#She's the Sam to my Frodo

[philtstone]

a sort of extension of my last Post but everyone always forgets that aragorn fell stupidly head over heels in love forever with the first woman he met at age 20 which in dunedain years is like. 12. he is absolutely not pulling the metaphorical bitches on purpose. this makes at least three of the plot points in lotr so so so much funnier

#arwen has the exact same energy btw but funnier because she’s 2000 #i am a little embarassed that all my lotr posts are about aragorn but hopefully now that im on 2 towers #ill transition into unhinged eowyn and frodo and sam posting #and reclaim some of my dignity #phil reads lotr #aragorn #arwen undomiel #aragorn x arwen

[daniraevys]

So I think my mum ships Frodo/Sam.

Have been watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy for the last three days and finally reached the goodbye scene where Frodo sails off to the Undying Lands with Gandalf and other elves.

My mum was fully expecting Sam to leave middle earth with Frodo. Till the last second she was waiting for Sam to either stop Frodo from leaving or straight up accompany him on the final journey.

"Mum! Sam is married to Rosie Cotton, remember!? " - I literally had to remind her.

"Oh, yeah, Sam shouldn't have done that! Shouldn't have gotten married!" - was all my mum said dejected.

I had to stop my giggles, because she was so blatantly shipping them and I had never seen her do that before.

#frodo x sam #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #lord of the rings #my mum is neutral towards lgbtq+ #she's like 'you do you' #but to see her ship a queer pairing is so baffling #her frustration at both of them seperating reminded me of my good omens brainrot #she made the same expression i made when aziraphale left to heaven without going back for Crowley #anyway im just rambling

[thesnowqueen]

if i had a nickel for every time the best friend duo that was the cornerstone of an entire trilogy got split apart at the end of the 3rd movie, ruining the entire trilogy for me, i'd only have 2 nickels, but it's strange that it's happened twice

#BUT FOR REAL THO #the entire lord of the rings i kept thinking that sam and frodo were gonna get together #but i had to keep reminding myself that they're movies from the early 2000s based on books written in the 1930s (i think the 30s?) #so gay couples weren't an option #and then they just go their separate ways and i feel like the movie made it clear that they don't see each other again #and then httyd oH BOY #i understand why toothless had to leave i do #kinda #but the fact that the movie made it seem like “yeah it's sad but hiccup and astrid got married so it's not really THAT sad” is what got me #like ok got it lesson learned: all your friends will eventually leave you but it's ok cause you'll have a romantic partner for life #if you don't have a romantic partner for life well then i guess you're just fucked #it's this alloromantic Thing that society does where they treat romantic relationships as better than friendships and i HATE it #i cried for so long after i saw that movie #and the friend who i saw the movie with and who i was talking to about how sad i was #was like “i'm never gonna ditch you” #and then guess what you guys #she just stopped talking to me one day #hasn't spoken to me since #my post #ALSO I JUST FOUND OUT YOU CAN EDIT TAGS AFTER YOU HIT ENTER #SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO RETYPE THE WHOLE THING IF YOU NOTICE A SPELLING MISTAKE AFTER YOU HIT ENTER

[kaleidemaran]

“and i’m going with you”

#lotr #lord of the rings #im watching these w my friend over thanksgiving #her first time my like 18th #im so excited shes so fun to watch things with #samwise gamgee #sam gamgee #frodo baggins #samfrodo #my art

[lovely-v]

Mentally im here

#veesaysthings #samfro #fellowship of the ring #lord of the rings #inspired by a convo I had w grace when we finished watching this today #she said ‘still thinking about that boat scene’ and I was like mentally I’m always in the boat scene #this image is the load bearing wall of my mind palace #please talk to me about how Sam and Frodo are in love please talk to me about how Sam and Frodo are in love please talk to me about how-

[theburialofstrawberries]

went for a walk with a friend today who does not think frodo and sam have anything sexual going on and i said what about i can’t carry it for you but i can carry you, and she said but that’s not sexual!!!!!!!, and i said by those impossible standards who even fucks in the lord of the rings universe, and she said gandalf, and i said now this is just your thing for older men coming out, and on this public street where we were walking she yelled FIRSTLY GANDALF IS FEMME

#had to stop in my tracks and wheezingly repeat after her: GANDALF IS FEMME #i should also add she's reading a 350K about frodo sam and rose and how frodo is impotent from trauma which poses problems to everyones #sex lives

[frodo-with-glasses]

idk if you're still taking requests, but if you are and wanted to, a doodle of frodo and sam singing a line of "For Now and For Always" from the lotr musical would be adorable :D <3 That song is so lovely

…….This is ended up being much more than just “a line”.

