#Witchking Defeated

[theomenmedia]

Every Character From "The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King" Ranked From Most Loved To Most Hated

Celebrate 21 years of Middle-earth's end with our character love-hate list! From Frodo's courage to Denethor's despair, see where your favorites rank.

[sauron-kraut]

sorry my brain just screeched to a halt but: KINKTOBER: 21. (somno & oral) for Witchking and Mairon……….like…….half asleep WK and Mairon……………

THANK YOU FOR THE PROMPT FEINI, finally, FINALLY I finished these little Kink"tober" pieces. Here you go 🖤

Stoking Ashes

Summary: Mairon enjoys the Witch-King with his guard down. Sleep serves him best.

The Kinktober prompt list I used is @cilil's and can be found here. 🖤

Pairing: Mairon x Witch-King of Angmar

Words: 620

Warnings: explicit content, pwp, unconsensual somnophilia

As always: If you like this little piece, comments on AO3 are appreciated! 🖤

Not beta read!

Find the smut under the cut.

His chest rises and falls with steady sleep breaths as he lies there naked in his stoic morning slumber, a thing of beauty. A cold allure, ash begging to be stoked. Mairon is more than willing. He rises from where he lay nestled against the witch’s warmth, straddles him, hovers over him, not too much touch, let him sleep more, let him be a body, open and bare before pleasure. Nothing more, just for now. Here and now, Mairon does not desire the Witch-King’s guarded words, only desires his lustful defeat.

Mairon rests a gentle hand on the man’s face and speaks his morning lullaby. A deep sigh, yes, he will be how Mairon wants him. Mairon places a kiss the witch’s lips, quick and chaste, before pressing his body to his, veiled only by a thin gown. Mairon kisses the witch’s jaw, then his lips trail down his neck and trace his clavicle. He rolls his hips in shallow motions until he feels him swell against where Mairon’s thigh becomes groin. A soft sigh, and Mairon delights in coaxing it from him, so soon where normally it takes much longer to break down his guard. He cannot resist kissing the still sleeping man’s cheek before moving down on him. Mairon almost whines at the loss of contact, his own hardness hot and heavy between his legs.

He lets his lips trail over his stomach, dips the tip of his tongue into his navel, down, further down, nose pressed to his skin. Mairon smells him. Musky, human. He can hear the man’s aorta pulsate, deep in his lower body. Such delicious frailty. Mairon opens his mouth, wide, lets saliva dribble from his tongue onto the Witch-King’s length, and languidly licks a trail from base to head. 

When Mairon closes his lips around the tip of his length, he hears a sharp inhale. Mairon licks at the wetness gathering there, savours tang and salt. He hungers to devour the witch’s aliveness. Mairon takes him into his mouth, slowly, all the way until his nose touches the dark curls that grow there, human, so human. Another sigh bleeding into a small moan, and Mairon smiles around him. Tongue pressed against the underside of the witch’s erection, he starts moving. 

With a brief wave of his hand, he lifts his spell halfway. 

Mairon could not be more pleased with what follows. The witch half-opens his eyes, almost confused, and bucks his hips, a strangled, helpless sound tumbles from his lips, and his fingers move as though wanting to reach out for Mairon.

Mairon moves more swiftly on him, lets spit trickle freely from the corners of his mouth and coat the witch’s flesh. He closes his fingers around his length. They glide up and down so easily. Mairon’s ring glistens with slickness. The half-asleep body underneath him tenses, whines, thrusts deep into his mouth until he hits the back of Mairon’s throat with force. Warm delight fills Mairon’s chest as he allows this holy flesh he clad himself in to retch. Want surges between his hips.

Mairon lifts the spell entirely. He wants to be desired, after all. Another strangled moan, dark eyes flying open. Let him be seen. Bewilderment contorts the Witch-King’s face, births knitted brows, an open mouth, and Mairon takes his hand in his. He feasts on his calm features for once twisted in turmoil and lust.

The man can’t help but thrust, and spills himself onto Mairon’s waiting tongue with a whimper. Mairon nearly keens, savours the taste, more tang, more salt, a hint of bitterness, and swallows all with greed. The witch breathes.

Mairon looks up at the Witch-King through his lashes. “Good morning, sweet one.” Mairon smiles.

[handsofthrawn]

Thrawn likes fancy weapon.

