#ME LISTENING TO THIS WITH THE ARWEN THEME ON LIKE :0

[jane-ways]

1, 16, 17, & 25 :)

End of the year asks!

1. I answered this in more detail in my other reply, so I will offer you a song I listened to on repeat for about three weeks and am convinced is actually an Eddie Munson (our beloved) theme song, since Stranger Things fandom is how we met: Crush (Stripped) by Ethel Cain.

16. Post a picture from the beginning of the year.

I tried to find a nice "theme" for this pair of questions, and I settled on crafts. Below, a graduation gift for a friend. HATED making this. Embroidery on sheer backgrounds: 5/5 aesthetics, 0/5 actually doing it.

17. Post a picture from the end of the year.

Little ghostie Halloween friend!! Sorry for the terrible picture but it's the only one I took. All from the Dollar Tree craft aisle!!

25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year?

For Haudh-en-Arwen I got to get into the mindset of a Drúadan woman, which was really fun. Unnamed and not exactly a fully fleshed out OC, but nonetheless really interesting to explore, even though not all of her background made it into the fic.

Also, my wife and I play a Pokémon D&D game (the rules of which I made her heavily modify because I do not actually like D&D all that much, but I do like Pokémon, and unfortunately holodecks aren’t real yet), and I’ve had fun making an “OC” (who is me if I had Pokémon) and all my Pokémon characters. So far my favorite is the Goomy who knows Draco Meteor.

Thank you for asking!

[ainu-lindale]

Just some lil' Observations During My 17 Billionth Rewatch of Fellowship of the Ring

Okay so in the prologue, for some reason I never paid attention to how many active verbs are used to describe what the ring does and how it goes about it's lil life. I don't often think about the powers and personality of the ring very much, I'm usually to distracted by my love for frodo ha

"It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life." Love love love that, somehow never really heard that line before.

Uh oh. I'm becoming that person that unconsciously quotes all the lines as they're spoken.

I wonder if bilbo would've been a different old man if he hadn't had the ring in his pocket for decades

Tbh I am very impressed that bilbo just dropped to ring and walked out. Obviously it took some help by gandalf but still, to be able to leave it behind after all that time. Such a comforting thought to my poor little heart that hates to think about how long the Martin Freeman bilbo was slowly poisoned by the ring

Yall. When I was a kid the black riders gave me nightmares, and now they are like 0% scary

I've related to different characters over the years, but u know what I'm realizing that maybe I'm sam. bc I too would walk to the ends of the earth for frodo baggins.

Dear lorddd. That seduction of the ring theme - the one that plays at the v beginning of their journey as they're walking through the tall clovers and weeds under the trees - gives me chills every time. The use of voices in howard shore's score is MAGNIFIQUE

"If I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been". Have any of yall seen the 9 hour version of the movie that plays that clip every time sam takes a step?😂😂

Am I upset that they replaced merry and pippin's dedication to frodo and the journey in the books with comedic relief stealing-the-crops stuff? Overall not much. I think they get the characterization they deserve over the course of the movies. Ppl can just chill and let the movie be a movie. Tbh we need some comedic relief from this very stressful epic

Am I upset they cut tom bombadil? Also overall no. Again, for the sake of the movie, they gave us some stress relief with merry and pip and streamlined the journey to bree enough to where an extra stop for some reprieve wasn't needed. Dont get me wrong, it's a lovely part of the book, but I agree with the directorial choices to keep the movie's energy up

THE REFLECTION IN ARAGORN'S EYES WHEN HE LIGHTS THE PIPE. CINEMATIC MAGIC. also I'm just generally attracted to him anyway.

