#lotr fotr

[velvet4510]

NEW VERSION. :)

[rikebe]

i always really loved the scene in the fellowship where legolas realises mid-council that gollum having escaped is Really Bad, Actually, it's one of my favourite moments in the book. stoic movie legolas is fun but nothing beats an elven prince jumping up to confess his people's massive fuck-up to the smartest and best of middle earth

[celebrimborium]

[vildo]

[snowbuff]

portrait/color study of a Gandalf from FOTR! originally done in colored pencils before I painted over it digitally

[the-fab-fox]

Me, rewatching LotR to get that happy chemical: This makes me so happy.

Boromir, dying a hero's death, to Aragorn: I would have followed you, my brother. My captain. My king.

Me, sobbing into my cat:

[chidorambles]

The Fellowship on their way to leave Rivendell

Elrond: As I have already told you many times this is a very dangerous and perilious quest whose success hinges on not being discovered by the enemy. Therefore you must be always quiet, vigiliant and travel at night tò avoid detection.

Have i been clear? This is a secret quest. A secret. You must. not. be. discovered.

Gandalf: of course, Elrond.

Aragorn: yes, sir.

Legolas: yes, sir.

Gimli: yes, sir.

Frodo: yes, sir.

Sam: yes, sir.

Merry: yes, sir.

Pippin: yes, sir.

Boromir (hand on the horn of Gondor, letting his impulsive thoughts win):

[lokiiied]

eddie can’t be dead, he has to be alive in 2001 to drag his boyfriend and their seven children to opening night of the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring (dir. peter jackson)

[frodo-cinnamonroll]

LotR Meme of the Week: NO ONE Gets Between Me and LotR (#27)

[sonofarathorns]

reading lotr for the first time: the council of elrond

(yes, this one chapter gets its own post)

• ya girl struggled with this chapter, friends. there were parts of it that i absolutely loved, but there was so much lore involved that wasn’t described in the movies that i had to take many breaks :(

i didn’t get confused, per se, but there were.. a lot of names and places. and the quotation marks are different than what i’m used to, so i sometimes couldn’t tell who was speaking. and i have a kid who needed my attention so i was distracted.

i want to learn all this lore though, because i love tolkien’s world-building and i want to go on to read the silmarillion when i finish return of the king. @glorf1ndel gave me the great idea to make a character/location chart so i can know who all is related to who and where they’re from, which i might have to go back and do!

• i did like hearing an account of how the ring came to each of its bearers - elrond’s and gandalf’s speeches gave a lot more backstory of isildur and the ring, and even what denethor had to say about it.

and we receive more detail of gandalf’s visit to saruman and his imprisonment on orthanc, what radagast was doing during all of this, and more information about the eagles, shadowfax, and rohan. very important stuff!

• im boromir defender #1. his points were valid! i also love his interactions with aragorn. there’s tension, but they’re civil towards one another.

• i wish we had more information about aragorn’s hunt for gollum. i guess that’s what fanfic is for!

• legolas!!! felt so bad that mirkwood lost gollum omg. i can’t imagine sitting there with that knowledge and hearing gandalf and aragorn talk about how hard he was to track down and then…yeah. whoops.

• i love gloin! im kind of shocked gimli hasn’t spoken up yet!

• bilbo being like okay, fine, i’ll go, twist my arm why don’t you and everyone is just kind of like, oh sweetie, no… but like, nicely.

• frodo’s sense of dread before offering to take the ring, knowing no one else could do it and that he had to do it, absolutely broke my heart.

• if this post reads more like a dumbed down chapter summary, it’s because it is 😆 a lot happened, im still processing! but i enjoyed it and im sad i have school tomorrow so i probably won’t be able to read at all :(

[velvet4510]

“You suffer. I see it day by day.” IMO, this is a very underrated line of Boromir’s in the film, because it shows not only his observant and perceptive nature, but more importantly, his empathy. He knows exactly what it’s like to constantly carry a heavy burden alone on your shoulders. On this level, he actually understands Frodo deeply, and genuinely wants to help him. He really is a well-meaning friend. This particular line isn’t in the book, but it captures Boromir’s essence very well and I think Tolkien would’ve approved of it.

Yes, in the scene he is mainly manipulating Frodo…but we see how the Ring is using Boromir’s empathy against him. “Maybe he won’t suffer if he gives the Ring to me.” That’s actually quite similar to the tactic it uses on Sam, who also offers to carry the Ring to spare Frodo.

[vigilantegreen]

Every time I see the abbreviation "fotr" I know it's for "fellowship of the ring" but every time I say "Ford of the rings" like:

Get in bitch, we're taking the ring to mordor.

[celebrimborium]

the rings of power + tolkien’s descriptions of canon characters

[vildo]

[rptv-tolkien]

Riders at the Ford

by Ted Nasmith

[memray]

really quick boromir doodle because i was reminded of my love for him at the cinema

NORTHERNERS REPRESENT - me whenever i hear sean bean fail at not using his northern accent as boromir and it makes me very happy as a northerner