#The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring

[animusrox]

The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson

[elladanns]

Imagine that when the Fellowship goes through Khazad-Dûm, they come across this old dining room with a dead tree inside, only a skeleton, all of the leaves disintegrated onto the stone floor, shards of mithril surrounding it as if someone had frantically tried to heal it long ago... but could not.

[galatariel]

It is wisdom to recognise necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of this malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it. — THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Fellowship of the Ring (1954)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Rings of Power — 2022 1.08: Alloyed

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LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

[payidaresque]

J.R.R Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (1954, p. 476) The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power (2022—)

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[vildo]

Remember folks, we bow to NO ONE

[live-laugh-legolas]

Hiiii!

Since the fellowship are all pretty traumatized(😕)how do you think they deal with their nightmares?

They get nightmares

Aragorn

-He shoots awake (that scene where he wakes up with a knife)

-He has mastered the art of centering himself and moving on

-Deals with them by busying himself to take his mind off his troubles

-If he can’t fall back asleep then he will lose himself in a monotonous task like sharpening his sword

Legolas

-So elves don’t really sleep?

-I imagine nightmares aren’t common

-He possibly thinks it’s some sort of glimpse into the future and it takes a lot to convince him it’s alright

-I actually think he would often talk about his bad dreams when he does have them

-He takes care of his mental health

Gimli:

-He’s very quiet after waking up from a nightmare

-Keeps to himself but does appreciate company

-Sits close to the fire and stares into it

-He might talk about it and he might not; it depends on his company and what the subject of the dream was

Boromir:

-He gets up and walks

-He has to leave the room instantly

-I could see him logging his dreams in a notebook

-Especially considering a dream is what brought him to Rivendell

-He’s always worried his dream could be another prophecy type of thing rather than just his brain

Frodo:

-He wakes up cold and sweaty

-He feels ill

-He definitely doesn’t go back to sleep

-He gets dreams that cause a phantom feeling of still having the ring

-And he has often woken up to phantom pains on his scar from being stabbed

-I think he gets lost in his memories when he wakes up and would need someone to come pull him out

-Maybe before the journey he handled nightmares well and generally wasn’t too bothered

-But trauma really fucks with you

Sam:

-He wakes up scared but often doesn’t remember the dream

-Sometimes he does remember parts and it usually involves other people

-So he will go and check to make sure they are ok

-Even if he ends up waking them up; which he then apologizes profusely for until he is invited in for some tea

Merry:

-Depending on the dream he will either go back to sleep or he will go make himself some tea

-If it’s a nonsense nightmare he will generally go back to sleep

-But if it’s a memory or memory based he can’t fall back asleep

-The Witch King definitely makes appearances

Pippin:

-Doesn’t want to be alone

-He will come knocking at the door and want to stay with you

-Sweet sweet boy needs a hug

-I imagine he would have dreams where Frodo and Sam didn’t survive the explosion of Mount Doom

-I think he may feel a lot of regret for things he did during the journey

-Definitely has nightmares about Gandalf falling and Frodo being stabbed; he feels like he fucked up even though everything that happened lead to their success in some way

Gandalf:

-Grumpy after waking from a bad dream

-He needs time to think about it

-Probably won’t discuss the details of it but will express his feelings

-Similar to Boromir he will be trying to figure out if there was any meaning to the dream or just a figment of his imagination

[tolkien-povs]

The entire Tolkien Legendarium, except it's just Monopoly.

[caspergs]

sam and frodo literally make me so so sick to my stomach because they love each other soooo much, it doesnt matter how you interpret that love - brotherly, romantic, friendship, etc - they love and care for each other so much aghhhh it makes me crazy

[elerrinacrownedwithstars]

I don't think the story of Beren and Lúthien is somehow out of place in The Silmarillion. Yeah, most of the Silm consists of sad and tragic tales, but I don't think this makes B&L's story somehow inconsistent with the rest of the book. If anything, it serves as a contrast and elevates the Silm. It in some ways like a fairy tale, but at the same time it does break the conventions of fairy tales. It's about death, Tolkien's central theme, in more ways than most other tales of the Silm are.

