#baby gollum

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

BABY ELVES

Lord of the Rings Art

The Hobbit Art

Found on Pinterest

Galadriel Elrond

Legolas Thranduil

Gollum Treebeard

#baby thranduil #baby legolas #baby elrond #baby galadriel #baby gollum #baby Treebeard #the lord of the rings #the hobbit #ai artwork #pinterest

[windowsapologist]

Gollum reborn when

#botchat #baby gollum #make it happen

[hedgehog-moss]

The farmer I buy hay (and some firewood) from hasn't had time for deliveries yet, and he texted me yesterday to ask what I needed most urgently, hay or wood. Selflessly, I said hay.

That /is/ the gate for hay deliveries! Great memory, Pirlouit. I see what are the important spots in your mental map.

I hope you realise that I'm sacrificing myself for you. By telling our neighbour to prioritise your food over my comfort.

But even if I didn't, I would prioritise you and your hay because I love you. I would freeze to death to ensure you are fed

Would you share your hay with me, though?

I see.

#crawling along #i think of gollum's ''what has it got in its pocketses?'' every time pirlouit tries to raid my pockets with mounting frustration #your big nose doesn't fit in my coat pockets!! stop trying #and you don't even like mints #i tried to give him one once for a taste and it was too minty for him and he spent 30s panting with his mouth wide open #like my baby cousin when she stayed over and forgot her kid toothpaste and had to use my grown-up one #same look of betrayal

[mxliv-oftheendless]

Don’t mind me I’m just thinking about how Gollum was an omen of what Frodo could become while he carried the Ring and Frodo saw that and Frodo probably wanted to save Gollum so much because he was afraid he would become like Gollum because of the Ring and he wanted to see if he himself could be saved if he could save Gollum and that’s one reason why he hated how Sam treated Sméagol because if Sméagol is what he’s going to become what if Sam, who’s been so loyal and kind to him, treats him with the same hatred and—

#lord of the rings #frodo baggins #gollum #smeagol #one ring #tolkien #i just think about this like. constantly #there is literally so much about lord of the rings to think about but this #oh baby it lives RENT FREE #samwise gamgee #analysis #lotr analysis #nah but gollum and Frodo being parallels to each other is something i could spend hours talking about

[misterfaggins]

Book designs for the ringbearers (in order)

[ID: two sheets of full-body character designs for Smeagol/Gollum, Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam, lined up in that order. Each of the hobbits has curly hair, large round pointed ears, and large feet covered in thick curly hair. The first sheet has a light blue and yellow background and depicts the characters before they took possession of the ring. The second, set against a black background, shows them some time after.

Smeagol is a fat, freckled white hobbit with medium length dark hair and sea green eyes. He is crouching comfortably with a smile on his face. In the second image, Gollum is bony and emaciated, his skeleton visible through his skin. He has large, bulging, luminous eyes reminiscent of a blind deep sea creature. His fingers are webbed and his mouth filled with many sharp, pointy teeth. He has thin strands of curly hair.

The first drawing of Bilbo has medium-dark skin, short, neat black hair, and brown eyes. He stands with his hands on his hips, looking impatient. He is dressed in casual clothes. The second Bilbo has long, graying hair that reaches well past his shoulders. He wears traveling clothes complete with a navy blue cloak. He smirks back at the camera.

The first image shows Frodo as a tall, white, chubby hobbit with short dark hair and brown eyes. He smiles happily, a healthy blush on his cheeks. The second Frodo has long, scraggly hair pulled into a messy ponytail. He is emaciated, too-big shirt hanging off his shoulders, with sunken eyes and heavy scarring across his chest in a circular radius from where the ring rested. He's covered in dirt and blood. He stares into the distance with a hopeless expression.

Sam is a short, tan, fat hobbit with short red hair, freckles, and brown eyes. He smiles up at Frodo. In the second image, Sam is a little thinner, skin more pallid. His hair has grown longer and unkempt and he is covered in dirt and blood. He has a slight scar where the ring rested against his chest. In both images, Frodo and Sam are holding hands. End ID]

#oh boy tag time #lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #smeagol #gollum #bilbo baggins #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #anyways peter Jackson square up #hobbits! arent! skinny!!!!! #a skinny hobbit is probably a sad and unhealthy hobbit #what was up with all the skinny hobbits #anyways changing the subject #idc if Gollum canonically eats babies SMEAGOL YOULL ALWAYS BE NUMBER ONE BABYGIRL #I had so much fun designing smeagol the hobbit #he was a whole guy with a whole life :( #fun fact smeagol was a stoor hobbit #they’re water loving hobbits #they tend to have the biggest and the broadest frames and they’re the only hobbits capable of growing facial hair #so I gave him stubble #if he was standing up he’d be a little taller than frodo #who if I remember correctly is canonically tall for a hobbit #oh shit I need to tag for #blood #body horror #ask to tag #lea draws #my art #I grew up on the movies and I tried to do something different though the movie influence is very much there

