#faramir man.. jesus

[sweetshire]

character bingo oh you know who im gonna say. denethor our beloved beloathed. our prince of tragedy our terrible darling. okay i’ll stop. i feel like that post-shoujo anime filter post. goodbye love u

‘our princess of tragedy our terrible darling’ -oh YES. yeah exactly. as someone wise once said, ‘he’s our princess of nuance our darling victim of the narrative’ <- this line lives rent free in my brain.

*looking at denethor* doomed by the narrative all by yourself, handsome? his psychic powers and his unwavering willpower have bewitched body and soul. i need him (asexual). i also want someone (thorongil) to fuck him.

anyway, he’s the worst (affectionate). but jesus…. do i wish the fandom was more understanding of him. those ridiculous ‘jokes’ get very tiring real fast. everytime i’m subjected to see them i’m like: 1. somebody’s out to get me, and 2. an angel lost their wings :(( they aren’t even funny anymore it just feels painful to hear such slander. i mean, come on, if you’re determined to hate him, at least hate him for the right reasons. (<- free my man. he did none of that. he did a bunch of other shit though). not me though, i love him bc he’s terrible. as if tragedy and helplessness and impending doom wasn’t enough, the concept of denethor as a weapon first person second & fighting the fate you know you can’t stop. aahh gosh it’s delicious.

he was angry and bitter and righteous and wrong. Even believed that he was supposed to rule gondor. so what. he was a GREAT leader. he was SO courageous he guarded his city & protected his people. he fought evil for years. that’s admirable. even sauron thought him formidable. he loses his resolve, finally, when he believes that he’s lost both of his sons to DEATH (or so he believes). he thinks it a kindness to burn faramir & himself. a kindness, isn’t it, to be burned by a hand better than sauron’s. well, he’s wrong again but he doesn’t know that. after all, it’s better than the fate that awaits him & his son. ….oof what a dangerous thing grief is! can u fault him his grief? (do u think you will be able to stay sane, not succumb to the madness? will u be reasonable in your mourning? can you?) so that’s no reason for mocking him. i think one of the reason people hate him is bc of his ‘abuse’ and ‘cruelty’ towards faramir?!?! which like. girl. first of all, sorry but their relationship is NOT abusive it’s dysfunctional. second of all, he’s not kind but he’s not cruel either. ofc he isn’t kind. he can’t afford to be, not when it’s so difficult to distinguish friend from foe; and like doesn’t allow him to be either. he’s been through it all, he’s turned cynical. his bizarre relationship w faramir IS Very Intriguing. he cares for him ofc, in his own twisted way. he sees himself in faramir (which is what, i think?, causes resentment btw them). (pov change) - what if u & your son are so fucking alike but hate each other’s guts? what then? but no matter u can’t stay wondering abt such matters, not when u have a duty to do. as u said in one of your post, btw getting to be a steward or a father, which will win? in his case, duty wins. always.

tolkien wrote him SUCH a tragic & compelling character arc/storyline. so as far as i’m concerned denethor is one of the most interesting & complex character :)

[afaramir]

1, 10, 23 for the ask game

heyyy long time no see 2 u as well...i hope u are doing well<3

1. the character everyone gets wrong

well one might be able to guess who i will say here. keep your hands and feet inside the rant at all times. denethor my dearly beloved...my prince of nuance...my darling victim of the narrative....i mean one thing i CAN say for peter jackson is that he did succeed at creating a laughingstock of a villain because most of the particularly egregious shit (tomato scene/flaming run/gandalf staff bonk) IS like. jesus christ i hate to admit it but it is funny. you hear about it for the first time and you HAVE to laugh. unfortunately i have developed the opposite of a sense of humour whenever im faced with denethor jokes. i am physically incapable of finding any of it funny anymore. i just get mad. its all just jesus christ the same yesterday today and forever. you all are smart enough to be funnier than this. its almost like sometimes your emotions towards other people are complicated and sometimes they are even contradictory. and sometimes EVEN you can fail to express either side of the coin in an easily understandable way. like i really understand not liking him after like considering how his crazy brain processes his relationship with his sons. like it is. well it is not objectively insane it is totally rational but rather perhaps an insane thing TO DO. but i simply think that some people are not willing to put in the work of thinking and resort to inanity and the same three overused gags to dismiss an incredibly complicated complex character to nothing more than a caricature. obviously i have more opinions but i've written thousands of words about those already. fucking. goodnight

10. worst part of fanon

i dont even know if i should say anything otherwise ill write another 500 words. um. sad little faramir i guess. its so common in fic portrayal and im tired of it. and then faramir's restraint gave way dot mp4. he did NOT blame boromir's death on his own father for this shit!

23. ship you've unwillingly come around to

oh man this one might be controversial but actually i AM going to say farawyn. not in the way that i didn't like them before but just that i was totally indifferent bc i didn't Understand. without like. i didnt have the context of his mother's mantle about her shoulders and he kissed her on the walls in the sight of many and very well as i am not a king and to make ithilien a garden where things shall only grow.......I Didn't Understand. i get it now.

[zalrb]

more unpopular kate/kathony (kanthony?) opinions! - bridgerton 2.07 review

1. I’m watching this like, wow Edwina doesn’t get a happy ending. Hell, even in the Directors’ Cut of LOTR, Eowyn gets with Faramir!

2. Oh great, is Kate going to masturbate to the memory of her kissing Anthony the Mouse?

3. She looks so stiff in that kiss though.

4. Yes.

5. This entire situation reminds me of this part of Poor Unfortunate Souls

6. They’re so going to change the lyrics in the live action. Anyway, off-topic.

7. And Kate just looks annoyed that Edwina won’t talk to her rather than contrite.

8. I just find the Bridgerton family extremely annoying.

9. “Reputation! Reputation!” Oh my god, Anthony is a man, he’ll be FINE.

10. “I give credit to your imagination, Miss Danbury, a bigger story I cannot foresee.” Lmao, maybe don’t speak, Kate?

11. AND THEY GAZE AT EACH OTHER ACROSS THE PROMENADE BECAUSE THEY ARE IN LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.

12. Even though Edwina is right there and all of the ton is watching because looooooooooooooooooooove.

13. I just don’t have time for Olitz-like ships.

14. This Eloise scene is long.

15.  “A ball.” Ha, Edwina’s eye roll, she deserves her own show.

16. NOW THAT ANTHONY IS NO LONGER LIVING A LIE, THE DOG FINDS HIM SUITABLE AND DOGS ARE GREAT JUDGES OF CHARACTER. TRUE LOVE WILL ALWAYS SET YOU FREE.

17. Lmao, sorry, I find this love story insufferable.

18. omg guyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyys, he just can’t HELP but stare at her

19. I just feel like Edwina deserves to do the Regency version of this to Anthony

20. Their love and attraction is SO POWERFUL that they’ll have to stay on OTHER SIDES OF THE ROOM DURING THE BALL.

21. Ugh.

22. I don’t know if I can live through another Kathony dance.

23. Derry Girls Clare should just be Belle.

24. Mouse Man Mouse Man

25. HE GOT A WHIFF OF HER PERFUME AND NOW HE IS IN HEAVEN, RELISHING THE SCENT OF HER.

26. And this is the other thing too, Kate is extremely passive. Like, OK Edwina doesn’t want to talk to her but if she’s supposed to want her happiness more than anything, if this is supposed to be killing her inside, then at least try to make amends but she’s just standing around looking wooden and maybe sometimes catching Anthony’s eye.

27. Oh jesus christ are eloise and whatshisface going to kiss now that they’re arguing?

28. No. Good.

29.

I mean has it though?

30. “I am reaping the consequences of destroying it” girl, you’re masturbating in bed. Like just be HONEST.

31.  “Happy endings do not exist, Kate” well, not for you, Edwina, but they will for her.

32. Anthony is so fucking shameless.

33. “We should be ashamed of what we did” and there’s going to be a speech about how he’s not ashamed or how she’s not ashamed, a Delena “I’m not sorry” speech. I don’t care.