Me anytime viggo says or does anything:

Arwen's sword under aragorns chin is THE best introduction to our first legit female character I could ask for

OH MY GODDDDDDD. I think it's probably Elijah's hobbit-height double that viggo is carrying to the horse, and dear God that mask on him is so freaky looking 😂😭😂 Never ever seen that before

One thing I am just ever so slightly salty about is that they had the council of elrond be summoned to determine the fate of the ring rather than everyone coming on their own accord with their specific knowledge to lead to the collective realization that they are exactly the right group of ppl to form the fellowship

For the rest of my life, I am doomed to only think of the LOTR How It Should Have Ended during the council of elrond scene. 12 year old me really screwed herself by watching the same 5 YouTube videos on endless repeat

The solo French horn that plays the gondor theme while boromir is speaking is so subtle but increeeeeeeedibly powerful. It's just different enough from the other themes introduced so far that for that moment it takes me so much deeper into the world of middle earth ??

Just noticed the wink between gandalf and elrond when aragorn offers to help frodo. Their last conversation ended with "he turned away from that life long ago. He has chosen exile" and now aragorn is giving up his preferred solo life for the sake of frodo and for the world. Look how the turntables, elrond

Boromir's lil "sorry!" when he accidentally cuts Merry's hand 😭

"Boromir! Give the ring to frodo!" "As you wish." Boromir loves aragorn

The humans carrying two hobbits at a time to keep them safe from the snow😭😭😭

Literally Gandalf can you please just tell frodo that there is a balrog down in moria!!! This is not informed consent!!!!

Lake monster outside moria = aquatic sarlacc

We as a Society™️ need to spend more time listening to gandalf's words to frodo while chilling in moria

The chanting during the chase in khazad dum gives me similar vibes as the "track down this murderer" voices at the end of phantom of the opera. ..uh oh so I'm getting too tired to elaborate on my thoughts

I've watched Gandalfs 'death' too many times that it's not the fall itself that makes me cry anymore, but it's frodo's reaction outside that gets me now. Also the soprano voice singing (renee fleming?)

Oh my god I just heard for the first time boromir's line in lorien "i did not see it", referring to Galadriel telling him there's still hope for his people. That's the same thing he says right before he dies and I finally understand what he meant. He tried to take the ring from frodo bc the ring overwhelmed him completely with a sense of despair, convincing him that using the ring was their only option to survive. And oh my gosh it's how galadriel knew that boromir was going to try and take it. She knew he had lost hope. Wow it took me waaay too long to catch that. It's the specificity of it all that I didn't catch, not necessarily the fact that boromir thought the ring was the only way

Boromir's death hit different this time yall. With a better understanding of what was going on in his head, just ..... I may or may not have cried a lot more than usual

Soooo strategic of howard shore to have let a long time pass without hearing the Shire theme before it plays when frodo and sam hug on the boat. Every. single. damn. time. that moment gets me. The power of MUSIC people.

Aaaaaaaaaand credits roll

[ensignauthoress]

I was tagged by @flamefatalis Thanks!

Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 people you are contractually obligated to know.

Nicknames: ea (I suppose), Mickey, Mack, Mackie – no one on here has really given me a nickname, though when I was on Howrse a friend called me “Twistette” (because my username was TwistersIndigo).

Gender: Female

Starsign: sorry, I don’t believe in this

Height: 5′7″

Time: 3:09pm

Birthday: October 25th

Favourite Bands: off the top of my head it would have to be Skillet, Imagine Dragons, and Newsboys.

Favourite solo artist: it’s funny, because I listen to more solo artist than bands... they would have to be... Owl City, Peter Hollens, Lindsey Stirling, Ivan Torrent, Jonathan Thulin, and Eurielle.

Song that’s stuck in your head: The Hobbit Theme/My Dear Frodo – I’m not quite sure what the name is, but you get the gist, lol.

Last movie: The Hobbit Trilogy – Extended Edition

Last TV show: Agatha Christie’s Poirot

Why did you create this blog: I can’t remember. I was either drawn in through FF.net or dA.

What do you post/reblog: usually funny things and sayings that apply to me and my personality. INFP things. The occasional geological thing like gemstones that are ridiculously beautiful and, rarely, volcanoes. Anything to do with The Hobbit, books, and cats. Anything to do with my aesthetic, too. Mountainside cabin retreats are lovely, aren’t they?

