#god i love these hobbits so much

[sapphoismymuse]

my favourite part about the lotr books so far is the friendship between the hobbits

Merry helped Frodo with carrying out Bilbo’s will when he was overwhelmed with hobbits collecting things

Merry knew about the ring for years (although he learned it was the One Ring specifically more recently) and kept an eye on Bilbo and Frodo, Sam collected information for all of them, Frodo’s friends noticed he was planning on leaving for good and arranged a plan for Merry and Pippin to join Frodo and Sam and Fredegar (one of my fave characters) to stay behind and make sure no one knew they were gone so that he’d have his friends with him

They refused to let Frodo go into danger alone and made arrangements so he wouldn’t have to, even though they were terrified too

[pilkypills]

LOVE when the camera does a close-up of Thorin’s face during the confrontation on the ramparts. Guy in the intimidating crown who is largely responsible for the mess they’re all in is making the saddest and most pathetic wet cat face you can imagine. Oh my god hes fucking crying. What a weiner.

[arookbyanyothername]

I was inspired by @domesticgoddesswriter and her fanfic Legends where Thorin carves Bilbo a walking stick with the company in geometric shapes. I wanted to do their full bodies originally but I decided to just go with their heads to make it easier on myself and have more space. I'm still working on the burning process but it will be a part of my Bilbo costume for the Renaissance festival this year. I'm still considering how to draw the journey on the other side ❤️❤️

[thehobbitgirlie]

THE TWO LAST TIMES THORIN SAID BILBO'S NAME SOUNDED SO FULL OF LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[daincrediblegg]

Yes, Ben Daniels is coming to The Rings of Power as Círdan the Shipwright <3

Not gonna lie if it’s one thing that might tempt me into watching this show finally it’d be him…

[doodlepet]

Heheheheh guess who’s back in that lotr mindset >:3

But first and most importantly... Can I remember how to draw my boys??

[tathrin]

📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)

Answers for this LotR ask-game.

Ahh okay so at this point I have to confess something terrible: I still have not seen the third Hobbit movie. I'm sorry! I just couldn't do it. The fuckery of it all, especially in the second movie with Mirkwood and Thranduil and Legolas ("a lowly Silvan elf" what the FUCK what the fuck PJ WHAT THE FUCK), was just too much for me. Character-assassination is one thing, and I thought after Denethor I knew what I was going to be getting with Thranduil but NOPE! It was literal world building assassination and I just CANNOT.

Don't get me wrong, Lee Pace did an amazing job and actually seeing Mirkwood was amazing and it was genuinely delightful to see Orlando put those ears on again; but the OuTrAgE that filled my heart at the yeet-ing of what minimal canon we even have for the Mirkwood elves was just intolerable, and while I did mean to go see it, really I did, I just...couldn't actually get the motivation to go before it was out of theatres. I've heard the EE are better (less studio fuckery) so I'll watch them someday! Honest! I just...haven't. yet.

And as to the Lord of the Rings trilogy...man, I don't even know how to do this. In terms of which is the best film, or in terms of which one I enjoy watching most, or in terms of which on hits me in the heart hardest or...? I don't know if I can objectively rank my feelings about these movies even in my own brain because RotK ends with Into the West and I have FeelingsTM about the Undying Lands and Sea Longing okay. So the last scene of RotK at the Grey Havens is a fucking spear through the heart every time and I can't even describe the knot of feelings it engenders, and I think overall TTT may be my favorite but also it has Plot Issues that piss me off even more than the Plot Issues in RotK I think,...yeah, we're going to do this in terms of Film Crafting rather than personal favorites because I'm having too many feelings lmao. So! In order of most-well-done-movie to least:

Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

Return Of The King

The Desolation of Smaug

An Unexpected Journey

[toadstoolillustrations]

Going to check a scene from the hobbit films is like oh this an incredibly homosexual scene. what were they thinking that has to have been on purpose right. and why is it actually making me feel things. man these films could have been at least decent... I can admit the casting was solid, and the few good scenes like this show that there was some bit of heart put into them... And then it immediately cuts to the most absurd and simply made up shit and I think ah. Never fucking mind.

[portrait-of-a-little-thing]

the absolute chokehold that lord of the rings has on me is insane

[girlscience]

thought too much about dwarves again today and i am

[sapphoismymuse]

wdym the song bofur sang in the unexpected journey movie is canonically the full version of the nursery rhyme that bilbo wrote???

[holytrickster]

honestly i get embarrassed i don't have like. a single other interest I'm as into because i just know everyone around me is probably sick of it

[burglarofbagend]

Dwarves HATE Him!

