#love lord of the rings

[filthy-lil-bugger]

lord of the rings has touched me so deeply it’s honestly kind of scary. like it literally saved my life. it let me know it was gonna be okay and gave me hope where other stories just couldn’t. i don’t know if it’s just a me thing or what but something about it brings out so much emotion, but it’s the type of emotion that makes the world look a lil brighter

#lotr #lord of the rings #sorry for being rambly i am unfortunately having thoughts again #i just like #love lord of the rings #so much #i am not kidding when i said it saved my life #like it carried me through the hardest year of my life #idk its just #mr tolkien idk what u put in yhere but it was good shit

[cuprumbao]

the fellowship

#i love those brief moments in the movies when they are all together and having fun :'') #lotr #lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #gigolas #samfro #samwise #frodo #aragorn #gandalf #gimli #legolas #pippin #merry brandybuck #boromir #digital art

[ynnu-64]

brave hobbit

#my art #art #frodo baggins #lotr #lotr fanart #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #lotr frodo #the hobbit #i love frodo so much #after like 11 years of loving lotr i will finally read the books #finally getting them #hobbits shall have tails !!!

[aarchimedes]

for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!

anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻

#lord of the rings #the hobbit #lotr #hobbit #yeah guys idk i just feel like most people read it really young #but jolkein is really wordy and idk how y'all got through that at 8 yo #my attention span could neverrrrrr #obviously not as wordy as like. les mis. but you know what i mean. #lots and lots of context all the time. love that for his worldbuilding not so much for my hold on the plot #and yes i have watched the movies #i didn't completely miss the cultural zeitgeist #yay first time making a poll! if you vote or read my tags this far you are a gem 🫶🏻 #edit: i realize i spelled tolkien wrong. i feel like this proves my point #but also i feel like thats something you spell with your heart and not your mind

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring... he’ll despise me... 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

#lord of the rings #lotr #samfro #something something frodo would never end up like gollum bc gollums whole thing was that he was completely isolated #and frodo is loved and cared for even at his worst #also it took gollum all of 3 seconds to go full murder mode and it took frodo like 17 years and also Physically Being Inside Mount Doom #before snapping #but anyway sam would stubbornly love and care for horrible wretched gollum!frodo and nothing will convince me otherwise #pats his lil bald head and wipes his mouth after he tears into raw wriggling flesh for supper #kisses his bony little murder-hands #gives him snuggleses

[twicearoundthebend]

Imagine going on a cross country trip to share the (mildly embarrassing) news with an adjacent king that your guards lost a prisoner, but when you get there- there’s actually a huge crowd of people who all get called into a massive Super Important Meeting. And the prisoner (who you thought wasn’t like That Big of a deal) gets brought up, and everyone’s talking about how great your kingdoms security is, and how important it is that he’s locked up, and you’re just sitting there sweating buckets. And you have to stand up in front of Everybody and tell them ‘actually he escaped and had been gone for months’. While everyone looks at you with the most disappointed faces you’ve ever seen. What a loser.

And Then you have to go on an even Longer trip with all of these people who’s first impression of you was some cringefail sweaty loser who can’t even keep track of one (1) guy.

No wonder Legolas was showing off every chance he got, he was trying to bring his reputation up from like -100

#girlfailure shit tier ass elf legolas i love you #lotr #lotr shitpost #lord of the rings #Legolas

[toast-the-unknowing]

Had a debate with a friend and now I gotta know

please reblog for larger sample size, my friend bet me no one would say Gimli and I wanna prove her wrong

#she also bet me no one would say Gandalf. and to be clear I would love to prove her wrong on that too. but Gimli feels much more achievable #lord of the rings #lotr #polls

[adhdthomasthorne]

Boromir + concern for the Hobbits

#lotredit #boromiredit #tolkienedit #lotr #lord of the rings #boromir #sean bean #filmedit #filmtvdaily #filmtvcentral #meriadoc brandybuck #pippin took #peregrin took #frodo baggins #mari's stuff #okay so i decided to rewatch lotr recently on a whim #fell in love with boromir #and then i finally watched the extended versions #and i fell even more in love with boromir!!! #he has such dad energy around the hobbits #he deserved better 😔

[davinaclare]

Bernard Hill as King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

#tolkienedit #lotredit #bernard hill #lord of the rings #lotr #the lord of the rings #filmedit #userbbelcher #userstream #filmgifs #moviegifs #dailyflicks #junkfooddaily #theoden #king theoden #the two towers #the return of the king #* #had to make something for my king #i love his character so much #1000

[hansoeii]

thorin

#every once in a while my 12 year old self returns and forces me to draw thorin oakenshield #my very first fictional love #thorin #thorian oakenshield #the hobbit #the hobbit fanart #thorin fanart #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr fanart #middleearth #my art #my sketchbook #fanart

[alithographica]

Big day for nerds and frog enjoyers, get a load of this new chunk: Hyloscirtus tolkieni

(Article has a few more photos)

#it's so cute I love it so much #frog blogging #science fun #tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #biology #amphibian #image description in alt text

[art-of-firefly]

Thinking of how Legolas began to feel the call of the sea, irresistible and overwhelming, during the quest and yet waited until everyone in the fellowship died before leaving. Except Gimli of course, who he took with him.

He waited decades out of love and friendship.

Thinking about Merry and Pippin buried next to Aragorn.

Thinking about Eomer who called for Merry at the end of his life, to see him one more time before he passed away.

Thinking about Sam who, after Rosie passed away, left Middle Earth to see Frodo one more time before his own death.

Thinking about Legolas and Aragorn singing for Boromir, Merry and Pippin who owe their lives to him praising his deeds and bravery.

Thinking about Gimli, who walked the Path of the Dead out of love of Aragorn and visited Fangorn forest out of love of Legolas.

Thinking about Gandalf, who feels responsible for the heavy burden he placed on Bilbo and Frodo, and who took them with him to Aman, traveling with them one last time to bring them somewhere where they will finally know peace.

The love i have for them.

#the fellowship of the ring #lotr #everyday is loving the fellowship day #the lord of the rings

[vigilantegreen]

I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.

#lotr #lord of the rings #aragorn #gandalf #middle earth #the shire #the hobbit bilbo #the hobbit #gimli #hobbits #elf #lotr elves #mirkwood #legolas #legolas greenleaf #tolkien elves #nature #this is so funny #i love him so much

[coveredinsun]

when you’re watching fellowship of the ring with your friends it is 100% vital to point to the screen when the balrog shows up and say “in the books this is when legolas starts screaming”

#i love you book legolas #AI!!!! AI!!!! A BALROG HAS COME!!!!!!! AAHHHHHH!!!!!!! #gandalf: can you chill. you’re scaring the kiddies (hobbits) #legolas: AAAHHHHH A BALROG!!!!! A FUCKING BALROG AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #lotr #lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #legolas #legolas greenleaf #tolkien #coveredinsunposting

[maedictus]

What about side by side with a friend?

#I love their dynamic so much #Also yes I am pro dark-haired legolas hehe #very much inspired by yabusame for his design #I still have to work on gimli tho. will def change some things next time I draw him #legolas #gimli #lord of the rings #lotr #tolkien #art #my art #artists on tumblr #illustration #artwork

[la-pheacienne]

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?

#i literally wrote this because faramir said 'forgive me' #like that was the inspiration here #terminal brain damage don't mind me #BUT #i have a point #i do! #i am cringe but i am free #i love these books so much #i love this man so much #lotr #the two towers #frodo baggins #faramir #gollum #the lord of the rings #aspa rambles #tolkien #aspa reads tolkien