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lord of the rings + pastels

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I'm reading the lord of the rings and I'm once again amazed at how... good most characters are. Like, they are genuinely good people. They are a bunch of kindhearted, gracious, caring people, coming together under adverse circumstances and trying to figure things out and find a solution and support each other through it all. Like Frodo and Sam meet Faramir and Faramir is a bit suspicious at first and kind of implies Frodo may be a spy, and then when he hears his story and he's like Frodo, I pressed you so hard at first. Forgive me! It was unwise in such an hour and place. And this blows.my.mind. He wasn't even particularly mean or threatening to him in the beginning, he's just such a kind, considerate man, recognizing the kindness and honesty of another man. And they're all like that. Even Gollum starts slowly changing (for a short while) when he encounters Frodo because that's the thing about kindness and humility and grace, they are contagious. They transform people, even a creature like Gollum cannot be immune to that. Like, you may consider all this simple and basic and I get it but, hear me out. It is quite rare to see that in modern media and it is also pretty difficult to pull off in a way that is not corny and simplistic. It is mind blowing that you actually don't have to present the entire palette of human cruelty and vice in order to tell a compelling story, contrary to popular belief. Lotr does the exact opposite, and it is just beautiful and it warms my heart. Especially taking into consideration tolkien's pretty grim growing-up experience, him being a double orphan without a home, raised between an orphanage and a priest and having no family apart from his brother and then the war and then he almost dies and then he's poor as hell and then a second war and it all makes sense somehow. He writes to his wife who is also an orphan two days before the marriage "the next few years will bring us joy and content and love and sweetness such as could not be if we hadn't first been two homeless children and had found one another after long waiting" and, yes, yes! The love and sweetness just radiate from his work, the entire lotr series is a little radiant bubble of hope and love and grace that he imagined in his head to deal with a dismal reality and then he just gave that to the world, and isn't that what imagination and art is all about after all?

#lotr #tolkien text post #yes #queued all the way to valinor

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first market stall of the year!!! I really enjoyed it 🥹

#goldfarthing #omg everything looks incredible #queued all the way to valinor

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For he was a gentle heart and a great king and kept his oaths; and he rose out of the shadows to a last fair morning.

#lotr cast #lotr #bernard hill #theoden #rotk #crying #queued all the way to valinor

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In light of the sad news about Bernard Hill, I feel like we should take a moment to really appreciate the acting performances in the LOTR trilogy. The fact that none of the cast got Academy Awards is well-known and I think even now the sheer visual spectacle of the trilogy can overshadow everything else, but the performances were SO crucial to what made the films great.

It’s easy to take the success of the movies for granted now, but that was never a guarantee. Aside from the practical aspects of portraying such an epic fantasy onscreen, the series is peppered with dialogue that is fine on the page but unbelievably difficult to deliver. As Harrison Ford famously remarked to George Lucas re Star Wars “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.”

From Gandalf’s “To the Bridge of Khazad-Dum!” to Elrond’s “It must be cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came!” it would be so easy for the whole thing to collapse into farce. The only reason it doesn’t, is because of the talent and conviction of the actors.

Bernard Hill was tasked with one of the most objectively ridiculous lines in the entire trilogy. “The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time!” And he delivered. BOY, did he deliver. He gave it all the gravitas and emotional weight of Shakespeare, he made it truly rousing instead of ridiculous, he took the audience with him to that moment, that place, right into Middle Earth with its people and its history, and made it REAL.

And for that, I thank and salute him. RIP, sir. Go now to the halls of your fathers. You earned it.

#lotr cast #bernard hill #literally #tolkien's writing reads fine on paper but it's super difficult to pull off his high fantasy tone on screen

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The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time.

#lotr cast #bernard hill #dominic monaghan #that's a pretty incredible photo #queued all the way to valinor

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REST IN PEACE, BERNARD HILL (1944–2024) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)

#lotr cast #bernard hill #the two towers #queued all the way to valinor

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#text post #dementia #medicine #queued all the way to valinor

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Thranduil’s Halls - The Hobbit concept art

#the hobbit #art #queued all the way to valinor

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honestly really sexy of tumblr to keep follower numbers private. how many people are following me? you'll never know unless I tell you. maybe it's a million, or a thousand, or five, or maybe it's just you. maybe you're the only one here, all by yourself, unable to see if there's anyone standing next to you.

and you'd never know, because status here is based on opinion and not numbers; how popular you think someone is is a vibes-only calculation, and besides the chronological algorithms-optional feed, it's genuinely the best thing tumblr's ever done.

#text post #tumblr #yes #queued all the way to valinor

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Chen Chen, "Elegy for My Sadness", When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

#literature #poetry #chen chen #words will be the death of me #queued all the way to valinor

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whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

LizzieOrmian.redbubble.com

#literature #poetry #louise gluck #queued all the way to valinor

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Fellowship of the ring

#lotr #fotr #queued all the way to valinor

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS MEME: [all the COLOURS]

#lotr #graphics #queued all the way to valinor

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#text post #happy tag #well it's actually very sad #but yeah #dnd #queued all the way to valinor

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GRAPHIC/GIFSET TAG MEME: favourite member of the fellowship ↳ tagging @lady-arryn & @blcodyhell 💜 (thank you for tagging me @remusjohnslupin)

#lotr #gandalf #queued all the way to valinor

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make me choose: the hobbit or lord of the rings trilogy (requested by vanillasonata)

#lotr #queued all the way to valinor