#Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

[vargdottern]

i often forget how small hobbits really are but like. they're tiny😭

The Fellowship When I was a kid, my folks basically told me I was a hobbit. I cherish the memory of them reading all these books to me--and I turned around and read them to my little siblings and eventually to my partner! I've drawn and painted a lot for The Hobbit but never The Lord of the Rings, and this ECCC seemed like the right time to debut one!

[mithrandirl]

Each race is bound to this fate... this one doom. Bring forth the Ring, Frodo.

[mushroomates]

the fellowship as roommates:

frodo: probably one of the best roommates out there. keeps to himself, tidy, does his laundry quickly and doesn’t leave it in the wash for a week. the company he keeps inviting over are weird though and you wish he’d stop obsessing over his jewelry. there’s a ring dish by the sink he’s always being funny about.

sam: he has to stop bringing plants home. the amount of dirt where there shouldn’t be is getting ridiculous. will make bread for the household though, and that makes up for it. does his dishes and all the dishes in the sink frequently and genuinely enjoys the task. took over the decoration and homemaking instantly.

merry: has a massive candle collection that would be fire safety issue. it not, however, a fire safety issue because merry never lights them. he has discontinued yankee candles and various limited edition scents. it’s his pride and joy and he doesn’t ever want to burn them because he wants to keep them forever. once pippin lit his maple-bacon soy wax triwick 1998 and merry went nuts. aside from that, pleasant company.

pippin: his parents pay for his rent because he couldn’t be bothered to pay it on time, and the tooks really, really wanted their son out of the house. do NOT go in his room. has not done laundry ever and does not plan to. keeps dirty dishes in his hamper and under his bed. keeps buying new forks thinking you won’t notice.

boromir: pays his rent a day early. handles the bills and finances and just tell you how much you owe. very respectful about your space in the fridge. does his best to be quiet past 9pm. he does, however, carve wood over the carpet and splinters have become an issue. he vacuum’s but it’s seriously becoming a problem. also keeps inviting these weirdos over who try and eat all your food.

aragorn: keeps tanning hides in the living room. is never home because he’s always at his girlfriends place. brought a dehydrator into the mix and the house always smells like meat because he’s making jerky. he will share it though, which is nice:

legolas: is mildly afraid of the bathroom. keeps clogging the drains with copious amounts of shed hair. uses your shampoo when he thinks your not looking. eats all of the good food, and small bites out of pretty much everything. tracks dirt all over the carpet and has a thing for fairy lights.

gimli: historic weaponry is NOT home decor and why the hell would you keep it over your bed. he has to have his own bathroom which he keeps very specifically (the amount of products he uses for his beard is unreasonable). generally tidy, gets weird about organizing things by color and type and would rather you let him do it.

gandalf: hardly a roommate. sometimes you wonder if he still is living with you and then he’ll show up after months of ghosting you with a random horse and a new-differently colored hat. and he will explain more about the hat than the horse. no, gandalf, we can’t keep a horse in the bathroom. our landlord will find out. please shut up about your new hat.

gollum: fresh fish keep being left on your counter on the first of each month. they’re very much someone’s goldfish that keep going missing. once, a parakeet was left in your sink. your lost socks keep reappearing on your couch. sometimes shiny rocks and coins are placed next to your phone at night. four months in there’s a scratching in your walls and this fucker pops out. he’s been living off of your scraps for nearly a year and thinks you two are best friendsies! <3 he tries to plea that he’s being paying rent. someone call the cops. (sam comes over and shoo’s him out with a broom. it’s frodos weird friend from college.)

[pixlatedvampire]

i rewatched Fellowship of the Ring w my friends over the weekend

i present to you, part 1 of the silly doodles i drew during it lmao 🤣💗

[nachttraum]

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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

[geekynerfherder]

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[thedepressedkiddo]

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

"The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien

[dandytron2000]

I'm seven chapters into the fellowiship of the ring and i'm afraid ive gained a new brainrot. Have some rough first impression designs of the hobbit adventure squad.

[lamemaster]

What a night to come back to this 🫡 this post lives in my mind rent free 🫶

Just something about how Elrond is described as "kind as summer." You can't go wrong with that. Elrond is amazing.

But the history of Elrond is so fucking tragic — if anything, Elrond should be turned evil, like Fëanáro or Maedhros.

But he didn't.

He lost his parents, his brother, his foster parents, his wife, his daughter, etc... and yet he's an amazing person.

Elrond being one of the bad guys would have been understandable. But he chose to be a good person who helped maintain the stability of Middle-Earth.

Despite all his pain, grief, losses, etc — Elrond chose to stay patient and prevent more people from experiencing the same losses he did.

This just shows one of the many different outcomes of pain that Tolkien presents; rather than going mad, like Fëanáro, or becoming an anti-hero, like Maedhros, or even disappearing, like Maglor, Elrond chose to stay sane and be a hero for Middle-Earth.

[apoloadonisandnarcissus]

What would happen if Galadriel joined Sauron?

Many think he would make a slave out of her, or something of that sort. But is that what would really happen?