34. WHY is Colin a character? WHAT DOES HE DO.

35. He gives sooooooooooo much more than she does. He carries them, honestly.

35. Oh yes, sniping and arguing, which is just their foreplay. I’m bored. We’ve done this already.

36. Yes, yes, consume

I feel like the only time I’ve ever been like I get it, they didn’t even use the world consume

37. Oh they do make him do the “Do you think I want to be in this position” McDreamy “DO YOU THINK I WANT TO LOOK AT YOU”  the more they drag this out, the more impatient I become and not in the way they want.  I feel like Garrett from Superstore but instead of affair it’s get together

38. Anthony: I’ve lived my life for my family. Kate: OMG SAME. Me

I had to see it. All I’ve seen is both of you complain.

39. I don’t think a stylized sex scene worked here but that’s just a personal preference, if they’re all like “YOU CONSUME ME” “I CAN’T ESCAPE YOU” “I LIVE FOR MY FAMILY LET’S LIVE FOR OURSELVES” and they kiss and he fingers her then he’s all i’ll stop and she’s like don’t, I want to see/hear the frenzy, the heavy breathing, I want it to seem as organic as possible, like I would want a Shameless sex scene at least at first and then they can do the stylistic one during round 2 or something

40. KATE. I’M SICK OF THIS.

You fucked him. OWN IT. Because I don’t find the “journey” to her just allowing herself to be happy well executed at all because they don’t delve into Kate (or any of the characters) enough for this to be anything other than by-the-numbers and superficial so this just comes across as disingenuous and that’s the other problem with stylized sex scenes, they’re deliberate and don’t give off the impression of impulsivity or the heat of the moment so I’m just like IT’S TOO LATE FOR THIS.

41. This is why I like Cersei-like characters they just fucking own it.

42. AND ANTHONY IS SUCH. A DICK.

43. OH NO, SHE’S GALLOPING IN THE RAIN.

44. Lmao, I am not watching anything Bridgerton EVER again.

45. It’s done.

[thealmightyemprex]

Reading John Boormans Lord of the Rings part 5

1.Frodo lays his head in Sams lap and falls asleep as Sam sings to him......That surprisingly sweet coming from this script

2,The confrontation with Theoden DOES not have Gimli ,Aragorn and Legolas but Merry ,Pippin and Gandalf

3.So Grima has Kyphosis here.

4.So Grima is thin and speaks in a falsetto and why am I just picturin Kurt Yaghjian as Annas from Jesus Christ Superstar

5.Grima is tripped by Merry and Pippin causing him to fall on his back,kicking and screaming at the air.......This feels mean

6.So Sam can talk to trees,,,,,,

7.Oh Shelobs here,at Barad Dur .....Also shes called The Shelob here

8."I shall slay it Sam .I am the Lord of the Ring! For you Galadrial"......OK thats a badass Frodo moment

9.So I just looked up who Boorman wanted as Frodo ......ITS AL PACINO ......I can see it

10.So no Faramir in this script

11.The Nazgul has a skinliss zombie horse,which sounds like it should be on a metal album

12.SAM IS HARNASSING THE RING TO KILL THE ORCS

13.Pippin is in a Jester outfit that is stained in blood and covered in arrow holes........I will admit that is legit funny

14.Denethor is legit pissed Galdrial had sex with Frodo and not Boromir.....What the hell am I reading ??

15.Huh....No "I am no man" moment from Eowyn

16."Hello Pippin I am a hero""....I'm a jester ,Merry"OK that made me laugh ,it gives such "Larry I;m on Ducktales " vibes

17."Heroes and jesters are equals in the shire arent they?".......That a really sweet line.How dare this be good NOW after all the nonesense

18,Without Faramir ,ol crazy pants Denethor feels pointless

19.I might be missing something but theres a giant snake now and I dont know where it came from

20.Denethor got killed by a hug.....Denethor got killed by a HUG .....DENETHOR IS KILLED BY A HUG ....Hahahahhahhhahha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @amalthea9 @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa

[anadorablack]

Share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media in no particular order, then send this to 10 people (anon or not, your choice) 🎥🎬📺

[Let's go crazy over this 😘]

Jesus, @redfurrycat, do you want to murder me??? Choosing only TEN characters is like choosing between my children!!! :O (And significant others, but you get my meaning)

Alright, let's try... Sorry in advance to all those I forget... :/

Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

I think I can say with utter honesty that Loki was the first (of many) antihero(es) I fell in love with. The complexity of this man (God, sorry darling), his backstory, the tragedy of it, while remaining true to himself and to those he deems worthy of his trust and love... It's all...*chef's kiss*. And YES, I'm talking about MCU Loki because I love him most, but I also adore Comic!Loki and NorseMythology!Loki. ;)

2. Nymphadora Tonks (Wizarding World)

I could have chosen her husband (MY husband) Remus because I LOOOOOOOVE him with all my heart, but I chose Tonks instead. You've got to understand. When the fifth book came out, I was a teenager, I was awkward, different. I dyed my hair, I was clumsy, too clever for my own good, and I was a bit of a loner. All that made me feel miserable, because why couldn't I just be like everyone else? Then, in came Tonks. Who was clumsy, different, with bubblegum-coloured hair, loyal to a fault. And who was an AUROR. A BADASS WITCH. And suddenly, it became okay to be all those things. And fuck being like everyone else. <3

3. Derek Hale (Teen Wolf)

I never watched the show. Ever. But reading extensively about Derek's character and backstory made it impossible not to love him whole-heartedly. That Sourwolf deserves the WORLD. <3

4. Eowyn of Rohan (Lord of the Rings)

I fell head over heels for her in the movies first, then when I read her for the first time, it was game over. Tolkien may have been parcimonious with his women characters, but Eowyn entirely surpasses any other male character in my opinion (sorry Aragorn, Faramir and Pippin, you know I love you too). She's far from the damsel in distress people would make her to be, and she's badass without being less feminine for it. <3

5. Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw (Top Gun)

Do I have to explain myself, when I've got a goose tattoed on my arm in his honour? My Polaroid-taking piano-playing moustache-wearing love. <3

6. Katsumoto Moritso (The Last Samurai)

Have I mentioned how much I love that movie, yet? :P Alright, it's my favourite movie ever: whenever I need a good cry, I just watch Katsu do his thing and I'm done for the count. Ken Watanabe giving him life after battling leukemia is even more touching, don't mind me, I'm tearing up over here.

7. Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1)

The first Nerd of my life. <3

8. Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)

Before the show took everything by storm, my Wednesday spent her days looking like a psychopath and trying to kill her brother while finding out if her uncle was her uncle or not. And when I was a little girl, all I wanted, was to be like Wednesday. XD

9. The Doctor (Doctor Who)

I may be repeating myself, but I properly learnt English while watching DW. I stumbled upon Blink one night (Weeping Angels, still the creepiest villains EVER) and got hooked, even though at the time I didn't understand half of what was being said. Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant taught me English, Matt Smith made me fall more and more in love with the show, and Peter Capaldi became MY Doctor (I love grumpy assholes, as seen above). Then, Jodie became the first female Doctor, and she wasn't weaker, she wasn't more mellow, she was the same ruthless, awkward, loving but questionable alien I'd gotten to love. AND THANK CHIBNALL FOR THAT!

10. Benji Dunn (Mission: Impossible)

I couldn't not talk about MY spy movies. The ones that are so much better than any James Bond ever made, the ones that keep me on the edge of my seat and make me fall harder and harder for its characters every instalment. And Benji is by far my favourite (Simon Pegg isn't stranger to this), and if ANYTHING HAPPENS TO HIM IN MI7 TOM CRUISE GETS IT!!!

