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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) dir. Peter Jackson

#this scene always makes me cry #lotr #the hobbit

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Reading the part where Elrond talks about the story of the Ring (yes, I’m behind as fuck, I know), and one thought just hit me:

Yes, Isildur dying is a shame. But can you imagine if instead he had fallen under the influence of the Ring?? Can you imagine what a Dark Gondor at the height of its power would have been like???

Middle Earth got away lightly.

#lord #ouch I’m also horribly behind on the newsletter

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just sent an announcement about the next two months' plans for the newsletter! 👀

#I’m gonna miss the newsletter but also thank the gods that I’ll have time to catch up #I’m excited for the appendix material too #lotr newsletter

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My plan is to catch up on lotr newsletter once it (kinda) goes on hiatus in a couple days, wish me luck then and I’ll post more soon

#lotr newsletter #i am so behind

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Reading more about Frodo’s condition (and ouch, poor him) is so heartbreaking because this is him after previously avoiding mentioning it. He’s already started struggling in silence, and it’ll get worse….

#also strider being back to keeping watch seemingly alone #reinforces both of their pain #in different ways #and it’s kind of fascinating but in a terrible way #lotr #lotr newsletter

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“Avoid climbing for Frodo’s sake” is the first real mention of his injury in a While. How much do the hobbits know about how much pain he’s in? I mean. Probably not Enough. But it’s Interesting

#I’m so curious about how the hobbits interacted with Frodo during these days #and strider too #did they hover? we’re they secretly panicking? did they just not notice? did they believe it wasn’t that serious? #i would seriously be willing to read even *more* books if we only got to see more detail on their interpersonal dynamics #i mean. we already do get a lot. but it’s all so fascinating #lotr newsletter #lotr

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Again the newsletter forces me to really absorb the story when we get these short bits, bc somehow I'd never thought abt that Strider isn't even sure how they're gonna cross a river.

He's a vast improvement over our hobbits stumbling about in the wild by themselves, but he has his limits.

#why do I get the feeling this is distinctly not fine #lotr newsletter

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thinking about sam gamgee and how he was just a little guy, a gardener and an average citizen, who saw his friend and the world in need and didn't even hesitate to march into hell for them. I'm going to mordor alone sam yes sir and I'm going with you. he said don't you abandon him samwise gamgee and i don't plan to. it's your sam don't you know your sam. it's only a passing thing this shadow. there's some good in this world mr frodo and it's worth fighting for. tell me about samwise the brave frodo wouldn't have gotten very far without sam. dont leave me here alone don't go where i cant follow you. I can't carry it for you but i can carry you.

#lotr

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oh to be a hobbit cat 

#omg it’s a hobbit cat!!!

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Strider discussing the rivers has such… history teacher vibes, like I wouldn’t be surprised to hear him giving a lecture on Water’s Importance and how it’s changed throughout history

#i mean this teasingly but also! the fact that he’s so enthusiastic about middle earth is wonderful #it’s a really good casual display of his Ranger-ness and how entrenched it is in him too #lotr #lotr newsletter #Sidenote I wish I had thoughts about the way Road is capitalized but alas…

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I couldn’t immediately see the end of today’s entry and I got SO EXCITED. Like “ooo longer entry!! Things happen!!!!” Then it ended literally half a paragraph later 😭

#i love manageable entries and being able to dissect it but I want!! #To see what happens to Frodo!! #the fact that they’re all short also emphasizes how little they know yet and I KNOW Frodo isn’t going to talk about his wound #and it’s technically fascinating but I’m also impatient #I’ve decided to start reacting to the entry before I read it #since I can’t read it for a while :(( #lotr newsletter

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For the oldies here:

I just realized, whenever Aragorn makes a choice as the leader of a group and it’s a bad choice, the single first thing he does is talk about how bad of a decision-maker he has been. He does it in Weathertop

Strider was greatly interested in these discoveries. ‘I wish I had waited and explored the ground down here myself,’[…]

‘I was too careless on the hill-top,’ answered Strider. 'I was very anxious to find some sign of Gandalf; but it was a mistake for three of us to go up and stand there so long.’

And he will do it again when they’re chasing the orcs in Rohan

‘Let me think!’ said Aragorn. ‘And now may I make a right choice, and change the evil fate of this unhappy day!’ […]

‘You give the choice to an ill chooser,’ said Aragorn. ‘Since we passed through the Argonath my choices have gone amiss.’

I don’t really have a point here, I just wanted to say. I feel like there is a character beat there, but I can’t put my finger on it, so I’ll just throw it into the void and hope someone more awake than I am will pick it up.

#prev tags!!! #lotr

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The fact that they now keep watch in pairs…

The hobbits can’t ignore the danger anymore, because they have to watch for it themselves

Strider can’t protect them alone anymore, so he has to trust them (and that must be so difficult).

It says so much about how their attitudes have changed, they can’t sleep freely anymore.

#oooo good point! #lotr newsletter

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The fact that they now keep watch in pairs…

The hobbits can’t ignore the danger anymore, because they have to watch for it themselves

Strider can’t protect them alone anymore, so he has to trust them (and that must be so difficult).

It says so much about how their attitudes have changed, they can’t sleep freely anymore.

#i wonder if strider sleeps now #or does he just insist on still keeping watch all night #the way that the hobbits are so on edge :((( #and this is only the start of their journey :((( #lotr #lotr newsletter

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“Four days passed, without the ground or the scene changing much, except that behind them Weathertop slowly sank, and before them the distant mountains loomed a little nearer.”

I just really love how the fact that I had to wait to read this for 4 days really let it sink in how long four days actually are. How long that can feel. How much time passed there, really. I wonder what they talked about, how they passed the time. How they kept warm, what they ate. Did they find vegetables? Make soup? Did Aragorn hunt? Did they see many animals? Did they sing and walking songs? Quietly? Or not at all, for fear ot attracting the Riders to their location again? 

Ahh, it was so nice to have some LotR in my mailbox again today. Thank you @sindar-princeling <3

#prev tags yikessss #i appreciate your work

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I can’t read it now but WE HAVE A NEWSLETTER TODAY?????

#so excited so worried #lotr newsletter

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Just a fun little fact: in earlier drafts of lotr, Aragorn was a hobbit with wooden feet, and his name was Trotter. I'm not kidding

#IM SORRY WHAT #well then