Tumgik
#cirith ungol
whiteladyofithilien · 3 months
Text
I truly think that the greatest of all of Samwise Gamgee's great deeds is the mortal blows to Shelob. Shelob the spawn of Ungoliant. Ungoliant who destroyed the trees in Valinor at Morgoth's bidding. This deed ranks above even Gandalf's slaying of the Balrog as far as sheer badassery goes.
Here is this little Hobbit who's spent his life gardening and just admiring elves as a thing in songs and far above him doing a deed so great that any elf lord in all the history of Arda would bow to him for it. The orcs thought there was a mighty elf warrior in the passage and they weren't too far off. Any ancient hero of elven lore would have ranked slaying the spawn of Ungoliant as one if not the greatest of his achievements.
There may be no more amazing deed of heroism in all the trilogy than this. Shelob the last descendant of the most foul of all creatures brought down by Samwise Gamgee. It's even more epic than Eowyn and Merry slaying the Witch-King for this is a remnant of a far more ancient evil. An evil that never was anything but evil. No tragic seduction by the Dark Lord here. Just the spawn of the light eating wholly evil giant spider who terrified even Morgoth.
419 notes · View notes
autistook · 15 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
March 14th - Samwise saves Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol
'Frodo! Mr. Frodo, my dear!' cried Sam, tears almost blinding him. 'It's Sam, I've come!' He half lifted his master and hugged him to his breast. Frodo opened his eyes. 'Am i still dreaming?' he muttered. 'But the other dreams were horrible.' 'You're not dreaming at all, Master,' said Sam. 'It's real. It's me. I've come.'
169 notes · View notes
ufotomorrow · 1 year
Photo
Tumblr media
two towers
690 notes · View notes
coopsgirl · 16 days
Text
This day in Middle Earth history: March 13, TA 3019
Frodo captured by the Orcs of Cirith Ungol. The Pelennor is overrun. Faramir is wounded. Aragorn reaches Pelargir and captures the fleet. Theoden in Druadan Forest.
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
21 notes · View notes
gandalf-the-fool · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media
24 notes · View notes
davey-dammit · 6 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Back and front of my vest that I painted a few years back.
36 notes · View notes
bigfatsocialist · 1 year
Text
This did pretty well on my TikTok so I thought I'd share it here :)
Also before anyone @s me I know Frodo speaks Elvish in the books, this was a dig at the movies
207 notes · View notes
anipologist · 1 year
Text
Just thinking about Galadriel giving Frodo the phial with Earendil's light in it.
Galadriel whose brother once fought Sauron and died in the dark giving Frodo who is setting out to the heart of Sauron's power the light of Silmaril that Beren and Finrod set off to rescue; that Beren and Luthien recovered from the heart of Morgoth's power against all the odds because Finrod and his faithful ten kept Beren alive long enough for Luthien to rescue him.
That phial that protects them from the spawn of Ungoliant who once desired to consume all light and especially that of the Silmarils. The phial that Sam uses to help rescue Frodo and baffle the Watchers of a dark tower that was once good but had been taken and turned to evil by Sauron like Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
402 notes · View notes
lesbiansforboromir · 1 year
Text
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master’s, ceased to trouble him. The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 2, The Land of Shadow
Actually it occurs to me now, as it has many times when reading Sam’s specific point of view in Mordor, that this is one of the most revelatory passages in regards to the point of many of the other narratives within LotR. And honestly I say this as both praise and scorn. Because yes, this is a beautiful passage, and it’s language inspires almost unheeding of it’s specific meaning. The high beauty and passing shadow means as many things as the number of people that read of them. 
But I’m afraid I will once again make this about christian religion AND Denethor AND Boromir so sorry. (not really) 
Here, defiance is framed as selfish. When Sam is exhausted at the top of the tower of Cirith Ungol, hopelessly lost, surrounded by death and darkness, he sings just for the sake of adding something beautiful into that terrible place. He is defying the darkness around him. But, as this passage tells us, this is apparently not an un-complicatedly good or even neutral act. Instead, Sam should not have even worried for the darkness to begin with. His fate, and the fate of the things he loves, should not have troubled him, because in the face of the untouchable light and high beauty, none of it really matters apparently. 
Obviously in this universe high and beautiful things and celestial lights are holy, they are divine, so the meaning is clear; ‘No matter what happens to you, so long as Eru is on his throne, nothing is wrong with the world and you should not even begrudge the pain and suffering levied upon you and your loved ones, it will all turn out right in the end.’