I might not tag many people, but if you want to do it, do it. ;)

[panic-in-the-multiverse]

･*:.｡.─_*✧.｡.:*･# ﾟ𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎 ﾐ

This is a list of fandoms and characters that I write for, I might add more later or take away some, but for the moment I write for all of these

I will always write for Marvel, Superntaural and Star Wars

Requests are always open If you want to request you can either private message me or just write in my inbox

I write: teen!reader, gn!reader, platonic!reader, sister!reader, adopted!reader, brother!reader, son!reader, daughter!reader,

I also write for lgbtq+ so you can request with anything from that

I can also write romantic but I usually prefer platonic

I can write nearly everything except I do not write smut so if that’s what you want it’s better if you go somewhere else

*✧.｡.:*･# MARVEL ﾐ

— (overall all characters from marvel but below is the ones I prefer )

— avengers [ steve rogers, tony stark, clint barton, natasha romanoff, bruce banner, thor ]

— sam wilson

— bucky barnes

— baron zemo

— moon knight [ marc spector, steven grant, jake lockley, layla el-faouly, konshu ]

— kate bishop

— yelena belova

— loki

— guardians of the galaxy [ peter quill, gamora, rocket raccoon, drax, nebula, mantis, groot, yondu ]

— daredevil [ matt murdock, foggy nelson, karen page ]

— punisher [ frank castle, billy russo ]

— venom [ eddie brock, venom, anne weying ]

— miguel o’hara (spider-man 2099)

— jack russell/werewolf by night

— x-men [ logan howlett, erik lensherr, charles xaviar, deadpool, scott summers, alex summers, x-23, mystique, beast ]

— marvel cast [ all cast members from mcu ]

*✧.｡.:*･# SUPERNATURAL ﾐ

— castiel

— dean winchester

— sam winchester

— crowley

— lucifer

— jack kline

— gabriel

— the supernatural cast [ all cast members ]

*✧.｡.:*･# STAR WARS ﾐ

— prequel [ obi-wan kenobi, ahsoka tano, anakin skywalker, cody, rex, fives, fox, wolfee, waxer, boil, kit fisto, darth maul ]

— bad batch [ hunter, tech, crosshair, wrecker, omega, echo ]

— star wars rebels [ kanan, hera, sabine wren, ezra bridger, zebb ]

— reva sevander

— cassian andor

— mandalorian [ din djarin, grogu, bo katan ]

— the book of boba fett [ boba fett, fennec shand]

— sequel [ poe dameron, finn, bb-8 ]

— Pedro Pascal

— Oscar Isaac

*✧.｡.:*･# TOLKIEN ﾐ

— lord of the rings [ aragorn, legolas, faramir, meriadoc brandybuck, peregrin took, samwise gamgee, frodo baggins, boromir, gimli, elrond, gandalf ]

— hobbit [ bilbo baggins, thorin, kili, fili, bard, tauriel ]

*✧.｡.:*･# THE WALKING DEAD ﾐ

— rick grimes

— daryl dixon

— glenn rhee

— maggie rhee

— aaron

— gabriel stokes

— jesus

— mishonne

— carol peletier

— carl grimes

— judith grimes

— negan

*✧.｡.:*･# THE ROOKIE ﾐ (will come more soon)

— tim bradford

— lucy chen

— angela lopez

— wesley evers

— tamara collins

*✧.｡.:*･# CRIMINAL MINDS ﾐ

— aaron hotchner

— spencer reid

— derek morgan

— penelope garcia

— david rossi

— jennifer Jareau

— luke alvez

— emily prentiss

*✧.｡.:*･# HANNIBAL NBC ﾐ

— will graham <3

— hannibal lecter

*✧.｡.:*･# HARRY POTTER ﾐ

— golden trio era [ remus lupin, sirius black, harry potter, hermione granger, luna lovegood, fred weasley, george weasley, oliver wood, neville longbottom, draco malfoy ]

— fantastic beasts [ newt scamander, young albus dumbledore, gellert grindelwald, theseus scamander ]

*✧.｡.:*･# OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH ﾐ (will add more later)

— izzy hands <3

— jim jimenez

— edward

— frenchie

— stede

*✧.｡.:*･# SHERLOCK ﾐ (not taking requests for at the moment)

— greg lestrade

— sherlock holmes

— john watson

— mycroft

— moriarty

*✧.｡.:*･# THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY ﾐ

— diego hargreeves

— klaus hargreeves

— ben hargreeves

— viktor hargreeves

— number five

— luther hargreeves

— allison hargreeves

*✧.｡.:*･# HEARTSTOPPER ﾐ

— nick nelson

— charlie spring

— isaac henderson

— imogen heaney

— tao xu

— elle argent

— darcy olsson

— tara jones

*✧.｡.:*･# ARROWVERSE ﾐ

— arrow [ oliver queen, thea queen, roy harper, felicity smoak, john diggle, slade wilson ]

— flash [ barry allen, harry wells, harrison wells, HR, cisco ramon, caitlin snow, leonard snart, wally west, eddie thawne ]

— legends of tomorrow [ john constantine, sara lance, rip hunter, captain cold, nathan heywood ]

— john constantine

*✧.｡.:*･# GOTHAM ﾐ

— jim gordon

*✧.｡.:*･# THE SANDMAN ﾐ (not taking requests for at the moment)

— corinthian

— morpheus

*✧.｡.:*･# DOWNTON ABBEY ﾐ

— thomas barrow

— tom branson

— matthew crawley

— sybil crawley

-*✧.｡.:*･# DRAGON AGE ﾐ

— dragon age origin [ morrigan, alistair ]

— dragon age II [ hawke ]

— dragon age inquisition [ dorian pavus, cole, iron bull, sera, varric tethras, blackwall, vivienne, cullen rutherford, cassandra pentaghast, leliana, josephine montilyet, solas ]

*✧.｡.:*･# FATE: THE WINX SAGA ﾐ

— saul silva

— beatrix

— stella

— musa

— riven

— sky

— andreas

*✧.｡.:*･# ONCE UPON A TIME ﾐ

— killian jones

*✧.｡.:*･# PEAKY BLINDERS ﾐ

— alfie solomons

— thomas shelby

— ada thorne

— arthur shelby

— john shelby

— polly gray

— michael gray

*✧.｡.:*･# THE LAST OF US ﾐ (only platonic for now)

— Joel Miller

— Ellie Williams

— Pedro Pascal

-*✧.｡.:*･# NEW AMSTERDAM ﾐ (only platonic for now)

— Max Goodwin

*✧.｡.:*･# THE RESIDENT ﾐ (will be adding more)

— conrad hawkins

*✧.｡.:*･# WALKER ﾐ

— liam walker

— cordell walker

— stella walker

— august walker

— trey barnett

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[queenlucythevaliant]

Jesus is a Better King than Aragorn: An entirely serious literary and theological analysis

Despite Tolkien’s famous dislike of allegory, it is clear that Aragorn is in numerous respects a figure of Christ. Like Jesus, Aragorn is a great king who returns after a like absence to save his people. Both have roughly a hundred different names and titles. Most significantly, the name Aragorn uses in Rivendell as a child is Estel, which means “high hope” and is also a reference to the morning star, Gil-Estel. Jesus is called the Morning Star and also Emmanuel, “God with us,” which was and is the highest hope of all the earth. (I’m sure there’s a better example, but I can’t justify spending too much time on this when I have homework to do).

Aragorn also spends the early years of his life in obscurity. As a ranger, he is despised and rejected by the very folk he protects, such as Barlimen Butterbur, who advises Frodo not to trust him (and hurts Aragorn's feelings in doing so). Aragorn is also not particularly attractive; Frodo observes that he “looks foul and feels fair.” These qualities place Aragorn in line with Isaiah’s prophetic description of Jesus: despised and rejected by man, with nothing in His appearance that we should desire him.

Aragorn is also keenly aware of his kingly destiny in ways which mirror Jesus’ Messianic mission. Unlike the filmic Aragorn, the Aragorn of Tolkien’s books is eager to become king and has been preparing for the job all his life, studying the peoples, customs, and languages of Middle Earth. He carries around the ring of Barahir and the shards of Narsil, symbols of his kingly destiny, but waits until the proper time to publicly reveal himself as King. Faramir could even be said to be something of a John the Baptist figure, declaring Aragorn’s kingship before Aragorn himself claims it. Yet despite his great destiny, like Jesus, Aragorn is fundamentally selfless and humble. He spends many years thanklessly guarding the Shire and is quick to offer his life or his death to save Frodo. Significantly, Aragorn also has miraculous healing abilities. Indeed, the hands of a king are those of a healer; so shall the rightful king be known. This parallels the way in which Jesus healed people throughout His ministry in part as proof of His divine nature.

