#Battle for Middle Earth

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[toadkillah]

[fzzr]

That one level you go back to

I have played a lot of video games. [citation needed] Some of them were even good. [dubious — discuss] I have also played a lot of video game levels/missions. Some missions are really, really good and I want to talk about them. Each of these is so good I have replayed the game in question just to get to this level again. Given most of the are toward or at the end, that's saying quite a lot.

Halo CE — The Silent Cartographer

Let's get the obvious one out of the way first. Silent Cartographer is the most Halo mission in Halo CE. After the combat drop the mission provides you with a vehicle and an unclear destination and you get to go figure out for yourself how to get there. Go the direction the game points you? No problem, the golden path is a great way to experience what the level has to offer. Drive the other way? Sure, the devs thought of that and the script figures out what needs to happen. Do some speedrunner shit and skip the locked door trap? Haha you got us- NOPE this is fine, you're a speedy cyborg and that's not a problem. You want to blow shit up with rockets? Snipe with pistols? Go in swinging with an overshield or sneaky style with an active camouflage? Go for it, you're Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and you will Get The Job Done.

Call of Duty 2 — Rangers Lead the Way

Fight your way up this hill. One might think that the D-Day landing level is what makes or breaks this World War 2 game, but you would be mistaken. The mission that really gets the blood pumping is the battle for a place almost no one can name without looking it up (Hürtgen Forest, saved you a google.) You are looking straight up multiple lines of fortifications with no real concept of how far you're going to have to go, just ammunition and a direction - up. On the way there you're going to have a variety of encounters and access to most of the weapons in this front of the war. It's challenging, it's breathless, and it's everything Call of Duty should be.

Starcraft — Eye of the Storm

The final mission of the original Starcraft pulls a trick that's never done before series: It gives you control of armies of two separate factions at once. It's possible to get that effect later with mind control, but this is the mission that really makes it stick. You have access to the full Protoss and Terran tech trees, a separate supply pool for each, shared resources, and one job: Destroy the Overmind. Whether you decide to methodically wipe the map with siege weaponry or pour all your resources into a combined Carrier and Battlecruiser alpha strike, this mission is when you get to go all out. It also requires fighting a larger enemy force and managing twice as many units as usual, and you are calling on skills from many hours earlier in the campaign when using the Terran units. Altogether a transcendent moment.

The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth — Minas Tirith

This game isn't universally familiar, so here's some extra background. BFME is an RTS with a strategic world map that allows you to move from region to region building your armies as the campaigns (both good and evil are playable) progress. Of particular note, unlike most RTS games where you're building a fresh army from scratch for each mission, in BFME your army usually persists from mission to mission. Additionally, squads level up as you go along, making it very rewarding to play tactically to keep them alive. The good campaign starts out with you building up Eomer's army while defending Rohan, leading ultimately to the holdout at Helm's Deep which ends when the army you built up arrives.

After that, the good campaign leaves Rohan behind completely and switches to Faramir's point of view, where you go through a similar process of playing through story and optional battles to prepare for Mordor's onslaught. This leads, finally, to the attack on Minas Tirith. This is one of if not the longest missions in the game. This time you're going to have your tricked out rangers holding the wall, but attrition happens and by waves six and seven things might be feeling a bit dicey... and then the Rohirrim arrive. And not just any Rohirrim, either — the force that arrives is your army that you built during the Rohan part of the campaign. After you spent many hours and half the game away from them, this moment of catharsis, where all your work across both armies pays off at the same time, is one of those experiences I will never, ever forget. I have played a lot of LotR games and nothing else has come as close to reproducing the feeling of that (or any) moment of the story.

[aberrantcreature]

Widower DILF Kings flirting in a tent. 👑✨

One is shameless (as usual) and one is confused (because a sexy ageless elf king is all but purring at him).

[theaskywalker]

Imagine being Fili and Kili's younger sister and joining them and your uncle Thorin on the Quest despite their disapproval

Masterlist

[distinguisheddwarffriend]

Here's the thing (don't kill me for this):

Thorin dying at the End of The Hobbit makes sense, in a tragic kind of way. He always gave his everything for his people, it is somewhat poetic that his last act of service to his people was the ultimate sacrifice. That he could find peace with.

He'd find the afterlife an actual restful place, and could take the time to face his demons & trauma. Because he would know he did all he could & gave all the had.

HOWEVER!!!!

Fili & Kili dying was pure BULLSHIT!!!!!

I don't know what possessed Tolkien (our love & saviour, no disrespect) to kill them. Extra tragedy? Pffffff

Un.nece.ssary!