[raayllum]

yes i love sir sparklepuff. no i don’t want him to ever look at me directly

#tdp #the dragon prince #sir sparklepuff #purple gremlin gollum butterfly baby #he is my son. i cannot look him in the eye #also not in the tush #mine #personal fave #sometimes i think i'm funny #arc 2 #s4

[enbyblades]

she was yelling at me all day and for why

#look at the prettiest baby princess girl u have ever seen. shes The Cat Of All Time #autumns cat rlly. autumn is kinda like gollum with the ring when it comes to trixie #understandably so. #cats #trixie #blades talks

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring for the First Time in Fifteen Years

Hi, Hello, Welcome! The conceit of these posts is pretty self-explanatory. I read the Lord of the Rings for the first time at age 17, in the middle of my parent's divorce (it was messy, we're not going into any details). Needless to say, I remember pretty much nothing about that read, and I would like to give the books a fair shake of a re-read. That's what this is, and there will be spoilers throughout!

I usually do full-book reviews, but if ever I was going to do a chapter-by-chapter re-read, it would be for LotR. The rules are that I'm going in as blind as I possibly can (I have watched the movies and have absorbed like...a reasonable amount of lore from existing on the internet as a millennial) and I'm not doing any research beyond like, defining words for myself as I read. So here we go, and I hope you enjoy rereading with me! Let's talk "The Shadow of the Past."

Good LORD JRR Tolkien can lore dump when he wants to. This chapter was mainly lore dump, which is fine because it was at least interesting lore dump. I'm not a lore girly though, I'm a character girly, so let's go with "we got the One Ring's backstory, now let me talk about other characters because the Ring isn't one just yet."

This is going to sound initially harsh, but it is said with affection: Gandalf is 1000% the pedantic asshole professor who is way too into the Socratic method who you absolutely detest in undergrad but somehow his classes still end up sticking with you more than any other. You then get to understand this prof better as a master's student, and deeply love this prof as a PhD. That's literally the vibe I'm getting from his lecture to Frodo about finding some goddamn pity and compassion for the tragedy that is Smeagol and Gollum. Because it is VERY easy to judge and be critical in the abstract, which Frodo very much is, having never encountered Gollum, and Gandalf has spent time and effort tracking down Gollum with way more background knowledge with which to contextualize the layers of tragedy that Gollum personifies and affects. It's a big ask, to get people to abstract compassion (and do not come in here and argue with me about this, I live in 20-goddam-24, I know what I'm talking about), but Gandalf kind of doesn't let it go with Frodo until Frodo at least softens his position and is open to, if not at, compassion. I've been a student and I've been a teacher, and these conversations are hard from both directions, so kudos to Gandalf for sticking with it, and to Frodo for getting to a place where he was truly listening.

Especially after Gandalf just CASUALLY DROPS that Gollum literally ATE BABIES. I'm not even kidding, he just casually, in the midst of an infodump on Gollum's time tracking Bilbo after losing the Ring, says,

The woodsmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. It climbed trees to find nests, it crept into holes to find young, it slipped through windows to find cradles.

AND THEN WE JUST CASUALLY MOVE ON LIKE BABY EATING ISN'T SOMETHING WE NEED TO ADDRESS HERE. I would like to address the baby eating, Gandalf!!!

Despite not addressing the baby eating though, there was some interesting new information in the Gollum infodump that I understand why it got cut from the movies, but I was low-key fascinated. Smeagol was specifically noted to be interested in roots. Gandalf framed that like literal tree and mountain roots, but this is Tolkien we're talking about. Roots have a metric ton of metaphorical meanings too, and the fact that Smeagol was interested in the origins of things, in where they came from, in what made them as they are, is both deeply ironic and deeply interesting. I kind of hope we do more with that, since becoming Gollum is like ouroborosing roots; Smeagol's interest in Gollum is deeply self-reflexive, which might also be how we end up with that bifurcated personality thing. I dunno, but that would be really cool to follow up on.

I also deeply appreciated Frodo's "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK" reaction to realizing that Gandalf had let him keep the One Ring for so long. Notably, Gandalf kind of doesn't explicitly apologize for putting Frodo at risk, but he does acknowledge that yes, yes he made a choice, took a risk, and put Frodo in some level of danger. I suppose we'll take it, even as we acknowledge that yes, Gandalf was working with imperfect, incomplete information. We do the best we can with what we know at the time, or something. And if it took 20-odd years to figure all of this out (which makes sense for the kind of field and archival work required here), then y'know what, better late than never.

That said, Gandalf also kind of...LIGHTLY SKATES OVER the fact that even just possessing the Ring and doing nothing with it for 20 years has affected Frodo. He's not aging. He can't cast it away. He's already caught. Right at the beginning, in CHAPTER TWO of this massive trilogy, it's not a matter of preventing Frodo from being caught by the ring. It's a matter of how long Frodo can resist. He was doomed before anyone knew, concretely, that there was a problem. And jaysus, if that isn't how you tee up a tragedy, I don't even know how you do that. Maybe there wasn't a good reason for Gandalf to say that to Frodo, maybe it would have hurt more than it helped, but I do kind of think PERHAPS YOU MIGHT POINT THIS OUT???