Finally, Aragorn is eventually received and crowned King of Gondor and Arnor in a big enormous super-parallel to Jesus's eventual return and the consumation of his eternal Kingdom. Aragorn's coming has been hoped and longed for for thousands of years. His coronation also coincides with his long-awaited wedding to Arwen; indeed, Aragorn’s ascension to his rightful kingship is a condition for his getting to marry her. This combined wedding and kingship imagery intimates at the return of Jesus, the True King, and the Wedding Feast of the Lamb which will follow.

Yet despite the clear parallels between Aragorn and Jesus, it is clear that of the two, Jesus is the greater King. Jesus is fully man and fully God. Aragorn, conversely, is like 1% Maia (for those uninitiated in The Silmarillion, Maia are like lesser angels) through Isildor, Elros Tar-Minyatur, and ultimately Melian, but this cannot compare to the true, incarnate divinity of Jesus, which enabled Him to live a sinless life on earth and serve as propitiation for our sins. This, indeed, is another way in which Aragorn falls short of Jesus. Sauron and his orcs and other assorted monsters are undeniably evil and gross-looking, but Aragorn is not even the one most immediately responsible for defeating them, and at any rate none of that compares to defeating all the power of sin and death forever and ever amen. Jesus died on our behalf and was then resurrected; in this respect, Gandalf is much more similar to Jesus (died to save the Fellowship and came back glorified; “Saruman as he should have been” ~ second Adam that one’s a stretch but go with me here). Yet Aragorn and even Gandalf fall far short of Jesus’s resurrection by virtue of not being the firstfruits of man’s glorification.

As King, Jesus currently reigns in Heaven and in the hearts of His people; after His return, He will rule the New Heavens and New Earth. Aragorn merely rules the united kingdom of Gondor and Arnor which, while awesome, does not have the direct presence of God, a New Jerusalem, of the complete absence of evil, sin, and death. Gondor has a White Tree, but no Tree of Life. Finally, unlike Jesus, Aragorn is also not perfectly holy, just, righteous, sovereign, gracious, or merciful. He may be pretty much perfect by human standards, but he still remains Just Some Guy and is therefore fallible. In fact, the only recorded kingly rulings of his that I can remember off the top of my head are banishing Beregond from Minas Tirith for disobeying Denethor and banning non-Hobbits from ever entering the Shire, both of which are kind of iffy in my opinion. (Text me if you want that rant 😜)

“But wait!” I hear you saying, “Jesus might be a better King than Aragorn, but Aragorn is definitely much cooler than Jesus. Aragorn has a sword!” And yes, Aragorn does have a sword, and his sword is awesome. Its name is Anduril, Flame of the West, and it was made from the shards of Narsil, the Numinorian sword which Isildor used to chop the One Ring off of Sauron’s finger. (I refuse to use the diacriticals; it’s too much work.) It has an insignia with seven stars on the blade and Aragorn uses it in a whole bunch of epic battles. That is, indeed, very cool. However, Jesus also has a sword! In Revelation, when John describes Jesus, He has a sharp, two-edged sword issuing from His mouth. He also holds seven stars in his right hand. As an added bonus, His face shines like the sun. So what if it's probably symbolic? Anything Aragorn can do, Jesus can do better.

(Note: I threw this together ages ago as a joke for my Bible study. @laurelin-of-valinor inspired me to post it today.)

[idjitlili]

Could you write something for Boromir? Just pure fluff please? That man deserves the world!

Boromir x reader

If you shall request I shall deliver as quick as I can. Thank you!!! I really wanted to write for Boromir. Thank you for requesting!!! I hope this is what you wanted dude, it tried my best.

Summary: late nights around the campfire with your childhood best friend Boromir.

Word count:1194

Boromir didn’t know that you had been invited by Gandalf to lord Elronds meeting ;about the ring. He was mad when you had joined the fellowship after he had.

“Boromir you cannot stop me, I am an adult and You aren’t my father.” You had shouted at him in the hall. He had an equally angry face on , staring you deep in the eyes.

“Y/n, I don’t want you to get hurt, I couldn’t live with myself if you did. So I b need to stop you from coming.” He grasped your hands gently. “Please.” His eyes watered,as he pleaded.

“Boromir I couldn’t live with myself ,if I didn’t come and you got hurt. If you are going to die I am going to die with you.” You cried pulling him into a emvrace , wrapping your arms around his waist sobbing onto his chest. He brought his hand to your shoulder, and the other to stroke your hair.

“On this trip I will protect you as much as I can,y/n/n.” He spoke gently.

“As will I to you, Boromir.” You looked up at Boromir,pressing a kiss to his cheek.

You had been friends with faramir growing up , as you were similar ages, but that also caused you to become friends with his brother Boromir. Boromir had even trained you to fight with his little brother. You knew how much pressure he got from his father, you tried to help both of the brothers with this problem.

When you were a teenager, it was often that Boromir would sneak in your window, sobbing quietly. Most the time it was because of his father, he hated being expected to the best when he felt he he wasn’t. Other times it was the way he father treated faramir or how he had to father his brother. You would comfort him, he would lay with you in your bed ,as you stroked his hair, him clutching onto you.

He would fall asleep in your arms ,and when you would wake he would be gone, to avoid suspicion. He would come apologise to you, but you would tell him he didn’t need to, you would do it again. He truly enjoyed your presence. He didn’t know it but you loved him, and you didn’t know he loved you. Him sneaking into your room became less frequent when he hit his 20s , you missed being so close with him.

In truth you had never been in a relationship, because the only person you wanted you couldnt be with, as it was highly unlikely he would like you if you even did confess.

Now you lay in you bedroll , it’s well into the night, tossing and turning not able to sleep. You had always slept better when Boromir was with you. The truth was that the only reason Boromir stopped coming to your room was because he was afraid that he would admit his feeling and you wouldn’t return them.

The campfire now lightly glowing in the dark light, you lay on your back sighing. You had placed your bedroll far away from everyone else’s , especially Boromir scared that you would end up grabbing ahold of him in the night and snuggling against him. It would be so embarrassing.

“Can’t sleep?” The deep voice made you gasp in shock, you look up to see Boromir looking at you sat on log on watch. You nodded your head not that he probably see well. He patted the log next him, you got up slowly, walking over in your underclothes. You sat up the rough log next to him.

“Why can’t you sleep?” Damn how were you supposed to know. He had eyed your vest and shorts. “I guess I am just restless, the floor hurts my butt.” You answered some what honestly , fiddling with your hands. That was until he felt your bare arm,gasping.

“You are freezing, y/n. No wonder you can’t sleep.” He spoke with concern, “do you mind if?” He gestured to open arms, you quickly shuffled into his side. he shook his head no, turning to you wrapping a hand under your knees and the other on your mid back , lifting you up into his lap. He wrapped you into his coat , embracing you to warm you up.

He was bloody warm, thank you Jesus. “Thank you.” You muttered to him wrapping your arm around his waist under the coat , holding onto him. You could smell his scent radiating off of him.

“Just returning the favour.” He replied , smirking recalling all the memories of you comforting him, in his most insecure moments. “Well then I hope you will be doing this every night on this journey. You know to make up for all them night.” You whispered not trying to wake the others up.

“If you desire me to then of course.” He whispers into your ear, sending chills down your spin. “It is.” You reply looking into his eyes smiling lightly at him, his lips not three inches away. “Boromir...” you whispered, rubbing your hand against his back.

“Yes.” He muttered , looking deeply into your eyes with pure love.”I need to tell you something. Something that I have need to since I was 16.” You spoke gulping with nervousness. “You can tell me anything.” He stroked your hair gently, your eyes watering.

“I...l-love you. Boromir.” You look away with tears now beginning to travel down your face, you feel embarrassed. Boromir is over joyed,he grabs your chin turning you to him , rubbing his thumb against your skin. He leans towards your lips , pressing them gently against yours shortly before pulling away. “I love you too y/n. I always have and I always will.”

Your lips tingle missing his lips against yours , your face lit up , this is all you ever wanted. The boy that punched the a greasy asshole who stamped on your daisy chain when you were 8. He was the only one that always protected you from harm, and now he protected your heart. You couldn’t believe he loved you. “Really?” You really couldnt believe it. “Really.” He spoke sternly , you cupped his cheeks pulling his lips against yours once again, more passionately than before.

