#I JUST WANT THEM TO WATCH LOTR

[nyxi-pixie]

thinking abt comic writer artist duo mike and will living in a lil apartment somewhere tgthr in early 2002 curled up on the couch to watch lotr🥰🥰🥰

#byler #theyd be like 30 #I JUST WANT THEM TO WATCH LOTR #btw i said 2002 bc it released on dvd in feb of 2002 #but theyd already watched it in cinemas in dec 2001🙏🙏🙏

[kierancaz]

“It is a gift. A token of our friendship.” No bitch that was a proposal.

#grow a pair Thorin and just admit it for what it was #you want to MARRY HIM #ik he’s going mad rn but every time Thorin smiles a Bilbo even the slightest my heart gives out a little #tbh I really love all the dwarves they’re so ????? #maybe it’s just bc I’ve watched the movie like 3 times a week for the last month but I love them all so much now #for reference I didn’t care that much about them when I watched for the first time #and on a slightly random note I wanna know more about Legolas mom ???? #back to bagginshield I wonder what their wedding would have looked like #IMAGINE THORIN WITH HIS ABSOLUTLY HUGE HANDS TRYING TO BRAID BILBOS HAIR BC THATS DWARVISH TRADITION #AND HES JUST STUGGLING SO HARD BC BILBOS HAIR IS SO SHORT AND HIS HANDS ARE SO BIG HE CANT GET A GOOD GRIP ON THE HAIR #bilbo: Thorin you don’t have to everyone alread knows we’re married #Thorin: NO I have to do this #he’s not a quitter. he’s never been a quitter. he’s not letting a few stands of hair beat him even if it IS bilbos hair #he has to teach bilbo how to braid tho bc he doesn’t know #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #bilbo x thorin #thorin x bilbo #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #thorin and company #lotr dwarves #jrr tolkien #tolkien #fili durin #kili durin #fili and kili #thorin durin

[girlscience]

i am so goddamn tired of every single fantasy story being about men. i am so goddamn tired of women being side characters and love interests and set dressing and an afterthought. i am so goddamn tired of women who are powerful but feminine. women who are "dressed to kill" and they are wearing eyeliner and a dress and heels. i am so goddamn tired of women always being healers and having water magic. i am so goddamn tired of men going on adventures and dying nobly. i am so goddamn tired of never being able to find a story about women that i can fall in love with. i am so goddamn tired of all fandom being about men.

#i have spent the past several weeks becoming increasingly upset about this #hannibal? men. lotr/the hobbit? men. stargate atlantis? men. dragon age inquistion? men. one piece? men. #the handful of superhero's i periodically read about? men. transformers? men. every goddamn anime i've ever loved? men. #the witcher? men. fantasy anachronism? men. literally every single fantasy adventurer series? men. #it's men and men and men and men and men and men and men and men #i just want ONE. one single goddamn story about women that is as well written and well made and as deep as everything else #i want ONE story about a women or women who are noble and honorable and fight in the face of impossible odds #and i don't want them to be pretty and small and feminine #make them hairy and fat and muscular and tall and wear steel toed boots and carry swords and fight monsters and sleep in the woods #and eat stew and carry heavy packs for long distances and be intelligent and sneaky and cowardly and fearful and brave #make them laugh and cry and scream and fall in love and write poetry and books and songs #make them wrestle and pick on each other and pull each others hair and sit around campfires #MAKE THEM GODDAMN PEOPLE #there are books out there about women going on adventures. they exist. i've read some #but they are not the majority and they never get big #and so many end up being poorly written or a romance or a combo of the two #i don't WANT to have to read genderbends just to read about women #i don't want to scroll tumblr and just see men on my dash #all i have ever wanted my whole life is to be a fantasy adventurer. and none of them. not ONE of them looks like me #i am tired of watching youtube critiques of fantasy shows/movies/stories and them just shitting on the women characters #i am just so tired of it

[skylessnights]

ELENDIL THE TALL and TAR-MIRIEL ―  Love is the Bane of Honour, the Death of Duty

“What is honour compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a new-born son in your arms? Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

