#the hobbits are interesting to watch

[smoking-old-toby]

"the greatest kingdom on middle-earth... Erebor" wow bilbo isn't biased or anything lol

[meteors-lotr]

I love talking about The Hobbit with my gf, cause whenever I do I have to make it super clear who everyone is because she struggles a bit with faces and names, so whenever I try to tell her a thought it’s just

“So Legolas (The younger of the two blonde elves who broke gravity that one time) and Tilda (Bards younger daughter that im obsessed with) (Bard is also the guy who killed the Dragon and is played by Gaston), and also Thorin (The dwarf king who died that were both upset about why did you do that to us Tolkien) went to Mirkwood (That weird spooky forest that the elves lived in with all the spiders and that weird river like what was that)”- like sentencing is just a pain but it’s so fucking funny

I love that she’s trying at least

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

According to The Art of Amphibia, a few inspirations for the vibe and feeling of the early concepts were films like The Dark Crystal and The Hobbit (1977). I tried giving them a watch and, oh god, oh my fucking god what is that

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

well folks. i guess my lotr hyperfixation has finally hit

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

i love making of/behind the scenes type of shit more than actual television and film, i think. i'll watch hours of prop-making or hair and makeup for television shows that i'll never even watch. show me how that suasage gets made baby

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

bucket!!!! Hiiii!!!!

you seem to like movies a lot right?

what your favorite movie and or show

hi raith :]]

hmm i don’t know. i watched the wild robot recently and i really enjoyed that, and a series of unfortunate events is great

oh i watched this movie a while back called joyride and that was really good

a lot of my favorites are kind of idk juvenile? i don’t watch a lot of new movies and most of my favorites are really just for the nostalgia like lilo and stitch or megamind

[foolishlyzephyrus]

the conundrum of the hobbit movies being lovely to look at but also horrendously inaccurate

[thehalfbloodfreak]

I may or may not be reading LOTR for the first time

[axepng]

Silly Game Time: Are you fan of the fantasy genre? If so, what's a fantasy story (movie, show, book, game, etc.) you really like, and why?

I LOVE fantasy!!!!! Well, not the entire genre but a lot of the stuff i like is fantasy!

I do love fantasy cartoons, I adore the stories of Over the Garden Wall, Gravity Falls, One Piece, ect. ect.

Game wise, its 100% Hollow Knight. I cannot stress this enough the story of Hollow Knight is so good.. ARGH now I want to replay the game again..!!!!!

[sainte666]

Damn idk why but this 5846263858th rewatch of LOTR has me SOBBING at the end

[failing-thought]

reading Growing Dwarves like it's a telenovela (to me it is)

[leolaroot]

watching folding ideas Bakshi lotr video. wtf I had no idea lotr was cool and badass why did nopony tell me <- everypomy has been saying this to him for years he just discounted it

[konfuse]

One of the funny things here is that some scholars argue, that Tolkien did get a lot of inspiration from "Niebelungenlied" which is part of Wagner's "Ring Cycle".

Bugs Bunny could have simply walked into Mordor. He would have shown up at the gates of Mordor in a disguise and been like “Evil volcano inspection unit” and flashed a fake ID badge to the confused orc.

[leatherbookmark]

aaaauuuuggghhhhh this video (warning: choi san choi sanning) is not only a great (and lethal) choi san sampler but also proves why ateez performances fuck: it's the drama, babey!!! all the stuff they've apparently been criticized for -- the shaking, the weird expressions that border on scary/possessed -- are incredibly captivating and simply fun to watch. it's interesting. i'm not going as far as to say that if you don't look at least a bit freaky then what the fuck are you doing on stage, because there's a plenty of performers that kill their audience with slow, elegant and fully controlled movements. but it's like -- there's coming out on stage to sing and dance, and there's performing a character/a story/an emotional journey. and atz very often (not always) do the latter! when the demon line lads pull those intense faces, roll their eyes, do lightning fast switches between crazy laughter and serial killer face, i can't help but think they're seeing something else besides the stage lights! there's a story, there are events, there's Stuff. it's just like playing a role. i feel i've said it before, possibly even more than once, but having lively, emotionally intense (i'm still not over inception) performances in times when earnestness is ~cringe~ is really cool.

[realtacuardach]

One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.

In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.

In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.

One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.

Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?

[camellia-thea]

thought dump.