Once you pulled away you had buried your head into his chest , with your arms around his waist. “You have been all I ever wanted,” you spoke into his chest. “And you have been the light of my life.” He spoke resting his chin on your head.

“Ditto.”

“What does that mean?”

“I think it means same. I think some pottery man came up with it.”

“Oh I like it.”

“Does this mean we are together?”

“Definitely.”

“Does this mean I get to blow your horn?”

“Definitely but for now sleep my love.”

[mothric]

I’ve never seen or read Lord of the Rings*. Here’s what I’ve learned through cultural osmosis:

*my sister forced me to sit through Two Towers when I was 10 and would’ve rather been playing Pokemon, so I hardly have any memory of it and therefore it doesn’t count

basic plot:

a Hobbit named Frodo is tasked with throwing an evil ring into an evil volcano and he tries very hard to not also become evil along the way 

he succeeds at the first thing and only sorta succeeds at the second thing 

also a bunch of friends tag along like an RPG

also there’s a war? I haven’t figured out where that’s supposed to fit in

or the giant sentient trees. I know they’re in there but why and also how

everything is set in alternate New Zealand (Old Zealand?)

there is an awful lot of wandering through forests, especially in the second movie, which according to my memory is at least 90% trees (not the talking kind) and some horses (I don’t think they can talk either)

Dumbledore dies?? unknown

it’s all a metaphor for Jesus somehow

there’s also a prequel starring Martin Freeman and Bendydick but we don’t talk about those

characters:

Frodo and Sam are ride-or-die. I’m assuming Frodo would’ve gone full evil if Sam wasn’t there

Frodo & Sam are the Serious Hobbits and Merry & Pippin are the Comedy Relief Hobbits

there’s a Good Gandalf and a Bad Gandalf one of them is grey one of them is white one tells the truth the other only speaks in lies

Good Gandalf carries a big stick and dispenses fatherly wisdom. Bad Gandalf probably fronted for a metal band and encourages kids to do Satanism

there’s a dwarf (Grimly?) who’s like,,, short Hagrid

Boromir is ‘one does not simply’ guy. he has a brother (?) named Faramir and every time I see that name I think “but where’s Nearamir?” and snicker to myself. I don’t know anything about these characters except that Boromir seems like a real downer

Legolas is a pretty-boy elf who either gets on people’s nerves or everyone else gets on his nerves, I can’t remember which

”Legolas Legolas what do your elf eyes see” “they can see you’re being a lil bitch” is probably a real exchange that really happened

Arwyn is also an elf. at some point she glows and sings and it’s Very important

Gollum used to be an adventurer like you, but then he took an evil ring to the psyche. it turned him into a horrible little gremlin man with a penchant for riddles. he has a second name that sounds like a Pokemon but I can’t remember it

Big Evil Eye ... dunno what he does. don’t think I want to know

in the books there is a C. S. Lewis easter egg in the form of Tree

races / classes:

Hobbits (known for being hardcore introverts who like beer and potatoes but they can party hard also don’t try to take their land they’ll shank you)

humans (boring)

orcs (bad)

dwarves (good)

elves (20/20 vision, live forever, can’t tell lies?)

dragons (probably evil but very cool)

wizards (Extremely cool regardless of alignment)

Trevenants (I don’t know their actual name)

if there’s more than these I haven’t heard about them so they are probably not that important

books vs. films:

either I’m not privy to the debate on which is better or the books and films are equally good in their own right

I’ve also heard the soundtracks are good but personally I only know the two motifs that got memed to death in the hit classic “Taking the Hobbits to Isengard” (2006)

I have heard it said that Tolkien was the kind of person who’d stop and contemplate a blade of grass for half an hour and it shows in his writing

reading the books allows you to unlock Hidden Ability: Elvish 

people will literally murder you if you do not watch the extended editions of the movies so tread lightly and keep your bladder empty bc there are no pee breaks where we’re going

important quotes:

one does not simply walk into mordor 

they’re taking the hobbits to isengard 

my precious

you shall not pass

boil em mash em stick em in a stew

and something about second breakfast which,, isn’t that just brunch? brunch is what that is

as you can see I know just enough to fool people (for like 5 minutes) into thinking I might have seen the movies once while half asleep and this might be why I have gone so long without actually seeing them. 

please do not murder me

[thecloserkin]

fell down an éomer/éowyn rabbithole, 100% @spookyshai’s fault, have a grab bag of recs

I rewatched The Two Towers and it’s clear to me Karl Urban has chemistry with everyone up to and including lampposts. Just a reminder everyone make sure you watch the extended cut not the theatrical cut, it’s worth it just for Éowyn’s face when she finds out Aragorn is 87 years old.

I am a slut for angst but even so these fics hurt me. The “darkest before the dawn” vibe is strong with this pairing, half the fic is them fucking before he rides off to patrol, and they’ve got that unhealthily-codepdenedent-orphan-children angle going for them too.

Care by Halrloprillalar (1k)— literally the platonic ideal of a bedsharing fic, @spookyshai calls the prose “disgustingly beautiful” and i could not agree more: “Éomer learned her body, intent upon each curve, as though he were a skald and Éowyn a verse that he was making.”

Hope by elceri (1.2k)—whatever you think of the one-sidedness of Éowyn’s attraction to Aragorn that chemistry was through the fucking roof (there was zero chemistry with Faramir). i loved how this fic drew on the parallels between Éowyn and Aragorn’s plights: they are both profoundly lonely people looking over the horizon for their beloved’s return (Éomer, Arwen—well Aragorn has mixed feelings about Arwen returning since it would mean she chose mortality but ykwim). Y’all know by now that the seamless progression of platonic affection to romantic attachment is my kryptonite, so this is the line that gutted me: “the soft kisses and caresses that had been a part of her life for as long as she could remember and the heated lovemaking that had come with age. She could not fathom a life without him, for as long as she had known life, there had been him. Only him. Only Éomer.” And headcanoning Théodred as gay so he promised to marry Éowyn as a beard and then her and Éomer could continue as they were??? i swear my soul ascended on the spot

My Own by Rainchilde (2.7k, warning for noncon)—one of the most shippable aspects of their relationship has always been Grima Wormtongue lurking in the shadows, because you have on the one hand A STALKER and otoh the person whom she trusts and values most in the world. the contrast is plain. i’m all for scenarios where the stalker’s unwanted attentions drive the girl into her brother’s arms (see Dante’s Stars) but this fic actually examines what Éomer has in common with Grima, viz. he wants to make Éowyn his yet she is just as unattainable to him as to Grima

Made Bare by Dana (0.4k)—I am always here for horny swordplay: “He licks his lips, watching her, parted lips and parted legs, and the pounding of his heart is a dull roar in his ears.”

Steadfast by hesychasm (3.3k) — they get it on in the stables asdfdfkdjfdkf it’s extra sexy bc of their shared history, they’re children of Rohan they were practically born in the saddle and it’s just. so hot. This is the eve of her official engagement to Faramir and Éomer has left the banquet hall early for Reasons; we get nuggets of internal monologue from him like: “I judged the mare a good enough gift for my sister, though Gondor-bred.” The subtext being no man or beast in all of Gondor is good enough for Éowyn lmaooo. "Can I not love you both?” she protests, and he says, ”I do not believe even your heart is so great." Ouch ouch ouch. On the subject of her husband-to-be: “He knows already who is first in my heart."

Blood Remembers by musesfool (2.4k) — So many shared memories, moments, milestones! For instance, it’s she who comforts him after he has to give a comrade the mercy stroke. Losing their virginity to each other is such a logical extension & culmination of all that history: “’I dreamt you were dead,’ she whispered … She ran her fingers over the arch of his cheek, the bow of his lips, and followed her hand with her mouth … His hands touched her in places no man had ever touched before. His lips sought hers and the gentle good night kisses they'd shared over the years transmuted into something harder, darker, more urgent.” AND THEN: “The years have passed swiftly since that night, and no other man has yet stirred her blood to such passion. She believes none ever will, and is reconciled to a life alone.” KILL ME NOW GAHHH

Dirt and Gold by Empyreus (1k)—outsider POV Gríma, i’m pretty sure this fic was written specifically FOR ME jesus fucking christ so Éomer and Éowyn are lowkey banging and Gríma apparently lingers at keyholes to listen???: “‘You reek of him, of your brother the wild rider,’ he had wanted to say. "I can feel the sweat that surely slicked your skin.’” Also this: "Is there anything you will deny him? For all your ice, you too burn when the heat is too fierce. When your brother tells you to burn."