                                                              ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

#just a little something before I start working on my next elendil x miriel fic :)) #ughh i love them so much #i'm a sucker for romance and tragedy #but for once I don't want to watch an unhappy ending T-T #just let them be happy #elendil x miriel #elendil #miriel #elendil the tall #tar-miriel #lloyd owen #cynthia addai robinson #the rings of power #lord of the rings #lotr #trop #rop #j.r.r. tolkien #lotredit #tropedit #ropedit

[lilabard]

finished rereading eragon and I don't remember the writing being just ok and eragon being so annoying for much of the book when I first read it like. 13 years ago but I still very much love the story haha

#still have the other three to go but just in time for all these new releases #also having watched lotr and sw since then oh the influences are undeniable esp sw ASKDHAJ #also also rewatched the movie bc I dunno I wanted to see some visuals and good lord is it BAD #the cgi for saphira the only redeeming quality thank you ilm for that still holding up now brom was ok too everything else was just BAD LMA #need them to get a move on with the show once the strikes are fully over and please make it good oml #personal

[bigfuckingcrab]

You know I understand and honestly agree with the majority of the criticism of Jackson's Hobbit trilogy but god damn if they aren't still really entertaining to watch the extending editions

#idk im the kind of nerd that just enjoys more of a thing regardless ya know #even though watching them I'm just like 'i could do this so much better' #i remember reading somewhere that tolkien was like super into the idea of other authors and artists adding onto and expanding upon his work #and that just makes me want to make my own film interpretations of the Hobbit and LotR #in a perfect worl... #i NEED to make films that I WANT to see #epic bryce style ringterpretation #also I fucking HATE martin freeman but I have to admit he was a decent choice for a young ian holm basically

[glitteringaglarond]

every time I see someone watch or read LOTR for the first time and they say something about "this reminds me of GoT/Harry Potter/DnD" or (even worse) "This totally just ripped off GoT/Harry Potter/DnD" i want to tell them to sit down and mind their elders

#and then lecture them on how they got it backwards #i just fell down a rabbit hole of watching-lotr-for-the-first-time videos on youtube #and the amount of times i wanted to strangle somebody... is probably rather concerning #my op #lotr #the lord of the rings

[marklikely]

torn between marathoning the lotr trilogy or the prequel trilogy next weekend and i can already feel myself making the objectively wrong choice

#literally like do i want a fine dining experience at a 5 star restaurant or do i want cold stale mcdonalds fries. i think ill go for fries. #avpost #you might be thinking why would you ever choose to watch the prequel trilogy again on purpose #well. bc there's a midnight screening of revenge of the sith that i kind of want 2 go 2. so that's why #might save lotr for memorial day weekend idk. #but also. sigh i don't want to wait that long. i could squeeze them in to the same weekend but that would be insanity #they should give us 3 day weekend mandatory so i can watch. more movies. #i guess i could also just watch tpm and aotc on wednesday and thursday and then go to the rots screening on friday instead #thus opening up saturday for the better trilogy. idk. much 2 consider.

[sunflower-butch]

Suffering SEVERE brain rot. No think, only rotate too many blorbos in brain and then be paralyzed about what media to consume

#this is why I don’t start multiple things at once LMAO #anyway RWBY and the D&D gang and Yellowjackets and Gideon the Ninth and LOTR are all fighting for my attention #and I just end up staring at a wall unable to do anything about it #also Scream #I want to BINGE all of them #but I need to watch Yellowjackets because I’m only one ep in #but I also need to do session prep for d&d #but I also am OBSESSIVELY rotating RWBY in my head and I want to watch volume three so bad #brain exploding from blorbo overload soon probably #poor ronance in a box in the back room

[creature-once-removed]

