#mt. doom

[vortexanomaly]

[incorrectfilm]

Incorrect Lord of the Rings || (Source: That’s Believable)

[cuteapotsarttime]

With the lord of the rings magic set being out and a bunch of cards I want for a deck I'm building being either too expensive or didn't get a lotr art treatment, I'm drawing most of the cards for my Lord of the Nazgul deck myself

[gandalf-the-fool]

[velvet4510]

It took the Ring two seconds to make both Isildur and Gollum claim it as their own.

It didn’t take much longer for it to make Bilbo do the same, as he kept it as the key “trick up his sleeve” during the Quest for Erebor and never considered harming it.

But in 17 full years and 6 months, it couldn’t make Frodo claim it. It took being inside Mt. Doom, the place where its power was absolute and drowned out all othere, to get Frodo to claim it.

Inside Mt. Doom, no bearer can resist the Ring. They will inevitably claim it there. But literally ALL of the other Ring-bearers who ever claimed it did so outside of Mt. Doom.

The Ring never needed to apply its utmost, Cracks-of-Doom-level pressure to make any previous Ring-bearer claim it. Frodo was the only one who resisted it so long and so well that it had to force itself upon him and break him just to get him to regard it as his own.

Frodo Baggins is the strongest mortal in the Third Age of Middle-Earth and no, I am not accepting questions at this time.

(Remember our beloved Samwise Gamgee never claimed the Ring, and didn’t have it long enough for it to really sink its teeth into him as deeply as it did into everyone else. I’m talking about those who actually claimed the Ring at some point in their lives.)

[silme-lorien]

watched rotk yesterday… 🧍‍♂️gonna need 3-6 business days to recover

[mattaytchtaylor]

Ribbons in her Hair

[autistook]

March 24th - Frodo and Sam reach the foot of Mount Doom

The night seemed endless.... Sam began to wonder if a second darkness had begun and no day would ever reappear. At last he groped for Frodo's hand. It was cold and trembling. His master was shivering.

[transmechanicus]

Y'ALL CANNOT BE @'ING STAFF ON POSTS CALLING OUT THE MODERATION TEAM'S PURGES, WTF ARE YOU ON??? THE TRANSPHOBIA IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE, STAFF ISN'T GONNA DO FUCK ALL, AND ALL YOU'RE DOING IS GETTING OP [MARKED FOR DEATH] FOR SPEAKING OUT, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Mordor by Dmitry Yakhouski

[qualityrain]

shuake week day 5: first date / fantasy au / crossdressing / dress up

[cilil]

"Stupid sexy Sauron" or, as I like to call it, suffering from The Mairon Malady

[velvet4510]

Have said it before and will say it again: If Frodo had actually been able to throw the Ring into the Fire by himself, that would’ve meant he was some kind of Superman. The point of Frodo is he’s NOT Superman. He’s a regular ordinary guy who volunteers to do the impossible.

[silme-lorien]

woke up and found this in my notes app. thanks sleep deprived brain

[the-writing-goblin]

The worst thing about Tolkien is that with most authors you can just assume they didn't fully map out every single detail of the world. You have a question? You can probably just make up a head cannon and it's as good an answer as any. And like, you can do that with Tolkien, but there is always the very real risk that there is in fact some detail in cannon that contradicts you. Because Tolkien fucking worldbuilt some stupid, nit-picky details.

All this is to say that I've been thinking... what the hell does "forged in the fires of Mount Doom" actually mean? Like... the forge was heated by the lava? Or by some sort of thermal vent? How the fuck does that even work? Where do you set up a forge in an active volcano? Like, obviosly you'd have to be immune to fire to make it work, but how do you set up on ground stable enough to forge the damned ONE RING, which I'm pretty sure you only get one shot at, while still being close enough to the molten rock to smelt magical gold?

And on one hand, I'm fairly sure Tolkien never explains this, and probably never even thought that in depth about these challenges. But only fairly sure. Which will continue to haunt me forever.

[autistook]

The Return of the King