rewatching lotr, and rewatched the hobbit trilogy like 2 weeks ago, and i must say. i love this franchise for all its “i knew a guy who knew a guy” relations. like to give just one example, gimli presumes for a second, like the whole fellowship, that frodo got injured by the cave troll in moria. but he’s actually just fine! because frodo just happens to be gimli’s dad’s boss’s situationship’s nephew, and therefore has the mithril shirt that gimli’s dad’s boss gave to his situationship right before gimli’s dad’s boss led the company to battle against, among others, legolas’s dad. legolas’s old situationship from like last year (60 years ago) was also there and chose, get this, gimli’s dad’s boss’s nephew over him. i love yall
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Day 6
Tauriel/Kili
Prompts used: Made to watch/"It should have been me"
Me at nearly two am for some reason: hmmm... zombies.
"They're getting closer, Meleth, and we're almost out of the ammunition"
Kili swears under his breath, and steadfastly refuses to even glance at the gass monitor. "Check the glove compartment, and the toolkit under your seat." He swerves to avoid another body as the redhead shakes open the rickety door. She makes a small noise of satisfaction when she finds a couple small boxes that rattle when she shakes them.
Tauriel tosses the gun in her hand to the back seat and swaps it for the double-barrel shotgun, quickly loading it and poping up through the sun roof that has long since lost its glass. Two shots and four adversaries down, she reloads and takes aim again. It hardly makes a dent in the numbers that follow them.
She sinks back into the seat,and flicks the safety on as a second thought. "This is only wasting bullets, how far can we get in this thing?" Silence answers her question better than any words ever could. "Ah. Well then."
"I have an idea," Tauriel knows that tone. "And it's probably both a bad one, and a dangerous one."
"But it may work?" It's strange, that even now she can manage a smile.
"Aye, it may work."
After a short explination of what will probably be their death, Tauriel scrambles around the trashed vehicle, stuffing everythibg the can into the duffle bags. Guns, blankets, ancient granola bars, a keychain with a thermometer on it, and a bag of makeup are only some of the random assortments that makeup the strange haul. She goes so far as to pull the radio from the console, earning a flirtatious whistle from the partner.
"Up there, do you see it?" Tauriel looks forward, the imcline is sharp, which will slow their adversaries down... Hopefully enough. The path to the top of the hill is covered in trees, most dead, which makes what they're about to do somewhat less painful, but she still regrets the necessity, the treetops remind herof home.
Home, so long gone, lost forever. No, that's not entirely true, she glances at the driver, hair wild about his face and stubble growing somewhat wild from negligence.
Kili is flooring the accelerator, and as soon as they reach near the top of the imcline, Tauriel has the duffle bags to grab, and a homemade fire starter at the ready. Kili wrenches the wheels to the side, turning the car so that it block the road and puts it in neutral. Kili grabs three of the bags, leaving Tauriel with one and the lighter.
As soon as rhe flames lick at the cardboard paperwork roll filled with drier lint and hair spray, Tauriel stuffs it past the fule cap and takes off over the over side of the hill, looking back in time to see the car begin twisting down hill into a river of decaying body's clawing their way up. But what makes her blood run cold is Kili's leg twists and he falls to the ground under the weight of their supplies.
She can do nothing as the fire sparks the car into am explosion and pieces of metle are flung onto the air. The sudden brightness blinds her, and when she regains her sights, the fire has enveloped the entire area, and is spreading fast toward her. Logic and emotion tear her apart from the inside, but even now the flames lick at her boots as she slowly backs up, staring into the fire that had stolen her home.
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AU. Everyone is alive and living happily in Erebor. Bilbo and Tauriel plant a wonderful garden on the side of the Mountain and every day at 4 o'clock they drink tea there together.
On one of these days.
Tauriel: how funny it is now to remember how jealous Legolas was of me.
Bilbo: *takes a sip and looks into the distance* it’s possible that he was simply offended that the dwarves were interested in you, but not him.
Tauriel: well, not everyone can turn the heads of dwarves the way you and I can.
They look at each other with smiles and clink cups of tea.
***
Meanwhile somewhere in Mirkwood.
Legolas looks at the portrait of Gimli in the medallion he took from Glóin.
Legolas: one day I will find you, beautiful creature.
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Inspired by that post about Thranduil being all defensive/protective over Gimli in Valinor:
We all know the head canon of Thorin being all "no nephew of mine even associates with an elf" BUT
Just imagine, in a world where all three Durins survived, and Tauriel saved Kili (again), and some other elf healed his and Fìli's wounds last minute.
Thorin saw both his nephews almost die before him, has LIVED through how the gold sickness twists the mind and perception of things, and after coming to terms with Bilbo's theft of the Arkenstone, he for a while questions EVERYTHING.
And yes, he totally has a dramatic phase of self pity, holing up in his rooms, drinking Elvish wine (cus thats all there is atm) and smoking Gandalf's pipeweed, and mourning how "everything i knew is a LIE" and "if elves can make such amazing wine there HAS to be some good in them" and "I almost got my boys killed I am such a failure boooohoooo", and after Bilbo kicks his ass out if depression (and a STRONG worded letter from his sister) he is like "okay FUCK y'all I have TRAUMA TM and will do WHATEVER I WANT!!"
So when Kili all shyly comes forward one day asking if Tauriel can please stay with them in the mountain because she's banished from the Woodland Realm he's all "OF COURSE she can stay, you do you my precious boy, if Thranduil is stupid enough to let such a great warrior go we'll stick it to him"
and BAM, Tauriel joins Dwalin in leading Erebor's guard, and Dwalin is torn between "excuse ME u want me to share my job with a pointy eared maiden?" And "holy hell that lass has fire can't show how impressed I am".
And Tauriel Takes No Shit even from her own boyfriend, so Kìli is forced to take his new responsibilities seriously because "I did NOT lose my home to live with a CHILD, Kili", and Fili gets dragged into the whole thing without really understanding what happened, but hey, his lil brother is happy so who cares really.
And whenever someone at council (like Dain) complains about an Elf in the mountain, Thorin goes absolutely FERAL like "are you saying I don't know what's best for this mountain I just won from A DRAGON?! are you suggesting that my perfect baby nephew has bad taste? Huh? Exactly, didn't think so!!!!" And is a protective Papa bear "listen Tauriel if someone gives you shit you SHOOT them. No, not killing them, but, you know, just maim them a little to make a point. Trust me I'm the king."
And once Kili and Tauriel have their first child Thorin constantly kidnaps the kid and has them in the forge before they can even talk because "need to keep up that good old dwarven influence".
Anyway I'll go cry myself to sleep now.
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