I get the sense that I'm going to be very back-and-forth on book Gandalf...this is going to be an interesting thing to watch develop as I keep reading.

In addition to Gandalf's "Backstory Via The Socratic Method 101" course, we also get some additional Samwise Gamgee in this chapter. Saying "I adore this hobbit and he should be protected at all costs" is not new or even interesting, so let's take a different tack. In the films, Sam's excitement for going to see the elves is...ungrounded. It's a thing about him that we just accept. I deeply relate to and adore the sense we get of why and how the elves thing comes about in the book:

He believed he had once seen and Elf in the woods, and still hoped to see more one day. Of all the legends that he had heard in his early years such fragments of tales and half-remembered stories about the Elves as the hobbits knew, had always moved him most deeply.

This might seem ungrounded, but it's deeply aware of how stories work. Sam knows that the hobbits don't have the extent of Elven lore that exists, but he knows that there is a magic and a power in even the fragments they have, and that captured his imagination to such an extent that a yearning to see, to understand, to know that magic, was born in his heart. That grounds Sam in stories just as much as Frodo is grounded in stories, and more than that, Sam WANTS the magic to be real in a way that Frodo, primed on all the tragedy by Gandalf, I don't actually think does. Frodo is "I wish it need not have happened in my time," but Sam is "Me go and see the Elves and all."

That "and all" at the end is particularly poignant, because if Sam knows some of the stories of the elves, I have to imagine a few tragic tales survived along with the magical ones, so Sam isn't going starry-eyed into this as a bumblefuck gardener from nowhere. There's an acceptance there of the magic that encompasses all that magic offers, both good and bad. Yeah, I'm probably over-reading into this, but I support it at least a little with the fact that at the beginning of the chapter, we're with Sam when the hobbits down the pub are talking about strange beings and creatures and *foreshadowing the ents*. Sam knows that the stories tell of more than just elves, but for him, that wonder is enough to warrant everything else. No, I am not taking criticism (constructive or otherwise) at this time.

Other than a wee shoutout to the legendary "Mad Baggins"--and let's be real, if history must become myth and myth must become legend, I want Mad Baggins to stay alive and not be forgotten--that's about all I have for this chapter. Professor Gandalf shows up to school Frodo and kick his ass out the door, and Sam gets to go see the elves. We'll pick up again next time with chapter 3.

#the fellowship of the ring #the lord of the rings #chapter 2 #shadows of the past #reread #HOW DID WE JUST SKATE OVER GOLLUM EATING BABIES????

[teal-and-cake]

Smol Baby is three years old!

He’s come a long way since he lived in a toothpaste cap.

Still very tiny, but very loved.

#Smol Baby #Gollum Jades #jade plants #Crassula Ovata Gollum #plant progress #succulents #my plants

[dualredundancy]

#lord of the rings #lord of the rings and the hunt for gollum #the office #the office reboot #olympics #olympics on peacock #disney+ max bundle #baby reindeer #baby reindeer review #the jinx #the jinx part 2 #the jinx part II #robert durst #x-men 97 #x-men #challengers #challengers movie #challengers review #the circle #the circle season 6 #the circle netflix #fallout #fallout on prime #fallout finale #podcast #tv podcast #television podcast #Youtube

[ent-maiden]

Just Two Bois and Their Pet Frog

A sad reality sparks a happy memory in Sam.

@ach-sss-no I was certainly inspired by the way you drew Gollum.

#frog #smeagol #gollum #frodo #sam #frodo baggins #tolkien #lotr fanart #lotr #the lord of the rings #baby samwise #teenage frodo #my art #ent tag

[terresdebrume]

You know you've waited too long to change the litterbox when you put in the new sand and everyone immediately decides to disregard normal boundaries xD

#Animals #Cats #Gollum the cat #Bichon #Am politely wait d for her turn but not a second longer than necessary #I'm sorry babies ;_;

[honey-oak]

#polls #jogo jjk #Jogo #Gollum #who is your precious? #Jogo has that bedroom eye #but Gollum has those baby blues #it’s a hard choice

[alfairy]

What the heck is up with the flash movie. there’s no way this is a real movie

#I keep seeing the clip of the flash putting the baby in the microwave what is he doing #also the cgi is genuinely ps2 gollum era bad

[jesseevelann]

He kneads my arm like I'm bread

#gollum #cats #cat #kittens #kitten #baby

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

I hope the cannibalism tournament comes down to Grima v Hannibal because it’d be funny to have it be “man who may not have eaten someone, the text is nebulous, but if he did it’s because his abusive master made him and/or as a result of horrific abuse and starvation” v “man who fucking loves chowing down on people” 

there’s something hilarious in that to me 

#like Gollum v Grima in round one #'Person who loves to eat babies' v 'person who might have been forced to eat someone against his will or only due to horrific starvation' #assuming he ate lotho to begin with #and yet we're all voting for grima #and i think that really captures everything about him lol #grima wormtongue #lotr #lord of the rings #cannibalism tournament