Last thing you googled: “How to structure a novella”.

Other blogs: @at-a-waves-length, but I haven’t done anything on it for a year. I don’t know when I’ll get into roleplaying again, since the girl that got me into rping it no longer on tumblr (like, anywhere) and she seems to have disappeared from the internet altogether. Like, she disappeared over the 7 month period where I couldn’t get on tumblr because my college internet locked me out. And all the other rpers I used to rp with deactivated their accounts too :P

Why the url: for a while I was known as ‘notestryder’, but after a while it started to bug me because I felt it didn’t embody my interests anymore. I chose ‘ensignauthoress’ because it suits me more, and I will always be fond of Star Trek.

I follow: 69

Followers: 137

Lucky number: 7

Instruments: I don’t play anything right now, but my mom tried to get me to learn the piano, violin, bass guitar, and acoustic guitar over the years. Playing instruments have never held my attention long enough – but I think I’m still able to play the bass.

What are you wearing: a dark grey t-shirt (it says “Of course your opinion matters, JUST NOT TO ME” on the front) and a pair of pink plaid pajama pants.

Dream job: to be a well-known author, because I want to spread optimism and punch the fantasy authors – the ones who think they’re “honouring” J.R.R. Tolkien by writing dark and gritty fantasy because they think Tolkien’s works were dark and gritty (I’m lookin’ at you, George R.R. Martin) – in the face.

Dream trip: To go to the Swiss Alps and stay in a lodge or chalet during a terrible snowstorm that leaves you stranded there for a week ^^

Favourite food: anything smothered or drowned in cheese.

Favourite song rn: I think it’s a tie between Peter Hollen’s and Tim Foust’s cover of “Misty Mountains”, Eurielle’s “Lúthien’s Lament”, and “Arwen’s Promise” (also by Eurielle)

Last book you read: the last book I finished was The Life and Diary of David Brainerd by David Brainerd and Jonathan Edwards. Right now I’m reading The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks – which is turning out to be absolute crap.

Top 3 Universes: The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings; Murdoch Mysteries; Hawaii Five-0

Tagging: @ohifonlyx33, @passanstow, and anyone else who wants to do this!

[lilyemrys]

Merlin 1x13 Le Morte d’Arthur

Gotta make a choice between shoving my face with popcorn or liveblogging hmmm

[2 mins later] have stuffed my face, let the blogging begin:

- Knights are creeping through the forest. stepstepstepstep

- Lmao merlin dropping the spear and arthur’s face. I’m laughing, his face.

- “Do you have any natural gifts Merlin?”

“No, let me think” 

- lmao their mutual dragging of each other

- Arthur: mocking merlin for getting scared of the beast

Beast pops out

Arthur: DROPS HIS FUCKING SPEAR AND RUNS AWAY

- I love how every single one of the knights just flees but also #same

- The questing beast looks like a cobra on steroids

- What a dramatic fall Merlin. Can’t even trip properly, needs to slowmo fall dramatically. Never fear merlin, your prince will save you

- Why are they all just standing there hearing Bedivere die. like. either run or help. boi.

- [theme music]

- Gaius just knows everything man

- Every episode: 

Gaius: magical beast is here bc camelot did bad things

Uther: Oh NO!!!11!! Can’t be magic!11!!

- oh my god LOL that montage of bad things ending with the questing beast snarling but they overlaid morgana’s screaming on it and it looks like the questing beast just has a very high pitched feminine scream.

- More! Morgana! And! Gwen! Hugs!

- FOR THE LOVE OF CAMELOT

- Poor morgana everyone think she crazy

- Dayum that a big footprint

- Okay also, why the heck is Merlin there. Like,,,,there’s no other servant there. I get Merlin wanting to follow Arthur, but don’t the knights always be like “why tf he here”

- Questing beast pops up, Arthur: GOTTA PROTECT MY SMOL KITTEN MERLIN

- Arthur’s jabs looks like he’s playing Just Dance

- Merlin: “it didn’t bite you, it didn’t”  that poor boy just wants his boyfriend to be safe protect him

- Merlin magically reads a book in 0.2 seconds. Give me yo power pls, need it for school

- Ofc merlin runs to Emo Dragon and Emo Dragon speaking in riddles.

