#samwise speaks

[magicspaceuncle]

Important: fellow Tungle.hell users please assist

I have to curse my dnd party members does anyone have that post with the "pov your boyfriend hitting you with a pan" or whatever audio, the asmr parody??

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

get me out of school i need to think about SONIC and TAKE A LITTLE NAP

[la-pheacienne]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[oloreandil]

as a chronically ill person with asthenia and particular ways of speaking, i've always felt uncomfortable with how Frodo is treated as a weakling and a wimp by so many lotr fans. not only does it ignore how insanely heavy the weight of his burden is (regardless of how constantly the narrative and characters repeat it in like. extremely plain terms), but it often leads to ableist comments of "well other characters were in pain too and they dealt with it better, AND without whining all the time :/"

however, listening to the audiobook, i'm only now realising why i don't like the treatment of Sam's deference to Frodo and their interactions during their quest. yes, you can absolutely do a class analysis of their relationship (Frodo is his "master" in the aristocratic sense of the term, and the narrative treats is as a quality that he "knows his place" - subservience). yes, Frodo sometimes lashes out at Sam unjustly (which is treated as bad by the narrative, again very plainly)

but, and i cannot stress this enough, having a Sam by your side as a disabled person on any kind of adventure is literally the only way to stay alive. Sam notices his health fluctuations, is on the lookout for ring-symptoms that Frodo may not even have noticed yet, makes sure that Frodo has the accommodation he needs to be in as little pain as possible as they live through the great evils of their time... Frodo relies heavily on Sam's support. like any disabled person on a year-long march would need to. especially when your condition keeps worsening

it feels so incredibly loving and revolutionary that, in Rivendell, when he sees Frodo awake for the first time since Elrond healed him of the Morgul blade, Sam takes Frodo's left hand in his and shyly says he's glad it's warm again. i don't think Frodo knew how cold it'd gone, or thought anyone else had noticed, and indeed the narration moves on quickly. but those moments are constant and deeply touching. it's hard to articulate just how accurate Frodo's journey is to my own disabled journey, and how profound it is that Sam's care is foundational to saving the world

[splankie]

guys i got called in for yuri duty

[stvnszlr]

my favorite thing about the tolkien universe is that i can hc almost any character as aspec and it will always make sense

fili? aromantic asexual. frodo and sam? both ace. boromir? aroace too! aragorn? ABSOLUTELY asexual. thorin? probably on both spectrums somewhere. eomer? ace and arospec. bard? aromantic, duh.

[frodo-with-glasses]

ANOTHER JOURNEY BEGINS TODAY!

Happy Hobbit Day everybody! In celebration of Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, I am—as promised—reading LotR again. I hope you’ll join me for another journey through this wonderful book!

What To Expect:

Chapter Reviews

Reviews of Phil Dragash’s audiobook

Reblogs of old art (when it’s still good)

Redraws of old art (when it isn’t lol)

Brand new art (for moments I missed on the last go-round)

And more shenanigans!

I would also like to run another ask game, if possible! I might revive one of the old ask games, or—as suggested by the ladies on the discord server—I might draw funny scenes from the movies on request. Vote for your favorite below!

So, Lady Glasses, where have you been?

Some of you were looking forward to seeing more Magnolia AU content in the interim between LotR rereads, and I’m really sorry I wasn’t able to deliver on that. A lot of things started to change IRL right around the time I finished the book, which affected my schedule and how much free time I had to draw. I also made a new friend, and with that person, started to roleplay my original characters (which I’m going to tell myself was writing practice ;-P), and that took up a lot of my creative energy as well.

But I’ve been promising for months that I’d start reading LotR again today, and I want to make good on at least one promise. So, here I am! I hope to be able to keep to the doodle-a-day schedule I had last year. We shall see.

As of today, I am actually on vacation, but I’ve been working hard for the past month to make sure you guys have reviews and doodles to enjoy even while I’m away from home. Thank you so much for your patience with me, and I hope you enjoy this brand new journey through Lord of the Rings!

WELCOME TO ANOTHER YEAR OF FRODO-WITH-GLASSES!

[toodleroo]

literally ginormous-brain thought i just had: aren't don quijote and sancho panza kind of like frodo and sam

[bisexualmultifandommess]

I know that in the hobbit group the main duos are Merry and Pippin and Sam and Frodo but I really like reading fanfics or watching edits that switch it up a bit or highlight other friendships.

Like I love seeing fanfics or edits to show Frodo’s relationship with Merry or Pippin as their older cousin and how much they love each other as family and how they protect each other and I also love seeing Merry and Pippin’s relationship with Sam and how much they care for each other despite sometimes annoying each other in the beginning.

[lovely-v]

it's crazy that the general non-tumblr consensus on Samwise Gamgee isn't that he's the sexiest fictional character ever devised

[magicspaceuncle]

explain in tags if you feel like it. or dont - leave us guessing for eternity. itll be fun either way! Also - wish i could do more than 10 options but rolling with what ive been granted by the tungle.hell gods

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

*my hands start shaking* oh right. the horrors

[swedenis-h]

Requests from Instagram!

Pt 1 2 3

[bumblingbriars]

The curse of getting back into LOTR after a few years is finding my tastes in men have become very different and if I was a stronger man there would be a 10k+ document in my google docs already

[ursifors]

i'm refusing to get a threads account for as long as possible bc i 1. already hate instagram/facebook 2. don't trust mark zuckerberg 3. i keep seeing mega red flags about it already 4. i don't want any social media i cannot access from a desktop website, i hate apps

but jeremy got one so if he posts anything just to there i wont be able to update yall on it bc i am not on there :((