#trollshaws

[saephrond]

The Angle of Mitheithel — Where the rivers meet and the land, wrapped in the colours of Autumn, rests quietly.

[theworldsoftolkein]

2nd Breakfast - by Raoul Vitale

[ladydwarfbadari]

[lotro-tooltips-daily]

[a-little-hobbit-hole]

"Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum."

My first time seeing Gollum's Cave (I always get lost in Goblin-town), and it looks just as expected: dark and lonely. Nennith got to spend some time exploring the small cave while looking for Bilbo's buttons. But now it's nice to chase the chill away by being back in Rivendell to continue the Bingo quests!

[icarusfrommars]

for lotro GeoGuessr!

The tall red trees and the elven ruins make me think of the Trollshaws so I'll guess near Nan Tornaeth? In that area for sure.

[lordofthesimps]

What are my Angmarim besties picking today?

Wrong answer only!

I start:

- Pipe weed for Amarthiel.

[ekuruga]

[rangers-are-cool-moved]

“ look at me. “ (Hal?)

Looking at Beleg was the last thing they wanted to do right then. But he wasn't giving them much choice in the matter.

"Just let me leave."

Dark grey eyes, which were normally clear of any emotions, burned with 50 years worth of bottled up pain, frustration and defeat.

@thegreatstrongbow

[striderstable]

The Trollshaws | The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar - Soundtrack

From my Tolkien Reading Day Music Playlist

Simply enchanting.

[saephrond]

"—One could linger forever in such beauty. But, perhaps, it is the brevity of Autumn that lends to its charm.

[theworldsoftolkein]

The Trollshaws

[lothrandir]

my first time in the angle + this cringe fail elf i would lay down my life for

[lotro-tooltips-daily]

[medicinemane]

My one big issue with it is specifically not really whether it was Glorfindel or Arwen, but how robbed Frodo is at the Ford of Bruinen. How instead of standing up to the Nazgul while he's basically dying, he's reduced to basically being a groaning bag of potatoes

That's my main Arwen related complaint, which obviously is kind of tangential to her as a character

Controversial opinion but I don’t mind that they replaced Glorfindel with Arwen in the movie. Movies have to be accessible to people who’ve never read the source material, and if they’d inserted some character there who never showed up again it wouldn’t have flowed very well in the movie medium. This is okay in books, but it’s almost never the right choice in movies. If they’d kept Glorfindel’s involvement as it was in the book, it would have made for a very poor movie. If they’d involved Glorfindel again later to preserve the value of the medium, they would have (a) endangered the stakes of the plot and (b) betrayed the themes of the source material.

“Oh but Elrond wouldn’t have sent Arwen out on that kind of mission.” No, he wouldn’t have sent her, but if she’d wanted to go, he wouldn’t have stopped her. Elrond doesn’t exactly have a track record of stopping his children from doing things that they want to do; he just makes sure they’re prepared to handle it and makes it as safe as he can. The fact that Arwen is carrying Elrond’s sword in this scene indicates that he had taken steps to make sure she had been able to handle it. (Jokes about her stealing it aside, she probably wouldn’t be able to, assuming she would try in the first place. She probably wouldn’t.)

And back to the medium again, with Arwen acting as a major motivating force for Aragorn throughout the story she needed to be introduced as early as possible, and in a more active manner than she was in the book. The movie also would have suffered if she didn’t have these early scenes.

[morningnoodles]

trollshaw thorin doodles