[shieldmaiden19]

I'm going to print this off and frame it. Because every one of us who is being worn down by the endless swell of atrocities and overreaches from our governments needs to remember this - that when we die, too weary, too broken, and too damn young, we will die thinking we could have done more and we failed our world. Yes there will be more to do - there always will be - but with the labor of our hands and the breath in our lungs we made a difference. We are making a difference right now even if we can't perceive the magnitude or the effects. And in the temptation to take the shortcut through anarchy or violent uprising, we are facing Boromir's exact struggle, of protecting our nation by becoming as bad as our foe, and no matter how little we feel we've done, we've done our part. Four of the most pivotal moments in Books IV, V, and VI are possible because of Boromir's sacrifice, his nobility, and yes, even his failure. So DO NOT DESPAIR. You're doing okay!

#if you ask I will write a whole goddamn essay on Boromir #and why his death means more to us as we get older *whispers* babe I want the essay

Why must you always enable me I love it never stop. So. Wow. Where to even start. I rant through my tears about how much I love Boromir every time I watch Lord of the Rings, which I do about once a year with @captainofthefallen. Every time I watch it, his death means more to me, hits me harder, and I think that’s because the older we get, the more we identify with Boromir.

Here’s the thing. In all honesty, as a kid (I first read LotR when I was eleven, first watched the films at that age as well), I wasn’t too fond of Boromir. Oh I liked him all right, he was fine I suppose, but I didn’t connect with him. I was angry when he tried to take the One Ring from Frodo, and I cried a little at his death because death is sad and I was a kid, but it didn’t devastate me.

Because as a kid? I wanted to be Aragorn. The reluctant king who rises up and does the right thing, always. The guy who gets the amazing (be still my bi heart) Arwen, the Evenstar, fairest of the elves. The guy who literally kicks ass. The man who is noble, honorable, thoughtful, good with his words, humble, knows the burdens of leadership, who stands up and says there will be a day when the courage of men fails, but this is not that day.

I wanted to be the hero.

I noticed this trend among my peers growing up. We all loved Aragorn and wanted to be him. Boromir was sort of dismissed.

But then a funny thing happened, called getting older.

I got older, and I fucked up.

I got older, and depression hit.

I got older, and the weight of societal expectations, of being an older sibling, of adult responsibilities, of legacy, of family secrets, of family history, all settled on my shoulders.

I got older, and I learned that men are not always honorable, or kind, or humble, or the leaders they should be. And I learned how hard and desperate it is to continue to believe in the strength of men.

I got older, and I learned how temptation comes for us all, in different forms, and how we hurt people without meaning to, and how sometimes for all our regret and tears and apologies, we cannot mend what we broke.

I got older, and I leaned what it is to be forced into a role I didn’t want, to feel I’d hit a dead end, to struggle against those who had different views, to feel like people could look into my heart and see the anger and fear that I tried so hard to hide.

I got older, and I realized: I’m Boromir.

We’re all Boromir.

Tolkien was very deliberate with his characters. They aren’t just characters, flawed and wonderful though they might be. They also each represent something very specific. Aragorn represents the Ideal. The hero that we all can be, the hero that we should strive to be, the vision of mankind as we are supposed to be, if only we can let ourselves shed our hubris and our doubts. Aragorn represents who we should be.

Boromir represents who we are.

Flawed, frustrated, burdened, tempted, struggling, setback, good intentioned, afraid, angry, kindhearted, noble, loyal, and painfully, beautifully human.

Boromir went to the Council of Elrond reluctantly. He shouldn’t have gone. Boromir is a war leader, as we learn after his death. He successfully fought for and defended Gondor from Moria for years. That’s where he belongs. Faramir is the quiet one, the diplomat, the “wizard’s pupil,” the soft-spoken and patient one. Note that even in the film version, which shows a differently characterized Faramir than in the books (Tolkien heavily based Faramir on himself), Faramir only wants the One Ring in order to give it to his father and win his father’s pride and affection–he doesn’t want it for himself.

If Faramir had been at the Council and Boromir had stayed in Gondor, everything would have gone differently, and possibly for the better.

But the Steward of Fuckwits aka Boromir and Faramir’s father decides he wants Boromir to go, to represent their family, because Boromir is the son he values and is the “face” of Gondor. So Boromir sets aside what he wants, and he goes. And the whole time he feels out of place, feels like a fish out of water, feels second to Aragorn, feels lost, feels terrified his city will fall while he is gone, feels like the race of Men is being mocked and looked down on as weak.

How many of us as we grow up are stuck like that? We can’t fix our family (although we try), we can’t fix our broken country (although we try), we can’t get rid of the doubts and fears that whisper to us (although we try), and we can’t stop feeling like we’re constantly second best, constantly failing, looked down on, especially the millennial generation.

