#aragorn and his hobbits

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Ok, no, but can you imagine:

Aragorn (as Thorongil) having known baby Boromir-

And just casually mentioning it while they’re on the quest.

And of course everyone’s intrigued (and boromir is lowkey mortified when he realizes that “yes, i actually knew him when i was a baby”) and so aragorn just kinda tells one story about bby boromir (not to embarrass him or anything, just bc what else are they gonna do during all those days walking?)

But of course boromir is lowkey embarrassed, as one does when baby stories come up.

And legolas just-

Legolas, to Aragorn: hey, you remember the time you were so scared of climbing down from a tree, you spent an hour crying for me to get you bc you didn’t trust the twins as they weren’t “tree elves”?

Legolas just comes in clutch and levels the playing field. Boromir might be embarrassed bc of his bby stories, but Aragorn is now bright red.

Everyone is now pestering for Gandalf to tell some embarrassing stories about Legolas, but the wizard admits that Legolas was born in the 2nd age, before Gandalf came to middle earth and so he has none.

Legolas is just cackling in glee bc his siblings aren’t here to embarrass him in turn and he now has the pleasure of being one of the oldest for a change.

#lord of the rings #lotr #silmarillion #the hobbit #lotr elves #legolas #aragorn #boromir #the 9 walkers #gandalf #thorongil #boromir having an existential crisis bc 2 of the people he’s on a quest with that look his age/younger than him #are actually significantly older #listen legolas is young but he’s notthat young #gandalf is still grandpa dw #legolas and boromir friendship agenda #aragorn and boromir friendship agenda #even with the awkward flavor of ‘you could have been my dad’

[thewitchkingiscool-ace]

OK SO I HAVE A THEORY

I’m like 100% sure that Aragorn and Thranduil don’t know each other’s names

In the two towers, when aragorn, gimli and legolas are surrounded by the riders of rohan, aragorn says “i am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. This is gimli, son of gloin, and Legolas…” …… “of the Woodland Realm.” He doesn’t know Legolas’s dad’s name. Could’ve just said “Legolas son of Thranduil”, that’s not even awkward to say!

And then at the end of botfa, Thranduil is talking to Legolas and he’s like “There is a young ranger amongst them. He is known in the wild as Strider. His true name……..” ……… “you must discover for yourself.” Just admit it, you two. You don’t know each other’s fucking names.

#aragorn #thranduil #legolas #gimli #lotr #they don’t know each other’s names #just say legolas son of thranduil it’s not that hard #the hobbit #SON OF THRANDUIL #HIS TRUE NAME IS ARAGORN #my god

[marsconer]

writing lord of the rings fanfic is like. *has three versions of how an event goes* *goes into research tangent on folklore and anthropology* * cries about it* it’s what tolkien would have wanted.

#antihero #lord of the rings #tolkien purists dni #tolkien is such a mood #but he’s also rolling in his grave #modern girl in middle earth #the girls should get their perfect nail polished hands on lotr #lotr #lotr x reader #lotr x oc #hobbit #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #gandalf #tolkien not having witches in middle earth feels weirdly gendered motivated #maybe that’s just me #legolas greenleaf #aragorn #gimli #merry and pippin #boromir #oc fanfiction #tolkien never did

[aosmccoy]

i think so much abt the fact that celeborn was one of the last elves who left middle-earth... like we don't even know when it was that he left

and i also think that it was probably him who lived on middle-earth for the longest period of time (out of the elves). i mean yeah galadriel was probably older than him for example and maybe even círdan too, but none of them lived longer on this side of the sea than him. celeborn was already living in doriath in starlit beleriand when the noldor lived still in valinor, and he also stayed longer after the war of the ring, after galadriel and círdan and elrond left. like, idk. how much you have to love a place to stay there even after the most of your kind and the love of your life all left... etc