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#I was watching old talks machina episodes earlier and then all of a sudden Brian starts talking about Wizard and Glass #and then Liam jumps in and starts going on about how the Dark Tower is just different and so good and on how the first book is just poetry #and it just completely fucking blindsided me out of nowhere and I started crying actually #one part of me was like thank god they understand somebody understands this is actually a thing #but mainly I'm still left here like what the fuck is it about these books that makes them the way they are #like when you look at it it's just bits and pieces of a nice story with a lot of weird shit thrown in #but when you read it it's like you're reading fate itself #it's also so weirdly disconnected from Stephen King in my mind it's really weird #he just wrote it down #which is strange because I think of Tolkien all the time with lotr which is like the only thing that is distantly able to compare in scope #but I don't think of King being the author of this story at all beyond the second act of Drawing. And he's fucking in it. #anyway I just wanted to mainly log this for myself #also I'm taking this as a sign to start working on my Blaine is the truth shirt design I thought of a month ago

[righteousliar]

there is a surreal joy in trying something, fucking it up a little along the way, and finding your way back to a success

#i rarely bake anything more complicated than cookies and i just made lembas for the first time #they were too crumbly at first but i figured it out!! #i feel powerful #and honestly relieved bc i wanted to make sure i got them done for a lotr watch party im hosting tomorrow for a couple friends #mumblings

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Friend: Who's your favorite Lord of the Rings character?

Me: The gay ones

Friend: ... There are gay ones? Like, really? It's been awhile since I've seen LotR...

Me: Tumblr says they're gay. The potato guy and the one with the ring. The gay ones.

Friend: Oh! Sam and Frodo

Me: Yeah

Friend: I could've said Cheese and Fries and you would've agreed. You don't know anything about these movies

Me: Yeah :)

#for context: we started talkinf about lotr #and i said that ive only seen it in bits and pieces #my grandparents had a tv in almost every room and they would leave them all on at the same time #and when tv would run an lotr marathon of course they were on #but i didnt want to sit and watch things. i would just wander theough the house doing things #and so i picked up some pieces and they were very out of order. because this marathon happened frequently #or frequently as i remember. so i gained bits and pieces and i truly dont know how much pyf those movies ive seen #so she decided to test my knowledge #and legitimately all i know of lotr is those bits and also i guess i know a bit about sam and frodo #she said that last line affectionately btw. she wasnt trying to call me out or anything #today was a great day with her... #im exhausted. i stayed up until 3am baking her bread and woke up at 7am to go hang out with her #it was worth it though when i handed her the bread. she was so excited #she said 'i think i have to marry you now!' when she uncovered it #the less than four hours of sleep was one hundred percent worth it for her absolute delight at receiving homemade bread #i remember one time she had said that if anyone baked her bread she would love them forever. so i baked her bread #and i legitimately think i have her love forever now #she is such a good friend and im very happy to have her in my life. seriously i wouldnt stay up until 3am baking bread for just anybody #i learned to bake bread for her #oh shit i think thats love #gotta write a better poem with those two lines wait. wait that was cute #i learned to bake bread for her...

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

lotr/silm shows i would actually watch

1) a show centered around tom bombadil and goldberry where they do absolutely nothing but hang out in the forest and have orgies with the blue wizards

2) the children of húrin

3) an animated show about the hobbits in the style of the rankin/bass movies where they burst out into song every five minutes or so. the vibe should be not dissimilar to phineas and ferb

4) a parks and rec style sitcom with the ents

#lotr #lord of the rings #i am Right about All Of This #the silmarillion #i would watch the children of hurin so bad but no one would ever make it #extra hot take if they wanted to do a game of thrones show they should have just done the children of hurin #not that i want them to theyd still mess it up

[pastafossa]

Hey pasta, Just wanted to ask if you are into sandman and /or lord of the rings and if so are you looking forward to the series that are coming out?... cause I'm so HYPED apart from the marvel stuff that is also coming out this year is insanly packed with media I'm looking forward to.

I'm into both! I'm admittedly a little bummed Tom Ellis couldn't be Lucifer in Sandman but other than that, I am so fucking psyched for both Sandman and Rings of Power! Especially LOTR. Things like Xena and TMNT may have been my first fandoms as a kid but my Fandom Awakening as a preteen was 100% LOTR. It was the first time I did the Opening Night/Day thing for movies! I read the books, rewatched the movies over and over, got posters and calendars and board games and the soundtracks (Riders of Rohan continues to sound fucking AMAZING). I still have various Makings Of books packed away in boxes somewhere waiting to be put on a shelf. Two Towers also continues to hold the Most Times Seen In Theatres record for me 11 times you're welcome for my allowance Hollywood. As far as I'm concerned, the LOTR movies were some of the greatest ever made, BAR NONE.