This is a very Christian sentiment and it spotlights the specific ‘sin’ Denethor AND Boromir are committing within the morality of the books. Because Denethor and Boromir are concerned with the things they love and their suffering. Boromir himself is apathetic about the high beauty and Eru’s rightness and elves and the divine blood he and Aragorn carry. His whole motive is to protect his people, he does not care about whether the actions he takes in their defense could be considered a challenge or an affront to Eru (as the Ring is an instrument by which Sauron seeks to challenge Eru’s divine right to the throne of the world, and therefore using it is inherently blasphemous.) To Boromir, if he is working towards the safety of his city, his people, his family, then he is content that he is serving as he should be. Boromir is, in essentials, the agnostic of this story.
Denethor, on the other hand, DOES have a relationship with this high beauty, albeit a very complex one. He has loved the divine light, he is a member of the faithful, he has kept to their ways and loved as they have loved his whole life.  He is even much more circumspect about using the Ring as well, favouring just keeping it safe and out of Saurons hands. He wants to be good. And that has destroyed him. It has taken all things he has ever loved from him, this eternal defence and embattlement against The One Who Would Be God to champion Eru. Boromir literally died on a quest because of a divinely ordained dream, his son! And here is Gandalf, the closest thing to an angel middle-earth has, a divine messenger, here to tell him what else he has to sacrifice and how he mustn’t begrudge Boromir’s loss anyway. 
Denethor is ultimately defiant against the darkness, he wants to protect his people, he oversees everything from the large to the small, he barely sleeps, he has dauntless will and resolve to protect Gondor and it is because of him that Gondor survives at all. But to the narrative, that is still a selfish motive. In the end the only thing he can think of to save himself and the son he loves from more suffering is to die. But suicide is a sin, Denethor ‘does not have the authority to order the hour of his own death’ as Gandalf says. It is another blasphemous act, because Denethor has LOST faith, one might say he has lost the perspective of the high beauty and his own insignificance. Denethor in fact now believes that the lives and peace of his sons ARE more important to him than God. So Denethor represents a man who, through the trials of the world, LOSES faith. 
And then there is Faramir, THE faithful one. He is the one his family must be compared too, caring for his people to an extent, but firmly reinforcing the fact that, ‘I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory.’ A sentiment he reinforces when Denethor challenges him about it, ‘Ever your desire is to appear lordly and generous as a king of old, gracious, gentle. That may well befit one of high race, if he sits in power and peace. But in desperate hours gentleness may be repaid with death.’ [-] ‘But not with your death only, Lord Faramir: with the death also of your father, and of all your people, whom it is your part to protect now that Boromir is gone.’ And Faramir says ‘so be it’, Faramir loves God more than he loves his people or his family, he is willing to let all of them suffer and die in order to keep faith with Him, and the story rewards him for it with the life and peace his brother and father were never allowed.
And technically both Denethor and Boromir as apostates are treated quite gently and sympathetically by the narrative in comparison to much christian dogma. Boromir and Denethor are still allowed their nobility and valour and good intentions, but in the end they are pitiable figures to the wider morality of the tale. They have loved people too much and God too little and through it have lost that perspective that the faithful believe is necessary to pass through the world properly. Neither of them could lie down and let ‘for a moment, their own fate, and even their loved one’s, cease to trouble them’. 
And that! Is literally why they’re my favourite characters, I too love people more than God, even in the face of a fathomless eternity. If I were given the choice to save people from terrible suffering in their short lives at the cost of defying God’s right to the throne of the world, I would also take it. Mutable things that do not last are just as divinely important as eternity. I will not wait till I’m dead to give my full love to things and neither did Denethor or Boromir!!!
290 notes · View notes
albumarchives · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
Cirith Ungol | King of the Dead (1984)
222 notes · View notes
elvencantation · 6 months
Text
i am desperately searching for that one post where someone reminds us of a lotr book scene that didn’t make it into the movies where sam’s lost frodo in cirith ungol (i think?) and he starts singing and finds frodo cause he chimes in?
the amount of different variations for country roads and cirith ungol and frodo and sam i’ve tried to search have come to naught 😭
27 notes · View notes
junkyardromeo · 21 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
ratt flyer compilation
8 notes · View notes
velvet4510 · 4 days
Text
8 notes · View notes
gnomescarfcomics · 1 year
Photo
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Middle-earth shots of the week
56 notes · View notes
rptv-tolkien · 9 months
Text
Tumblr media
Cirith Ungol / Minas Morgul
by The Brothers Hildebrandt
28 notes · View notes
sweetmaggie · 3 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
"How much do you cry every time you read these chapters?" "Yes."
9 notes · View notes