(Given what’s happening in the world right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tolkien found himself surprisingly similar in outlook and feeling to our generation. But that’s another topic.)

And of course that’s the key. Boromir–darling, frustrated, stuck, fatally flawed Boromir–is so very relatable because he tries. He tries to teach Merry and Pippin to protect themselves and then tries to save them and dies for it. He tries to convince Aragorn (who at that point is more elf than man in his outlook) that there is no reason to give up on his people, their people–and he succeeds in that, although he dies before he gets to see it. He tries to make his father proud. He tries to apologize when he fucks up. He tries and he fails, and he tries and he succeeds. And the most important things he does, the biggest seeds he plants, he never sees them flower.

Like my God, the man’s last words are I failed. I failed you, I failed Frodo, I tried to take the Ring. I’m sorry, I failed. That hits me so goddamn hard in my mid20s and it’ll hit me even harder when I’m older, I’m sure. How many times have we said that to people? “I tried to help him.” “I tried to reach out.” “I tried to apologize.” “I tried to stop them.” “I tried so hard.” I tried, I tried, I tried. For the job, for the friend, for everything, I tried.

And I failed.

I have a laundry list of things I tried and failed at, and God, do they hurt. Sometimes it was something out of my control, sometimes it was my own behavior. And that scene with Boromir, the flawed man, staring up at Aragorn, the ideal hero, and begging him, begging him, “save them, they took the little ones, find Frodo,” begging him for forgiveness, apologizing for his failures?

Talk about a fucking metaphor.

We make our ideals in literature so that we have something to look up to and strive for, for others to strive for. Boromir falls prey to the ring, but Aragorn does not. You did what I could not. Of course Aragorn did. He’s the ideal. And we beg our ideals to be better so they can show us the way and hopefully, maybe, someday, we can be like them.

I had so many heroes growing up, real and literary. Sara from A Little Princess. Aragorn. Lucy from Narnia. Nancy Drew. Harry Potter. And so many times I would look at myself in the mirror and cry because I knew, I knew if I stood in front of them they would be disappointed in me. I knew I wasn’t being the person I could be. I tried, I failed, I tried, I failed, but my God I swear, I tried.

As a kid or even a teenager, we still see mainly who we want to be. Our ideal. And I hope that we never lose sight of that. I love Aragorn and my God am I going to keep trying to be like him, and like all of my other literary heroes. We need those heroes, we need them so badly, and the darker the world gets the brighter we have to make them shine.

As an adult, though–as an adult, we start to see not only who we want to be, but who we are, and who we could’ve been, and how we failed to be, and the paths not taken and the paths that were lost. And that’s important too. Because Boromir died convinced he was a failure. Convinced he was, truly, the weakness we find in men.

And he was… but he wasn’t.

Without Boromir, Aragorn wouldn’t know what happened to Merry and Pippin or where they went. Without Boromir, Aragorn would’ve had no hope in the race of men. Without Boromir, who would have carried the hobbits up the cold mountain, or taught them how to fight, or said give them a moment, for pity’s sake! Who would have defended Gondor for so long, or loved his brother with a ferocity that Denethor’s abuse couldn’t knock loose, and inspired that brother to keep fighting even as the light faded and the night grew cold and long?

Aragorn carries Boromir’s bracers throughout the rest of the trilogy, right up to his coronation, where he is still wearing them as he is made King. Because Boromir might not have seen it–we might not see it–but we tried and we failed but we didn’t fail at everything. Lives are made brighter for our presence. The world is better for our gifts and our convictions. And no fight, even a fight lost, is done in vain.

The remains of the Fellowship ride to Gondor not just because it’s the Right Thing to Do, but because it is the city of their fallen brother, it’s Boromir’s home, the home that above all he gave everything to defend. Boromir doesn’t want the Ring for power, he wants it so his home will be safe, his family will be safe, and God who can’t relate to that, as we grow older and we see our families and friends attacked and scarred, as we have children and want them out of harm’s way. Who wouldn’t be tempted to seize the chance to keep them safe?

I see so much of myself in Boromir. And I take hope. I take inspiration. I cheer through my tears as he is hit again and again with arrows and each time he gets back up on his feet and grits his teeth and you can see him thinking not today. As a child I thought Boromir was selfish but as an adult I hear him use his last breath to apologize to Aragorn and call him his brother and his king and I see he’s more selfless than he ever gave himself credit for being. Boromir sees only his faults, but we can see what he doesn’t, we see his positive impact and we see his virtues, too.

