#rosie-cotton

[staceymcgillicuddy]

First of all I would just like to say that To get my soul known again is one of my absolute favourite stories of all time, so thank you for writing it and sharing it on the internet. Also, 24 and 72 for the writer's ask, please!

You are so sweet, thank you so much! I'm so glad it resonated with you!

24. Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

Anything that starts with "always" or "never." There's almost never (heh) good advice following those words.

72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

I'm a chronological writer! If I write the fun scenes first, I will never go back and fill in the rest of it. Doing it that way also forces me to have a reason for every scene, and to ensure that I reduce filler as much as possible (though, with fanfiction, half the fun is that there's gonna be filler because they're my blorbos, dammit).

Writer Asks

[tehcherrya]

Somebody give me the rights to the LOTR cinematic productions so I can create a coming of age dramedy taking place during the seventeen years between Bilbo's 111th birthday party and Frodo leaving the Shire. I'd call it "The Shire Seventeen". It would not only include the Conspiracy as a backdrop but also a bunch of the development and growing up that was probably done within those seventeen years, that is entirely unrelated to the Ring.

It's a whole seventeen years worth of low-stakes hobbit Shire drama and shenanigans, guys-- I need that cozy comedy content.

[velvet4510]

Losing my mind over how Frodo and Sam start off as “master and servant” within the Shire’s class system, but the moment they leave that system behind and are just two hobbits trying to survive in the wilderness, the entire Quest of the Ring essentially turns into the World’s Most Horrifying First Date, and they come out of it barely alive but desperately in love, and spend the next several months in the greatest and fairest lands in the world (Ithilien, Minas Tirith, Rivendell) for what’s essentially a well-earned honeymoon and when they return home to the Shire, they go “screw the class system” and literally move in together and then open their doors to Rosie and all three of them get to spend six precious months raising Elanor as one happy family before Frodo’s wounds from that First Date force him to say goodbye for a full 61 years but not before he makes Sam his heir and Sam - like a widow - inherits all of Frodo’s wealth and lives a prosperous life with Rosie because of it, and then eventually, it is Sam’s actions during that First Date that grant him the privilege to go after Frodo and get their happily ever after.

[kwistowee]

"If ever I was to marry someone, it would've been her." @lotrweek 2024 | Day 5 → here with me

[condohavenoking]

[beardedmrbean]

[autistook]

LOTR gifs to use as your phone's lock screen

[crybabyfucktoy]

do you like my nails? 💅🎀🌸🩷

[hxans]

Frodo Baggins, proposing an ot3 just like that.

[postmail]

while sam was pretty average by non-hobbit standards, i think he would have been a total hearthrob back in the shire. i mean seriously, good looking (by hobbit standards), a gardener, humble, hardworking, and he knows how to cook well? rosie was in the trenches dude. just fighting for her life out there

sam gamgee takes off his shirt on a hot summer day, 4 dead 27 wounded

[frodo-with-glasses]

R.I.P. Frodo Baggins, cause of death: cuteness overload

[mischieffoal]

Hot girl summer is over it's time for ~Hobbit Girl Autumn~!

Musical!Rosie Cotton my beloved!!

Watermill Theatre in 2023 (Charlotte Grayson), and Chicago Shakes Theatre in 2024 (Suzanne Hannau). (Take more pictures of Suzanne in Aotearoa challenge photographers!!!)

[velvet4510]

Ok, time for a hot take.

It really bothers me that Rosie and Sam’s relationship is reduced and made so shallow in the films, with the implication that they’ve never even talked to each other, and Sam is pining for this girl he doesn’t really know….

Like …

… this actually misses the entire point of their relationship in the book.

In the book, Sam and Rosie grew up together. His warmest memories that bring him comfort in the darkest place are the memories of playing with her in the pool when they were kids.

The point of Tolkien’s Rosie is that she’s someone familiar to Sam, the face that comes into his mind when he thinks of home. He remembers an actual moment he spent with her, a moment of fun and bonding. Then when he comes home, it turns out she could somehow sense the moment the Ring was destroyed, and knew he was coming home. They have this special, deep bond that brings Sam a sense of comfort and stability.

She’s not supposed to be some distant, unknown figure that Sam has built up in his head but has never actually talked to or gotten to know. That’s literally the antithesis of Tolkien’s Rosie Cotton.

It’s like the films swap Sam’s initial relationships with Rosie and with Frodo. In the movies, he starts off more familiar and friendly with Frodo; they apparently go to the pub together frequently like typical buddies do, whereas Rosie is in another world, dancing and making drinks behind the bar, and Sam is just too unsure of himself to even make small talk with her.

But Tolkien’s portrait is the exact opposite. Rosie is the one who Sam spends a lot of time with and has known for a long while. Frodo is the one who Sam is distant from and doesn’t really have the nerve to make chit-chat with, because he is Frodo’s servant and thus he thinks it’s not his place to be too friendly with “his betters,” as his dad says. (And then the journey takes the two of them out of that restrictive class system and frees them to bond and get to know each other as people.)

Then when they come home, there’s an actual sense of coming home, because Rosie embodies everything that is familiar and safe for Sam. Not everything that is unknown and scary.

[kwistowee]

“Sam blushed... for Rosie’s eyes were shining and she was smiling at him.” - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

[condohavenoking]

˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗ Wingman Frodo ˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗

[witchthewriter]