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I moved blogs!

Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that I moved blogs!

Peregrintook was a sideblog before, but it’s my main-blog now. 

So - if you liked my gifs and ramblings, come follow me again OVER HERE on my now main blog? <3

#sr #moving blogs

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I moved blogs!

Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that I moved blogs!

Peregrintook was a sideblog before, but it’s my main-blog now. 

So - if you liked my gifs and ramblings, come follow me again OVER HERE on my now main blog? <3

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I moved blogs!

Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that I moved blogs!

Peregrintook was a sideblog before, but it’s my main-blog now. 

So - if you liked my gifs and ramblings, come follow me again OVER HERE on my now main blog? <3

#moving blogs #finally posting this here too #forgive me for the handful of self reblogs this is going toget #i just want at least the majority of my followers to see it #and if you would signal boost it i'd be super grateful but don't feel obligated obvs #<3

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moving blogs!

Hey folks, if you read this, you’re following my old LotR side-blog!

However, I wanted to make my LotR blog my main blog for various reasons, so please go follow me over at @peregrintook <3

#moving blogs #jsyk #if you guys could boost this with a couple reblogs that would be dope <3 #:D #lotr #Lord of the rings #peregrin took

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Goodnight to people who identified with frodo a little too much as a child, straight girls who like legolas, bagginshield enthusiasts, lesbians who are in love with eowyn, gollum kinnies, trans fellas who think dwarves are just kind of neat, melkor apologists, anyone who tried and failed reading the silmarillion, sexy b*ches who stan gandalf, people who cope by daydreaming that they're a hobbit in the shire, and bi folks who wanna date both aragorn and arwen

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tell me why orlando bloom put a pic on his insta story of legolas in front of a pride flag 😭

#huh #queer legolas huh #am here for that

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Black wings against a pale morning; there is no more light, not in this sun.

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“Simbelmynë . Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see that last days of my house.. No parent should have to bury their child.”

#oh hey it's my old blog :D #hi utu #does this count as a self reblog laughs #i still like this set

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Sometimes Fingolfin puts on a silly hat and says "I'm going to be Fungolfin today"

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so. mightve watched the trilogy more times than id care to admit.

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TolkienWeek 2021:Week 2 Day 2 (Most Heartbreaking Scene)

#im emo

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ELF WEEK | Day four: Elven Realm 

LOTHLÓRIEN „Behold! You are come to Cerin Amroth,“ said Haldir. „For this is the heart of the ancient realm as it was long ago, and here is the mound of Amroth, where in happier days his high house was built. Here ever bloom the winter flowers in the unfading grass: the yellow elanor , and the pale niphredil. Here we will stay awhile , and come to the city of the Galadhrim at dusk.“

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url gifset giveaway 2018 5/? ↳ @whiteladyofrohann

#eowyn #<33

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So characterization of Maglor as ‘the nice guy’ or ‘the good Fëanorian’ is really, really common

 and recently I saw it presented to a mostly non-Silmarillion audience as an authoritative characterization and now I am seething 

Maglor personally killed Ulfang’s sons when they betrayed his cause 

Maglor held the most dangerous and exposed territory save Dorthonion

Maglor participated at Losgar and in all three Kinslayings

there are literally no instances of Maglor holding back when his siblings went to war

if anything he did far more evil than Celegorm, Curufin and Caranthir

(who skipped the ‘sacking a refugee camp’ part because they were dead)

 regret doesn’t erase that

there’s something really messed up about acting like mass violence doesn’t make you less of a good guy if you’re sufficiently sorry about it 

and the main justifications for it seem to be that Maglor was musical, which is sensitive and pacifist (and, let’s be honest here, often coded feminine)

which is a total misreading of the role of music in Tolkien’s world and of Maglor specifically 

nb: I love Maglor

I’m sympathetic to the sacrifices he and his brothers made during the war 

I understand what drove them even in their lowest points

 but he’s not a paragon

he’s not the nice one

he went to war reluctantly, he looked back on it regretfully

but he went to war

tell the dead they were killed by the ‘token good teammate’, by the ‘nice son of Fëanor’, by ‘the sensitive one’

actually don’t

don’t.

really.

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it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)

#oof #cries a little bit #i'm so sad sometimes thinking about this bc like #my mum says she doesn't want to read or watch lotr #because it's so violent and there's just so much fighting #but #i haven't been able to convince her that lotr is about peace #really #peace and healing

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I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS SO MUCH HOLS YFUCK!!!!!!!! SAM’S SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!! THE SMILE ON LEGOLAS’ FACE WHEN HE SAYS ‘HOW ABOUT SIDE BY SIDE WITH A FRIEND’! !!!!!!!!! THE WAY MINAS TIRITH LOOKED SHINING WHITE NEXT TO MORDOR’S SHADOW!!!!!!! FRODO’S UNBELIEVABLE BRAVERY!!!!! ! !!!!!! BILBO SAYING THAT HE THINKS HE’S QUITE READY FOR ANOTHER ADVENTURE !!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !!!! ARAGORN TELLING THE HOBBITS THEY BOW FOR NO ONE AND GANDALF LIGHTING FIREWORKS HOL FUC K!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!! I LVOE LORD OF THE RINGS

#meeeeeeeeeeeee