#celeborn #tolkien #lotr #the silmarillion #funny how when i watched or read the lotr i never really cared abt him but now that i reread the silm after a long time and i #saw his name it got me thinking. and i remembered that line in concerning hobbits that he was still here after elrond left #like he went over to the south of the greenwood and divided it between him and thranduil.. like how long were they like that? how long did #they stay? #i also think abt how legolas wandered around the place with gimli and whatever and stayed in ithilien and then finally left after aragorn p #passed away and like. did thranduil finally leave then too? or did he stay in greenwood even after his son left for the undying lands? #so much to think about #zsófi rambles #galadriel #círdan

[achillyscomedown]

gimli: I didn’t punch him because he’s gay! i punched him, and he happened to turn out to be gay afterwards!

frodo: i was gay when you punched me!

legolas: in a weird way, it might have been homophobic not to punch you just because you’re gay…

gandalf: you punched a little gay hobbit in the face and the fellowship hasn’t even been together for a day. 

#legolas greenleaf #legolas #gandalf #frodo baggins #lotr frodo #frodo #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #lotr #incorrect quotes #lotr incorrect quotes #tumblr #21 jump street #aragorn was fr shaking his head at this #hobbits #ngl this quote would also work for kili & fili & bilbo and thorin

[sesamenom]

Elanor visiting Gondor

(aka, practicing painting style for the 12 days of dagorath finale lol)

#lotr #lord of the rings #lotr appendices #elanor #elanor gardner #there are twenty hobbits in the house #aragorn gives up on propriety very quickly and ends up sitting on the kitchen floor eating mushrooms with the hobbits #one of sams many children is gnawing on his arm #another is wearing his cloak #oh well at least they arent swarming baby eldarion anymore

[kirbyddd]

Despite its flaws, there has never been a more beautiful and faithful adaptation of Tolkien's work

#the hobbit #lotr #the hobbit 1977 #rankin-bass #the sheer fact that they incorporated THE SONGS #the joy and relief of arriving at rivendell to a chorus of elfsong is unparalelled #and bearded elrond with a crown of stars is GOAT #i love the idea of him retaining a beard as half elven #....though in all honesty i think having become spiritually full elf his physiology wouldve followed suit #as the elven form is defined by a half spiritual body... his physiology would've had to have changed alongside his spirit #aragorn retained a strong spiritual form as well due to his elven blood... but as man did not have the full simulatenous conscious presence #and tolkien’s theology certainly wasnt dualist despite depiction of tangible spirituality... it was more ’multidimensional’ than individual #so i think elrond's material form must've aligned to elven biology as well to posess such a spiritual nature... meaning no beard :( #but we can dream cant we #at least we got the shipwright and the ancient un-fallen elves in the West probably have beards too #they'll give elrond one when he gets there

[fanbutnotfanatic]

the homoeroticism of middle earth is BONKERS like i just rewatched the scene where faramir is tempted by the one ring and why was that hot?? sam, faramir, frodo, and some tension having nothing to do with the power of sauron

#gigolas #samfro #bagginshield #and like 40 others #like aragorn too and he’s a simp for his wife #lotr #the hobbit

[youareunbearable]

I might not do anything with this BUT I've been thinking about the Shadow of Mordor games again and how FUN would it be if Sauron did that but instead of bringing back Celebrimbor he uses his necromancy magic to bring back Maedhros

An imposingly tall figure, all done up in Sauron's spikey black armor, instead of his mace there is a wicked black blade where a right hand should be. He roams at the front of the Nazgul, blade at the ready as the other holds the reigns to a monstrous horse

People are terrified, thinking that Sauron himself is roaming the wilds, he stalks the Fellowship, nothing seems to stop him only delay him. Gandalf isn't sure its Sauron himself, but something about him under all that twisted and dark and evil song sings pure, like a dull flicker of white flame, like a weak candle.