Tolkien sort of answered to that on his Letter 246, when discussing the Three Elven ring-bearers (Galadriel, Elrond and Gandalf) in connection with them taking the One ring for themselves:

It appears that Galadriel conceived of herself as capable of wielding the Ring and supplanting the Dark Lord. […] Galadriel would have proceeded in the policy now adopted by Sauron: [she] would have built up an empire with great and absolutely subservient generals and armies and engines of war, until [she] could challenge Sauron and destroy him by force.  

Galadriel would be worse than Sauron, in the long run. Because, according to Tolkien, Galadriel would be Sauron 2.0., and she would follow the “Saruman route”: she would join Sauron conspiring to replace him and take his power for herself.

Which is pretty much what she says in “Fellowship of the Ring” book:

“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful.

And this could go both ways: either Sauron would want her as Queen, or as a servant. She would try to take his place, all the same.

Anyway, with them blood bond together, Sauron would give her his power, and turn her into a Goddess. Since he was created as a Maia, and needs to serve a Vala, he can’t escape his own submissive nature. And, so, Sauron wouldn’t sideline Galadriel, quite the opposite. And in the long run, their dynamic would return to what it was in Season 1, no matter his intentions; because Galadriel is a natural born leader, while Sauron is a natural born follower.

And this would be absolutely terrifying. I don’t think there would be any light, there. Galadriel would be corrupted (and Sauron wouldn’t need to do much, if I’m being honest). Sauron’s power would turned her into a super-villain Dark Afrodite; she would make everyone fall in love with her (“all shall love me and despair”), her appeal maximized, irresistible and seductive. Everyone would fall at her feet, on their knees, and be slaves to her. She would get anything she wanted from everyone around her.

Don’t believe this self-deceiving evil diva; there would be no “light” involved in this.

Not sure how this would work with Sauron’s jealousy and possessiveness, though; probably he would start to resent her the same way he did with Morgoth. Galadriel would have to find a way to calm down Sauron’s obsessiveness. Because this would be wild, and the stuff of nightmares for everyone else, but them.

This would probably be Sauron all the time.

And all of this would destroy Middle-earth. Galadriel’s suitors would be going around killing each other over her. Universal warfare. And Sauron himself would probably join this fight if any of them were to cross a line with Galadriel. This would mean apocalypse. The doomsday of the simps.

[vorpalmuchness]

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[dilfgifs]

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

[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!!!!!!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Saint James converts the Magus Hermogenes (Ἑρμογένης), an illustration in Vincent de Beauvais, Historical Spesulum vol 2, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Arsenal 5080, fol. 10v° Saint James first controls the demons that Hermogenes had sent against him, then shows mercy towards Hermogenes himself, who remains in James' thrall notwithstanding his magic books. Confused, Hermogenes converts. :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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“And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.” ― Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings

[ignatiaimpsley]

Bold, but entirely correct take: Elrond is a Quaker.

On Oaths

“No oath or bond is laid on you to go further than you will. For you do not yet know the strength of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet upon the road.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,” said Gimli.

“Maybe,” said Elrond, “but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”

“Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart,” said Gimli.

“Or break it,” said Elrond. “Look not too far ahead!”

This conversation obviously becomes so much more meaningful and painful when you know about Elrond’s upbringing, but there’s even more to it than that history.

Imagine if the Company had taken an oath to go with Frodo to Mordor. At the Breaking of the Fellowship, they would have felt obligated to go with him even if it meant leaving Merry and Pippin as captives of the orcs. That decision would have been damaging enough, and the Ring would have preyed on it. Gollum, who loathed Aragorn, would not have helped them, so they wouldn’t have gone through Cirith Ungol (which, for all Gollum’s treachery, was still a better prospect than trying to make it through the Black Gate), and even if they made it to Orodruin Gollum wouldn’t have been there at the end to accomplish the destruction of the Ring. Nor would Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli have been there in the battles of Rohan and Gondor, so there might have been little left of the Kingdoms of Men by the end. Everything would have gone horribly wrong.

There’s more to Elrond’s advice, then, than the personal observation of the fallout of one terrible Oath. It’s the awareness, in the lines you cannot foresee what each may meet upon the road and Look not too far ahead, that there’s something fundamentally arrogant in taking an oath, in claiming “in any possible circumstances, this particular action will be the best thing for me to do.” (Though that, too, is a major part of what’s wrong with the Oath of Fëanor! An Oath taken primarily against Morgoth ends up playing directly into his hands.) To refuse oaths is to accept the possibility that your ideas and expectations for your path in life may be wrong, that the world is more complex than you have recognized. (It touches on my previous post on free will, in suggesting that a person’s free will is something that should not be constrained even by themself.)

(For some reason, despite all of the above, I’m willing to give Finrod a complete pass on his Oath to Barahir. Perhaps out of irrational partiality to him. Or perhaps because I feel that, when Barahir’s son and the last survivor of Dorthonion came to him in need, he would have done the same thing even without it.)

[healing-your-inner-child]

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring