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gif/graphic tag game: favourite LOTR quote (tagged by witchofthekorcari) ↳ I tag arwenundomie and ohaldir

#queue #lotr #faramir #eowyn #aragorn #boromir #legolas #samwise gamgee #lotr gifset #not mine #inspiration

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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

#queue #gif set #not mine #lotr

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LOTR + female characters (requested by @willwriteforruns)

#queue #gif set #not mine #rosie #galadriel #arwen undomiel #eowyn #lotr women

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#queue #photography #inspiration #dol amroth #lothiriel #not mine

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This is my Tolkien Secret Santa Present for @maidenofbagend!! A quite selfindulgent painting with the supreme best couple Eowyn and Faramir inspired by La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Dicksee.

I’m sorry I posted it quite late, hope you like it and happy holidays!! <3 @officialtolkiensecretsanta

#queue #lotr art #not mine #eowyn #faramir #farawyn

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There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

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#queue #rohan #rohirrim #eorlingas #eomer #gif set #not mine

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Prettyt sure this post is cursed, but it always makes me laugh so I’m reblogging anyway!

#queue #funny #lotr crack

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I love this idea so much! 

Not to mention all the jewelry is so pretty! ^.^

4th Age Gondor loooooves Queen Arwen. Everyone is trying to look as beautiful as her, dress as fancy as her, be as cool as her - she’s an elf (mostly), so it’s kind of impossible, but they try as best as they can.

the one thing they definitely can’t get is her pointed ears! some people try to pretend, but it’s so obviously fake that it looks ridiculous… so they try the next best thing: jewelry mimicking the leaf-shaped ears, but is pretty in its own right.

it’s a fun fashion trend that takes Minas Tirith by storm. everywhere you look, fashionable ladies are wearing things like this:

Arwen is flattered. She even custom-orders a pair to accentuate her own ears, but honestly? it looks better on round-eared humans. and she’s fine with that - they deserve their own pretty things too, and she’s honored that they love her so much.

#queue #lotr headcanons #not mine #arwen #middle-earth fashion #fashion and culture

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“It’s the principle of the thing, Mr. Frodo.” has me dead. XD

I love this idea! Dialect is such an interesting part of language and culture. It would certainly add some humor to the canon if the Fellowship could barely understand each other for the first half of their journey.

Fellowship accent&dialect headcanons

- Boromir and Legolas couldn’t understand anything Sam said for about a week. (Sam: *finishes what he’s saying and leaves* Legolas: did you understand that Boromir: it had the tone of being friendly)

(Gimli does better w Shiretalk bcos dwarves historically have had a lot of contact with the Shire)

- Frodo picked up a Buckland accent while he was living there after his parents died. He mostly lost it again after moving back to Hobbiton but sometimes it comes out when he’s talking to Merry. Sometimes they slip into broad Buckland dialect & no-one can understand them except Gandalf & Pippin

- Pippin occasionally slips into broad Tookland dialect when he’s stressed out or angry and half the Fellowship straight up thinks he’s speaking a different language

- Westron is not Legolas’s first language and his vocabulary is both a) patchy and b) based on several thousand years of contact with Westron speakers so not all of what he knows is, up to date 

- Merry & Pippin did best of the non-elvish speakers in Lorien through a combination of mime and just not giving a damn

- If Aragorn ever had a consistent accent he lost it a long time ago

- Gandalf is the only person who can consistently understand everyone else

#queue #lotr headcanons #not mine #funny #hobbits #linguistics #language and culture

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Strangers from distant lands, friends of old. You have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite or you will fall.

#queue #gif set #lotr #not mine #aragorn #Arwen #legolas #gandalf

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Lovely art of two of my faves! <3

Recently I watched the trilogy in cinemas and cried..;)

#queue #lotr art #Fanart #not mine #eomer #eowyn #rohirrim #eorlingas

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Original Character Recommendations in Tolkien Fanfiction

Lead original characters abound in fanfiction. These past years I have been led to believe that many writers equate a strong and intriguing OC protagonist with a character who is loud and brash and brusquely challenges authority figures to prove their strength; a character who is a skilled warrior in a society where such are nonexistent; a character who, in the presence of mighty persons, makes the majority of wise decisions and delivers almost all witty comebacks themselves. While such OCs can indeed be interesting, in a story where the fictional world’s rules are adhered to, it seems that appreciation for OCs who are neither loud nor brash nor unmatched warriors nor possessive of an acerbic tongue has diminished.

