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Catboy Gollum staring at Force Ghost Boromir the same way my own cat stares at the corner of my room

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◈ The Flame of the West ◈

Elendil and Narsil ◈ Aragorn II and Andúril

Forged in the First Age by Telchar of Nogrod, Narsil came to Elendil of Númenor in the Second Age, and was reforged as Andúril at Rivendell for Aragorn II at the end of the Third Age.

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DURIN IV & PRINCESS DISA in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022-) S2E02: Where the Stars are Strange

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Isildur's Bane

Durin's Bane

Gandalf's Bane

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“how could you like Galadriel with Celeborn he’s such a boring guy compared to her” you absolute buffoon you will not survive the winter. Celeborn being boring compared to his eldritch angel wife is the whole appeal. it’s elf Connecticut Clark x Malvina

you’re invited to dinner at casa Lothlorien and you ask Galadriel to pass the butter and she looks you dead in the eyes and tells you the exact time and place of your death. and Celeborn is just like “isn’t my wife smart 😃”

“what do you see in that guy” “he makes me laugh” a la Jessica Rabbit, but Galadriel’s laugh is absolutely terrifying. Celeborn tells a shitty pun straight out of some dollar store joke book and Galadriel lets out this classic Disney villain laugh, and the sky quakes and you hear fear in the language of the leaves and Celeborn is just like “I’m glad you liked that one ☺️”

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im crying, i love your dad

What’s your core memory of watching the Lord of the Rings films for the first time because I will never forget how my extremely South Asian dad — during the emotionally climatic scene where Arwen is riding to the Havens and sees a vision of her son — paused, pointed, and said “Mashallah, Sister Arwen has accepted the hijab, alhamdulillah, praise be to god” and giggled for a good five minutes 😭

last time i shared this in a uni tolkien club someone called him a misogynistic fundamentalist because irl tolkien clubs are fucking deranged so please let me clarify that he was, in fact, joking.

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Faramir & Sam extended scene 4k

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“I learned that he had never married. I thought that odd though I guessed why it was and the reason that I guessed was not that most of the Hobbits gave me - that he had early been left very well off and his own master. No, I guessed that he wanted to remain ‘unattached’ for some reason deep down which he did not understand himself - or would not acknowledge, for it alarmed him.”

— Gandalf talking to Pippin about Bilbo, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth

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Don’t you know your Sam? :(

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I was about to lose my goddamn mind thinking this was a legit quote until I read the tags, goddamn you

“Elves do not need to shit. There are no execratory processes happening within the elven body. There are no toilets in Lothlorien. Celeborn tells Gimli to just “go on a tree, like a hound”. Legolas spends the entire quest feeling sad, left out and excluded from the camaraderie building activity of the communal morning shite. Half-elves may need a shit but only sometimes. Like when they’re particularly sad, or ate something bad. When Finrod discovered humans he was fascinated by the concept. Lúthien (re-released edition) and Arwen had the capability to take a shit but chose not to. Elros wanted to but couldn’t. With the Maiar it’s Russian Roulette. Saruman can’t but tells everyone he can. Mithrandir can. Sauron won’t, which explains a lot.”

— JRR Tolkien, Laws and Customs Among the Eldar

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so! during my last stream @emsiecat prompted me to draw the “come to bed” “you work too hard” etc trope for bagginshield that had been drawn by talented bbs such as @shipsicle and @topazmyst !!! go check theirs out too!!

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courting braid!!!