#the fall of frodo baggins

[trahald-the-burrower]

The Fall of Frodo Baggins by Demiurgo

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[remusjohnslupin]

Frodo Baggins: the bearer of the One Ring, Elf-friend, one of the only three Hobbits to be granted passage from Middle-earth to Aman, the Undying Lands.

[captaincanonly]

this is not normal;…!!!! AUGAHAHHHHH LITTLE GUYS HAVE TAKEN OVER MY LIFE!!

part 1 part 3

[thatonebirdwrites]

Being ill sucks. Bad news lately too. So editing this chapter took longer than usual. Worldkiller chapter will be the one after this one.

Excerpt:

Sam intercepts Ruby, Kara, and Alex in the entryway. Alex wears her black agent suit, but has a medical bag over one shoulder, her red hair cropped short around her ears. As hot as always. Kara smiles at Sam and waves. “Still okay to be here?”

She holds up one finger. “Give me a second.” She ignores the confused look on Alex’s face, but Kara whispers something that keeps Alex silent. Ruby shrugs and walks into the kitchen to peruse the fridge.

Sam drops to her knees next to the sofa and taps Rory’s shoulder. Or tries since the girl is currently hidden under two blankets with another over her curled up legs. At the third tap, Rory looks up and squints. 

‘Hi Rory, did you eat?’ Sam signs. Best check that first.

Rory tilts her head and looks at Sam, her mouth pinched. She glances over her shoulder at Kara and Alex, then ducks further under her blankets. When Sam lightly taps her shoulder again, the girl coughs into the blanket and nods. She points to the bowl. Indeed, its level is lower than ten minutes ago. 

Sam hears Alex’s whisper to Kara. “Why is Sam using sign language? I’m rusty on that.”

“We can interpret if needed,” Kara whispers back. “Just give them a moment, okay?”

‘You have two visitors.’ Sam signs. She’s grateful that Rory has learned sign language, since the signs her and Ruby devised have a tendency to randomly change. The two love playing jokes like that on Sam. 

‘Who?’ Rory’s hand trembles. 

‘Kara and her sister, Alex. Alex is a doctor and can help you feel better.’ Sam wishes she had more time to break this news to Rory. 

Rory stares at Sam’s hand, her forehead wrinkled in thought. She coughs into the blankets and rubs her nose. The way the girl nibbles her lips reminds Sam painfully of Lena’s tendency to do that same thing. ‘Will it hurt?’

The question makes Sam’s heart ache. ‘No, she won’t hurt you.’

‘Promise?’ The earnest look Rory has as she makes that sign has Sam breathing in sharply. 

How can she promise such a thing? She has no idea what the tests will entail, and yet, Rory needs medical care. She’s ill with who knows what, her energy drains as the day continues, and her fever hasn’t gone down since last night. 

Sam forces a smile, and signs, ‘I promise. I will be here with you. So will Kara. You won’t be alone.’

Rory considers those words with more lip nibbling. Sam doesn’t rush her since she knows the girl takes much longer to make decisions than Lena or Kieran or even the angry one. After several tense minutes, the girl nods, her gaze on the table still.

Sam pushes to her feet. “All right, Alex, I’ll be watching you.” She gestures to Lena. “She’s ready for you now.” 

Alex frowns. “Okay.” She pulls her bag off her back and drops it next to the sofa. Her gaze flickers between Sam and the girl, her brow creased. “Lena? I heard you weren’t feeling well. Can you give me your symptoms?”

[maglorslostsilmaril]

hello maybe someone has already said this but uhhh do some of y’all realize how wrong it sounds out of concept to say that Sam was the true hero of LotR?

“Sam was the true hero! He had to carry Frodo because Frodo failed!” -> “All of Frodo’s contributions fail to matter because in the end he needed help. A hero is only valid if he doesn’t have to rely on anyone else.”

Like obviously not everyone who says that always means the second part, but overall like. That’s kinda the implication that’s being given. And it’s kinda messed up.

[theheirofthesharingan]

The easiest ways I lose respect for someone when I hear them say:

I'm a dog person and I hate cats.

Frodo sucks and sam is the 'true hero' and 'Tolkien said sam was the' true hero' and 'Frodo wouldn't have made it without Sam so Sam is the' true hero' of LotR.

I love Sasuke but I hate itachi.

I love Itachi but I hate Sasuke.

I hate both Itachi and Sasuke.

[frodothefair]

ISO: picture of Frodo wearing a scarf and a hat. Gloves optional.

[diffidentlibraryghost]

”He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

He began to say to himself: ’Perhaps I shall cross the River myself one day.’ To which the other half of his mind always replied: ’Not yet.’”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

[usedtobethelegendcreator]

I wondered who would win in a Bill vs. Fëanorians fight, and I went with it. The first pic is after Angband.