Local hobbit illegally enlisted on a LIFE-CHANGING JOURNEY won’t shut the FUCK UP about his comfortable ARMCHAIR before the FIRE in his FAVOURITE sitting-room in his HOBBIT-HOLE, and of the kettle SINGING!

NOT FOR THE LAST TIME!!!

[bloodbankzz]

books i want to read / try out this year:

1. im glad my mom died (currently listening to, want to finish)

2. howls moving castle (checked out, read soon)

3. dune

4. the little prince (keep promising to finish it, really need to just do it, stop promising to do things that make you feel uncomfortable)

5. gideon the ninth

6. why does he do that?

7. listen to another shakespeare performance for the dopamine chefs choice

8. the jungle

9. eve and adam

10. mexican gothic

11. under the whispering door

see from there ? order doesnt actually matter i just wanted to see how many my list was

[tazzakazza]

Watched the hobbit trilogy again for the first time in a while last night into today,,,

loved the kiss scene in botfa,, am I right gang?

I missed them so god damn much bro

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Wizards

[at unicorn fuck club] Brandon Sanderson: boy, i love being a fantasy writer! Sanderson: and the best part of being a fantasy writer? Sanderson: it's talking about wizards! Terry Goodkind: wizards? did you say wizards?? Goodkind: i LOVE talking about wizards! Sanderson: me TOO!

Sanderson: i mean, why even be a fantasy writer if you don't like wizards? Diane Duane: i write about wizards too! some of them are cats! Tanya Huff: OMG me two!!! Huff: TWINSIES!!!

Sanderson: how about you george? how do you feel about wizards? GRR Martin: well see the saga of fire and ice is based on the historical war of the roses so actually its p realistic Martin: just kidding, of course there's wizards! Goodkind: WIZARDS! Sanderson: WIZARDS! Duane: WIZARDS! Huff: WIZARDS!

Sanderson: you gotta like wizards if you're gonna write fantasy Sanderson: jrrt, how do you feel about wizards? Tolkien: wizards? Tolkien: meh Tolkien: they're okay Sanderson: Goodkind: Martin: Duane: Huff:

Sanderson: tell us about the wizards in middle earth, jirt Tolkien: ugh god Tolkien: why do you always want to know about the wizards Tolkien: i have literally no interest in talking about these wizards Tolkien: when we could be talking about the hobbits sexy sexy feet Tolkien: big hairy stinky feet

Sanderson: c'mon jirt tell us about the wizards Tolkien: ok fine Tolkien: well there's gandalf the gray Tolkien: and saruman the white Tolkien: and umm radagast Tolkien: he's brown

Tolkien: and then there's like Tolkien: ummmm Tolkien: two other guys Sanderson: what're their names? Tolkien: what? oh jeez Tolkien: i gotta come up with TWO more wizard names? Tolkien: god this is intolerable

Sanderson: c'mon jirt you've got us all wondering Sanderson: you can't just say there are these other wizards and not tell us anything about them Tolkien: ugh christ Tolkien: fine Tolkien: they're Tolkien: god i dunno what colors are left Sanderson: there's blue Tolkien: fine that's it they're blue

Sanderson: wait both of them? Tolkien: yeah Sanderson: they're both blue? Tolkien: yeah Sanderson: Sanderson: you know there's a whole rainbow of color options Tolkien: oh my god shut up Tolkien: i am so fucking tired

Sanderson: so there's gandalf the gray, saruman the white, radagast the brown, and two blue guys Tolkien: yeah thats right Sanderson: and the blue guys aren't named Tolkien: nope Sanderson: Sanderson: ok but Tolkien: why do you all care so much about these stupid blue guys Tolkien: just accept it!

Tolkien: just deal with it, you foolish son of a took! Sanderson: Tolkien: you dotard! Naught but a ninnyhammer! Sanderson: [looking at his CTR ring] Now calm down, brandon-diddly-diddly-diddly-doodly, he's doing their best, shodilly-iddly- iddly-diddly. Gotta be nice, hostility-ility-biddly- diddly

Sanderson: if you didn't want to talk about wizards, why'd you even make the blue guys? you could have stopped at 3 Tolkien: i was on the spot, okay? i panicked! Tolkien: you lot with all your wizard pressure! Tolkien: i don't care about wizards!

Tolkien: listen, assholes, i got into fantasy for exactly 3 reasons: Tolkien: sexy hobbit feet Tolkien: feasts Tolkien: and fuckin' tom bombadil! Sanderson: tom bombadil? Tolkien: he's only the most important thing in middle earth! Tolkien: that capering buffoon of a wifeguy holds it all together!!