Apart from how Fili would have made an AMAZING king, them dying, his CHILDREN (look me in the eyes and tell me he didn't love those two like his own sons I dare you) ruined ALL peace he would have ever had, turning the WHOLE THING into a needless tragedy, the line ending, their home regained but not for his boys.

THAT is the real crime, that those boys, who left to fight for a home they never even knew, out of loyalty and love for their uncle & surrogate father, lost their lives before actually living them.

THAT is what I will never forgive, forever deny, and why I continue reading fix-it fics like a starving person.

JOHN RONALD REUEL I have WORDS for you!!!!!!

[theworldsoftolkein]

Éowyn - by IrenHorrors

Éowyn and the Nazgul - by Blue Footed600

[autistook]

March 3rd: The Battle of Helm's Deep begins

Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?

[anghraine]

Fun fact: Imrahil of Dol Amroth is only ever described in LOTR as Denethor and Faramir's "kinsman", with no distinction ever made between how he's related to Denethor vs to Faramir. It's only later, when Faramir briefly thinks of his long-dead mother, that she is called "Finduilas of Amroth" and we can deduce that the family connection was likely between Denethor's wife and Imrahil, making him an in-law of Denethor but blood relative of Faramir. We're still not told exactly how Imrahil and Finduilas were related, though.

I always had the impression of a certain degree of tension between Imrahil and Denethor, and also of Imrahil being particularly concerned for Faramir, but his exact relationships with them are quite vague in the narrative. A lot of the names, dates, and family connections among the members of the house of Dol Amroth that we now accept as a matter of course are mainly from a separate document published in Peoples of Middle-earth that explains the most probable origin story for the house of Dol Amroth and has an attached family tree. IIRC the entire existence of Faramir and Éowyn's son Elboron is based on his inclusion in the Dol Amroth family tree in POME and he's never referenced in LOTR (and possibly not in anything else, actually?).

Tolkien definitely did imagine Imrahil and Finduilas as siblings regardless (e.g. I think he mentions it when observing that Denethor's natural beardlessness as an Elrosian Dúnadan would be reinforced in Boromir and Faramir by their additional Elvish heritage through Imrahil's sister), but he didn't actually say it in LOTR.

I do think it's important, though, because it's with this later information that Imrahil taking charge of Faramir's fallen body is conclusively revealed to not be simply a prince rescuing a vague "kinsman" of political/military importance, but specifically a man carrying his dead sister's last surviving child from a battlefield.

(No wonder he and Éomer bonded so much, honestly!)

[idontcarecarebear]

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[toadkillah]

[aesthetic--mood]

Sauron Aesthetic

[aberrantcreature]

The sexiest DILFs in Middle Earth. ✨

[vizual-demon]

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

(2014) dir. Peter Jackson

[the-autistic-vulcan]

Thranduil Hot Takes #1

Request by @lemonivall : Can you do Thranduil with prompt #6, #27, and #29?

6) Hobbies

I like to think his hobbies consist of more hands-on things

One thing I think he'd have an affinity for embroidery - I mean, have you seen this man's robes?

Along with very long and slender fingers, his hands were practically made to handle a needle and thread

one thing he'd totally make for you is a handkerchief with elvish written on it

something like "beloved"

I also like to think he's a bit of a sap, so he definitely sews/crochets flowers for you

but yes, he is a embroidery kind of man - we stan this, we need more of this

27) How they sleep

Considering he is a king, he sleeps with mountains of pillows

I like to think he just brings pillows from the various corners of Middle-Earth he's visited and just sleeps with them

He's also compensating slightly for how lonely he feels

Sometimes, when he can't sleep, he does tuck a pillow into his arms and hug it

His bed is also massive as well

Common sleep positions he enjoys is either spooning or the mountaineer

He is a light sleeper too, so the slightest movement could wake him up

It wouldn't be unusual to sometimes just notice him staring up at the ceiling and just stare

29) How they express love (platonically and/or romantically)

Platonic:

awww, you're friends? you're really lucky then

it is not easy to be friends with him: 1) he's a king, so he is busy, 2) he has a lot of emotional baggage he hasn't been able to filter out yet so be prepared for a storm

he likes giving you head pats - idk, maybe it's just because of how small you are compared to him (bro's like 6'7)

he also shares his personal stories with you - he trusts you enough to hear them

Romantic:

this makes me so soft

like is said in the hobbies section, he is a sap, so expect much affection

he picks you up and hugs you tightly, mainly due to the fact he is super touch starved

this man is also a big kisser - kisses are a bug part of his love language

he loves kissing your nose, cheek and hand - but boy does he love your lips

he also is big on gift giving - one big, lavish gift after the next