[astronicht]

Okay I'm almost done with Fellowship, here's an incomplete list of shit I noticed and thought was buck fucking wild on my first ever read-thru: medieval edition.

In literally the second line of the book, Tolkien implies that Bilbo Baggins wrote a story which was preserved alongside the in-universe version of the Mabinogion (aka the best-known collection of Welsh myths; I promise this is batshit). This is because The Hobbit has been preserved, in Tolkien's AU version of our world, in a "selection of the Red Book of Westmarch" (Prologue, Concerning Hobbits). If you're a medievalist and you see something called "The Red Book of" or "The Black Book of" etc it's a Thing. In this case, a cheeky reference to the Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest). There are a few Red Books, but only Hergest has stories).

not a medieval thing but i did not expect one common theory among hobbits for the death of Frodo's parents to be A RUMORED MURDER-SUICIDE.

At the beginning of the book a few hobbits report seeing a moving elm tree up on the moors, heading west (thru or past the Shire). I mentioned this in another post, but another rule: if you see an elm tree, that's a Girl Tree. In Norse creation myth, the first people were carved from driftwood by the gods. Their names were Askr (Ash, as in the tree), the first man, and Embla (debated, but likely elm tree), the first woman. A lot of ppl have I think guessed that that was an ent-wife, but like. Literally that was a GIRL. TREE.

Medieval thing: I used to read the runes on the covers of The Hobbit and LOTR for fun when I worked in a bookshop. There's a mix of Old Norse (viking) and Old English runes in use, but all the ones I've noticed so far are real and readable if you know runes.

Tom Bombadil makes perfect sense if you once spent months of your life researching the early medieval art of galdor, which was the use of poems or songs to do a form of word-magic, often incorporating gibberish. If you think maybe Tolkien did not base the entirety of Fellowship so far around learning and using galdor and thus the power of words and stories, that is fine I cannot force you. He did personally translate "galdor" in Beowulf as "spell" (spell, amusingly, used to mean "story"). And also he named an elf Galdor. Like he very much did name an elf Galdor.

Tom Bombadil in fact does galdor from the moment we meet him. He arrives and fights the evil galdor (song) of the willow tree ("old gray willow-man, he's a mighty singer"), which is singing the hobbits to sleep and possibly eating them, with a galdor (song) of his own. Then he wanders off still singing, incorporating gibberish. I think it was at this point that I started clawing my face.

THEN Tom Bombadil makes perfect sense if you've read the description of the scop's songs in Beowulf (Beowulf again, but hey, Tolkien did famously a. translate it b. write a fanfiction about it called Sellic Spell where he gave Beowulf an arguably homoerotic Best Friend). The scop (pronounched shop) is a poet who sings about deeds on earth, but also by profession must know how to sing the song or tell the story of how the cosmos itself came to be. The wise-singer who knows the deep lore of the early universe is a standard trope in Old English literature, not just Beowulf! Anyway Tom Bombadil takes everyone home and tells them THE ENTIRE STORY OF ALL THE AGES OF THE EARTH BACKWARDS UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE MOMENT OF CREATION, THE BIG BANG ITSELF and then Frodo Baggins falls asleep.

Tom Bombadil knows about plate tectonics

This is sort of a lie, Tom Bombadil describes the oceans of old being in a different place, which works as a standard visual of Old English creation, which being Christian followed vaguely Genesis lines, and vaguely Christian Genesis involves a lot of water. TOLKIEN knew about plate tectonics though.

Actually I just checked whether Tolkien knew about plate tectonics because I know the advent of plate tectonics theory took forever bc people HATED it and Alfred Wegener suffered for like 50 years. So! actually while Tolkien was writing LOTR, the scientific community was literally still not sure plate tectonics existed. Tom Bombadil knew tho.

Remember that next time you (a geologist) are forced to look at the Middle Earth map.

I'm not even done with Tom Bombadil but I'm stopping here tonight. Plate tectonics got me. There's a great early (but almost high!) medieval treatise on cosmology and also volcanoes and i wonder if tolkien read it. oh my god. i'm going to bed.

edit: part II

[just-being-aroace]

