#frodo baggins defense squad

[coveredinsun]

i’ve seen gimleaf fics where they each try to find out how to court by the other’s traditions. and i love those, so i think they ought to be taken a step further. and i think the way to do that would be, naturally, to make bagginshield real. allow me to explain why. ahem. after the ring is destroyed, girlfailure legolas spends two weeks poring over The Ancient Texts and stressing because his one (1) friend who WOULD help him (that’s aragorn) knows jack shit about dwarves beyond the surface (no pun intended) (well gandalf knows things but gandalf is a bitch) (he would just smile at legolas knowingly and wish him good luck instead of giving him answers).

so alas, girlfailure “shit tier ass elf” legolas is left to like, idk, sulk or something in the garden he starts at the Bestie Residence in minas tirith. and after like 2 days sam’s had enough he’s like “dude your vibes are upsetting the plants.” and legolas is like “my bad bro. it just seems i know nothing about dwarves which i probably should’ve thought about before, by elf standards, getting hitched in vegas.” and sam is like “oh dwarves? just ask mister frodo ^_^ he knows tons about dwarves!” and legolas is like “what the shit? him in particular? why does he anything about dwarves?” and sam leans in reaaaalllllll close and whispers behind his hand, “well you see mister elf, mister legolas, sir, there’s always been a very healthy amount of rumors that go around in the shire about mister frodo’s uncle, mister bilbo, and the letters he used to exchange with a certain king under the mountain.” and legolas, who was THERE, is like

#WOAH THIS ENDED UP A NOVEL #girlfailure shit tier ass elf legolas i love you #society if thorin lived and frodo was a regular visitor to erebor #society if gimli was captain of the frodo defense squad #because ‘‘well you see his uncle helped my dad reclaim my kingdom so i’m basically in his debt forever’’ #gimleafposting #lord of the rings #the hobbit #lotr #legolas #gimli #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #gimleaf #gigolas #tolkien #coveredinsunposting

[lady29218]

#frodo baggins #samwise the brave #frodo #sam #lord of the rings #frodo defense squad #frodo deserves better #lotr #tolkin

[sunderedseas]

frodo baggins understanders are superior

#frodo baggins #frodo baggins defense squad #lotr #lord of the rings

[concerning-hobbits]

“Sam is great; what a brave hero!”

Me: :)

“Frodo sucks though.”

Me: >:(

#lord of the rings #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #frodo baggins defense squad #frodo is a brave hero too #and he was NOT whiny #he did all that he could

[cathymee]

I find it unironically funny that people actually believe that Frodo "stole" the credit that was meant for Sam. Like, Frodo was praised in Ithilien and Minas Tirith, yes, but he's with Sam, wasn't he? People addressed them as "Ringbearers", with an s, to imply that they were addressing the two of them, and Frodo went home after the quest and the hobbits were only focusing on Sam, Merry, and Pippin and he wasn't even given any attention— except whenever they talk about how different he'd become— by his own people, but people are like, "Ugh, Frodo is such a credit-stealer." Like, and I respectfully want to ask,

What??

#frodo baggins #frodo baggins defense squad #i am utterly c o n f u s e d af #like how?? #cathy stuff

[remembertheshiremrfrodo]

Them: Frodo is not the hero

Me: Okay sure but he's MY hero so checkmate I guess

#lord of the rings #frodo baggins #FRODO BAGGINS DEFENSE SQUAD #sweet child o' mine #seriously though???

[welovefrodo]

“All We Have to Decide” 9x12″ oil painting of Frodo Baggins by artist Hannah Hallewell. 

I completed this painting back in ‘17, and I’m now selling fine art quality prints in my Etsy shop if anyone’s interested. :)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/708029896/lord-of-the-rings-frodo-baggins-oil?ref=shop_home_active_1 

There’s more on my instagram! @hallewell.art

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[thefangirlofhp]

You know the drill by now...

If the defense squad comes after me, joke is on them I’ve long since been on the run:

“..Having come a full circle, an entire journey of events and heartache, it feels a little strange for things to be how they were. Elain finds herself appreciating Frodo Baggins in a whole new wordless light: how do you pick up the threads of an old life indeed.