Because as an adult I’ve failed, and I want to believe that like Boromir, I’ve also succeeded, I’ve also been more than just my faults–even if I can’t see that yet.

Aragorn is who we should be. But Boromir is who we are.

And my God, we should be proud of that. Because Boromir is a damn good person to be.

[gothhobbithoe]

Tolkien Fight Club: LOTR edition

*basically I just put all the LOTR characters names in a random name picker they use for high school and spun that wheel baby!*

Galadriel VS Aragorn:

I’m sorry but this badass bitch is gonna win

like Aragorn you are like amazing but she’s a literal goddess

did you see her in The Hobbit like nah mate

she could just get into his mind  

Boromir VS Legolas:

See this is really hard because I do think that both have good strategies

however Legolas has got hundred years more experience

and he could just shoot him there and then, not like Boromir hasn’t been shot before (i do apologise)

Arwen VS Eowyn:

Imma say Eowyn because she literally defeated the witchking

Like sure Arwen has got hundred’s of years more experience but Eowyn has the battle rage 

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

📓 about gríma if possible--you write him with so much depth and affection!

aww thank you so much, that's very much something I needed to hear today so thank you!

I believe I might have mentioned this one before, but it's very much a fic/plotline I think about a lot.

Title: Guilty Remnant

Plot: An AU where Sauron is semi-successful. He breaks Denethor/Gondor's defenses and swoops up from the south while his forces that were moving north succeed in defeating the Dale and Lonely Mountain defenses after which they swoop south clinching the defeat of Rohan who is essentially sandwiched.

However! All is not lost, Frodo and Sam haven't been taken captive and Sauron remains without the ring. There is hope for our heroes as Sauron's victory so far is just militarily - not a full and complete deal.

Leaders of the free peoples go into hiding (Aragorn, Gandalf, Boromir [alive always], Legolas, Gimli, Faramir etc. etc.) in order to re-coop and figure out next steps.

During the taking of Rohan, Theoden and Eowyn manage to flee to join the others. Eomer (and Eothain and Erkenbrand) gets stuck behind enemy lines because of where they were positioned militarily during the war and its many battles. In addition, Eomer was super reluctant about leaving his people and so waited too late to get out of dodge (not unlike his father, but without the death part).

Now, keep in mind that Sauron knows that Saruman sought to steal the ring from him and so he isn't too keen on keeping him around. At the moment, the Witchking is doing micro-managing of Saruman to ensure Good Behaviour but the wizard is on thin fucking ice. 

Queue Grima.

Who has slid his little snakey self onto the throne. Now that he is king, he's suddenly feeling a good deal less attached to doing whatever Saruman (et al) tell him to do. There's a sense of independence and the realization that he finally gets to run things how he wants to - or has the potential to if only Sauron and Saruman were less oppressive.

Eomer, who was captured, Grima manages to secure his freedom in return for good behaviour and being a sort of symbolic representation of a vague sense of quasi-approval/legitimacy for his reign. Eomer has agreed to this because he and Eothain and Erkenbrand figure that whatever information they can glean from Grima and his cronies can be secretly siphon off to Theoden, Eowyn and everyone else in hiding to help them with their plans.

There's a lot of politicking between Edoras, Isengard and Barad-Dur on who runs what parts of Rohan and who holds which titles. Saruman wants his personal henchman in top tier positions of the marshalate, Grima wants his own people and Sauron wants his cronies in. It gets messy. Also there’s a lot of tension and possible reprisals to different parties because of the aforementioned Sauron knowing about Saruman’s attempts to undermine him. 

The thing is, Eomer was a good Third Marshal and knew how to run things effectively and efficiently and Grima loves efficiencies. So Grima has Eomer doing sort-of quasi-acting role as Third Marshal in the background while publicly, of course, it's supposed to be one of Sauron's henchmen in that position.

This means that they end up forming a sort-of functioning work relationship. Grima trusts no one, but there are fundamental truths about Eomer he knows he can rely on and that ends up helping the foundations of their ability to work together form. It's the same in reverse, only Grima's reliable qualities aren't always good ones. Eomer just knows he can trust Grima to react/respond to situations in a certain way, depending on the inputs.

Anyway, they somehow make it work. More from necessity than anything else. A sort of "enemy of my enemy" deal with the devil at the crossroads.

Meanwhile, Theoden, Eowyn, Aragorn etc. etc. have managed to re-coop themselves and begin a successful slow retaking of Gondor with the intention of moving upward into Rohan. Which means Grima is forced to make some Hard Decisions and to maybe develop a single moral. Possibly even two.