It feels like this reading of Beren and Lúthien as a strange outlier comes out of treating and reading the Silm as a self-contained entity. But it is not. The Silm is still very much a part of Tolkien's legendarium, and despite the difficulties he had in writing and editing it, you can't really deny the ways it's connected and essential to Lord of the Rings.

And if you look at LOTR, the story of Beren and Lúthien appears very early in the Fellowship of the Ring. Aragorn sings their tale to the hobbits as they are spending the night by Weathertop, afraid of the Ringwraiths. Aragorn speaks of it as a sad tale that may nevertheless lift up the hobbits' hearts.

This, I think, is an important clue as to where the story will go. In many ways, Sam and Frodo's quest to destroy the Ring mirrors the quest of Beren and Lúthien to steal a Silmaril - and the two quests are interlocked because B&L's success enables the Silmaril to become the star of Eärendil, which in the form of Galadriel's star-glass will aid Sam and Frodo in some of the darkest moments of their journey. B&L's union also provides Middle-earth with a line of Men who will engage and keep Sauron busy long enough to be defeated, but that's beside the point of this post. The structure and nature of the two quests is similar: here are people who were underestimated by the powerful, going where the great cannot go, and doing things that even the mightiest could not have done. Before Sam and Frodo enter Shelob's lair, they even talk about Beren and Lúthien's quest, and note how they are in the same story still, as if to set the following scenes and the fight against Shelob in the very tone and memory of B&L's quest.

Beren and Lúthien's tale may on the surface seem different from the rest of the stories of the Silm. But if you look at the whole of the legendarium, it is more essential than many other tales of the Silm. The problem is that Tolkien himself had trouble constructing the myths and the early history of Arda in a way that would indeed fit the works he had already published at that point, and the uneasiness we may feel about B&L or whichever part of the story is because it was very intricate and Tolkien was not able to finish the story or find a satisfactory way to compile the many versions. Christopher Tolkien's editions of the Silm and HoMe are undoubtedly the result of a Herculean effort but even he knew and admitted there are other ways the fragments of his father's works could have been organised. Even so, there is no doubt of the fact that the tale of Beren and Lúthien is one of the core threads of the legendarium, and without it, the Silm and the story of Middle-earth would be much lesser.

[theriverwild]

2.06 Mind Palace

There's been so much discourse about the vision Annatar conjures for Celebrimbor in 2.06. Some have pointed out there are markers that are clear indicators this vision has come from Celebrimbor's memory, and that Sauron is using his sorcery to draw images from Celebrimbor's mind, much as he entered into one of Galadriel's own memories in 1.08. Others resolutely point out many references to the time he spent with Galadriel, and many parallels to his draw towards Galadriel being that of Morgoth's to the Silmarils.

I won't attempt to prove anyone right or wrong. I will simply put forward that we are all of us deceived! Whatever the vision is, it belongs to Sauron. We see what we want to see. And this is brilliant story-telling.

Just like Galadriel and Adar know Sauron is scheming, but do not agree on the mechanism or his full plan. Just like Elrond and Gil-Galad have been unable to see eye-to-eye on the use of the rings and best mode to oppose Sauron. Just like King Durin and Prince Durin are now divided over the power of corruption Sauron has injected into their relationship.

Consider Haldir's words from The Fellowship of the Ring:

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him. Yet so little faith and trust do we find now in the world beyond Lothlórien, unless maybe in Rivendell, that we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.

And I find an interesting allusion here in the last. By the Third Age, Sauron is no longer playing Galadriel like a harp. And though she might be focused in defense of her realm and the opposition of Sauron (hands upon the bowstring), she has likewise laid down her sword, her blinding quest for vengeance.

(I'll leave it there as the Third Age Galadriel-Sauron relationship deserves it's own series of posts.)

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 dir. Peter Jackson

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Aragorn & Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

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