But there are new elements, fresh members to stand on her shoulders amongst the variety of grievances already perched there. There's a new steepness to the frown on her lips, a little grave dug beneath her lower lip that she cannot remember being there before. God, Before. An additional slant to the corners, like there's even more weight pulling her lips down. More than once, Elain's poked and pulled the corners upwards in the cosmetics section in a few LED-lit mirrors, trying to figure out how to make her lips feel weightless in their movement as they were. Again: before.

Before what? She'd think, trying to pinpoint exactly when she's begun to feel like her body's been cleft in half, and she's now operating on one leg and arm and half a head. Her divorce had left her feeling a little hallow, sad, and betrayed, but she'd still been her: functional, operating within acceptable parameters, spread thin and exhausted but herself. Now she feels less, or lost. Definitely lost and confused. Like someone's robbed her the recognition of being.

It had been a sledgehammer blow that left her dazed and blinded, and made her defence mechanisms kick in, and she's yet to blink away the haze and confusion and come to find clarity.

He’s definitely to blame, of course. None of Elain’s additional baggage she now lugs around would have existed if he hadn’t worked his way into her life and heart, and now he’s left behind a chasm that she grows to despise more each and every day. What had she expected when she’d let him become a staple in their day in the matter of quick days? With every expectant look on her daughter’s face that she disappoints, a new notch is struck in Elain’s maternal esteem: that she’s to blame for the biting cold of his absence that Winnie’s bemused about and hurt by. None of this hurt on Winnie’s face would have existed if Elain hadn’t let them find each other in the first place.”

—apaixonar, Chapter 21

(Oh but thefangirlofhp what about chapter 20? That one’s better treated like ripping off a band-aid, my sweet summer child.)

#apaixonar snippet #elriel #posts this and runs

[eltonjohndenver]

I just scrolled through like all of December and part of November to find the emotional support gardener post and you have a quality blog and I applaud you for being a member of the Frodo Baggins Defense Squad, aka the Gamgees.

hjdgsajhfgahafg this is so nice thank you!!!!

#idk why i used that gif but its cute so #shiphitsthefan #asks

[lavellenchanted]

I am also a devout member or the Frodo Baggins & Ron Weasley Defense Squad. Sometimes I read the things people post and I’m just like...did we...did we read the same books?

Tell me about it!!

I’m inclined to lay a good portion of the blame at Steve Kloves’ feet because the movies erase pretty much every good quality Ron has and gives all his best moments to other characters. 

So instead of the boy who could think strategically where his friends panicked and helped defeat the Devil’s Snare, Ron’s the one who completely loses his cool.

Instead of the boy who knows more about the wizarding world than either Harry and Hermione and often explains things to them, he’s just a comic sidekick.

Instead of the boy who looked at Hermione’s empty seat to give him the courage to face his absolute worst fear, we get “Why couldn’t it have been follow the butterflies?”. 

Instead of the boy who immediately leapt to Hermione’s defence when Snape called her a know-it-all and got detention for saying “You asked a question and she knows the answer! Why ask if you don’t want to be told?”, we get the callous, “He’s got a point, you know.” 

Instead of the boy who stood up on a broken leg to put himself between Harry and a man he believed to be a mass murderer, he points and gibbers incomprehensibly in fear while Hermione defends Harry.

Instead of Ron noticing the scars on Harry’s hand after his detentions with Umbridge, he’s clueless and it’s Hermione who notices everything.

Those are just the examples I can think of off the top of my head, but I’m willing to be there’s a lot more, and that’s obviously going to affect the way people perceive the characters - movies, I think, tend to have a bit more immediacy and because they’re visual are more ... culturally present? We see gifs and clips a lot more than people actually quote extracts from the books.

Obviously that’s not all but I think that’s a huge part of it. Lord of the Rings does a much better job with Frodo’s characterisation, but so much of Frodo’s journey is internal that it’s pretty much impossible for a visual medium to truly show the full extent of his struggle with the ring so I think where Frodo’s concerned it’s there’s a certain lack of empathy. 

(I mean with both of them, I think it’s lack of empathy with both of them to an extent - we never see inside Ron’s head of truly understand the depth of his insecurities, it’s only ever shown from Harry’s perspective, so it’s easy to overlook. And of course neither Ron nor Frodo have angsty, unhappy backgrounds that can be used to woobify and excuse any bad behaviour on their part either.)

And I get that not everyone is going to like every character, but I find it so frustrating because they’re both such great characters who go through so much growth and only ever want to do the right thing and try so hard to overcome their own faults and failings and don’t always succeed but keep trying anyway, and they don’t deserve so much of the criticism they get for it.