It ends happily enough for all involved as I am a sucker for happy(ish) endings (for a given value of happy). There are several possible outcomes for how things wind up in the end and I alternate between them in my head. One where Grima manages to stick it out as king, the other is there's a bit of switcharoo with Eomer, and there's another where Theoden comes back in.

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It is essentially a long exploration of leadership, what it means to hold power, the idea of Necessary v. Good, the fact that there are no "ends and means" only means because ends don't truly exist, and what are the necessary elements that need to be present to effect true change in a person.

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Apologies for the very long write up! This is just a fully plotted monstrosity of a fic that I am always tinkering with in my head and would love to one day write but likely never will (though tbf, never say never).

Thank you again for the very very lovely ask and the warm compliment! I always hope I write all my characters with depth and affection, it is what is their due (and the reader's due) after all. So it was a lovely thing to hear. Thank you!

[tsarisfanfiction]

King Beyond Time

For my Wheel of Crossover @the-original-sineater asked for Flight Rising and 1 or 13.  Unfortunately, while I considered it, FR didn’t make it onto my fandom list for this, so instead I used 1 and 13 (although funnily enough, I do have fandragons for one of these fandoms!).  The fandoms and characters involved are in the tags and at the end, for those who might want to go in blind.

He was a king, once. A lord over all men, greatest of them all.  His name? It has been millennia since he recalled the things they called him, millennia since the world resembled the flashes of memory that sometimes pass through his mind, but that means nothing.

He is still a king. A king of the endless desert of death, most powerful of them all with the power to rule through fear and force loyal servants to fight to the death for his own amusement.  A king who bows to no-one, save power and the means to obtain it.

One of his memories, scattered and fragmented like the unending, unmoving sands of Hueco Mundo, is of a ring.  Simple, elegant, and irresistible.  He knows, in the certainty of the bones that are all he has left, that he had taken, accepted, that ring, worn it far longer than his mortal body should have been able to survive, defying the very aspect of death that is now his, and his alone.

This time, it was a stone. Small, glimmering, and bestowing upon him greater power, with the caveat that he serves a master.  He does not serve, not even now age and decay are at his fingertips, but he graciously assists and bides his time.

A ring, a stone, age and decay.  They are all him, were him, will be him, and nothing will stop him.

No man can kill me, is whispered into an ear he no longer has, caressing the skull that will endure.

I am no man, comes a retort, and the voice doesn’t match the woman in front of him, all petite and sharp edges and assassin, but it rattles inside his cranium nonetheless.

He ignores it. Perhaps once, a human stretched beyond the limits of mortality, a mere woman would have been a potential weakness. An Achilles heel, much, much younger Hollows, who claim to be old and wise but do not remember the world of the humans how it was when he still stalked it and are mere children to him, murmur.

Now?  Now he is no witchking, no mortal in any definition of the world.  He is Baraggan Louisenbairn, king of Hueco Mundo and harbinger of age and decay. There is no-one, be they mortal, shinigami, female or hollow, who can defeat him.

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Fandoms: Bleach/Lord of the Rings Characters: Baraggan Louisenbairn/Witch King of Angmar

[mainshype]

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[books-and-cookies]

I have a friend who is a huge LotR nerd and he’s started telling me fun facts every morning:

* he analysed Gandalf’s whole “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass” - the secret fire is essentially the gift of creation and only Eru / God has it, basically Gandalf is saying he has the blessing of god. Udun was one of Melkor's (this Melkor dude was Sauron’s boss way back when) early strongholds. Gandalf knows the balrogs have been with Melkor from the beginning. The flame of Anor is a reference to the Maia named Arien, who Melkor never managed to corrupt  - so Gandalf is saying he is incorruptible, and reminds the balrog of his master's failures and that he will straight up burn his ass (also it’s why he’s not that affected by the balrog when he literally wrestles him)

* he explained how Eowyn was able to kill the Nazgul -  the whole ''not by the hand of man will he fall” was mostly a gimmick that Glorfindel used to stop Earnur (the last king of Gondor) from going after the witchking after he was defeated (he totally went after him later like a fuckwit and was never seen again). The Dunedain of the north made special weapons against the wraiths (cause they were like ghosts and no mortal weapon could harm them) while Arnor was still alive. One of those blades ended up with Merry and when he stabbed the Nazgul, the blade pierced the magical veil between the worlds and brought him more into our world, so he could be hurt by regular weapons. Enter Eowyn to finish the job

*  Shelob probably survived (you know, the huge spider who we thought Sam had killed). Also she was about 6500 years old during the War of the Ring

* he told me why Galadriel gave 3 strands of her hair to Gimli, when he only asked for one -  way way back in Valinor, Feanor (the dude who created the silmarills) asked Galadriel for a lock of her hair, but she refused him 3 times,  because she thought we was arrogant and dangerous. After that he got so pissed off he made the silmarills. So basically Galadriel's hair is responsible for everything. When Gimli asked for one strand of hair, she saw he had a pure heart and gave him 3. Even in the movies you can see Legolas smile when Gimli tells him, because the fucker knew the story.

