#and im currently reading fotr

[sonofarathorns]

i finished reading the fellowship of the ring for the first time!!!

• one lasting impression i have is that i love boromir so much. when it started snowing on the mountain, he was so concerned for the halflings, it was so sweet. there were many instances like that where both he and aragorn fiercely defended the hobbits, or carried them, and i may pass away if i think about it too much.

• b-bill… 🥺 i was genuinely so sad for sam to have to send his beloved pony away to certain danger. if i didn’t already know from tumblr tolkien lore that bill lives, i would be really sad right now.

• damn, the movies really did gimli dirty, didn’t they? (don’t get me wrong, i love the movies and i have little to no problems with them) but literally no one wanted to go to moria because they knew how dangerous it was going to be. in the movies, it was like gimli was trying to convince the company to go that way. just a difference i noticed!

• i just put the book down, just now, to come type this bullet point because i needed a breather. i am currently, right now, on the edge of my fucking seat!!! (im laying in bed but you know what i mean)

my heart is beating out of my chest! like, i know what’s gonna happen, but they’re sooo close 😫 imagine never having read the books, and the first movie comes out, and you don’t know that gandalf comes back. that would be so insane/devastating.

• lmfao because of that one post on tumblr “when watching fotr with your friends and the balrog shows up you can tell them, this is where legolas starts screaming in the book” but friends. he’s not screaming. he’s wailing it (honestly valid, i would react the exact same way but for a minute just picture movie legolas wailing upon the arrival of the balrog and tell me that’s not funny).

• i like that we get more detail and interaction with the elves in lorien. book galadriel comes across softer, friendlier, less scary (maybe that’s just because movie galadriel scared me with that one scene when i was younger).

• i kept waiting for boromir to die, and i was like, he’s (tolkien is) running out of time here! how can we get to that part AND adequately say goodbye to him?

when i had like 5 pages left i was like yeah there’s no way. i went to my husband all stressed about it and he told me it doesn’t happen until the second book! i was like ohhhhh, okay.

• i can’t wait to start the two towers! of the movies, it’s my favorite and i’m interested to see how that differs.

[imorphemi]

they live in my head rent free thank you very much

[talesandcardigans]

Y’all...I have such a crush on Galadriel. Like, what a babe

[quotidian-oblivion]

FF ask: do you spend more time reading or writing?

And then a follow-up question that you can feel free not to answer but what is your favorite fic that you have read?

Oh do you meant reading fics or reading books and other stuff? Cuz as of right now, im not reading any fics at all.

Except one.

I read it as it updates. Rebel Without A Claus by DangerBeckett. If you go to the comment section, you're going to see my pages long comments on each chapter after chapter 5. I started commenting from chapter 3 but- Oh lmao, just keep checking the length of my comments beginning from chapter 3 till the latest chapter.

But as for non-fic related things, I'm currently reading fotr! AND IM ALMOST AT THE PART WHERE THE HOBBITS MEET LEGOLAS AND GIMLI AND BOROMIR AND OBIUIYFWSDHF,Q

I'm a nerd.

Oh wait, i forgot to answer the original question. Uh... depends on my mood. As i said, everything depends on my mood. But latey, i've been doing neither. But usually, i write more. But since im in a writers burnout lately, im reading more. As i said, it depends on my mood.

[pvrrhadve]

tell me more about the lumatere chronicles!! how many books are there? what order should i read them in? thanks!!! im inch rested....

alright okay let's go!!! (sorry this is gonna be long lmao)

there's 3 books: finnikin of the rock, froi of the exiles and quintana of charyn, best read in that order (fotr is self-contained and wraps up nicely by the end but you need to read it before the next 2 books (which are back to back continuous and quite long btw)).

the plot of the first book follows two young lumaterans, finnikin and evanjalin (love of my life and the real star of the show tbh; she's the kind of character who's specifically designed for people who love frustrating, intense and feral female characters (quintana from bk 2 and 3 also caters to this demographic)), who have been exiles for 10 years due to tragic circumstances and a heavy-duty curse that trapped half of their people inside lumatere and the other half out and are trying to find a way back inside. the next 2 books focus on reconstruction and healing. the main themes throughout the series are identity, forgiveness, redemption and the importance of family and belonging.

ok uhh there's a few important content warnings for this series which are 1) it's quite dark and sad. it doesn't end sadly and there's no real major character deaths, but the series' main focus is on the aftermath of some very horrible things. (!!! actually thinking about it now, this is a huge thing it has in common with the queen's thief, in that it frontloads the tragedy and begins at rock bottom so that the rest of it is spent moving in a generally upwards direction, though like i said earlier these books are significantly darker than qt.)

2) while no characters are sexually assaulted on page or during the current story apart from one briefly and only barely described attempted rape (Edit: i forgot this but there is another on page sa in book 2, it's brief and narratively kinda viewed from a distance but it's there), it's mentioned/alluded to as having happened to several characters in the past, though it's never used as a huge character development thing/defining moment like you see in Some Other Fantasy Media), nor is it presented as some Necessary Gritty Fantasy World Evil that you're supposed to be desensitized to.

3) i remember reading finnikin of the rock for the first time maybe 5 or 6 years ago and being a little put off by this (i didn't get around to finishing the series until this year), and i know a lot of other people who read fotr didn't continue with froi of the exiles because of this, but froi (the main character of bk 2 obviously and one of the mains in bk 3) is the attempted rapist from book 1. imo it's handled very well and never glossed over or dismissed and he honestly becomes one of my absolute favourite characters in a series full of characters i adore (also the first half of fote reads like a 300 page treatise on consent fjdjdhfh??) but that's something to be aware of and while i do love his character arc i understand that it can be a dealbreaker for some people.

anyway i love these books so much. i love the characters (all the female characters make me go jenny slate voice crazy and i really do love froi) and the relationships between them and the way the female characters take care of each other and the themes and how complex and rich they are and all the unexpected routes the story takes and how good the ending is (when i tell you i cried,).

also if you'd like to listen to the audiobooks the first 2 are available here and the 3rd one is here (i know 6 hour chunks of audio are difficult to work with but that's say lavvy baby 😔 also, edit: i think the 3rd one was taken down)

[capt-sulu]

hi!!!!!! i was tagged by @thatchkerr and @capt-rxgers on my main, but i’m doing it here because i know more people over here lol :’)

EDIT: AND ALSO @irisofthemyscira IM JUST REALLY BAD AT SEEING NOTES LOL THANKS FRIEND :DD

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