To avoid just drawing this comic again, I decided to put a little spin on it. Details will be coming along in a reblog.

SEND IN YOUR SUGGESTIONS!

Not SamFro!

#samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #elanor gardener #frodo gardener #rose gardener #gamgee children #lord of the rings #lotr #my art #fig tree au #magnolia au #how to shoot up to the top of my request list: FRODO AND SAM FEELS #ALSO. THAT SONG??? OBSESSED. #I’M PRETTY SURE MY COWORKERS ARE SICK OF HEARING ME LISTEN TO IT WHILE I CLEAN STUFF #WHY HAS NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT THE LOTR MUSICAL UNTIL NOW??? #AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH #anyway #spot frodo jr. with his oliphaunt plushie #rose isn’t really paying attention to the story; she just wants to sit on uncle frodo’s lap #still don’t know how to tag the gamgee kids #ask me about my myriad of stupid domestic headcanons for the bag end household #suggestion box

[perplexities]

doris got me into lord of the rings after years of avoiding it so it will now be my current obsession and part of my personality for this next unprecedented lump of time :)

#everyone blame doris!!!!!!! #my dad was obsessed and is still obsessed w the entire lotr trilogy #and i never paid it no mind #like never watched it in full #only saw parts here and there and fell asleep during the hobbit when my dad dragged me to it in theatres #but bitch im on the two towers and now im INVESTED #also i do anything my wife says bc hi hello she’s everything 2 me #Frodo and Sam………. y’all mfs gay #also why are all the elves made to be so fuckable? #doriscore

[glitteringaglarond]

You can feel free to ignore this if you would like, but you mentioned in that conversation you were having about whether the LOTR movies are well written or not that nothing make you angrier than what Peter Jackson did to Faramir.

So I was wondering - do you hate that more than what Amazon is doing with their show (which as your anti rop tag indicates, you rather dislike)

Hey anon! Thanks for the ask!

To answer your question, I do hate what PJ did to Faramir more than what Amazon is doing to the Second Age, if only because I love Faramir more than I love Galadriel or the second age in general.

But it actually goes a little bit deeper than the starting point of affection I have for either character, and that revolves around expectations.

in general, when it comes to entertainment, very few things make me more upset than wasted potential. I see it time and time again in movies and in tv shows, and every single time it happens it makes me genuinely upset because I can SEE the potential for greatness... only for the result to be lesser than what it might have been if it was just bad simply BECAUSE of that potential.

So the Faramir thing? I had such high hopes for it. I was only nine when I saw The Two Towers in theaters for the first time, but based on how much I loved the first movie I was unbelievably excited to see how they would portray Faramir. My biggest concern was that he would not have black hair, since Boromir also did not have black hair. So to say I was deeply disappointed is an understatement.

And to this day, I'm upset because the quality of those movies is so high that if they HAD done justice to Faramir, it would have been superb in every way. TBH this is probably what spawned my general tendency to get so upset by wasted potential.

But with Amazon's show? There was never any potential.

I hoped when it was first announced that maybe it would be good, but everything new that I learned about it made it clear to me that it never had the potential to be good, and the first trailer for the show confirmed that for me. i'm less upset by the events of the actual show than I am by Amazon's actions and the efforts of the showrunners and the shill media to smear the name of JRRT, bash Christopher, and hide behind their diverse cast so that they could insult anybody who had any issue with the show by saying "you're just racist", even though 99% of the criticism has nothing to do with that.

Is Amazon's show polluting the lore? Yes. Is it clearly made with absolutely zero respect for the source material? Yes. Is its portrayals of... any and every character facepalmable at best (POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS ELROND??? DAFUQ???) and offensive at worst (Galadriel, who is known for her wisdom and the fact that Sauron could not trick her... is an idiot who is easily fooled by Sauron???). Also yes. Is its efforts at diversity actually more offensive than having no diversity at all (the "more dangerous, less wise" elf is the black one? And he's the ONLY black elf? Where are the other black elves? and why does he get a slavery arc? is the prime example). Yes again.

But there is no potential that it was ever going to be anything but bad. The only wasted potential I see is a few of the cast members are way too good for the slog they're forced to wade through. The show is no better, no more respectful, and no more competently made than I really expected.

But with Faramir? Not only do I love him more than the entirety of the second age and all the characters therein, but the movies are so excellent that there is enormous wasted potential in the fact that they did not do him justice. Like imagine those movies only without completely destroying the entire line of Stewards! Boromir was good until the TTT retcon, but if Denethor and Faramir had been written accurately??? it would have been breathtaking. And the fact that that did not happen makes me genuinely upset, on top of how upset I am over ruining Faramir (and Denethor) in the first place.

tl;dr

I hate what PJ did to Faramir more than what Amazon is doing to the second age because those movies had potential that they wasted, as opposed to Amazon not even having the potential to be anything but bad. Also because I love Faramir more.

