#LOTR & Star Trek

[approximateknowledge]

ok so hear me out

#ak goes insane #is this anything? #discworld #lotr #star trek #star wars #hiv3stuck

[redscrawl]

no i will not make separate blogs for my fandoms, everyone who follows me must experience ALL my insanity

#succession #succposting #tomgreg #twin peaks #fnaf #lotr #dune #dr jekyll and mr hyde #psycho #bates motel #the silver eyes #Saw #saw franchise #saw 2004 #redscrawl #detroit become human #the cosmere #mistborn #star trek enterprise #star trek tos #star trek discovery #silent hill #silent hill 2 #silent hill 3 #resident evil #resident evil 4 #911 show #killing eve #horror

[sparkpuplikesdrawing]

If you are living right now in 2023 and are still a big fan of LOTR please reblog bro where are my fellow Tolkienites (Tolkieneers?)

#Sparkpup Posts #LOTR #The Hobbit #JRR Tolkien #J.R.R. Tolkien #Tolkien #The Silmarillion #Lord Of The Rings #The Lord Of The Rings #what is the term for fans of lotr seriously tho #Harry Potter has Potterheads #Star Trek has Trekkies #what is it for fans of tolkien i need to know

[thegayfangrrl]

#lord of the rings #star trek #hugo weaving #avery brooks #elrond #benjamin sisko #dilfdecember #elrond peredhel #star trek deep space nine #st ds9 #deep space nine #lotr #rings of power #tolkien

[geekysteven]

#id in alt text #star trek #star trek the next generation #next generation #star trek tng #st tng #tng #picard #jean luc picard #captain picard #gandalf #lotr #lord of the rings #patrick stewart #ian mckellen

[averygayfrog]

#the ascent #ds9 #lotr #star trek #quodo #quark #odo #sam and frodo #Frodo

[nerdicorntheshipper]

All the best trios in media consist of a married couple and the platonic third member of their relationship

#nerdi speaks #spirk and bones #trobed and annie #peraltiago and boyle #ect. #star trek #tos #star trek tos #spirk #blorbo #ships #community tv #brooklyn 99 #oh also the guys from lotr #lotr

[spocks-bikini-and-datas-bra]

Middle Earth vs Space

#star trek #st #st tos #tos #star trek tos #star trek memes #star trek tng #star trek the original series #tng #st tng #star trek the next generation #lotr #the lord of the rings #memes

[modernincorrectlotrhobbit]

Bilbo: I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer.

Smaug: Very impressive titles. I have no idea what they mean, but they sound very impressive.

#source: star trek #bilbo baggins #bilbo #smaug #the hobbit #erebor #lord of the rings #incorrect quotes #incorrect Hobbit quotes #incorrect lotr quotes #incorrect lord of the rings quotes

[macmanx]

#odo baggins #star trek #odo #lord of the rings #frodo baggins #deep space 9 #lotr #ds9

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

Me seeing a fantasy or sci-fi universe made up of entirely fictional peoples and cultures: okay but which ones are the Jews I can project onto.

#jumblr #star trek #I’ve watched no Star Trek media but I know that that’s the big one for Jews with Vulcans #Star Wars #this is mostly just a me thing but the mandalorians are unintentionally a fun Jewish allegory #lotr #see my previous posts about lotr dwarves #you can fight me on that one #I’ll fucking destroy you #I’m not tagging the transphobic wizards. you know what the goblins are supposed to be. that one sucks

[tournamentpollsinc]

Round 5: Finals!

#polls #tournament poll #practically canon #lotr #star trek #gigolas #gimleaf #Spirk #Spok x Kirk #gayyyyyyy

[princessslea]

A conversation I keep having with my mum

Mum: you seem to meet a lot of nerds (affectionate) at university

Me: mum... I'm studying archeology everyone here is a nerd

Mum: but I also wanted to study archeology

Me: you are literally a nerd

Mum: I'm not a nerd!

Me: you met dad at a star trek convention, I have pictures of you dressed like a klingon, you celebrated a birthday with all your friends dressed in garb, eating full course hobbit meals all day and watching lord of the rings! You are arguably a bigger nerd than me!

