#SAVE FRODO

[fyeaheddiemunson]

[agir1ukn0w]

A Quiet Place: Day One finally proves beyond a doubt that cats are indeed the best creatures on earth and they have been slandered in horror media for far too long

[agir1ukn0w]

I know. and the human man doesn't look so bad either😋

its devastating how pretty he is

[pilkypills]

Thinking about Frodo and Thorin. It is nuts how two characters who have never interacted can be so father and son coded.

[bikananjarrus]

thinking about how frodo probably had an idea of his fate (or at least that he might be forever changed by this experience, if he didn’t already think about how he might not be coming back) from the moment he said “what must i do” back in the shire after gandalf explains about the ring.

when he and sam see the elves in the forest, making their way to the docks to sail west, “never to return,” sam says “i don’t know why…it makes me sad.” And frodo doesn’t say anything. he’s the one telling sam that the elves will never return, and he just watches them silently.

and then in rivendell, sam is packing to go home, and frodo teases him saying that he thought sam wanted to see the elves more than anything else. which sam insists he does, he did. But now he’s ready to go. and frodo agrees: “i am ready to go home.” but his tone isn’t very convincing. and this is after teasing sam about wanting to cut their adventure short, about wanting to go home already. already i think frodo knows that even if/when they go home, he won’t be the same (physically, already, he’s changed because of the stab wound from the morgul blade).

and then the penultimate moment, seeing everyone fighting at the council over who will take the ring to mordor, and he knows. he knows he must be the one to take this burden on, even though, looking around at the other members of the council, he must surely be thinking he’s not the best person for the job. he’s not a warrior. he’s not a wizard. he’s not the most cunning or experienced person there. nevermind him being a small hobbit in a very large world against even larger foes.

he doesn’t even know how to start this journey. but he asked at the beginning of it all, what must i do. he accepted the responsibility with barely a second thought for himself. what must i do shifts to a i will do what i must. (“i know what I must do. it’s just that…i’m afraid to do it.”) i will do what i was tasked to do, what I volunteered to do, though i know i will not be the same by the end of it.

and so he says, “i will take the ring to mordor. though…i do not know the way.”

[raticusfinch]

stop staring at me with them big ol eyes

[fistfuloflightning]

✨our golden boi Glorfindel! ✨

ehehe

“That is the last time you dump me in the river and go haring off just because Arwen gives you puppy-dog eyes.”

[frodolover]

he wishes the ring had never come to him tbh

[hockey-and-timbits]

Don’t you leave him, Samwise Gamgee. And I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.

—Sam to Frodo, The Lord of the Rings, “The Fellowship of the Ring”

[cattoonxd]

"where shall i find rest?"

[nolonger-roses]

One of the things I love most about Tolkien’s world (and there are a LOT) is that we have all types of relationship and they are always close (to some extent)

We have really strong platonic love between friends, which is really important to show that men can be intimate with each other and that that is a strength (but also between men and women or between women) 

We have romantic love that makes you go through hell with them and to wish above all treasures that your loved one was safe at home and not with you

We have all kinds of family love: between siblings, parents, uncles and nephews, etc (because the list could go on and on). And each relationship is different of course, between siblings you have a protective but amusing relationship, but paternal love is protection to the child and to wish them a healty happy life.

But the best about this is that they portray sorrow too. It would be unrealistic that everything was fine, especially in war. All relationships are bittersweet for different reasons and it’s this variaty that makes them realistic  

And there are manipulative toxic relationships and each one is also different, just like in real life, and those are the ones that almost made evil win.

But at the end Middle Earth was saved because of this strong healthy relationships.

[fyeaheddiemunson]

[agir1ukn0w]

sam: why r u following me??

eric:

[taintandviolent]

does a quiet place day one like revolve around keeping the cat safe and alive?? cos that's a plotline i can really get behind

[bilbos-stolen-untensils]

"Sam did most of the work, not Frodo." Kindly, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! 🥰🥰

And yeah, of course Frodo fucking stumbled along the way, he was carrying a dangerous ring that was actively destroying every part of him, WHAT DID YOU GUYS EXPECT?!

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

The idea that GRRM is anti Tolkien is particularly funny because ASOIAF is sprinkled with rather intricate (and even passionate) homages to LOTR. And I can’t help but think of how Tolkien’s Fellowship, more specifically the Hobbits, may have inspired GRRM’s Night’s Watch. Jon Snow, for starters, is in many ways a combination of LOTR’s Frodo and Aragorn. And in the same way that Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are unexpected heroes in LOTR (because who looks to a hobbit as the face of an epic adventure?), Jon the bastard becomes the leader of a ragtag of socially disenfranchised men (in the form of the NW) who are anything but heroic. Sure there’s the odd knight or noble in there, but the NW is quite full of criminals and the very worst of the social order. The hobbits aren’t the strongest or the sharpest but they become the face of the fight against Sauron. And the NW, while being severely undermanned and under-equipped, has become the main force that stands against winter. GRRM even adds a love letter to Tolkien’s Sam Gamgee by adding his on Sam - Sam Tarly - who acts as a moral compass and counselor to Jon, in the same ways that Sam Gamgee is key to Frodo’s journey. And just like Frodo, Jon gets his very own pair of jokester friends, one of whine is even named Pyp. So it’s all very beautiful and nice, and we should talk about it more because it’s super evident that GRRM is a massive Tolkien fanboy. But I do have to say tho, GRRM’s take on Gandalf is exceedingly hilarious just because Melisandre is famously very bad at her job.