Hammer and Tongs by Halrloprillalar (1.6k) —she forges him a blade!!! which is only the most romantic gesture of all time. i’m LIVING for the amount of sneaking around that happens: “All know the Lady of Rohan has a great love for her brother …They do not know that she goes to him at night, walking the halls without a candle, carrying a posset for him, lest she need an excuse.”

In My Darkest Hour by elceri (3k)—Plottier than some of the pornier fics I’ve rounded up here but this conversation is EVERYTHING: “Éomer! The last thing Rohan needs at this time is a martyr!" "I would rather be a martyr than a hypocrite … It will not come to that, my sister, I promise you. My willingness to make the sacrifice does not mean I invite it, or would accept it willingly." "So said Theodred.” ”I am not Theodred." “Then why do you come to me? To prophesy your own death? I am not accustomed to such ominous words from you, brother." "I come to you for strength, Éowyn … Dark have been my days and nights, and dark will they be, and you have been my only light. If I am never to see you again, by that villain's hand, then I want to carry some of that light with me to whatever end may come."

Survivors by CanonIsRelative (1k)—omg they are having messy quickies in the stables??? Éomer and Éowyn have evidently been practicing the pull-out method of contraception up until this one time on the eve of battle and then they’re like fuck it. This is Éowyn’s Return to me victorious: “I await you, my lord, and a year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return. Come back with your helm upon your brow, or resting in state upon your breast.”

Swordplay by elceri (1k)—outsider POV, Théoden and Gríma watch the boys show Éowyn the ropes down in the practice yard: ”She has her brother's talent with the sword—see how quickly she learns!" "If your words are true, Sire, then when she is twenty you will have two strong-willed, hot-headed warriors in your house, aided and abetted by an older cousin who seems to think that life is indeed one long game!"

[shutterbug-12]

For the fandom thing: Lord of the Rings (but excluding The Hobbit). :)

Give me a fandom and I’ll tell you

Favorite Male Character: Oof. Man. Difficult already. Samwise, probably? It’s tough, though. Faramir is a close second. Like, really, really close. Possibly tied. 

Favorite Female Character: At least this one is easy. Eowyn. 

Least Favorite Character: Yikes, hmm. Of the major characters…Legolas, probably. (Sorry, I know you used to love him.) 

Favorite Ship: Faramir/Eowyn, no question. 

Favorite Friendship: Merry and Pippin! 

Favorite Quote: I don’t know it by heart, but the one Gandalf says: All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. I don’t know if that’s in the books. But I really love it. 

Worst Character Death (if any): Jesus. Um. Boromir. It didn’t used to affect me, but when I got older, I was like…I was so crushed by it. Boromir grew on me as I got older and I kind of love him. 

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: THE BEACONS ARE LIT! I just fucking love that part every single fucking time. I feel so damn inspired, I don’t even know.

Saddest Moment: Oof. Um. I don’t know, really. I guess I’ll have to say that moment Sam thought Frodo was dead. And then…you know, when Frodo leaves his Sam at the end. Ugh. 

Favorite Location: I adore Minas Tirith. But I am fascinated by the whole world of Tom Bombadil. Like, what is this bizarre-o place? Oh, and Lothlorien. That one might be my ultimate favorite, in the books.

@captain-raven-knight

[aglaecan]

6 for everyone

questions for canon muses

6. What is the general opinion of your muse’s fandom about them? Do you agree with it?

for. all of the canons here, apparently. okay….

Beruthiel:  opinions, uh… “Beruthiel who?”  I mean, uh, some people might have caught thesingle reference to her in LoTR. Others, more familiar with the extendedlegendarium, probably know who she is. I really don’t know if there’s a generalopinion of her amongst those people; but I’ve seen a lot of art that is justsort of generic evil sorceress. There’s been some depiction of her as a WoC, given the Umbarim origin story; butI am not sure how much of that has really gone into the depth with her I have,trying to reframe her narrative in terms of xenophobia and prejudice.

Constantine: lemme just say, Ihave stayed away from the Hellblazerfandom so I have no idea of prevailing opinions beyond some very basics. It’san old series, and very much deals with very 80s issues. People who were fansof it at the time and people who are fans now seem to be different groups, inlarge part. There’s some opinion of Constantine that he’s straight as a man canbe and definitely some people have lionized his exploits and have enjoyed thefact that, frankly, he’s an ass. Meanwhile he’s clearly bi and I actually hate him lmao; like he’s such an ass andso fucking whiny that I had to writehim just to get into that mindset some, not because I thought he was actuallyas fun and badass as some of his fans seem to.

Faramir: uwu precious smolbean? Also there’s a big difference between book!fans and movie!fans, given thevastly different depictions of the House of Hurin in the two media. I thinkprobably I would agree more with opinions of book!fans, being one myself; butbasically – Faramir is a leader of men. He is a scholar. He is strong and wiseand never said to be lesser physically than his brother. Even his father was awarrior, still wearing armor beneath his robes; Faramir is not some striplingstringbean, people. He doesn’t need to be protected; he can handle that all onhis own thankyouverymuch.

Caranthir: oh sweet gallopingjesus on a pogo stick where do I start. I do not agree with any of the prevailing fanons on him.Blushy Caranthir. Stammering idiot around Haleth Caranthir. Miserly Caranthir.Broiderer Caranthir. None of it. People have taken a few lines in canon andspun them into these whole character traits without taking the wider contextinto account. I do think he is passionate and has trouble controlling hisanger. I do think he could be a real righteous ass. (Just like the rest of the family could.) But I alsothink we are shown by the narrative that he is able to create and maintaindiplomatic relations with two entirely different ethnic and cultural groups,that he shows a lot of tolerance for difference despite initial reactions (thedwarves being ‘unlovely’ etc) and that when the Silm says he got great wealthfrom the trade with the dwarves we need to look back at HoME and realize thatprimarily what he was getting from them was ore and worked steel for thedefense of the leaguer; and also that Caranthir comes from a people who prettymuch literally use diamonds and pearls to pave their roads; they value beauty, not coin.

Skinner Sweet: i………. don’tthink he has a fandom. I mean there are people who read them but???

Renfri: “Renfri who?” my habitof taking minor muses on strikes again!

Kaz: I stay out of the tags, soI have no idea. He seems like the sort who’d be woobified by his fandom andhave all the atrocities he commits handwaved away because uwu trauma but I don’tactually know if that happens. (My opinion on that is “cool motive, stillmurder;” I love him because he’s completelyfucked up, not the opposite.) Oh, I tend to think of him as less handsomeand/or generally pretty than a lot of the art I see depicts? He’s angular anddangerous and Matthias describes him as “pale and freakish.” Some of that islikely just Kaz’s… aura, for lack of a better word, but I like him as a littlestrange-looking, too. Like the demon he is, properly so. 

[morwensteelsheen]

Faramir

OTP for them: Éowyn, obviously. swoon.

BROTP for them: I realised thinking about this that I sort of have it in my head that he’s a something of a loner, which is making me kinda sad now. So: Aragorn, I reckon, but not in a super emotionally open way. Big Just Guys Being Dudes energy lmao

Other ships: Faramir/Aragorn is fun but only when people don’t get weird about the Boromir shit; Faramir/a fucking xanax

What kind of fic I’d write about them: if it was a gen fic I’d love to do something where he finally gets to travel and see Arnor. If it’s a ship fic then… literally anything and everything.

A favorite canon moment: Somewhat underrated of all his moments but this is deeply fucking funny to me:

‘Faramir!’ [Pippin] cried aloud with the others. ‘Faramir!’ And Faramir, catching his strange voice among the clamour of the men of the City, turned and looked down at him and was amazed.