When Boromir dies, that figure is with the orcs, it isnt the one to slay Boromir, but turns away and it seems to know where the ring is. The orcs are too focused on Merry and Pipin to follow the Figure, but he walks off. He stands on the shores as Frodo and Sam shiver in the Swan boat, but it does nothing but watch them as they sail off. It makes no motion to follow them or attack their small boat, just watch transfixed. Sam makes a comment that it looks like the Figure's armor makes it almost like it has a metal collar around its neck and cuffs on its wrists

During the battle of Helm's Deep, that Figure is back again, silently leading the siege. At one point, an Elven arrow hits the Figure's helm, knocking it a little loose and from under the helm tumbles a single red lock of hair. Its so red that almost looks like a smoldering flame. Haldir, who lives with the survivors of Doriath, sees that red hair, that tall stature, the handless right wrist and pales. While he wasn't there to witness the destruction of Doriath, he has heard the tales, he knows about the red haired monster that haunts the memories of the Sindar, and he knows what that Figure is capable of. Luckily, that Figure manages to catch a glimpse of Aragorn, and Freezes once again, a single stone that cuts through the rushing current of orcs all around him. Haldir doesn't see it again, but then again, Haldir doesn't see much of anything again.

(The Figure sees Gandalf on the hill, arriving with the dawn and reinforcments and it grieves, something in it breaks all over again but the magic puppeting its moves doesn't allow it to dwell. The helm is readjusted and the hair is tucked away and the Figure turns and leaves the battlefield. Its being summonded somewhere else.)

The war rages on, the Witch King is dead, but so is King Theoden. The Figure is trapped, the right wrist is pinned under the corpse of an oliphant and Elrond's sons watch as the Figure struggles before lying still. It's clearly not dead, but realizing it's trapped.

Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli join the twins. Gimli offers to thrust his axe in its chest, Legolas insists that he can shoot through its eye from a safer distance. Aragorn, who heard Haldir's frantic pleas during his final moments, just observes the Figure.

He notices the strange collar, how it clearly has cuffs on its wrist and feet, like it used to be shackled and chained.

"Can you speak?" He asks it.

The Figure does nothing but turn its helm towards Aragorn. They stare at each other for a few tense moments.

One of the twins, Aragorn still isn't fully sure which one, approches the Figure slowly. The Figure's helm is still directed at Aragorn.

"It feels familiar." The one twin whispers, voice raw from exertion. "It has a fea, it feels warm."

"Like uncle Erestor. Or Lindir." The other twin agrees.

The Figure turns its helm towards the twins at the mention of Erestor. The twin closest to the Figure, quick as an adder, jabs a polearm at the Figure's helm.

It snaps back, the helm tumbling off the Figure's head and those smoldering red locks fan out around the head, obscuring the face from view.

Even without seeing the face it's clearly an Elf. An abused one at that if one just looks at the notches missing from it's pointed ears. The polearm is back, nudging under where a chin should be to lift the face.

First, all that is seen is scars. So many that pull the once handsome face, for even under all its marring one can tell from the bone structure that this was a face that could launch a thousand ships, into a grotesque manner. But it is the eyes, the eyes that makes everyone suck in a breath.

These eyes glow, they glow with power, with light never been seen before, or well, haven't been seen in Ages. These grey eyes glow with the reflected light of the Two Trees, long since felled.

"Oh, Maitimo," Gandalf, who had wandered up the the group, sighed with tremendous sorrow. "What has become of you?"

Maitimo, or Maedhros as those in the Third Age know him as, tries to speak. His lips move, which brings attention to the fact that they are loosely sewn together with a black cord that seems to pull and ooze blood, never letting the wounds heal. His voice croaks, dry with misuse, but he manages a sound, a breath, perphaps even a word. Each syllable like a dying wheeze. He repeats the sound, again and again, almost becoming frantic with his wheezing chants, blood spilling down his chin from the threads, until it's understandable.

"Necromancer."