Things about me that clicked after I discovered that I’m not only asexual but also aromantic:

how I’ve always wanted a relationship and then didn’t know what to do in one

why the relationships never worked out for me

why I find romance books boring after reading two or free in a row

how I always felt that I would prefer to be in a relationship in ‘advanced’ stage where everything is comfortable and steady instead of the romantic beginning

how I never understood what people meant when they said they want Aziraphale and Crowley to be something more than they were in the show

how I never understood why finding a partner is the ultimate life goal

how I never understood why people said that some things and activities were better enjoyed with a loved one

why my dream date is eating together or doing some parallel activity like reading simultaneously

why Bilbo and Frodo Baggins being single and not interested in dating was always so appealing

why what I assumed was a fictional crush was actually me liking a character because they liked literature and art

how I never understood the phrase ‘love at first sight’ and how it made me icky because of the assumption that you could fall in love because somebody is pretty

how I always said that it would be okay for me to live in separate bedrooms with my partner

why I never understood why people would want to take part in programs like ‘Love Island’ or ‘Too Hot to Handle’

[hornydilfsinyourarea]

Lord Of The Rings/The Hobbit x Dragon-Hybrid! Male! User

Authors note: if you guys want other characters added to this, just ask!

Scenario: "You're a dragon hybrid, having horns, wings, and a tail of a dragon, but you possessed the body of a man, there were no record of your species, dragons, yes, but hybrid's? Nope, there were none, but then you ended up in a strange place, but... While you were there, you caught someone's eye, you were... Interesting to them, very interesting, they even started to fall for you... But what happens when they find out that your going through a mating season? One thing is for sure... They help you out, they wouldn't want to leave you unsatisfied, do they?~"

Warning: NSFW, Size difference (Frodo), cave sex (Gríma), mentioned that user has a big dick, horn holding (the character is holding one of your horns), mention of user being in rut (Elrond, Frodo, Thranduil, Legolas), mention of character hearing you pleasure yourself (Legolas, Elrond, Frodo, Thranduil)

The characters! (just click on their name!)

☆ Elrond •♡• Frodo Baggins •♡• Thranduil •♡• Legolas •♡• Gríma Wormtongue •♡• Lindir •♡• more coming soon! ☆

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Current Unhinged Takes on 'Insufferable' Protagonist submissions:

13th Doctor - Doctor Who

Aang - ATLA

Beth March - Little Women

Castiel - Superatural

Frodo Baggins - The Lord of the Rings

Hannibal Lecter - Hannibal

Harry Du Bois - Disco Elysium

Jenny Curran - Forrest Gump

Laios Touden - Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon

Luo Binghe - Scum Villains Self Saving System

Mabel Pines - Gravity Falls

Marinette Dupain-Cheng - Miraculous Ladybug

Michael Afton - Five Nights at Freddy's

Moonwatcher - Wings of Fire

Razputin Aquato - Psychonauts

Sansa Stark - A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones

Sasuke Uchiha - Naruto

Serena - Pokémon XYZ

Shen Qingqiu - Scum Villains Self Saving System

Stephanie Brown - DC Comics

Tohru Honda - Fruits Basket

Wendy Torrance - The Shining

Yui Komori - Diabolik Lovers

Yurika - Kids on the Slope

[qpr-competition]

WELCOME TO THE QPR COMPETITION

the matchups in round 1 are as follows

part 1:

Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens vs Peri Dubois and Abel Moreau from Entropic Float

Sonic and Shadow from Sonic the Hedgehog vs Joan Watson and Sherlock Holmes from Elementary

Camilla Hect and Palamedes Sextus from The Locked Tomb series vs Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist

John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from ACD's collection of stories vs c!Ranboo and c!Tubbo from Dream SMP

Arthur Lester and John Doe from Malevolent podcast vs Polly and Yaretzi from Hello From The Hallowoods

Abed Nadir and Troy Barnes from Community vs ART and Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries

Team Rocket from Pokémon vs Mane 6 Ensemble from My Little Pony

Timothy Stoker and Sasha James from The Magnus Archives vs The Doctor and The Master from Doctor Who

part 2:

Jesse Cosay and Lake from Infinity Train vs Joe Tazuna and Sara Chidouin from Your Turn To Die

Miles Edgeworth and Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney vs Kris and Susie from Deltarune

Oscar Wilde and Zolf Smith from Rusty Quill Gaming vs Mollymauk Tealeaf and Yasha Nydoorin from Critical Role

Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee from Lord Of The Rings vs Loid Forger and Yor Forger from Spy X Family

Hunter and Willow Park from The Owl House vs Arepo and God Of Arepo from Tumblr Folktales

Sakuko Kodama and Satoru Takahashi from Koisenu Futari | Two People Who Can't Fall In Love vs Compton Boole and Cassie O'Pia from Psychonauts

Lapis Lazuli and Peridot from Steven Universe vs Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa from Buddy Daddies

Nepeta Leijon and Equius Zahhak from Homestuck vs The Scooby Gang from Scooby-Doo

see you at 6 pm GMT 17th February for the first half of the first round!