#Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

[wisteria53]

lovely banner-type drawing of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Finally finished the set! This took a crazy long time to complete, but I’m happy with the result

[idontknowhowtoplayguitar]

Lotr headcanon, having lots of patches on your clothes is fashionable in the Shire. The more patches, the cooler you are. Especially if it's a lot of different fabrics. It's common to trade patches with friends and family, and it's usually treated with high sentimental value. It's like carrying a piece of someone with you.

While the hobbits are on the quest, their clothes get holes and such. This leads Sam and Frodo to nab small things from the other members of the fellowship, like handkerchiefs or anything too worn for use, to use as patches. Merry and Pippin aren't so courteous, and cut pieces from the fellowship's clothes while they sleep.

Of course, the hobbits exchange patches amongst themselves while traveling, and they never go anywhere without a needle and some thread. Sam is the best at sewing. Pippin is not allowed around needles.

Boromir notices this, thinks it's adorable, and leaves things out purposely for the hobbits to use. Eventually, he asks about it, and they convince him to do the patches, too.

Aragorn also notices and thinks it's adorable, but doesn't bring it up to them. He's secretly flattered to find pieces of his rag on Frodo's pants. He asks Boromir about it instead.

Legolas doesn't notice. His clothes are elven-made, and the scissors refuse to cut it.

Gimli notices the random holes in his clothes, and the things going missing, but doesn't realize it's the hobbits. He brings it up to Legolas, who immediately convinces Gimli that he's crazy and it's all in his head.

Gandalf notices, obviously, and he doesn't mind until Pippin tries to cut his cloak while hes asleep. He proceeds to wake up and yell at him until dawn.

After Boromir dies, Aragorn takes his cloak, and sews pieces onto his clothes. These are the only patches he has.

Bilbo has a set of clothes with patches from the dwarves, from his own adventure. He told them about the tradition, and they all gave him pieces of fabric to use. He can still recount which patch belonged to who.

[rohirriiim]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001 | dir. Peter Jackson

[andiamjustsoul]

As someone raised thick in the fundie evangelical when the LOTR trilogy and the narnia films coming out and is now fully realized nonbinary genderfuckery autistic person but raised femme who’s main special interest is LOTR, both Tolkien and Lewis were very idiosyncratic, flawed creatives living through what was also a crazy time. These men were of their time, just like we are shaped by our unprecedented events. We all want to make them these creative gods or saints of either Christianity or academia but they were just human.

What I love about each of them and their works is trying to blend Christianity with mythology which is pagan, each with very different values and perspectives and that even furthers the nuance. Seeing the pagan roots along side very Christian window dressing is very funny to me (it really feels like to me he’s trying to validate Christianity similar to Milton’s Paradise Lost alas that’s a different post all together), but also very concurrent with our own real history. It doesn’t need to be perfect or solve anything because it’s a reflection of our art and history, and invites us to dream of a better world.

Tolkien would probably not be happy about ents and weed and socialism but I think would appreciate the fact that we all can agree that small acts of kindness keep the darkness at bay.

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

[st4rgayz1ng]

I can’t ever stop thinking about this passage and how Sam was fully expecting it to be the Nazgûl after them and was still 1000% prepared to die to keep Frodo safe even though they hadn’t left the shore yet oh my god Samwise Gamgee you are always on my mind oh my lord

[spielberkee]

if you think boromir's the bad guy... do not ineract with me...

[matiasthecamilion]

Yes, lotr is about heroism but it is also about love, about its true power, it is about loyalty. It tells us about battles and great warriors and kings but it also tells us about the bravery of those who don't want to fight but still face the storm, about the hopelessness in the field and the emptiness of death. It tells us about overcoming, about moving forward after the end of the world didn't happen but also about when it does not happen, when the wounds are so deep that they can't heal.

Lotr talks about the time love and self-sacrifice saved Middle Earth

[howling-medic]

My favorite part is Billy Boyd actually got smacked in the head by the apple. That’s a real reaction.

What about second breakfast?

[cieuxgris]

Orlando Bloom as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

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[i-live-in-my-bookshelf]

Guyyys Lord of the Rings is so good??!! Like it's amazing why no one toldME THIS BEFORE?? I KNOW a lot of people told me that I should watch it or read it but no one said any SPECIFIC AND THAT WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!! Anyways love that shit, would fuck Legolas fsfs

[marsharmonicorchestra]

​i would never make that promise to someone I fear

Yeah man let's put on Fellowship I promise I will have totally normal feelings about Boromir this time

[tlotrgifs]

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[dilfgifs]

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 | dir. Peter Jackson

[apoloadonisandnarcissus]

Is this a old interview or a new one? Because Sauron’s offer wasn’t to make Galadriel “his” queen, but “the” queen of Middle-earth. Like in “the mirror” chapter of “Fellowship of the Ring”: “In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.” That’s why his offer is a synopsis of Galadriel’s monologue when she’s tempted by the One Ring. And this is pretty much what he says in 2x08:

And Sauron can think whatever he wants because Tolkien answered to what would happen if Galadriel was to take the One Ring/join Sauron.

Trophy wife indeed...

[streets-in-paradise]

*a few hours after the fellowship leaves Rivendel*

Pippin: Are we there yet?

Boromir: No.

Legolas: Not yet.

Pippin: Okay. Are we there yet?

Legolas: No.

*Going through Caradhras*

Pippin: Are we there yet?

Aragorn: No!

Pippin: Are we there... yet?

Gandalf: Yes.

Pippin: Really?

Gandalf: NO!

*at the gates of Moria*

Pippin: Are we there yet?!

Gimli: No!

Pippin: Are we there yet?!

Aragorn: No, we are not!

Pippin: ARE WE THERE YET?!?!

Aragorn and Legolas: NO!!!!!!