I’ll keep updating this post as he tells me more because this shit is fascinating.

[aethtalon]

The known feats of the 5 Hobbits that the world is aware of.

Are Ludicrous.

Stole from a troll. Got caught. Survived anyway.

Got separated from companions during a mad dash through goblin tunnels. Was able to escape hours later despite heavy guard on the exit.

Saved the entirety of campanion group from giant spiders after companions had been caught and trussed up for eating later.

Lived undetected in the elven king of Mirkwood's halls undetected for months.

Spirited away entire companion group from elven king of Mirkwood's dungeons, the only trace of their departure being empty cells until they popped up in Laketown later.

Stole from a dragon

Spotted said dragon's weak spot and communicated it to others, which later allowed a warrior to slay said dragon

Stole from a dwarf in the midst of gold sickness

Later had friendship with the dwarf he stole from confirmed by dwarf before said dwarf died.

Bore the one ring for decades and then willingly gave it up (×2 this feat can be accredited to both Bilbo and Frodo, though most people forget to include Frodo due to the fact that he took it back up after the Council of Elrond)

Survived getting stabbed with a Morgul blade.

Survived a trek through Moria.

Survived a trollspear to the chest (even with mithril that's pretty impressive I think)

Journeyed through Lothlorien safely.

Successfully captured Gollum and wrangled him into being their guide and servant

Escaped capture by orcs

Manipulated Ents into being hasty, which resulted in the destruction of Isengard

Survived indirect battles of wills with Sauron multiple times with their minds still their own

Prevented the murder half of a murder/suicide

Survived an attack by Shelob, the greatest spider of the age, and left her severely wounded

Helped defeat the Witchking of Angmar, a wraith

Survived a trek across Mordor, enduring the poison suffused into the air, soil, and water

Destroyed The One Ring

Survived the eruption of Mount Doom despite being in the mountain when it started.

Friends of the new king of Gondor.

And a prince of elves.

And Dwarven nobility.

A maiar went into the Shire and never came out

Crossed the sea with the elves to Valinor

And that's not counting feats of Smeagol/Gollum or miscellaneous hobbit stories

My favorite thing about hobbits is how no other race has any idea how they work so they can just… bullshit their way through literally anything? Bilbo turns invisible and the dwarves just go “Yeah sounds about right, Gandalf did say they’re very sneaky” and don’t guess about the Ring. Frodo gets stabbed by a troll spear and survives unharmed and Aragorn goes “Oh right, hobbits are supposed to be resilient, that checks out. Very impressive!” and nobody thinks to ask if he’s got perhaps some kind of armor. I need to know what the line is. How weird does a hobbit need to get before they get called out??

[abbybowcutuvu]

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings throughout the nineteen forties and published the series in the fifties. The series has very few female characters. Each one being extremely beautiful, high women. Éowyn is Theoden King’s niece (or sister-daughter as he calls her), and waits on him while he is being manipulated by Wormtounge and Sauroman. Éowyn is a woman with her roles and future clearly outlined for her. The women of Middle-Earth are to take a very traditional role as expected by the men around her; however, Éowyn actively protests against this and even defies her kings orders to do so. King Theoden charges her with the responsibility of ruling the remaining people of Rohan (the women and children) while the army marches out.

Éowyn pleads with Aragorn before he goes saying: “All your words are to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Éorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.’” And when Aragorn asks what she does fear, “‘A cage […] To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire’”. He decides she may not accompany him to the Path of the Dead. During their encounter she had gained the unrequited love of Aragorn. In her discontentment, frustration, love for Aragorn, and desire to fight, she rides in disguise with King Théoden’s company as Dernhelm. She takes along Meriadoc who was also commanded to stay and who has the same desires as her. During the battle on the Pelennor fields Éowyn defeats the Lord of the Nazgul, the Witchking of Angmar, and Sauron’s captain, her companies greatest foe at this time. The dialogue that ensues is the most famous line she has. The Witchking says:"Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!” Then Éowyn replies: "But no living man am I!” She says this as she defeats him and almost dying in the process.

