#pippin took

[just-another-fangirl5233]

ok for some reason I love winter hobbits

not like hobbits standing in snow, but I feel like they would totally be the type to have “snow hair,” where their hair turns white to help with camouflage (not that they really need it lol).

like imagine frodo and sam walking on the pass of caradahas (bc it activates when in snow,) with snowy white hair, and merry and pippin making a total game out of it! they would be hiding in the snow all the time.

or bilbo with the company, thorin would be sooo flustered lol. I just think that this would be the cutest thing!!

[torchwood-99]

Eowyn and Boromir

Boromir is the ultimate big brother.

Boromir is the ultimate big brother because he loves Faramir, his little brother, dearly.

Boromir meets the hobbits and immediately adopts them, especially Merry and Pippin.

Boromir was bros with Theodred.

Eowyn is thematically tied to the hobbits.

Eowyn is especially tied to Merry.

Eowyn was Theodred's adopted younger sister.

Eowyn has parallels with Faramir.

Eowyn marries Faramir.

So to conclude, if Boromir had lived, he would have immediately adopted Eowyn as his little sister.

[frodoz]

They're all so cute!!

Some unexpected heroes

[havrani-otec]

Truth be had I cried over lotr today like every grown ass man should

[mrbigpepperoninipples]

Scars the hobbits have (as far as book 1 of 2 chapter 3) I haven’t seen the movies so my hobbits may look weird.

Oh they have trauma <3

[middleearthmistress]

Frodo: I don’t need a therapist.

Sam, Merry, Pippin: Yes you do.

Frodo: No I don't.

Sam, Merry, Pippin: Yes you do.

Frodo: I can't afford it.

Sam, Merry, Pippin: We'll pay.

Merry: I have savings.

Pippin: I'll lend you the money.

Sam: I'll sell a kidney.

[thetiredprometheus]

lotr but nobody knows anything about the other races

Pippin thinks Legolas is a woman

Boromir is convinced that the hobbits are all 15 max

Everyone thinks that Merry and Pippin are twins, except for Legolas, who is convinced the hobbits are quadruplets

Sam thinks that Aragorn, Boromir and Legolas don't have to eat to survive

Legolas doesn't mention things he sees or hears because he thinks the others have noticed them too and just assumes they have a plan

Pippin complains that he is hungry and Legolas just gives him a handful of grass. Pippin is so confused that he just takes it, and now Legolas tries to figure out what hobbits can eat by just giving them random shit, like

Things the hobbits have accepted and likely eaten later (a list by legolas)

-Grass - Leaves

-Stones - a hair tie

-A feather - one of Gimli's shoes

The hobbits and Gimli just assume that this is what elves eat

[my-deer-legolas]

[autistook]

ever get so bored-

[theladyeowyn]

I just want to help my friends.

[camille-lachenille]

Imagine just how popular the members of the Fellowship would be in Gondor and Rohan after the War of the Ring. They’re the heroes who saved the world, and the common folks look up at them in awe.

A few years after the end of the war, Legolas is visiting Minas Tirith when he hears a woman call his name. He turns around, surprised, only to see this stranger calling after a toddler running away from her. “Legolas, come back to mama!” she calls, over and over. There’s a baby on her hip who start crying, and she gently shushes her little Pippin. Legolas walks away, feeling wistful and wondering.

In Rohan, Éomer hears one of his men proudly announce the birth of his first child, a little boy named Merry; he smiles and congratulates the young father, making a mental note to write to Merry Brandybuck.

Gimli becomes a very popular name for little girls in Gondor, and this sends Aragorn and Legolas into hysterical fits of laughter. Gimli is unbearably proud of this fact.

Samwise and Frodo, too, become popular children names, no matter the gender, and especially amongst lower class folks. When Sam hears of the news, he turns red and sputtering.

Two decades or so after the war, Faramir almost has a heart attack when one of the new recruits of the guard of Ithilien almost sheepishly introduces himself as Boromir.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Isildur's Bane

Durin's Bane

Gandalf's Bane

[torchwood-99]

Eowyn and the Hobbits

Eowyn is very thematically tied to the hobbits

While a trained warrior and a member of the royal family, her youth, her gender and lack of battle experience puts her in a subordinate position to many of the other lead heroes, much like the hobbits, due to their stature and lack of martial background are dependant, and therefore at times subordinate, to the rest of the Fellowship.

Eowyn is most specifically tied to Merry. Both of them are to be left behind when the muster leaves for Rohan and when she brings him along with her to battle, you can imagine her seeing her own frustration, her own despair in him, and wishing to do better for him than had been done for her.

They ride together on one horse, and take down a great foe together. They almost become one fighting body, one unit, and the bond between them is deepened by Merry declaring Theoden as like a father, and Eowyn also being Theoden's adopted child.

You see elements of her in the other hobbits as well. Pippin is the youngest hobbit and the one Elrond wishes to stay back, (Eowyn is the also the youngest in her family), so that experience of others wanting to hold them back, keep them confined, is one she shares with Pippin as well.

With Sam, we have Eowyn at the end declaring the wish to love all things that grow, and Faramir planning to grow a garden with her. Sam is perhaps one of the most virtuous (if not the most virtuous) characters in the books, and his love of gardening, of nature and growing things, is used to underline his virtue. To be garderner is, morally, the greatest thing to be in Middle Earth, and when Eowyn finds happiness, and reason for hope and joy, it is Sam's calling she likewise finds herself drawn to.

With Frodo, both of them suffer with depression. Both of them experience moments where they can no longer remember what it is to feel joy, or believe they never will again. They are also bound through the Witch King. Frodo's first really terrible blow of the war is the wound dealt him by the Witch King, and it is that wound which continues to physically torment him after the war. Eowyn, with Merry's assistance, is the one to slay the Witch King. She too suffers physical ramifications of this act, also in her arms, and like Frodo, her suffering and recovery from this physical blow is tied to her mental and physical suffering.

When Frodo and Sam complete their quest, and the Ring is destroyed, everyone in Middle Earth is saved, but we get to see this moment from Faramir and Eowyn's perspective, and we see how this moment is a turning point in Eowyn's healing narrative, especially pertinent, as a fair deal of Eowyn's depression was directly caused by Sauron's servants, Saruman and Grima, actively working to destroy her mental health. Therefore, both Eowyn and Frodo, while taking down enemies that were a threat to everyone, also destroyed an enemy that was a personal foe to the other.

The Scouring of the Shire also emphasises the ties between the hobbits and Eowyn. First, between Eowyn and the hobbits as a whole. Grima, as the king's counsellor and a student of Saruman, was in a position of power over Eowyn, and he used that to prey on her and cause her harm. After Saruman is defeated, and Grima is cast very low, and is tormented by Saruman, he then preys on the hobbits, even eating one of them.

And of course, it is the hobbits who overthrow Saruman and Grima's control, and it is at the hands of a hobbit that Grima finally dies, and Eowyn's tormenter is killed.

Eowyn and the hobbits are all examples of the unexpected, overlooked hero, whose courage and competence is underrated, only to be proved pivotal in times of crisis. And Eowyn and the hobbits all know, by the end of the narrative, that although sometimes battles have to be fought, gardening is a better thing to aspire to.

[rutobuka2]

what if the fellowship went winter camping? 🏕❄

[stargiirl27]

the last thing you see before you die