‘Whence come you?’ he said. ‘A halfling, and in the livery of the Tower! Whence…?’

Easily the funniest moment of what the fuck is going on in my life of any of the characters in LOTR. The dude who won’t ever shut the fuck up literally rendered speechless by the absurdity of it all. God tier comedy.

Color that reminds me of them: I realise it’s cliche and a cop out to say green so I won’t, and instead I’ll say like those good oxbloods that were super popular with mormons and evangelicals like a decade ago

Song that reminds me of them: All My Days by Alexi Murdoch or Tired Hands by the Last Bison

A headcanon about them: He has a moment about three hours into taking up his duties as Steward after the Pelennor where he realises he doesn’t know/remember the answer to something that he knows his father told him before, and that’s the first and only time he ever really has a serious emotional breakdown over his father. He’s alone, because bar Éowyn (and then only briefly), nobody gets to see him lose control emotionally like that, and it’s just this overwhelming feeling of, jesus fucking christ what just happened to me it wasn’t meant to be like this, he cries it out for all of two minutes, and that’s basically that put into a box and shoved into the back of a psychological closet for a nice long while. The box gets dragged back out inadvertently by the kids close to twenty or so years later, but by that point he and Éowyn have got enough of their own personal language going that they navigate the conversation without him needing to reopen the emotions as viscerally. So, yeah. Two minutes total, that’s about all he spends actively feeling horrible about his dad. Also he basically never, ever cries. The next time he cries is when Elboron is born and even then that’s a very much blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sort of thing

A random AU I think up on the spot for them: lol I would love to see an AU where Faramir goes to Rivendell but because he’s Gandalf’s little simp he thinks it’s smart to show up at Isengard to ask for advice, because I think it would loosely coincide with Saruman and Gandalf have their little tiff. Could go full fucking wicker man with it too, that’d be very funny. Would be cool to puzzle out how/if that changes anything.

Anything else: lmao so I keep wondering how much he knew about what sort of role he’d have in Aragorn’s kingdom when he proposed to Éowyn. Part of me assume he knew he’d have a big role, but part of me think it’d be dead funny if he didn’t, because Éowyn would absolutely be doing a “fuck it we’ll do it live” kinda thing for saying yes to him when he apparently had no real assets to his name. which also leads me onto… I’m convinced he and Éowyn only have one canonical kid because of some weird LaCE Tolkien catholic shit, which is why I ignore that nonsense and give them like two or three kids because my man’s pull out game gotta be weak.

[nightcoremoon]

to the MOTHERFUCKERS who put together The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age Osgiliath is literally fucking impossible without massive amounts of previous preparation and praying to based RNGesus because of the solo Idrial fights. now I will say that the motherfucking morgul orcs are unbalanced little assholes. immune to cripple (which you *need* in rohan and later in helms deep) but not to stun and sleep??? luckily I gave Elegost his passive skills to make arrows of sleep affect everybody. and the mages are able to be silenced? what the FUCK. all they have is a piddly little melee attack that does maybe a hundred damage with a crit, which isn't even a goddamn pixel on the health bar by the time you get there without even doing any exp grinding whatsoever. thank christ I put all my shadowcraft skills onto Idrial and Morwen while I was in the Gullies and Rohan and that finally got me through the Gothmog boss fight which was always the fucking worst whenever I ran it back when I was younger (and AGAIN when I hit it on emulation a couple years ago). Faramir is shitty, and bugged beyond all fucking recognition. You know, he actually killed Berethor with Faramir's Quality buffs. For some fucking reason after I had put him in for a moment during the first Gothmog fight in order to get a fellowship grace up on Faramir (since his GODDAMN BUFFS TAKE FUCKHUGE AMOUNTS OF MANA TO USE and I couldn't dispel the two separate haste of the elves buffs Idrial had given him because I'm a fucking asshole apparently), every time the Curse Of Barad-Dur dot procced, Faramir would counterattack and hit not Gothmog but Berethor and after Berethor- who was safe in the bench- fucking died because he hit 0 hp, he goddamn disappeared from the battle entirely. I hit X and only Hadhod & Morwen were there, Berethor was nowhere in sight. I wasn't gonna fucking use him since he didn't have his good weapons yet (and he had been consistently disappointing since the fucking beginning of Moria, only useful for stand fast while fighting the fucking stun happy goblin shit stains (FUCK YOU GOBLIN VETERAN YOU SACK OF FUCKING BULLSHIT) and the uruk hai berserkers at helms deep (FUCK YOU TOO LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE HELMS DEEP GAUNTLET) so he was very underskilled too, oopsy doopsy) but the fact remains that Faramir fucking killed the main protagonist AS WELL AS ANY HOPE FOR REDEEMING SMEAGOL. poor demented bastard almost got saved by Frodo's compassion too... and anyway, morgul mirror was a fucking pain and a half to get around with Eaoden constantly using dispel unable to actually do any combat worth a damn but I got around that by cheesing with the haste abilities and a little bit of RNG screwage (and quite a bit of skill grinding, fuck whoever decided to make you use a hundred fucking sword crafts just to learn an ability, I'm glad I only skilled spirit on everybody through all of Eregion & Moria so that I was able to sustain AP long enough to get as many spirit skills in as little time as possible), but eventually I got though it because with the tools at my disposal I'm able to depend on any (viable) three person combination of my team to get through any situation I get thrown, and if something is too much of a challenge I can just pop northern storm (most op skill in the game, he fucking blasts water stallion out of the water at barely more mana than his other abilities, thank you polished elfstone of spirit enhancement (and incessant levels of skill grinding) and sudden abrupt unemployment I guess) or flames of ruin or some other lame ass cheese strat. hey man I worked really hard to be able to not do anything requiring skill and tactics and that bullshit. this isn't fire emblem. I'm so getting off topic here... point is, it's not Gothmog. it's not the morgul bastards. it's not even Faramir being the team killing fucktard. it's the GODDAMN. MOTHER FUCKING. PIECE OF SHIT. DUMB STUNLOCKS. Idrial fighting the two morgul archers? not a problem. with haste of the elves, cleanse shadow, aura of the valar, you have more than enough tools at your disposal even with very minimal skill grinding or points in your actual spirit stat. but with the morgul sword warriors? Jesus Fucking Criminy Christmas, Batman! It's a fucking nightmare. If Idrial does not have the initiative for the battle, there's potential to just see the Staggering Bash attack animation again and again and again and again and morgul slash and hope that you'll get a turn that's quickly and immediately dashed by another animation for that motherfucking staggering bash. and then the game over screen and replaying another goddamn eternity of a nazgul fight or plodding along through the sewers. Now, a problem occurs here if you didn't control Idrial on adventure mode the literal whole game up to this point getting the all of the side quest exp that for some ungodly reason isn't fucking shared with the entire goddamn party. Because if you don't have the passive skill Frenzy by this point in the game... you're literally fucked, that's it, game over man, game over. While it's 100% possible to keep yourself perpetually alive for all of video gaming eternity by just casting aura of the valar on yourself as soon as the previously casted aura of the valar brings your dead body back to life, there's literally an exponentially smaller and smaller chance that both of the orcs will not use staggering bash in between each turn. I think it's such fucking bullshit that the stun stacks refresh the time it takes. So I mean theoretically they've gotta run out of mana at some point, but the odds are not pretty when stacked with the fact that you can, well, tear your hair out in tearror (get it?) as soon as you accidentally cast cleansing waters instead of aura of the valar, then get hit by a staggering bash and get stunlocked and fucking die since you don't have the aura up. Now granted it's totally possible to just cast wheel of fire or water stallion or perfect mode and kill them both instantly... IF YOU HAVE THE INITIATIVE. if you don't have initiative first and the literal first animation is staggering bash, that's a one way ticket to a broken ass PS2 (or GameCube but those things are resilient as fuck and literally impossible to break beyond function even with several two story drops. holy shit did you see that episode of x-play where adam and morgan fucking demolished the 360 but the little GameCube that could turned on because it loves you so much, that was a fucking awesome show and I miss it so much). so I think that the person who decided to put not one, not three, but TWO enemies who can and will consistently stun turn after turn after turn after turn after mind numbingly broken as shit turn, should definitely be executed... or at least publicly humiliated and put in the fucking pillory. this tomato's for giving a 9 year old gray hair over a stupid fucking video game you son of a bitch!!! *ahem* But anyways I highly recommend The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age on the ps2/gamecube generation of consoles. Great game, lots of fun. Only minimal complaints here and there, that's a damn good rpg for it's time. Hell, its good now! Just... don't use Hadhod. At all. Ever. Please. He needs so many stat gains in spirit and dexterity just to fine fucking useable, and he gets his best gear for a long time at barely an hour into it. The dwarf is not rewarding at all without new game+ cheesing the ancient elfstones from evil mode for pelennor fields onto your level 1 characters, and even then only on easy. Elegost is awesome consistently, Morwen is great eventually, Idrial is fucking necessary as shit throughout, Berethor is necessary on & off but especially at the end, Eaoden is the fucking greatest RPG character of all time, but Hadhod is just... meh. He's okay in Osgiliath once you get his walking axe in the sewer but by then you've literally beaten every hard fight except for the final Sauron boss fight and that one is literally fucking impossible on any difficulty but easy so good fucking luck bro.