#tl;dr SAMESIES #ron weasley #frodo baggins #thevoicelessromantic

[boromemeofgondor]

One does not simply ask for my location because I put Frodo in his place

Ah, but you did not put him in his place. Because his place is beside the Fellowship and the rest of his friends, where we all stand as equals.

#boromir answers #boromir loves hobbits #frodo baggins defense squad #shitmeme post

[lady29218]

#frodo baggins #samwise the brave #frodo #sam #lord of the rings #frodo defense squad #frodo deserves better #lotr #tolkin

[sunderedseas]

if frodo baggins is your favorite lotr character you are

1.) hot and sexy

2.) mentally unwell, take care of yourself <3

3.) the strongest soldiers for having to defend his character all the time

#frodo baggins defense squad #ignore that i also posted this on twitter #for those of you who may follow me there lol #lord of the rings #lotr #tolkien #frodo #frodo baggins #hobbit

[concerning-hobbits]

Listen... I am just so tired of people saying that Frodo gets so much hate because of his portrayal in the movies, and people would not hate him if they would only read the books. Hard disagree. If you have looked into Tolkien’s letters, you will see that book Frodo most certainly did get hate. Also, like I expressed in that one meme I posted, Frodo is not that different in the movies. They are the same in all the ways that matter. There are a couple differences that tend to bother people, one being that Frodo snaps at Sam more than he did in the books, which happened like twice for a brief moment. Here’s why I think these movie moments that cause people to dislike Frodo exist:

1. To build up to that scene that a lot of people really don’t like- Frodo sending Sam away- because it couldn’t just come out of nowhere. And that scene exists because it was decided that Frodo should go into Shelob’s lair alone, which, don’t @ me, was a good decision for the reason that it is a movie. It’s just more cinematic. Unpopular opinion, I know, but that whole thing didn’t bother me. (I read a lot of angst fics, okay?) 

2. To show the powerful influence of the Ring on Frodo’s mind. You see book Frodo get possessive about the Ring maybe twice in those brief moments I mentioned previously. The movies just add a little more of that.

Then, there’s the other common complaint that the movies removed book Frodo’s heroic fighting moments. Look, Frodo’s not a hero because of his physical strength anyway. It’s because of the internal battle with the Ring that he fights, and the fact that he volunteered to take on this impossible task after he had already been through so much, never turned back, crawled up Mount Doom for a ways...! That means so much more than being brave enough to swing a sword at a Black Rider. Also, movie Frodo falling and dropping his sword in FoTR when the Nazgul were coming at him at Weathertop was loads more relatable than book Frodo’s response. These bad boys (if you’ll pardon the expression) are huge and terrifying and obviously can’t be killed with a sword, Frodo is 3′6, and there is nowhere to run! Can you really blame him? Really? 

That’s a few points I’ve got for now, anyway. But here’s my last one- in the books, while you can sort of imagine, you can’t actually see Frodo- you can’t actually see what he looks like when he’s in pain, or exhausted, or sad, and you can’t hear it when he screams. You can in the movies... so you either see a “whiny” failure, or a hero that kept going no matter what happened to him, and didn’t truly fail because he did all he could before he was overpowered.

#lord of the rings #frodo baggins #frodo baggins defense squad

[remembertheshiremrfrodo]

Y’know, it’s okay if people don’t like Frodo. I get it. We all have that one character, right?

But what I’m saying is that a lot of the reasons that many people hate him are the same reasons that real soft-spoken, easygoing, self-sacrificing people can tend to be treated so poorly in society. Trust me, this is a dangerous world for a soft heart. If you’re gentle you’re weak, if you don’t like conflict you’re a coward, if you suffer in silence for so long and speak up once then you’re whiny. 

I respect others’ (respectful) opinions, but at the end of the day, Frodo hate gets to me so badly because the “flaws” so many people see in him are the things I’d like to see as strengths in myself. 

#lord of the rings #frodo baggins #frodo baggins defense squad #this is a pretty easygoing fandom in general #but this conflict #this one gets me

[welovefrodo]

Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Frodo Baggins Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring Original Fine Art Print by Hannah Hallewell. 10x10 Prints available!

I completed this original 12x12 oil painting on canvas this month. There’s more on my instagram! @hallewell.art

 https://etsy.me/2Lq2hEV

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