#my mum is not ashamed of being a nerd #she just thinks that's stuff normal people do #Star trek #trekkies #fandom #lotr #lord of the rings #hobbits #[indistinct chatter]

[ot3showdown]

#round 4 #semifinals #ot3 showdown #ot3 bracket #ot3 ship bracket #ot3 ship #lord of the rings #legolas #gimli #aragorn #lotr #star trek #mcspirk #the triumvirate #kirk #spock #leonard mccoy #this is another blondies one

[cowboymater]

controversial opinion maybe:

I KNOW. i know. hear me out

i saw a couple edits on tiktok of mcspirk to soldier poet king and like. i’m not putting anyone on blast but good lord some of those choices made my head hurt. it’s taken me a couple days to synthesize my reasoning for the superior choice (as pictured above), but here goes:

the problem with assigning characters to soldier poet king comes when you take it at face value, flattening the paradigm to angry-sad-tired or violent-artsy-authoritative. if we want to get down to the root of it, the song is based on the threefold office of christ as priest (soldier), prophet (poet), and king. like i’m not christian, but on a textual level it gives us context: the concept that as prophet jesus gave us counsel and words of wisdom, as priest he sacrificed himself to redeem us, and as king he provides for, defends, and forgives us

maybe the most famous priest/prophet/king (& thus soldier/poet/king) allegory in all of literature is frodo, gandalf, and aragorn. frodo bears the burden, though he wishes he did not need to; gandalf offers words of wisdom and mercy; aragorn is a born leader, on the front lines with sword in hand, ready to die with his men if he must

KING: capt. james t. kirk is the easiest one to place. it is a burden and a privilege, an honor and a horror to have the lives of so many depend upon you to make the right call under fire. he makes the call. he leads the landing parties, he puts himself at the head of the charge because by god he is not about to send his men into a battle he wouldn’t fight himself. he leads—with heart when he can, steel when he must—and people follow him. bones and spock are always right behind because they believe in what he believes in, and more than that they believe in him

POET: bones serves as kirk’s emotional sounding board, his moral peer review. he lends an ear, and the word of an old country doctor who’s seen much and understands more. man has ascended to the heavens, to hurtling through the void in a glorified tin can, and it would be no great hardship to forget that our place in the universe is not that of higher life—we are not as quasi-gods, moving pieces on the great three-dimensional chessboard, but flesh and blood, and we must attend to each other. bones tempers the pure logos and rationality offered by spock; he offers grounding in this age of technology that wrinkles the fabric of reality, offers the kind of emotional intellect that cannot be taught, and has always been sorely needed

SOLDIER: this is the one where you really get tripped up by surface-level analysis. yes, spock is reserved and collected. yes, vulcans are pacifists (as you may recall, so are hobbits, and yet frodo remains the soldier in allegory)

the thing about vulcans, though, is that despite the vegan pacifism, they are warriors. it’s tangled up in their history and their DNA. the koon-ut-kal-if-fee survived through centuries of analytical dogma for a reason; even now, they cannot wholly escape their inheritance of violence. their forefathers ran the sands of vulcan green with blood. they venerate logic and condemn emotionality so that they will not

your average high-achieving vulcan, probably on the path to kolinahr, commits their lifetime to the pursuit of knowledge at the vulcan science academy. it’s a measured, rational decision. a controlled environment, where there will never be any logical reason to resort to violence

spock joins starfleet

he joins starfleet, and pursues knowledge in the vast unknowable universe. there is reason for violence, frequently. and sure, the purpose of their mission is peaceful. it’s true that spock would rather resolution be reached without force. but a soldier needs not want to be a soldier. he only needs go to war

when it comes down to blows, he will match them. he makes the sacrifice play, jumps on the grenade, goes into the radiation-soaked engineering room alone. it’s only logical, after all

spock is there to pick apart the universe, unravel the threads of logic until it all makes sense. bones is there to stitch it up. kirk is the hand that holds it all steady, the gravitational field that binds the people of the enterprise to their purpose. soldier-poet-king, commander-doctor-captain. it’s a story old as dirt, and we’ll keep telling it, i think

edit: my bad vulcans have. green blood

#puts on my “no one understands these characters like i do” hat #spock. (raucous applause) #star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #jim kirk #spock #bones mccoy #character analysis #soldier poet king #the oh hellos #lotr mention #longpost #mcspirk #triumvirate #txt

[holodeck-enthusiast]

I'm exposed to star trek tos and the radiation killed me in a good way. ✨

#tos spirk #spirk #star trek spirk #star trek #captain kirk #jim kirk #james t kirk #spock #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #kirkspock #lotr #jrr tolkien #tolkien