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[autistook]

Bernard Hill

1944 - 2024

[condohavenoking]

The Hobbits | Fellowship of the Ring + Return of the King

[shirehobbit]

@lotr20 day 7 (17th Dec) - 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Hold your ground - hold your ground! Sons of Gondor - of Rohan . . . my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. The day may come when the courage of Men fails; when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship; but it is not this day - an hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the Age of Man comes crashing down - but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth - I bid you stand! Men of the West!

[taurielsilvan]

the return of the king - 20th anniversary

"This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace."

[eye-of-mordor]

... the bodily form in which he long had walked perished; but he fled back to Middle-earth, a spirit of hatred borne upon a dark wind. He was unable ever again to assume a form that seemed fair to men, but became black and hideous, and his power thereafter was through terror alone. He re-entered Mordor, and hid there for a time in silence. — Return of the King, Appendix 1.A: The Númenórean Kings 

[unproduciblesmackdown]

the interlude in rotk of frodo exerting all effort against the strains of woodwinds to drag himself a meter or so further up mount doom

[missmargaretcarter]

Run Boy Run (Woodkid) | Lord of the Rings (Aragorn)

[himbosuplex]

i dont go here but there was a part of me between last season and this season that wanted to write a Buddietommy fic that was hurt-comfort before the show did anything else with them but

quite frankly the fandom scares me LMAO (no shade y'all are just DEDICATED)

and now here we are.

[glittery-ishfish]

“There’s only room for one lazy flag in this town!”

[elitist-asshole]

alright everyone it’s time for a pronunciation poll:

rb for sample size etc etc

[autistook]

Fellowship of the Ring | Two Towers | Return of the King

[condohavenoking]

The Hobbits returning home — Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

[gargalesisandchins]

Every time I see this poem I hear it set to this tune and I've surprisingly never seen anyone else do it so here is my version.

Verses below ↓↓↓↓

Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known.

[buildarocketboys]

Hmm ok so today I:

- woke up at 6:30

- did NOT go back to sleep because fob final show of 2ourdust?? SIX 8 balls?! and vibing in the discord <3

- THEN jumped on a impromptu discord voice call with the fobbies <3333

- by the time we hung up it was like. 9:30 lmao

- started reading my next book

- cooked breakfast

- went for a walk and did some writing sprints

- made choc chip cookies

- had lunch and wrote some more of the fic I was working on on my walk

- joined a zoom call for my nanowrimo region and did some MORE writing sprints (but this time for my BSB fic yay!)

- submitted my fic for BSB

- replied to all the comments that have built up on my AO3 <3333

- finished writing the first fic

- read more of my book

- came up with a title for the finished fic

Anyway. Uh. I'm exhausted 😴😴😴 (but in a good way)

[eye-of-mordor]

It is said in the Ainulindalë that the Ainur, which includes the Maiar, possessed tremendous powers of foresight - to be able to pierce their vision past the barriers of time, glimpsing into the distant past and far future. Here in the fifth episode of the second season of The Rings of Power, we are shown how Mairon stands at the balcony of Ost-in-Edhil, staring intently down below. We do not know what he is thinking, but contemplating the real-world psychical power of bilocation and remote viewing, we might ponder whether Mairon, at times, was deep in meditation about his future state as the Eye, and even at times spiritually tethering himself to himself from the past to his future state.

So foot by foot, like small grey insects, they crept up the slope. They came to the path and found that it was broad, paved with broken rubble and beaten ash. Frodo clambered on to it, and then moved as if by some compulsion he turned slowly to face the East. Far off the shadows of Sauron hung; but torn by some gust of wind out of the world, or else moved by some great disquiet within, the mantling clouds swirled, and for a moment drew aside; and then he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr. One moment only it stared out, but as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye; and then the shadows were furled again and the terrible vision was removed. — JRR Tolkien, Return of the King

[tenrose]

I gave up, the website is too shitty, literally nothing functions. Idk if the payment really failed or if those suckers are just not able to properly write 'it's sold out'

Now that I'm slightly annoyed...

I'm gonna rant.

First of all theaters can go fuck themselves if they are not able to provide proper services. The cinema I'm talking about in particular is not indie by the way, it's one of the biggest chains here (fuck you UGC) so the bare minimum they could do is provide with actual functional website so people can actually use it and make reservations. Don't even get me started on the price. 11,60€ for me to fucking go out and see people???? And we know seats aren't as good as they used to be in the past. Don't know about the snack prices, I bet it costs two kidneys.

That being said...

FUCK STREAMING PLATFORMS TOO OR EVEN ESPECIALLY

obviously I ain't paying for any. I won't pay for 10 different platforms, and especially not Amazon they can literally rot in hell. Don't even get me started on netflix. I used to pay sometimes back then. Honestly they had something. They used to do an actual effort and trying to show different stuff. They let creative direction to their writers. We wouldn't never have sense8 with today mentality tbh. Everything is just a reboot, a book adaptation emptied from its substance, a reboot, and book adaptation a reboot, a book a- you see the thing. I mean I shouldn't be bitching as pretty much never watch anything new for years so what do I know? I mean I would like to, but every time I watch a trailer, I'm tired just by watching it. Latest exemple I'm thinking about is the three body problem... Like having read the book just watching the trailer you could see the Americanism all over it... For a chinese book. And it's the problem with everything. I mean American TV shows have always be like this, maybe being younger I wasn't aware back then idk. But it feels so empty, so soulless? They can give me all the diversity they want, that doesn't change that it's still empty. And for TV shows (actually I'm talking more specifically about TV shows cause I'm not a big cinephile so I don't have the legitimacy to criticise) I know it's because of that stupid ass 8 episodes format. I've already talked about it. But it's literally draining the whole industry imo. Also writers clearly having little creative freedom since they have to make stuff that sells. But yeah, TV shows lasted physically and in memories because we were watching them slowly instead of this boulimie stuff we have now. Everything is like consume, forget, consume forget and pay shit ton of money.

And I'm thinking I am actually not built for this shit. I felt so burn out not being able to enjoy anything. So now I don't even try. I don't try new shows cause it's not worth it even when there's an actual good one. Because it's gonna be cancelled anyway. Who wants to emotionally invest in shows that get cancelled (I did so many time).

But when I do.

Be sure I will pirate the shit out of it. None of these industries deserve our money.

To finish on a positive note, if there's one thing I'm really happy for in the end. It's books. Sure the book industry is oversaturated too and there's ton of shit to criticise too (but I won't here). But it's so vast there are books everywhere for everyone, and even if tomorrow not a single book would be published (which I don't believe in), there are enough books for my entire life anyway. But yes books, even if formatted too (looking at us french snobs with our novel format), are like the only place writers can still let go of their creativity. Plus you can have cheap books (I'm starting to get there) and obviously free books thanks to libraries, and also you can pirate books too. Yes I pirate books too but tbh it doesn't even compensate how much I spend buying books so I'm not feeling guilty and I either pirate popular books or old books (if they are really old it's free anyway). But yes if you go out unlike me go buy books if you have money, to your local bookstore, or if you can't library is your way.

Reading is my anchor ⚓