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I just learned that Balin apparently met Frodo on one of his visits to Bilbo and would tell him about his travels I'm going to cry

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This of course is awful dialogue and I’d prefer if it’d never been included - I made this poll supposing that it absolutely HAD to be in it, especially considering that only one of the two romantic relationships in that trilogy is actually developed in any meaningful way whatsoever.

(Don’t think for a minute that I believe it to be great dialogue, ugh.)

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it literally would’ve made more sense if Leia as a jedi was the one to, in a moment of fear and weakness, raise her lightsaber against ben.

Leia is the one who never forgave Vader, who never had the same level of sympathy towards him that her brother had. Any fond word about him sends a wave of nauseousness through her. Even hearing words of kindness towards him felt like she was committing a betrayal. How could she? Her home and her parents were obliterated because of men in whom darkness resided. If she saw darkness within her own son, it would make the most sense that she would be the one to think that she might have to take responsibility, as a general, as a jedi, as a daughter of a man who slaughtered millions, to stop this darkness before it hurt anyone the way Vader did.

but in the same moment she ignited her lightsaber, she would immediately come to reckon with exactly how Luke became so horrified at the prospect of slaughtering his own blood family. Why he could never bring himself to kill Vader even for the sake of the galaxy. How could she ever even fathom to consider doing this to her own baby? But it’s too late. your son is looking up at you with your sword raised over his head and it’s too late.

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I mean, I love Bilbo, but he IS canonically an unreliable narrator.