#LOTR Show

[moonlarking]

I just realized I never posted this here!!! I finished it for the anniversary of the Sauron reveal and the trop season finale

[josis-teacup]

*apparently not sauron but the eminem vibe is still going strong

[isweartothebees]

Me heating up my mac and cheese in the fires of Mount Doom

[zarinaa113]

Congrats The Hobbit Trilogy, you are no longer the worst thing to come out of the Tolikien universe!

[scribble-dribble-writes]

Finished watching the rings of power a week ago and only now realized that

Obi wan Kenobi = Elendil

Like I cannot differentiate them in my mind and I'm deeply in love with both of them 😩

[redscrawl]

no i will not make separate blogs for my fandoms, everyone who follows me must experience ALL my insanity

[meteors-lotr]

Imagine the fellowship showing each other pictures and paintings of themselves as children

Everyone cooes over Gimli with the tiniest little beard and mini axe, the Hobbits all sleeping in a little pile of curls and tails, Aragorn in formal elven clothing but his hair is still as messy cause they couldn’t style it even if they tried, Boromir holding a baby Faramir cause he refused to part with him after he was born

And then Legolas shows the ugliest fucking thing any of them had ever seen, looking like a fleshy newborn bird with enormous eyes and ears, and he’s proudly boasting over how he’s seen as one of them most beautiful elven infants in millennium, and the rest of them are afraid to say anything because What The Fuck

[mithrandirl]

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

[g0ld3nd4nd3l10n]

mf almost got me feeling bad for orcs

[sigmalaussene]

I want them to adopt me

art • commissions

[josis-teacup]

This whole part about Elrond not being allowed to attend a meeting because "sorry elf lords only" makes even less sense when you remember that the showrunners have the rights to the appendices where it states right in the beginning what Elronds ancestry is and lists King Thingol of Doriath and King Turgon of Gondolin. They list kings and heroes and their accomplishments but apparently Show!Elrond is no more than some kind of secretary.

So they are not even in a position where they have to provide content despite lacking the rights. They just ignore the facts so they can present Elrond as some kind of underdog character. And that's what makes me angry.

I can excuse changes when they make sense storywise, when they are necessary to structure a story when adapting it to the screen, even when you have to fill holes because you don't have the rights.

But at this point they just want to fit an existing character into a mold carved out by stereotypical fantasy tropes.

Elronds heritage is an integral part of his story and something he passes on to his children. Him rejecting the privilege that was handed to him, rejecting his birthrights and choosing to build Imladris and becoming a healer, somebody who cares and provides, is a beautiful conclusion to his lineage that in the past has always been defined by pain.

It's not that I hate the show. I've always been hopeful for a good experience despite spending quite a lot of time rolling my eyes. I refuse to give a definite judgement before finishing the first season, it would be unfair to do so. But after watching the first two episodes I can say that I'm sad, disappointed and yes, a bit angry. Because that not what we were promised, thats not what Tolkien wrote. I can understand that many people enjoy the show and I welcome every single new fan with open arms. Sadly the lore changes take away from my enjoyment and the line regarding Elrond is only one example of many. Adaptations unfaithful towards the source material are always a dividing topic in fandoms and I hope that despite the discourse happening we all stay civil and respectful.

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

(source, 11/30/22)

KING

[magicovento]

This is my taste in men

[potato-dragons]

You know... I really thought I was crazy about how ROP's costumes look so shitty until I came across pic below of this character and saw she's actually wearing a long-sleeved shirt underneath her chestplate with the exact same gold scale design printed on.

Remember folks, the budget of this show is half a billion dollars compared to Peter's Jackson Lord of the Rings 250 million budget released twenty years ago and still looking beautiful.

[thenerdyalchemist]

Like the spring rain over the bones of a…. dead animal…

His poetry/speech is questionable but that alright he’s trying

[lawfulgoodness]