In other words... yeah I'm maybe a little excited. 😅

Basically between all the Marvel stuff coming, the Rings of Power, Sandman, I have no idea how I'm going to get anything done, but damn, it'll be fun to figure it out.

#ask response #i need all the geeky things to just wait until reno and unpacking is done ok #i haven't even had a chance to sit down and watch Stranger Things yet #I JUST NEED THEM TO HOLD OFF A LITTLE LONGER #and then i can watch everything #i want to be in the perfect position to gorge myself on sandman and lotr and marvel please

[corvidcall]

i saw a good post abt how fatphobia comes up in fat peoples sex/dating lives (which I'll probably reblog later, when i have time to add stuff to the tags) but hooooooh boy it did dredge up some stuff for me!!! and now im upset!!!!

#anime life #ive been fat my whole life and it's!!! its been rough!!!!!! #its been traumatic!!!!! #and the fact that it really feels like no one has ever truly desired me and nobody ever will is. ugh. #i wish it werent part of it bc it feels soooo pathetic #and when ive asked ppl for advice about it what ive gotten in response has been almost insulting #thin ppl spending a lot of time telling me how bad they feel for me. how sad hearing about my personal life made them. #a lot of 'have you tried dating a fat fetishist?' #which like. 1. no they dont want me either 2. theres a good chunk of ppl who fetishize fat bodies but still hate fat people #and 3. idk do other marginalized people get that advice?? that actually they should try dating chasers?? #i feel like i havent seen it #or i get told i should try dating fat men. like i wouldnt if given the chance???? #i love fat men. they just also. historically. dont like me #ive known a lot of fat men who view dating a fat woman (or whatever i am) as disgusting and demeaning!!! at best its 'settling'!!! #god. one bit of advice i got was i should try dating nerdy guys. incredible #once again: they don't want me either!!!!! im TOO nerdy to the point it's off-putting!!!! #YES im a nerd. NO i dont watch mcu stuff. or dcu. or lotr. or star wars. or got. i dont like any of the big things #my main fandom was and always will be a 12 year old free browser game #im wildly unrelatable and i hate most really big tentpole nerd properties. except dnd that ones ok. but ive also written ttrpgs so like. #idk i think im disqualified from being the nerdy gf* people would actually want lol #anyway. its not a big deal i guess #just the kind of advice that makes you feel even more hopeless. #when i think abt it i cant help but laugh..bc i mean. what else can i do lol

[vaguelyhauntedcornfield]

so many shows are being released for franchises I kinda like that im getting burnt out on watching shows/on the franchises PLS one or two a year is more than enough omg

#i can't keep up wwith this much tv #i havent watched the second season of the witcher yet #i stopped watching marvel showws #i havent seen arcane or the neil geiman show that just came out yet #i havent seen the lotr show #im probably not going to watch andor or will only see it thru my parents putting it on #and none of this is bc i dont want to see the shows or i hate them or whatever #IT'S JUST TOO MUCH #I CANT KEEP UP WITH THIS #I CAN PICK LIKE 2 OR 3 SHOWS TO WORK MY WAY THRU THATS IT #my brain cant hold onto that much info for multi season shows ok #like k dramas are ok bc they're one season usually #but these things???? #theyre getting RENEWED #i finish a show and immediately another one is out #i just want some time to breathe and maybe read a book omg #it's like so much that i just dont pay attention to what's being released anymore and im not watching things id probably otherwise enjoy #it feels like theyre repeating the downfall of network tv idk but like speedrunning it #like rn im watching bleach and loosely following mando and ofmd and waiting for their new seasons #and there are a few more i watch like bridgerton that im not that invested in #but like tv in general im just getting so hit in the face by that i dont want to watch