#so do Frodo and Sam

[evelyn-onfire]

yes hi I watched the first Lord of the Rings movie last night and ummm I’m just a little normal about it :)))

[todayon-prozacdreamdiary]

dreamed maglor tried to jump frodo for the bottle of silmaril light but like. politely.

[pinedemon]

it’s been so many years and i still think about frodo and sam. in every little moment, in the face of such hardship, they show so much care for one another. sam packing a bit of seasoning so that they might have a good meal every now and then. how sam waded into deep water, knowing he would drown, only to have the chance at following frodo for a little bit longer. that frodo would have sam remembered as just as much of a hero — if not more so — as him or any member of the fellowship. the way frodo says sam’s name, like a sigh, a benediction, or a kiss, even. the whisper of a smile on frodo's face whenever sam says something sweet or kind. that they slept curled up next to one another every night under the stars. how they look at each other with such undisguised fondness. that in some of their darkest moments, when frodo suffocates under the grip of the ring, all they can do is hold each other. how sam begged frodo to hang on because he couldn’t bear to leave him. that he cradled him in his arms and pleaded don't go where i can't follow. and then, when they walked into fire and shadow together and sat shoulder to shoulder at the end of all things. that they lived, and though they were changed, they still held on just as tightly to one another until it was time to let go — if only for a little while. 

[fyllophobia]

cheep cheep

[silme-lorien]

my lotr homescreen 💫

if anyone wants any of these pics u can dm me or comment !! <3 (btw if quality is bad open the pic sry)

[mishalikessoundsandcolours]

My Jayvik playlist if anyone cares, them cosmically intertwined idiots have got me in a chokehold💔

(it's not fully sorted and also to be completed, feel free to drop suggestions if you like)

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

—The Silmarillion, “Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath”

—The Two Towers, “The Forbidden Pool”

[tsuyonpuu]

Oh no! I think these two walked too far!!

Working on some new custom signs and displays for Comic Con Stuttgart this December 🌼 this time featuring my most beloved!!

[frodo-with-glasses]

Why do you draw Merry with such a gaunt looking face?

Well, in the case of my most recent comic, the reason he looks so gaunt is because he—as well as Sam and Pippin—are supposed to look…well, dead. The book says that “their faces looked deathly pale”, but since it’s hard to communicate unusual paleness in a black-and-white art style, I opted instead to portray the sunken, shriveled look of a corpse.

It’s probably even more striking on Merry than it is on Sam or Pip, because he doesn’t have round cheeks to soften his face like they do.

As for all the other times I draw him—the reason he has such sharp cheekbones and a chad’s square jawline is because he is, in fact, the chadliest hobbit, and Hot Merry makes a very specific subset of my friends swoon ;-)

[jon-sedai]

The idea that GRRM is anti Tolkien is particularly funny because ASOIAF is sprinkled with rather intricate (and even passionate) homages to LOTR. And I can’t help but think of how Tolkien’s Fellowship, more specifically the Hobbits, may have inspired GRRM’s Night’s Watch. Jon Snow, for starters, is in many ways a combination of LOTR’s Frodo and Aragorn. And in the same way that Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are unexpected heroes in LOTR (because who looks to a hobbit as the face of an epic adventure?), Jon the bastard becomes the leader of a ragtag of socially disenfranchised men (in the form of the NW) who are anything but heroic. Sure there’s the odd knight or noble in there, but the NW is quite full of criminals and the very worst of the social order. The hobbits aren’t the strongest or the sharpest but they become the face of the fight against Sauron. And the NW, while being severely undermanned and under-equipped, has become the main force that stands against winter. GRRM even adds a love letter to Tolkien’s Sam Gamgee by adding his on Sam - Sam Tarly - who acts as a moral compass and counselor to Jon, in the same ways that Sam Gamgee is key to Frodo’s journey. And just like Frodo, Jon gets his very own pair of jokester friends, one of whine is even named Pyp. So it’s all very beautiful and nice, and we should talk about it more because it’s super evident that GRRM is a massive Tolkien fanboy. But I do have to say tho, GRRM’s take on Gandalf is exceedingly hilarious just because Melisandre is famously very bad at her job.

[girls-againstgod]

thinking about how much it probably meant to faramir when he let frodo and sam go knowing his life would be forfeit and sam told him "captain faramir, you've shown your quality sir; the very highest."

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

I hate some changes the movies made regarding Sam and Frodo (like taking the whether or not scene away from us to give us the scene of Frodo sending Sam away?? Which he literally would never), but in a way, I kinda love it??

Like, Sam and Frodo continuing with each other the whole journey, trusting each other and fighting for each other and alongside each other is what allows the quest to success. It is their love for each other (whether that’s platonic or romantic) that saves the world. All the scenes in the movies where this love trembles a little (Frodo sending Sam away, Frodo putting his sword against his neck) are not book-accurate, that never happens, Frodo would never, and that’s the whole point, that he would never, that’s why the quest succeeds.

However frodo is more and more affected by the ring as the quest goes on, and one of the ring’s consequences is isolation, it makes you distrust others, thinking they’re going to steal it and betray you, it makes you leave everyone behind, you don’t need them, it whispers. So the fact that, in the books, this never happened to Frodo after spending every day every hour with Sam, is a little strange, and incredibly sweet.

We see less and less of Frodo’s pov as the quest goes on, because he’s losing his mind to the ring, but even if he did have this kind of thoughts, he never acted on them.

However lotr is written by HIMSELF, which means that all he doesn’t want to include, he just doesn’t. He could have perfectly well have made up all that happened on the way to Mordor (we know he didn’t, obviously, but technically he could have and we wouldn’t know). I don’t think it’s far-fetched to say that the influence the ring had on him is probably uglier that what he wrote down, and because he was ashamed (or maybe so out of it the whole quest he doesn’t even remember well) he just skipped it. Frodo would never send Sam away, Frodo would never put his sword against his throat. Except maybe he did. It’s possible he did. He just never told us.

[queeringclassiclit]

Frodo Baggins & Samwise Gamgee

from The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954-1955)

rematch of this poll

[matiasthecamilion]

For a long time I didn't understand why I was so obsessed with lotr, especially the relationship between Sam n Frodo, as the years have gone by I can only come to the conclusion that as a 14 year old queer kiddo who just It had been discovered a few months ago and that continued to scared a lot even feeling uncomfortable for what them little self was, I came to feel safe, secure and understood on levels that I had never felt before.

It wasn't just that they acted gay or said sweet things to each other, it was that I saw myself in them, I could finally see that people like me have always existed, that they have always loved each other. Seeing how they cared for each other and expressed their love made me think I was not alone.

I wasn't the only one to feel this way because they loved each other too. Bc I grew up in a conservative family I thought I wasn't worthy of love, but seeing them made me realize that that kind of "love" I felt has always been there.

Sam n Frodo are not just a ship for me, they are an important part of my path to self-acceptance. Thanks to them I learned that I was not wrong.

(a cute drawing made my dearest friend Fergii that is part of a reencarnation au we have on wattpad)

[norr106]

Okay I need to preface that I love the movies but what the fuck is happening with denethor's family in the two towers why are they all done so dirty

Yall were right about Faramir oh my god what did they do to him 😭