#lotr hope

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

I don't know how to say this well, but. Frodo looks naive for trusting Smeagol, taking him in, keeping him around even when he was doing really suspicious things. But i actually think that's a manifestation of some of the core themes of the book.

Frodo isn't naive. He is aware, more than anyone else, of the kind of treacherous pull the Ring has on Smeagol. And yet he doesn't kill Smeagol. And his decision to spare the creature's life is a manifestation of the kind of hope that lives at the heart of Lord of the Rings.

Frodo doesn't kill Smeagol because he hopes, he wants to believe, that there's still good in him; he doesn't kill Smeagol because he wants to believe that there's still good inside himself. However improbable it seemed that Smeagol wouldn't betray them, Frodo hoped he would keep his word and behaved as though he was sure of it.

And that is what Lord of the Rings is about. It's not just hope against overwhelming odds, it's also hope manifest as placing trust in others when you might get burned. It's about the bravery of doing something--anything!--without knowing whether it will work out in the end. It's about finding reasons inside yourself for taking a step into the dark. It's about finding common humanity (don't be pedantic lol).

Hope isn't naivety as much as it is tolerance for personal risk in pursuit of something more important than yourself.

Where's that "estel vs amdir" post

#lord of the rings #lotr frodo #frodo baggins #this is a frodo stan account #estel vs amdir #lotr hope #hopepunk #smeagol #gollum

[tlotrgifs]

Happy New Year (2024).

#lotredit #lotr #tolkienedit #the lord of the rings #our gifs #elise #happy new year #hny #new year #fellowship of the ring #fotr #fotredit #i barely had any motivation to do this but since i've done this tradition since 2015 i had to do it this year as well #it's not that good as i've lacked inspiration this year but at least it something #hope everyone have a happy new year and that the year 2024 is an enjoyable one #hopefully i'll be able to make much more gifs next year and give this blog the attention it deserves

[perplexingly]

above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell.

Based on the chapter “The tower of Cirith Ungol”. In my opinion it’s the most beautiful scene that Tolkien had written and I really wanted to illustrate it.

#my art #Tolkien #lord of the rings #comics #I worked very hard on it I hope it’s good 🥹 #lotr

[pelinalblancserpent]

#lumi and i used the boromir death simulator and boromir didnt last long................... sorry mr boromir #boromir #faramir #lotr #denethor #peregrin took #also i hope no one did this before sorry if thats the case........

[maedictus]

Boromir

#I love men in theory and I hope I can share it through my art with you guys #but I hate drawing horseback riding. it's way more difficult than it should be #boromir #lord of the rings #lotr #my art #art #tolkien #artists on tumblr #artwork #illustration

[lady-arryn]

Boromir + purple

(requested by anonymous)

#filmedit #lotredit #purpleedit #tolkienedit #fantasyedit #lord of the rings #boromir #** #*gif #*lotr #i hope you'll like it!!

[kayfacedraws]

study of leyendecker's 1929 "june" from the saturday evening post, with bilbo and thorin as my subjects for this study

reference under cut

#bagginshield #the hobbit #the hobbit trilogy #lord of the rings #lotr #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #i feel shy posting this LOL but i hope u guys like it #my art #ok2rb

[sigmalaussene]

I want them to adopt me

art • commissions

#fist gimleaf comic!!! #i hope it shows at least a fraction of how much comfort these two bring me #they are soft <3 #gimleaf #gigolas #legolas #gimli #lotr #lord of the rings #legolas x gimli #legolas greenleaf #gimli son of gloin #lotr fanart #lotr fancomic #fanart #fancomic #fan comic #my comics #my art lotr #my art

[halftametigers]

the thing is that war should always be reluctant. no one should want to fight. legolas and gimli and aragorn don't want to kill the orcs, they just want to to save merry and pippin. gandalf does not want to fight the balrog, he wants to pass through moria unharmed. aragorn doesn't even want to take power from the stewards of gondor, he just wants the people to have a stable leader. faramir says it best when he hopes that one day they will tell stories, sitting on a wall in the sun, laughing at old grief. we just want better times. we just want to be happy. we don't want to fight, we only fight because we have to. because they are forcing us

#lotr #aragorn #the lord of the rings #aragorn elessar #gimli #legolas #faramir #gimli son of gloin #old grief #hopecore #hope

[deheerkonijn]

Gimli and Legolas' first kiss in modverse. :)

#gimli son of gloin #lord of the rings #lotr #legolas #gigolas #mod gigos #hope tumblr doesn't eat this quality.

[dykealloy]

#the visual juxtaposition between the dark and the light is really... just.... #Luffy's rays of sunshine beaming down on this sceptic so hard it breaks him from his life-long childhood trauma-induced stupor of nihilism. #anyway. #sorry for weeb posting again the classic lotr themes of light and joy in the world that are still worth fighting for really got to me #arc after arc luffy becomes someone's hope and i eat that shit up every time #CJ's op watch-through #im not up to wano arc yet but. much to think about. #one piece spoilers #one piece #op #trafalgar law #trafalgar d water law #lawlu #gear 5 luffy #sun god nika #monkey d. luffy #have you heard about our lord and saviour luffy etc etc etc #op meta

[coveredinsun]

as a rule i really love men with long luscious hair who are also gay. this makes enjoying tolkien very easy

#this exact statement was actually in the tags of my last reblog of elliott from stardew valley #but i thought it ought to be a post of its own #if you saw that. hope you had fun #coveredinsunposting #tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #the silmarillion #<- YEAH I MIGHT AS WELL.

