainz100]

📸 by Martin Trenkler

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Etna's Blowing Rings

Mount Etna has long been known for its smoke rings, but thanks to the opening of a new vent on the volcano's southeast crater, it's now making more rings than ever. Etna's smoke rings are, more precisely, vortex rings -- produced in the same way dolphins, swimmers, and whales make vortex rings: a sudden push of air through a roughly circular opening. (Video and image credit: The Straits Times; via Colossal) Read the full article

[serailovesbagelsetc]

anyway i want this gif seared on the inside of my brain and also under my eyelids so it's the first and last thing i see when i sleep and wake up and also when i think, which is not a lot of time but nonetheless

[dia-oro]

Hylia, when I catch you hylia when I catch you! Pay me therapy session for this man!. Hylia! Hyyyyylia-

[gauntletgirlie]

Channeling my inner Galadriel at the absolute state of the world right now.

[leek-e]

Some crayon drawings of Jess and Zach :))

While I was drawing, the tiniest spider in the world attached a web to my glasses and when I picked it off it jumped onto my paper. It was running around too fast to get a good picture but it's important to know that these drawings were blessed by an incy wincy spider.

[tathrin]

The Extremely Serious and Scientific Legolas Fandom Hair Colour Poll:

What colour hair do you picture in your head for your personal mental image of Legolas of the Woodland Realm? (Not necessarily which one you think is more or less "canonical"; rather just what you see in your head when you're reading something.)

Ideally, you can also share when and how you were first exposed to Lord of the Rings in the tags or reblogs, and what you think most influenced your mental image.

No I'm not procrastinating from writing stuff, go away.

[olessan]

[twl-83]

Friendly ROP PSA

To help everyone who is tempted to resurrect unecessary anti-haladriel shipping arguments based on anything that does or does not happen in Season 2.

Please understand...

[likesdoodling]

Been doing some sketching lately~ I have the Silmarillion on the brain~

This last one is evidence of the sad fact of smudging that occurs with soft lead in a well travelled sketchbook~

(which I could fix by removing the page or applying setting spray, but I haven't bothered 😅)

Also-

That one with Maedhros standing next to a young lady with hobbit on her other side- is from when I was reading through What the hell is happening? By Leader_in_red? And I was thinking 'what would the height difference actually be? If Maedhros is 7 ft tall, Hazel is normal human height, and then we have hobbits in the mix-

Anyway,

I don't think I got the heights quite right, but it was fun trying to imagine just how insanely tall Maedhros actually is. (he's not weirdly tall by elf standards if you look at the elf average height which is around six feet, but still. I like height differences. It's just so fun to draw :)

I think 'Leader in red' was the username. If it isn't I'll just edit this later :)

[fuskida]

Lily Gatins models jewellery by Raw Flow photo Sanfrancesco