From this point things get controversial. Éowyn is beloved at this point but after she is healed and meets Faramir she suddenly has some sort of epiphany and claims she no longer has a desire to be a shield-maiden but to basically give into her ‘traditional feminine nature’. Many take issue with this but I personally don’t mind Éowyn’s shift in perspective after she comes back from her near death experience. She has accomplished one of the greatest feats of the war and is now looking for hope, rebirth, and peace like the rest of those who have had their taste in war. Éowyn has not changed from the powerful, immensely capable and fierce woman she is. Maybe I defend Tolkien’s decision to write her character this way because I can empathize with her feelings. Both her feelings before she left for war and her feelings after the war. There is some sort of balance of needs and desires here, a balance between the masculine and feminine. Something I think we all need at times.

One last thing about Éowyn. Gandalf said this about her to her brother Éomer and Aragorn and I think it speaks much about her character and how misunderstood she was by those around her.

‘“You had horses, and deeds of arms, and the free fields; but she is born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours’” ‘Éomer was silent, and looked on his sister, as if pondering anew all the days of their past life together.”

[terryblount]

The Lords of Midnight and Doomdark’s Revenge are free on GOG

The Lords of Midnight and Doomdark’s Revenge are two classic role-playing strategy games by Mike Singleton. The first game was released back in 1984, while the second one was released the year after. Both of these games are free on GOG.

The Lords of Midnight featured an innovative 3D effect called landscaping, which served to bring the player into the game much more than usual. The player starts with four characters and then has the option to recruit up to twenty-eight further characters to join in the quest to destroy Doomdark, the evil Witchking who has locked the Land of Midnight in perpetual winter.

In Doomdark’s Revenge, the hero of the first game, Luxor the Moonprince, goes into the savage wastes of Icemark to save his son Morkin and defeat the evil Empress Shareth, daughter of his enemy Doomdark. The game has five factions to be recruited or fought. The main difference between this game and The Lords of Midnight is that the lords now all move and react independently, no longer content to sit in their castles and wait to be recruited.

Thanks Indie Game Bundles and Wiki.

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Lord of the Rings: Conquest cheats & more for PlayStation 3 (PS3)

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Genre: Action, Adventure Developer: Electronic Arts Publisher: Electronic Arts ESRB Rating: Teen Release Date: November 30, 2008

Hints

Expand Lightning

Turn into the mage hold r2 for 4 or 5 seconds and fire.

Legolas Shield Slide

Hold weak attack then while still holding weak attack press jump and Legolas will slide on his shield.

Cheats

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Unlockables

Unlock Rise Of Sauron

You have to successfully complete war of the ring to unlock rise of sauron modes.

Unlock Legendary Mode

You have to complete war of the ring and rise of sauron then you should have unlocked it.