[lesbiansforboromir]

Inspired by the Hunt for Gollum 2 day fiasco (I suppose it wasn't really a fiasco, genuinely happy they came to such a quick resolution, I will give it to them), I noticed a bunch of people said they'd never heard of the Hunt for Gollum fanfilm and was surprised! So here are some more tolkien fan films on youtube that you can watch right now! A friend of mine coalated all of these for our server and we binged them all, which was a really great time and I would heartily recommend.

Obviously, first; The Hunt for Gollum, a 40min shortfilm pretty much entirely about Aragorn, you guessed it, hunting gollum. But there's also a few neat interactions with other characters too and the production is of an extremely good quality for what it is.

Then you have Born of Hope, from the same company as hunt for gollum, this one focuses more on Arathorn and Gilraen's relationship and Aragorn's tumultuous birth. It's very depressing but I also really liked the casting of Arathorn and is worth a watch.

Horn of Gondor is a short 20min fanfilm with a pretty inventive premise, focusing on Borondir's in-universe fabled ride to deliver Steward Cirion's request for an alliance with the ancestral rohirrim to Eorl their king, thereby saving Gondor from defeat. I find it a little lacklustre and it doesnt really measure up to it's concept but the attempt is still admirable and there is some real and clear passion behind it so still worth a watch.

Wings Over Arda is, gonna be honest, my favourite one of the lot. It is an hour long and extremely ambitiously attempts to feature events from Tuor's meeting with Ulmo, to the attack of the Sons of Feanor upon Doriath. It essentially fails to live up to the auspicousness of any of these things, but it is EXTREMELY earnest and the casting for Dior in particular is now just burned into my brain. It feels kind of like it was made in the 1980s too which I just love for a film that came out 2 years ago. It's really fun, give it a go.

One of the Seven is more of a hobbit movie fanfilm, referencing PJ's Thranduil backstory of losing his wife and the hunt for her jewels, but also involving dwarves and elves bickering over unspecified rings. It has the brightest colour pallette of all the films which is a visual relief and all the costumes are really detailed, mainly because I suspect this was made my cosplayers who just had some time on their hands. It's fun and campy and only 25mins so fully digestable, even if it's a little dwarf-ist.

Lastly there's The Peril to the Shire, even though cards on the table I have not watched this one. It is three hours long and was made by a bunch of homeschooled children somewhere, featuring entirely child actors and about Rosie Cotten defending the Shire pre-scouring. From what I've seen, the kids are having a great time doing it, but the audio is also really hard to hear clearly so this is more of a challenge than a suggestion.

#text post #tolkien #the hunt for gollum #born of hope #wings of arda #one of the seven #the peril to the shire #horn of gondor #lotr #lord of the rings #fan film

[mithrandirl]

#and the oscar goes to.... miranda otto's eye twitch [raucous applause] #lotredit #tolkienedit #lord of the rings #lotr #eomer #eowyn #rotkedit #rotk #return of the king #filmedit #* #to hope's end i rode and to heart's breaking

[maklodes]

Me: So, while men are not blessed with immortality like elves, it’s said that their ability to die and go beyond the physical world  is its own kind of gift. The stuff about Beren and Luthien kinda throws a wrench into this, since she could apparently stop being immortal as a full-blooded elf anyway, which makes it seem like the elves just get a better deal period, but regardless, most of the elves ultimately go to the blessed land of Valinor, which is in the far west, but removed from the circles of the world.

The Pure Land Buddhist in my head: The place in the far west is not quite the final escape, but as good as it gets while still being a sentient being. Right…

Me: Valinor is also the home of the Maiar and Valar, godlike beings. A renegade Vala, Melkor, is the overarching villain, but the main villain of the books is a renegade Maia loyal to Melkor (at least originally), Sauron. Anyway, Sauron put a lot of his power into a single artifact, a ring. This ring falls into the possession of the protagonists of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and possession of the ring causes an obsessive attachment in whoever has it, and apparently allows them to live indefinitely, but it doesn’t bring them any real happiness or contentment.

The Pure Land Buddhist in my head: Okay, the circle/ring/wheel-shaped object keeps you miserably tethered to life and itself. The symbolism is a touch heavy-handed, but I can live with it.

Me: The author, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, was a devout Catholic, and while not overtly allegorical in the fashion of his friend Clive Staples Lewis’s Narnia books, many see a great deal of Catholic influence in the Lord of the Rings mythos.

The Pure Land Buddhist in my head: (spitting out the tea he had coincidentally just started drinking) Catholic?

#lotr #buddhism #catholicism #my knowledge of both the LotR mythos and Pure Land Buddhism is limited so I hope this isn't too offensively inaccurate about either

[lady-arryn]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS set design appreciation: ― The Council of Elrond

#filmedit #fantasyedit #lotredit #lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #** #*gif #*lotr #*lotrdesign #this is what i have been cooking up lately #and i have a few sets done already #i hope people will like them #please lmk if anyone wants to be tagged in these <3