#amber rambles #silmarillion #maedhros #maitimo #silm fic #Iotr #I personally think it would be Fun and Seasonal if Mae becomes a zombie puppet for Sauron #like I already think that because of the Oath and because of his time with Morgoth and Sauron he wouldnt be able to die or hear Mandos Call #And I think Sauron would be a petty bitch enough to bring back Mae as a fun little HaHa Deal With THIS Emotional Trauma Elrond U Ass #I couldnt decide if I wanted Mae to deal with Aragorn and the fellowship or with frodo and sam but I figured if hes being puppeted #he would go after aragorn HOWEVER a fun little alternative i have #is that he goes after frodo and sam and they end up in Shelobs cave and Mae is gonna kill the hobbits but the Liquid Starlight #snaps some of his Sauron Mind Control off and activates his Omg Oath!! brain and he fights Shelob off the hobbits to grab it #and he knows he cant grab the vial cause hes Literally a figure of evil now but he just sits there and stares at it #and Little Sam goes up to him slowly and asks #If you want that vial i can help you but you must not hurt Mr Frodo anymore do you promise? #And Mae nods his head. promising. #so Sam cuts off a corner of his cloak and wraps the vial in it and hands it over to Mae who just hold the cloth bundle and begins to shake #he sobs. big wheezes and moans that cant make it past his sewn lips but he tries and Sam runs off to save Frodo while he does that #Then once gollum tosses himself and the ring into the lava and the world is crumbling around them Mae appears in the cave opening #to scoop up the tired hobbits and carry them to safety not caring about lava chasing after them. He collapses once the eagels come #Sam tries to get them to take Mae as well. But they dont and he screams and Mae just takes off his helm and smiles #He holds up the wrapped vial in his hand and with his bladed hand he cuts through the threads on his lips and shouts up to the sky #Thank You! A New Dawn Shall Rise!! and the eagles fly higher and farther and sam cant see it but he knows the lava swallowed him up #and a new dawn does rise. It rises on a new Age with a new king and a wedding and painful goodbyes and a new beginning

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Ok, look:

We all find it cute/funny if Aragorn knew Borimir as a baby. But consider this: Aragorn babysitting Theoden as a child and through the entirety that we see them interact in lotr, Theoden’s inherent fear of disappointing a teacher is going off in the back of his mind.

Aragorn, coming into rohan for the first time in decades, accompanied by a wizard, elf, and dwarf: was there any trouble (while i stepped out of the (classroom) kingdom)?

Theoden, yeeting away any and everything that hints at his corruption and sitting up straight: No-

#lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #aragorn #theoden #aragorn is old af #incorrect lotr quotes #incorrect tolkien quotes #aragorn knew everyone from when they were in dippers #and they’re all lowkey afraid of him for it #at least the humans are #and then his (elf) family comes to visit and they finally see aragorn get the exact same treatment #only for them to realize that the elves know even MORE about their respective family lines #humans be like ‘fuck the elves’ but only bc they got embarrassing baby stories of everyone

[britcision]

You think you’re used to having weird dreams until you dream a Supernatural episode but Sam and Dean wander off about 10 minutes in and then it’s Lucien from Critical Role running around plotting “evil” with and against the monster of the week with Merry and Pippin as his henchmen

(I was Pippin)

(I could not persuade Lucien to take the monsters seriously, but I did manage to do pretty good persuading them not to eat me right away by singing)

The monsters in question were sorta… shapeshifters that could steal your appearance by taking your hand, and then they’d eat your significant other so that they could feed their babies

Their main issue was that if they took your shape when you had a temporary issue like being covered in glue they’d copy the issue too and it wouldn’t just go away for them

They were fucking great monsters, super compelling, and for some ungodly reason while Aragorn was leading Frodo and Sam to safety (they hadn’t met him in Bree so they met for the first time all fleeing said monsters along a beach) I-As-Pippin and Merry were engaged in Yu-Gi-Oh-Abridged style shenanigans with Lucien-As-Marik

(Including he wanted to break into a secret office through a window over the door so he stood on each of our shoulders and held a pose as we stood to lift him up

We were fucking hobbits it did not get him high enough but dangit he tried)

Anyway while Lucien was trying to do Evil Shenanigans including for some reason stealing a Winchester’s backpack that the monsters also REALLY REALLY wanted, Merry and I were trying to get the attention of the actual Winchesters to explain what was going on

While usually hanging out with at least one monster in disguise, who sometimes knew we were onto it but was having fun watching us flail