- Gaius just gave Merlin the Eyebrow™

- Aww Gwen is taking care of Arthur. 

Okay also I think Gwen’s love for Arthur is more for King Arthur while Merlin’s is for both King Arthur and just arthur. Because even while caring for him, Gwen’s talking about how Arthur must live bc he gonna be a great King and that’s who she sees in him.

- Merlin’s at the boat. how’d he know the spell to make it move tho

- The Cheekbones™

- Bb merlin ready to give his life for his boyfriend

“My life is worth 1000 of his” BB NO. YOU PRECIOUS DORK YoU ARE. LOVED. Also don’t think arthur wouldn’t smack you if he heard you say that

- Merlin looks like even more of a kitten when he’s wet

- Why does Merlin glare at Morgana when she tells him its just the beginning. Is he still pissed that she tried to kill Uther??? Like???’

- OMG Merlin’s look of pure joy and relief when Gaius tells him Arthur lives

- Arthur: I think there’s a guardian angel watching over.

Heck yeah that b your bf merlin

- Lmao Arthur teasing Gwen for what she said when caring for him. I used to think the Gwen/Arthur was completely undeveloped but I lied. obs Merthur is still better but arwen is not that bad

- Proof that the camelot soldiers are useless: they just let a completely random person, obviously trying to hide themselves in a cloak, just walk in in the middle of the night. At least check who it is dammit. This is why its so easy to take over camelot. Useless.

- How tf did Hunith travel all the way to Camelot. 

a) She’s literally dying. 

b) She?? didn’t have a horse?????

c) It look the Squad™ 2 days in the Ealdor episode to get there and it took her like a day. KEEP IN MIND THAT THEY ARE YOUNG, HAVE HORSES, and ARE HEALTHY

- Merlin: “You’ll never be released” 

Dragon: eXcUSE ME WHaT

- Emo Dragon just tried to roast merlin alive??? bih what about that destiny you keep talking about

- Merlin just told Emo Dragon he’ll never see him again. Good. Don’t. He made you bad.

- Merlin’s goodbye aww. My heart. But also Arthur must be so confused. Preciousness. How pure. HIS GOODBYE IS SO SAD AND CUTE. He talks about how he’ll be a great king but also a great person when he’s not a prat and

- Gwen is such a sweetheart. She takes care of everyone. Love her.

- The makeup dept. did a rlly good job with Hunith’s illness.

- HuniTH AND MERLIN’S GOODBYE IS SO SAD BC BOTH ARE SAYING GOODBYE TO EACH OTHER THINKING THEY’RE THE ONE DYING

- Gaius just left to sacrifice himself my heart

- All of Morgana’s clips in this episode show her completely terrified, usually dramatically staring out a window

- Lmao Nimueh walks like she’s on a catwalk.

- Nimueh’s eyes are sososo pretty

- Wait so??? Nimueh can choose who dies? I thought she couldn’t?????? 

- TBH Nimueh wasn’t even wrong? She did basically what everyone asked of her and she gets labelled cruel and selfish. Like?? She warned them that to get a life you need a death. It’s their fault for not listening

- DAYUM ANGRY MERLIN “YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE KILLED MY FRIEND” He just struck her with lightening until she combusted dang.

- Gaius: “you just mastered life and death”

But he just? Killed her? The balance was restored? Wouldn’t anyone who killed anyone thus master life and death? Idk man

- Emo Dragon just hella dramatically yells “NOOOO” like bih what’s wrong now

Times Merlin’s Saved Arthur since 1x13: 1

Times Merlin’s Saved Uther since 1x13: 0