Easter eggs

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Glitches

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Trophies

Trophy List

Battle of Helm’s Deep (Bronze) Complete the Helm’s Deep level in the singleplayer “War of the Ring” Campaign. Conquer over Isengard (Bronze) Complete the Isengard level in the singleplayer “War of the Ring” Campaign. The Mines of Moria (Bronze) Complete the Mines of Moria level in the singleplayer “War of the Ring” Campaign. Siege of Minas Tirith (Bronze) Complete the Minas Tirith level in the singleplayer “War of the Ring” Campaign. Battle of Pelennor Fields (Bronze) Complete the Pelennor Fields level in thesingle player “War of the Ring” Campaign. Assault on Osgiliath (Bronze) Complete the Osgiliath level in the singleplayer “War of the Ring” Campaign. Assault on Minas Morgul (Bronze) Complete the Minas Morgul level in thesingle player “War of the Ring” Campaign. Assault on Mount Doom (Bronze) Complete the Mount Doom level in the singleplayer “Rise of Sauron” Campaign. Siege of Osgiliath (Bronze) Complete the Osgiliath level in the single player”Rise of Sauron” Campaign. Fall of Minas Tirith (Bronze) Complete the Minas Tirith level in the singleplayer “Rise of Sauron” Campaign. Battle of Weathertop (Bronze) Complete the Weathertop level in the singleplayer “Rise of Sauron” Campaign. Siege of Moria (Bronze) Complete the Mines of Moria level in the singleplayer “Rise of Sauron” Campaign. Razing of Rivendell (Bronze) Complete the Rivendell level in the singleplayer “Rise of Sauron” Campaign. Splintered Shields (Bronze) Kill 100 enemies in one life as the warrior. Blade That Was Broken (Bronze) Score 30 hits on the combo counter as thewarrior. Eagle Eyes (Bronze) Get 25 headshot kills in one life as the archer. Rain of Fire (Bronze) Kill 25 enemies in one life with the archer’s firearrows. A Knife in the Dark (Bronze) Use the scout to backstab 10 enemies in onelife. Fire and Slaughter (Bronze) Kill 25 enemies in one life with the scout’sbombs. House of Healing (Bronze) Heal 30 allies in one life as the mage. Flame of Anor (Bronze) Kill 100 enemies in one life with the mage’s firewall. You Shall Not Pass! (Bronze) Defeat the Balrog as Gandalf in the Mines ofMoria (“War of the Ring” Campaign). No Living Man Am I (Bronze) Defeat the Witch King as Eowyn in Pelennor Fields(“War of the Ring” Campaign). Lord of Mordor (Bronze) Defeat Gandalf as Sauron in the Shire (“Rise ofSauron” Campaign). Never Toss a Dwarf (Bronze) Defeat Gimli as the Balrog in the Mines of Moria(“Rise of Sauron” Campaign). The Way of Pain (Bronze) Defeat Aragorn as Saruman in Weathertop (“Rise ofSauron” Campaign). Stupid Hobbitses (Bronze) Kill 300 hobbits in the Shire in one playthrough(“Rise of Sauron” Campaign). Mithril Armor (Bronze) Complete any campaign level without dying. Fellowship of the Ring (Bronze) Complete a campaign level cooperatively. War of the Last Alliance (Bronze) Complete the training level. Blademaster (Silver) Kill 25 players as the warrior in any ranked match. Marksman (Silver) Headshot kill 10 players as the archer in any rankedmatch. Assassin (Silver) Backstab 10 players as the scout in any ranked match. A Storm is Coming (Silver) Kill 15 players with the Mage’s lightning in anyranked match. Storm and the Lightning (Silver) Score the most points on the winning team inany ranked online match. A Red Sun Rises (Silver) Kill 30 enemies in a ranked Team Deathmatch match. Rings of Power (Silver) Capture 3 rings in a ranked Capture the Ring match. Ride to Ruin (Silver) Capture 10 control points in ranked Conquest match. Return of the King (Silver) Defeat 3 Nazgul as Aragorn in Minas Morgul (“Warof the Ring” Campaign). You Have My Axe (Silver) Kill 20 enemies with Gimli in any Team Deathmatchgame. You Have My Bow (Silver) Kill 20 enemies with Legolas in any Team Deathmatchgame. I Will Take It (Silver) Capture a ring with Frodo in a ranked Capture theRing match. Lord of the Nine Riders (Silver) Kill 10 players in one life as the WitchKing in any ranked match. All’s Well as Ends Better (Gold) Complete the single player “War of the Ring”Campaign. The Land of Shadow (Gold) Complete the single player “Rise of Sauron”Campaign. One Trophy to Rule Them All (Platinum) Earn all Bronze, Silver and GoldTrophies in The Lord of the Rings: Conquest™ Unfriendly Skies (Bronze) Get picked up by a fell beast or eagle. That Still Only Counts as One (Bronze) Climb and kill an Oliphaunt.

[chaos-in-the-making]

LET'S GO ON

The point is not that Boromir was tempted to take the ring for himself, and very nearly did it, but that in a moment of clarity he was DEEPLY REGRETFUL of his actions, mourned the hurt he caused to Frodo, and ended up sacrificing himself in the most heroic and badass way, just to save two of his hobbit friends.

The point is not that Aragorn became king because it was his destiny, but because the duty of defending his friends and his country made him brave enough to take up a mantle he had run away from all of his life. The belief his friends and countrymen had in him gave him the ability to overcome his own fears of failing like his ancestor had.

The point isnt that Eowyn rose above her gender norm because she wanted glory, but because the love for her Uncle and king made her realize that it was worth risking her life and everything because THIS was the battle that would define the world for the next millenia. That the real and present danger demanded she get up and DO something about it, and be involved, instead of waiting for the men to come home. And she defeated the WitchKing out of the fierce desire to protect her uncle. Her strength came from love, as did Merry's when he so bravely stabbed the Witchking, forgetting how small and insignificance he was.

I JUST LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS AND THE LESSONS IT GIVES.

imagine being into lotr and not realizing that “deeply flawed and broken people can and will do incredible, beautiful, wondrous, hugely important and significant things with just a bit of fellowship, hope, and love” is the entire point