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Lord Of The Rings & Christianity - Old Work

     The Lord of the Rings is a film trilogy that has Christ-like symbolism all throughout. The author of the trilogy, J.R.R Tolkien was a Christian himself, so it makes sense that references to Christianity could be seen once it was adapted for the big screen. 

     In my opinion there are many characters that can exemplify different aspects of the life of Christ. One such character would be Samwise Gamgee, the “side-kick” character who helps Frodo Baggins on his journey to destroy the “One Ring”. He is there for Frodo no matter what, through the good times and the bad, and is the person that helps Frodo to stay strong. He has one quote in which he says to Frodo “I can’t carry it for you but I can carry you” in reference to the ring. Samwise won’t carry the ring itself because he won’t put himself near the temptation, he resists and does not fall prey to it like so many other characters do. The ring represents Frodo’s burden that he has to bear, similar to the burdens we have to carry throughout life. This is similar to a Christian’s walk with God. God doesn’t always make our problems disappear and take them all upon himself to fix. Often times he is there to help us through. He “carries us” as we work through our problems. 

     Samwise also refuses to leave Frodo, despite Frodo’s attempts to go on without the gardener. He tries to leave on a boat but Sam will not have it and he chases after Frodo, regardless of the fact that he doesn’t know how to swim. This is similar to the verse in the Bible in Deuteronomy 31:6 that says, "Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you." God would never leave us, despite if we try to leave him, and the same goes for Sam with Frodo. 

     Sam seems to suffer alongside Frodo, he feels his pain and goes through it all with him. His heart breaks when Frodo’s does and he never allows Frodo to feel alone. This is similar to the idea of a suffering God. Christians believe that God feels our pain and sympathizes with us. When we grieve, he grieves. He is in tune with us and our emotions and wants the best for his people.

     Gandalf portrays a specific aspect of Jesus’s persona as well. Throughout all of his journeys, he is gathering people to help in the fight for good. This is similar to how Jesus gathered his disciples to help spread the word of God. Gandalf also sacrifices himself for his friends when he battles the Balrog, putting himself between the beast and his comrades. He sacrifices himself so that the others can escape and continue on their task. Jesus’s crucifixion can be compared to this as they both laid down their life for others. In John 15:13 in the Bible it is said that “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend”. This can be seen in both Gandalf and Jesus as they sacrifice themselves so that others may live. Gandalf in the sense that his friends can continue on in their mission, and Jesus in the sense that we can now have eternal life in heaven because of his death on the cross. 

     However, similar to Jesus, Gandalf does not remain dead. No, he returns as Gandalf the White and continues on to help in the battle for good. This is reminiscent of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus returns and brings back hope to the world. Gandalf does the same for Middle Earth. 

     Another aspect of Christ is evident in the character of Aragorn. He is the true king, however, the first time we see him on screen he doesn’t look like the typical king we think of. He isn’t wearing a crown covered with jewels but a dark colored hood with an almost dirty appearance. In Jesus’s time, people doubted that he was the true king because of how he appeared. He arrived to the world as a baby and became a carpenter’s son. He didn’t come on a horse with an army. He wasn’t commanding or demanding. He was a simple, humble man who lived his life the way a good person should. However, none of this changed who he truly was, the son of God. 

     Appearance wise, Aragorn looks similar to typical depictions of Jesus. He has the beard and medium length dark hair that is absolutely reminiscent of the styles that is believed for men to have worn back during Jesus’s times. I do not know whether this was done on purpose or not, however, if so, it was a great choice for his character. It’s a subtle nod to Jesus that believers would be able to pick out. 

     Aragorn also goes out of his way to protect the Hobbits, just like God protects his children. The Hobbits as a whole represent a childlike faith. In Mark 10:13-16 it states “And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.” That being said, I think it is important to note that the person chosen with the job of carrying the ring (as well as three of his companions) was a childlike character. Hobbits are small like children, youthful looking, energetic and exuberant. Merry and Pippin even more so exemplify childlike behavior with their songs and dances and mischief that they get into. However, they are also characters that help turn pinnacle moments in the story, such as Merry in battle, or Pippin’s warning that Faramir was still alive when he was about to be burned. They may seem small but they can do mighty things. As Balin the dwarf says in The Hobbit film, “It never ceases to amaze me: the courage of Hobbits”. Personally, I believe that the same could be said for children. They are more resilient than people think and shouldn’t be underestimated.  

     Apart from Frodo, there is also a “company” who travels with him in order to complete the job of getting the room to Mount Doom. This group includes Frodo, of course, Samwise, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Boromir, Merry, and Pippin. They are from all different groups and classes, similar to how Jesus picked different types of people to be his disciples. They help out in the fight for good and aid Frodo in achieving his goal. 

     Uncharacteristically for his time, Jesus also included women in his teachings and his group of followers. He brought about the idea that men and women could be portrayed on equal footing. In The Lord of the Rings, Éowyn is an example of this. She shows how women are in fact equal to men by taking up her sword and charging into battle, killing an adversary that no man had been able to. In fact she said in response to “no man can kill me” by saying “I am no man”. 

      A blatant representation of the antithesis of the Jesus Christ way of life is the temptation that many characters go through as a result of coming close to the Ring. Some characters let the ring take full control over them, such as Gollum who at one point  was a normal looking Hobbit-like creature, but became a decrepit shell of his former self. This symbolizes both how sin can eat away at you until you are virtually unrecognizable as the person you used to be and life without Christ. However, temptation can also be more subtle, such as the times Frodo uses the ring, despite being warned not to use it. He sees it as almost an easy way out of difficult and sometimes dangerous situations. It seems harmless at the time, and even helpful, however, he doesn’t realize the toll that using the ring will take on his psyche. This is similar to “little sins” or “white lies” that we go through in life, things that Christianity warns us of as the little things can pile up over time until they can snowball and we get stuck in a web that we can’t get out of. 

     Another example of the antithesis of Christ would come in the form of Saruman. He’s deceitful. He is what I refer to as “evil in a pretty package”. At first, he looks like he is doing good. He’s all dressed in white, putting off an air of purity when in fact he is anything but. Gandalf, who is supposed to be so incredibly wise, is even tricked by Saruman. In Matthew 24:24 it says “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.” Gandalf was blinded by the fact that Saruman was supposed to be his friend that he couldn’t discern the evil that Saruman possessed. 

     Who is Jesus? To me, Jesus is a friend. While being divine, I also see him for who he was as a human as I find that side of him easiest to relate to as I am obviously a human myself. I can see how he lived and apply it to myself as a means of guidelines on how to live my own life. I feel like regardless of your perspective on religion, you can take his way of life and apply it to your own. Such as how he treated others, not being judgemental, being caring and going out of his way to help people, as well as many other positive traits. Jesus is someone I can look to as a positive example whose lifestyle can still apply in modern day. He’s a much better role model than those that people consider role models today and more people should look to him for how to live their lives.