#the lord of the things the two towers

[manichewitz]

sam and frodo’s relationship is so crazy theyre like what if we had a homoerotic adventurer’s bond that was so strong it overcame the power of supreme evil, saving not just the world but one another, and the only reason we were able to survive the violence around us was through sheer love for each other, and although we’re not canonically lovers our relationship is so much more intimate and tender than acceptable norms for male/male relationships that we transcend easily definable labels and thus become queer irregardless of whether our attraction is platonic, romantic, or sexual…and we were both hobbits

[sluttycinderella]

sam and frodo dragging gollum across rohan is just every gay couple and their fuckass cat.

[bioluminesced]

ring bearers

[pixlatedvampire]

two towers two posts lmao

part 1

[future-crab]

I know it’s cheesy but I do want to post this here for anyone else who needs it. There’s some good in this world Mr. Frodo and it’s worth fighting for.

[kindlythevoid]

“Gimli was lifted up [onto the horse] behind his friend, and he clung to [Legolas], not much more at ease than Sam Gamgee in a boat.”

-The Two Towers pg. 35

Friendly reminder that the one time Gimli got onto a horse for the first time and hated it so much that he was compared to Sam in a boat, who had multiple paragraphs dedicated to how much he hated boats.

[looking-to-rattle-the-stars]

watched two towers (extended) tonight, have a frodo

(i drew him while i was at work but hey! i sort of like this frodo more than my other attempts at him :> )

[crowwithahotdog]

Anytime anyone used to say how the lord of the rings movies were too violent and battle-centric I always thought like yeah okay there are some pretty nasty parts for sure and I hadn’t read the books myself then so I couldn’t really argue but now that I’m actually reading the books I’m honestly surprised to see that a lot of the violence and horror that I had just assumed were added in to the movies for shock value and drama are things that are straight from the text. Like the Uruk hai head on a spike in two towers or the catapults shooting the men’s heads who had fallen at osgiliath over the walls of minas tirith…….that shit is fucked

[fippydarkpaw]

I just cannot engage with Lord of the Rings in typical fandom style. That is a religious text to me.

[naldoreth]

LOTR tag meme

LOTR themed tag game! Reblog with your own answers and tag three or more people you want to get to know better! I saw it in @legolas-fan-blog and had to do it C:

How old were you when you read/watched LOTR for the first time: 11 when I watched FOTR, 14 or so when I read the trilogy for the first time

Favourite LOTR character: Legolas <3

Books or movies: I love them both equally but the movies are my comfort piece

Favourite movie: The Two Towers

Which location in Middle Earth would you want to visit most: The Shire and Rohan!

Favourite scene: this is too hard! For FOTR, the Council of Elrond and Boromir's death, I'd say. For TTT, clearly Aragorn entering Helm's Deep like he owns it, or Legolas surfing down the stairs, or Aragorn tossing Gimli... And finally, in ROTK, I'm no man and You bow to no one.

Favourite quote: "Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer". (Also "PO-TA-TOES).

What Middle Earth race would you want to be: a hobbit. I'm already half hobbit as is.

Favourite LOTR ship if you have one: Legolas/OFC (my OFC, specifically). I'm also not aversed to Legolas/Gimli and I know for a fact that Frodo and Sam are an item (and Rosie knows it and she's ok with it). I also love Aegnor/Andreth (The Silm) and Galadriel/Halbrand (Rings of Power).

Tagging @lordbhreanna and anyone else that wants to do it! :D

[topnotchquark]

There has been talk that Daniel left Renault to go to McLaren because of internal politics and a messy management dynamic in the team but no. The real reason Daniel left was because he understood that a driver-team principal dynamic filled to the brim with salacious, beautiful nosed, sad honey-amber eyed, olive skinned, authentic Mediterranean sexual tension that he shared with Cyril would simply have broken the space time continuum. Him sticking around with Cyril who obviously deeply loved him would have been too much. Which is why he had to uproot himself and sign up to be in that shitbox papaya with that ugly fraud Mak Frown. Daniel did that so the scales of the universe don't tip due to all that collective beauty being in one place.

[manichewitz]

this comment was on a video of sean astin saying that he loved that people wrote gay fanfiction about sam and frodo and thinks they should’ve kissed

[bunnakit]

i really enjoy that a good portion of millenials adopted saying something is "like the beacons of minas tirith" to basically say "yeah that's bright as fuck"

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

The first several chapters of The Two Towers are a truly unparalleled reading experience. Boromir's funeral. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli running for three days straight. Tolkien going off about the eldritch nature of ancient forests. Merry and Pippin Whump Adventure Extraordinaire. Stupendous, Outstanding, 10/10.

[torchwood-99]

Ok, been sitting on this for a while, been trying to talk myself out of it, but here goes.

The book doesn't sell me on the love Theoden had for Eowyn.

I tried to read it and find something in his actions towards her that tell me he has proper regard, proper respect for her, that gives any weight or meaning to his love for her, but I can't find anything. He dismisses her before the entire court, doesn't consider her an heir or a proper part of his house, and has to have her virtues called out to him by other people, when she has been serving him for years.

Return Of The King sees him spout platitudes and declare her "dearer than daughter", but none of this is backed up by his general actions to her.

He loves Eowyn, fine. But he doesn't love her the way he loves Eomer, or probably loved Theodred. He doesn't love her as a fully realised being. Nor as someone to take pride in and carry on his legacy. He loves her a crutch, a tool, and something between pet and person.

He has affection for Eowyn, but his love feels more like a trivial thing, than something with any real worth or regard to it.

[arc-en-disco]