#answers #'potential' does not feel like a word anymore btw #anti rop #my op #also those movies account for my first AND second major literary betrayals #the first being Faramir... and the second being Frodo telling Sam to go home #the latter of which was spoiled for me & I straight up told my friend she was lying to me because there was NO WAY that could have happened #So like. I have loved and hated these movies from the second I laid eyes on them #but also I would never wish for them to not exist #i just wish they existed with their true potential reached... not just partially reached

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

sam gamgee could have ocd and be on zero meds bc he’d have intrusive thoughts and be like “well that just dont make sense” meanwhile frodo is like “sam,, sam we walked through the stalls in the marketplace in the wrong order sam we walked past the fruit vendor BEFORE the bakers stall, my skin is CRAWLING sam, we have to go back to the beginning and do it all over again in the right order or im going to cry and possibly faint” 

#lord of the rings #lotr #to be clear- i am ABSOLUTELY frodo in this situation #literally was at a thrift store with my sister last week and she went down an aisle from the wrong direction and i followed her #and then IMMEDIATELY went back to the start of the aisles so i could walk through them all The Right Way bc it felt so wrong #literally my first thought reading the scene where sams tempted by the ring only to immediately go 'well thats fucking stupid' was #'this dude just chadded his way out of ocd'

[heavenknowsffs]

I just finished watching Wednesday and i have to say... i could fix him

#sorry i could #he looks like gollum but i could #call me sam if frodo became a little creature #he's JUST a creature #wednesday #it's like in jennifer's body i would find bad people for him to eat #(because i would also do that for jennifer if she were my gf)

[philtstone]

but does philippa boyens know she is a genius

#she really wrote some of the most beautiful dialogue in the movies she literally did. sometimes I think abt it too hard and go nuts #she said in an interview that shes a good mimic & that’s oversimplifying! she has to Know the soul of it to be able to do what she did! #she captured The Essence!!! #😭 #phil.txt #i would have gone with you to the end to the very fires of mordor there is always hope a wizard is never late literally literally #my brother my captain my king #BACKGROUND ​CHORUS OVER SAM CARRYING FRODO UP THE MOUNTAIN THAT WAS ALL HER. PHILIPPA.

[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...

[didntaskforfrozenyoghurt]

thinking about the poly fic i read the other day that rewrote the dynamics of the characters so that they all had romantic relationships with each other.

i was like, this IS very sweet, but i forgot that there isn't a complete overlap between aspecs and polyamorous people, so i was expecting the canon work buddies to have something much more queerplatonic than this,

#o-ver-pow-ered. that spells op #this is the same part of my brain that endorses the existence of every interpretation of like. sam and frodo. etc etc #yes we're already going against the grain of the canon after all why not diverge further! genuinely! #but i would just for once like to feel like there's a character out there who values a qpp on the same level as a romantic partner #and is written this way and has both #i started this post thinking about monsters inc because that's the fic i read but also now i'm remembering psychonauts 2 cassie... #she could do it honestly. i feel like i'm more likely to find something there #but ultimately. #i'm just gonna have to keep writing my oc jordan's V group aren't I

[cathymee]

napoy really pushed emil against the wall like that huh....

#it's giving frodo pointing sting against sam's throat 🧐🧐🧐 #literally also with emil's 'i'm not your enemy' line..... #but also hey. what the fuck is going on in this show rn LMDJAKAHJDH i'm confused as fuck #HOLDHS is cleofe..a royales or smth. is she victoria's sibling...? #LMAO help i am so off today my brain is not working #OH. DID VICTORIA HAVE THE BABY W/GUSTAVO'S BROTHER???????? #AND GUSTAVO'S BROTHER FOKIN DIED. AND THAT WAS WHY MARGA WAS GUSTAVO'S FAVORITE CHILD????? #hold on. hold ON. hold. #i mean i might still be wrong but lmdgaks cleofe's last line threw me off so much i thought she was the mother..?? #man. no brain cells gang 😔 #actually no was her name even victoria JAGDJAAJSHJS not me forgetting 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #royal blood #rambles

[mydeaddad]

training the youth well 💪

#silence bottom #my niece wasnt staying seated for her dinner so i was like 'wanna watch daenerys vids?' #and she was like yep then sat and ate all her dinner while i showed her edits #i showed her a lotr one and she teared up at Frodo saying bye to Sam 😭 #my heart exploded #she even wanted to play as dany and drogon #punching the air so hard rn