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✨ Light of Eärendil ✨

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Glorfindel, throwing himself on Erestor's lap: Tell me I'm pretty!

Erestor, tenderly stroking Glorfindel's hair: You're pretty fucking annoying, that's what you are.

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

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I was thinking about Aragorn’s stupidly long legs again and I think it should be canon that he regularly smacks his forehead into low door frames and stuff. Just somwhere in Minas Tirith there’s a loud thunk followed by a long string of Sindarin swearwords and Arwen is like “ah yes, here he comes, the King of Gondor and Arnor, the love of my life.”

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Help I’ve hit Rohan and it’s like watching Fullmetal Alchemist in English… this is our military dictator, firstname King… everyone else is named after a WWII fighter jet but don’t worry about it… only this experience is packed in alongside some of the most beautiful, lifechanging prose you’ve ever seen in your life. Again not unlike. Fullmetal Alchemist.

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Art by Ami Thompson

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

🎬 Peter Jackson

+ IMDb trivia

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Holy shit, holy shit, I just got into Lothlorian properly and NOBODY TOLD ME that it’s like. Not “timeless” it’s literally outside time it’s an Otherworld like all those islands in Irish stories where if you try to go back to the real world you age and crumble to ash, like Immram Bran or whatever — only not, presumably, that last part. They do specify that it’s outside time tho in a kinda literal sense. But it’s also got a GROVE but it’s also got a tall hill in opposition to an evil tower, Norse witchcraft style, but it’s ALSO got a BIG TREE at the foot of which THREE PEOPLE SIT next to a WELL and then a woman tells past present and FUTURE like oh my fucking god it’s Yggdrasil. It’s an Otherworld. It’s the combination Otherworld-Yggdrasil. Reading this is like eating the best and most interesting cheese platter of your life. And then Sam Gamgee is upset.

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I’m fine, I’m fine, it’s totally cool that the last galdor (spoken charm particularly used, under various names, in the Dark Ages in the European North Atlantic) Gandalf lays down is “You cannot pass.” And that the SECOND to last galdor Gandalf lays down is to protect the abandoned Bill the Pony.

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Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

I'm begging of you, please don't take my man

Your sword is long, your lance is keen, your shining helm afar is seen

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VIGGO MORTENSEN as ARAGORN THE TWO TOWERS, 2002, dir. Peter Jackson bonus:

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Raw sketch of Glorfindel. The helmet totally inspired by Alan Lee's illustration. The armor piece was inspired by flower petals, I think it looks ugly. But however this is just the beginning, I'm still trying to invent a more believable-looking armor. More updates soon

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To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

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Okay, Eomer fam, my work is in your hands for the moment. I'm uploading this sticker design to my stupid Redbubble shop.

I'm not tagging it, so I can see if they're monitoring my shop and whether or not I'll be able to upload new work. From the recent batch of stickers they took down, they inexplicably left Faramir up, so we'll see if they're as unthreatened by Eomer as his brother-in-law. Still, you never know. Took them 24 hours last time. So if you want the Lord of the Mark (who doesn't?), might want to grab him now.

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Made for wonderful @renfairelover59 as a tiny gift for her PayPal donation. Thank you so much for your support and a lovely message of support, I really appreciate it. You said that you like my Barduil pics, so I made one for you, hope you like it too❤