Neither fucking Winchester were even remotely inclined to be on camera or present except for a single bloody scene where Sam Winchester read from a book in the backpack to me, Merry, and our monster buddy and very earnestly convinced the monster that he thought we were hunting a fish

The monsters were not fish and our guy in particular seemed perplexed by this very wrong take but clearly didn’t want to discourage us from being wrong

For some reason the way we actually beat them was by putting lube on a playground structure that I-As-Pippin then had to step through while held hostage, lead them through, and then let them turn into me which for some reason made them all permanently very slippery

This did not noticeably fucking help me or let me escape but it did make their feet hurt for some reason and we had Scooby Doo Chase Shenanigans while I tried to work out why the fuck this was the plan and how it was supposed to help

(Lucien, meanwhile, was being entertained by the boss monster and trying to use his Somnovum powers to mind control him or resist being mind controlled in a fancy mansion

We did have to pause here because I pointed out (while not in the scene) that Lucien’s main flaw is Wizard Hubris, and this couldn’t be post-Somnovum Lucien because he had no extra eyes and wasn’t a shirtless tentacle man

We-the-audience-and-players-of-this-show-that-is-clearly-a-dnd-game agreed that this was pre-Somnovum and he hadn’t gone to actually control them yet, but he was manipulating them and using their powers for his own “evil” ends

Said evil being about as menacing, again, as Marik from YGOTAS and not his more effective evil form

Tbh Merry and Pippin as his evil henchmen was about right)

I did work it out before I woke up (not that it made sense) because apparently the main issue with this lube was that it was making all the monster babies too slippery, so while they were all chasing me and the other protagonists around the babies were occasionally being yote like a slip n slide

Hypothetically the monsters were supposed to find this very distracting and upsetting, but they hadn’t really noticed either until I asked what the fuck this was supposed to achieve and why it was the grand solution

Note: this was not in any way a scary dream, I get monster-chase dreams a lot but very rarely in a way that upsets me even in dream as anything more than a minor nuisance

(Or I get annoyed when the dream cheats because I successfully got away, doubled back, and tailed the monsters so I knew where they were and then the dream reset them to directly behind me)

There was a pretty compelling plot to this one so while I was stuck being Pippin and trying to move the plot myself, I was mostly just watching it like a tv show

Also Jaskier was running around being monster-adjacent (not sure if he actually got turned at some point) and joined in for my musical number to persuade the monsters not to kill me

Pretty sure he seduced at least two because there were less of them after that and I remember thinking that this was the quintessential bard scene and why bards are fucking great to play in dnd

(I think most of the actual show was supposed to be about Frodo, Samwise, and Aragorn escaping the monsters but fuck them I had way more fun watching/being Pippin and Merry on Lucien shenanigans

Trying to persuade Lucien that the monsters were a problem and not potential allies was…

A trip)

#dreams #listen i know the general rule is your dreams are not interesting to other people #but this one was fucking bomb #had a fantastic time #10/10 would recommend Lucien-and-his-hench-hobbits #required reading: supernatural + critical role campaign 2 + lord of the rings #supernatural without the winchesters fucks actually #they were notably there in the background doing something else #they were just never on screen or being remotely fucking helpful #i guess maybe they met up with aragorn and the main plot #but our b plot was better #i don’t know why lubed up monsters was supposed to help #but i guess they did not successfully eat me #so that’s a win

[findafight]

Honestly I think it's VERY funny that, before the whole, y'know, accused of cultist murder and chased by a mob thing, the dynamic of steddie from an outside perspective of some rando in Hawkins would be EXACTLY the shit tier ugly ass elf gigolas post. Ppl are like why does Steve Harrington who is pretty and rich and athletic like the weird guy who sings to trees? Who might not even use conditioner? And Steve gets his ach nae...I love him moment.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #look me in the eye and tell me that isnt the dynamic. also i think about that post so often #ALSO why have i only seen steve as aragorn and not steve as the most obvious steve character. Boromir. #he is like ehhh at first and then loves his little hobbits!!!! he dies protecting them!!! #finda's rambles #im actually so funny please laugh

[khazaddoom]

#lord of the rings #I will continue to pretend Jeff bezos and his got wannabe show don’t exist thank you very much #tolkien #lotr #jrr tolkien #the hobbit #aragorn #legolas #gandalf #frodo baggins

[weezlbot]

Reasons Legolas loves his friends

Gimli

Perfect hug height

Gifts pretty gems

Comforting to be around, due to strong build and hard axe (take of that what you will)

Strong!!! Arms are nice for hugs!!!

