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The Boromir-specific Scavenger hunt quest was made to throw like thirty rocks directly at my fucking ssskull :)

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One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.

In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.

In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.

One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.

Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?

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NEW VERSION. :)

#3 of these in a row are so fucking good #my brother my captain my king and dont you lose him samwise gamgee...... #but something about the. into the very fires of mordor. is so good #hits everytime. #i think about that moment often #aragorn son of arathorn the man that you are

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lord of the rings bigatures my beloved

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VIGGO MORTENSEN The Lord of the Rings behind the scenes

#thank you for playing the king of gondor as just some chill as fuck guy who youd see buying beets at the farmers market

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Christopher Lee's expressions captivate me

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Still, she did not blanch ⚔️

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I draw in a big sketchbook, but people always seem surprised at the scale of my drawings. Anyway here's a photograph of the real, frankensteined-together piece. When you're a traditional artist you don't have photoshop layers, so you have to make do with cut-out paper layers, haha

Pen for scale. Probably my biggest pen-and-ink only piece.

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Haven`t drawn too much because i was away so here are some older Lotr paintings from my sketckbook, plus a Thorin pencil sketch

#oh that is a beautiful man beautiful man #will you wear wigs

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btw i have a theory: Sam Reich is secretly immortal and Tom Bombadil

evidence:

is a merry fellow

speaks in riddles

cursed objects have no effect on him

he’s been here the whole time

someone get this man a bright blue jacket and boots that are yellow

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saruman ehitaks rail balticu. sa nõustud. reblogi

#fuck it. saruman on da sideblog

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Aragorn opens the door 4k

#thank you op #doing iluvatars work

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Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers 2002, dir. Peter Jackson

#babygirl you got soup in your beard

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at the coronation of aragorn elessar

#THEM!!!!!!!