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#facts #celegorm and curufin strutting up to nargothrond ready to fuck shit up

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Viggo Mortenson does not get enough credit for delivering lines like "not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall" with a complete sincerity and gravitas

#the there is something good in this world scene has been engraved in my heart since the tender age of 8 #and has fundamentally changed me as a person #lotr

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Gosh I just love book Legolas. He's immortal. He's a teenager. Elrond picks him instead of Glorfindel because he's average and won't draw attention to the Fellowship. He's the comic relief guy and resident Little Shit, but he can also shoot a Nazgul out of the sky in the pitch black like a one-man elf anti-aircraft defense system. He wants everyone to know that he's, like, really old. He forgets the task at hand because he wants to look at trees. His greatest qualities are that he can become friends with anyone and his loyalty is unending. He shows up to Valinor a century late with Starbucks in hand and his dwarf bestie at his side. Iconic.

#legolas #lotr

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Red and pink flowers in Quenya!

x x x x x x

White flowers

Linuistic notes:

Camilot is an older word from Tolkien's 1910 Quenya lexicon.

There are multiple words for poppy throughout Tolkien's development of Quenya. The lór here is the same root in Lórien. The name means flower of sleep

Campilossë is another older word from when Quenya was called Qenya! Kampin means "hips" whch was noted to mean the rose hips or the berries of wild roses. Lossë means flower and survives to later words, loth in many Sindarin words.

#quenya

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There's something so wonderfully, perfectly autumnal about the Lord of the Rings and even the Silmarillion. It is profound and beautiful and filled with splendor, but also so melancholic and tragic and bittersweet that it makes your heart ache.

The elves are leaving for the Western Shores and magic is dying, but there is something so beautiful about it, even as it slowly withers, like the changing leaves in the autumn trees. There is beauty even in the loss, life in death, joy found even in the midst of pain. It is fair even in the fading.

#lotr

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Sam could never describe in words, nor picture clearly to himself, what he felt or thought that night, though it remained in his memory as one of the chief events of his life. The nearest he ever got was to say: 'Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener. But it was the singing that went to my heart, if you know what I mean.'

Frodo sat, eating, drinking, and talking with delight; but his mind was chiefly on the words spoken. He knew a little of the elf-speech and listened eagerly. Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!'

#lotr #hey look it`s my favourite scene #and also a deleted one

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“A king is he that can hold his own, or else his title is vain”, yes, Maedhros?

#reblogging this for thingol at the end

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God the like Generic High Fantasy Elf frustrates me so much as a fan of Tolkiens elves who are like. Both balls to the wall insane and canonically fun at parties

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the real silmarillion fan experience is seeing an eight-pointed star anywhere in any context and going omg!! like blörbor from my elf history textbook!!

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#🥺 #maglor #kidnap fam

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like I ship Aredhel/Celegorm very badly but in such a specific way. she needs to be aro. she's not in love, he absolutely is. they're not exclusive. sometimes he wishes they were (only sometimes). they are best friends. she's one of the bros. they are fucking, hardcore and nasty. he is her favourite, she would never have married him. he values her freedom, he wishes so badly he could have her for himself. he would kill for her. he would leave her on the ice again if he were asked to. she thinks Huan should have been hers. she does not forgive him, she still misses him. ride or die buddy pals. family feud in full swing. did I mention that they fuck nasty

#agreed #they manage to have both the most dysfunctional and also the most functional relationship at the same time #aredhel #celegorm

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(Gordon Ramsay in Gollum’s cave) fuck me it’s dark in here. jesus christ. What the hell is that? A fucking wedding ring? I’d rather get a divorce. holy mackarel(he stumbles in the dark. In the distance he sees a silhuette sitting on a lone rock island in the middle of a lake) oh for fucks sake. what the hell is that thing? It’s eating raw fish. the fish is fucking raw

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petition that instead of making new lord of the rings films they should just re release the original trilogy in theaters. have world premieres. press tours and interviews with the cast. new lines of official merchandise. drop unseen content and behind the scenes footage. I promise we will all go ballistic

#lotr

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having an ides of march post be like

#happy stab caesar you weirdos #ides of march

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I was thinking about Finrod and Beren from @allthatglittersisnotgoldrush again, so I ended up drawing them in a portrait study! I imagine it’s when they’re travelling around together :DDD

Reference used: Katlin Aas and Valerija Kelava, photographed by Agata Pospieszynska for Harper’s Bazaar UK July 2017

#gorgeous #finrod #beren #art

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I feel like the fact Gil-galad is in a position of authority over Elrond “I came of age during the Literal Apocalypse” Peredhel doesn’t get explored as much as it should from a crack standpoint. Please tell me more about the one time Gil-galad had to very carefully explain that one of Elrond’s core assumptions about how life works was Very Specific To Apocalyptic Times Actually

#yES #elrond #elros

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#i chose maglor bc he has that cockroach level survival skill #but then i remember that those close to h very much do not #so bad choice i guess