Always down for games, competitions, debates, and mischief

Beard is well-kept, magnificently fluffy and lovely to touch (if you can convince him to allow you to)

Aragorn

Wise, gives very good advice

Kingly

Has grown so big!!! and so strong!!! since they first met when Aragorn was a little kid in Rivendell!!! and Legolas is so proud of him!!!

Hale-hearted and kind

Knows all the fun Elvish drinking songs

Good emotional control

Healing hands are warm and gentle

Arwen

Sweet! So so sweet! Buys treats for Legolas!

Makes Aragorn bathe so he doesn’t smell bad

Understands that sometimes you just need to be around some trees

Also knows all the fun Elvish drinking songs, and is a soprano to Aragorn and Legolas’s tenors, so she rounds out the choir

Well read, tells good stories

Faramir

Loves Aragorn as much as Legolas does

Likes flowers and trees as much as Legolas does

Compliments Legolas’s pretty hair

Wise beyond his years and very kind, so much more so than he believes himself to be (towards the end, Denethor would refer to him as stupid, unwise and inexperienced, and after a while he genuinely started to believe it, even though it’s not true)

Merry and Pippin (he can’t tell which is which, and regularly calls them by each other’s names, but he still considers them both his friends)

Very funny and cheerful

Entertaining to be around

Schemes! Always down for schemes!

Tell the best stories

Always have food

Eowyn

Sings like an angel--maybe even better than Arwen. Legolas is in the process of teaching her Elvish songs so she can sing with him at festivities.

Always down to race horses with him and others

Understands the need to leave the city and run around in the fields, climb trees, swim in rivers, etcetera

Loves animals, like Legolas does

Elladan and Elrohir

Understand the need to go into nature and just be

Always down for archery

Tell very good stories

Can live off the land, which Legolas respects

Lighthearted! Both Elladan and Elrohir and Legolas love to laugh and joke!

Know all the funny songs from Mirkwood due to a short time of residence there

Tauriel

Always down for adventure

Always down for archery 

Always down for singing and festivities--they like the same songs

Passionate

Athletic

A skilled healer

Very pretty! For a while, Legolas really thought she would be the one he would soul-bond with and marry. However, this was not to be--the two have remained friends and nothing more, and he visits her whenever he returns to the Greenwood

#legolas #legolas loves his friends #friendship #lotr #the hobbit #peter jackson #hobbit movies #the three hunters #gimli #aragorn #faramir #arwen #merry and pippin #merry brandybuck #pippin took #pippin #eowyn #elladan #elrohir #peredhellion #elladan and elrohir #tauriel

[swan2swan]

It really was a bold choice on Peter Jackson's part to make the titular character of the third LotR book an actual main character in his adaptation.

#he's cool in the Ralph Bakshi version but he's on the level with most of the others #and he's almost a cameo in the Rankin Bass version #cool for his screentime but #all the other adaptations were pretty firmly about the hobbits #not that they shouldn't have been #gandalf was also bigger #Jackson gave Aragorn the screentime he DESERVED #lord of the rings

[scyllas-revenge]

How the Fellowship would sit at the Council of Elrond

i’m sick and delirious and don’t know if this makes sense but also i will defend these choices with my dying breath

#push frodo and sam's chairs together so they can cuddle #also gimli and legolas are only sitting like that so they can share a chair #i hear the arguments already that aragorn's posture isn't kingly enough well he's been ranging in the wilderness for a long time #imagine aragorn staring at frodo in the prancing pony just sitting in his corner like #lotr #fellowship of the ring #aragorn #boromir #gimli #frodo #legolas #pippin #hobbits