Such original protagonists have always fascinated me, and indeed I find them most intriguing, because to craft these characters takes skill, and they are the ones who are among the most realistic, fitting into the fictional universe seamlessly.

Below are those lead original characters whom I find well-crafted, who are intriguing without being flashy:

* Bronwë, from Levade’s (@levade) For Oath and Honour series. Bronwë is a healer from Beleriand, working in Mithlond, who befriends Glorfindel after he is returned to Middle-earth.

* Serindë, from SurgicalSteel’s The King’s Surgeon. Serindë is a woman from Dol Amroth who becomes a healer in Minas Tirith, is exiled, and after many years returns to Gondor to finally become Chief Surgeon.

* Eluned, from EverleighBain’s Valiant. Eluned is Halbarad’s daughter, forever wishing to follow her father and have adventures, yet through trial she finally finds her place among the Dúnedain.

* Amariel, from omishiloh’s The Captain’s Wife. Amariel is Boromir’s wife, who leaves Minas Tirith to seek protection in Dol Amroth during the War of the Ring.

* Rimiriel, from Star-Lined Soul’s (@star-linedsoul & @roseofgondor) Rose of Gondor. Rimiriel is the Steward Denethor II’s third child, serving as healer to the Rangers of Ithilien and sent to seek help from the Rohirrim during the War of the Ring.

* Eleanor, from RealityWarp’s (@reality-warp) Rávamë’s Bane Trilogy. Eleanor is a student in her twenties who finds herself in Middle-earth, waking up as an Elf. But as time goes by, she begins to understand that the strange voice in her head and the visions she has are not just fancies.

* Illyrea, from LordOfLasgalen’s (@brannonlasgalen) The Healing of the Elvenking. Illyrea is a Half-elven healer who comes to Mirkwood after the Battle of Five Armies and gains a place in Thranduil’s halls.

* Cadhríen, from Anatoria’s A Hundred Silver Lamps. Cadhríen is one of Lady Galadriel’s handmaidens, sent on an errand to Mirkwood due to her linguistic skills, where she meets both Thranduil and his son.

* Mag, from annmarwalk’s The Life and Times of Mag the Cook. Mag is a Gondorian woman who rose from scullery maid to Head Cook in the Citadel of Minas Tirith.

* Lyla, from Imlosiel’s Ancient Languages. Lyla is a young woman from modern Earth who finds herself thrust into Middle-earth, where she struggles to adapt while searching for ways to return home.

* Caladhiel, from Astaldowen’s Esgalion’s Mask. Caladhiel is Thranduil’s daughter who has gone missing.

* Braedia, from GuilelessAesthete’s Even This Darkness Must Pass. Braedia is a Gondorian woman who is exiled from Minas Tirith, and eventually makes her home in Rohan as Éowyn’s handmaiden.

* Keren, from Singingsprite’s A Face in the Crowd. Keren is a healer in Minas Tirith who falls in love with Faramir, due to a vague prophecy believing they are meant to be, but circumstances lead her to question everything.

* Ernest & Bertie, from Amateur Bacon Cook’s It’s A Long, Long Way. These two are English soldiers who, during WWI, find themselves in Middle-earth, where they slowly adapt, although they never stop longing for home. (the story is sadly discontinued)

#reblog

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“Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin and the red dawn!“ {LotR, Two Towers}

#queue #lotr #eorlingas #theoden #aragorn #rohirrim #quotes

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#i’m not crying, you’re crying

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Four tall men stood there. Two had spears in their hands with broad bright heads. Two more had great bows, almost of their own height, and great quivers of long green-feathered arrows. All had swords at their sides, and were clad in green and brown of varied hues, as if the better to walk unseen in the glades of Ithilien.

#lotr aesthetic #rangers of ithilien #not mine #queue #inspiration