#love from middle earth

[love-from-middle-earth]

It is not a betrayal to be happy while others are suffering. No matter what is going on in the world, in your life, or in the lives of those around you, you are allowed to do things you enjoy. You are allowed to smile. You are allowed to think about other things. Never taking time for yourself is not a sustainable or healthy strategy in any context, but especially not when you’re handling heavy emotional matters or working to make changes in the world. Those things are vital and important, but so are you, and without you, that important work couldn’t get done! So allow yourself to rest. To be joyful. To laugh and have fun. You—and life—are both complex enough to hold dualities.

Love,

Rosie Cotton-Gamgee

#rosie cotton #love from middle earth #self care #self love #tolkien characters #tolkien women #encouraging words #positivity #mental health #jrr tolkien #encouragement #lotr #middle earth #lord of the rings #tolkien #emotional health

[grondds-and-roses]

Tolkien really said samwise gamgee is my favourite character and I will make sure that all of you know that <3

#he married the love of his life #had 13 CHILDREN #got bag end #got the red book #became mayor SEVEN times #and went to the undying lands #like my man really won #like tolkien was one inch away from making king of all of middle earth lol #sam gamgee #samwise gamgee #lotr #lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king #tolkien #jrrt #jolkien rolkien rolkien tolkien

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

#lotr #lord of the rings #lord of the rings movies #i started this post because ''may it be'' came up on my playlist but now i think i'm going to start my nth rewatch of the trilogy #there is a lot to discuss about it re: comparison to the books but it's like... #for all the changes they made - good and bad and neutral - everyone involved in making the films *loved* the source material #they all *wanted* to do justice to it and believed in it and it shows #i think of some posts i've seen about how frustrating this modern push towards tongue-in-cheek irony over sincerity #so afraid to be corny or cheesy that you have to tack a joke onto every real emotional moment #like no fuck that #give me sam hauling frodo onto his shoulders saying ''i can't carry it for you but i can carry you'' #give me aragorn gently kissing boromir's forehead as he dies #give me merry and pippin throwing themselves at the uruk hai to distract them from frodo #give me theoden's grand speeches and gandalf's pained expression when frodo says he'll carry the ring #tbh i think that sincerity is a large part of *why* it has such staying power even now #because it is a story you are meant to get deeply emotionally invested in and not hold yourself a little ironically apart from #it isn't meant to sell merch it's meant to bring you to middle-earth and capture your heart and make you believe that the war can be won #with love and loyalty and hope and fellowship and fidelity and integrity and just... just refusing to give in to despair #it is earnest. it is unafraid to be melodramatic or corny because it believes in the story it's telling. #and so it imprinted onto a whole generation growing up right at the cusp of a barrage of apocalypses #anyway. i have Feelings about these movies and their impact and how that mirrors and enhances the books' own impact

[worstloki]

Thor 1 has so much banger dialogue and visuals that are that way because of the very specific context they’re in and I love that for them despite all the tilted angle shots 💯✨👍

#the movie is actually so so good for analysis for a bunch of narrative reasons which is cool #I’m still smitten by the use of colours alone #the way so much is implied but through proper integration into the setting #it’s very evident with the relationship establishment especially and I love that #because it does so much in a small amount of time??? #a lot of the movie is slow but the meaning of what’s going on happens pretty concisely #like oh Thor is on Earth thinking he’s stuck for the foreseeable future and is becoming less arrogant and more aware of consequences #and how he is able to make mistakes #and ah maybe the way I interact with others should be more considerate to their perspective #and there is knowledge and stories that can and should be learnt and shared #etc. #the COLOURS #I love the use of cool and warm tones so so so so so so much #it’s so clever #the entire movie is colour coordinated #forget the camera angles Thor’s fall from grace STILL landed him in a golden desert albeit in the middle of the night #while Loki on Asgard had the blue tones EVERYWHERE #like BROOO #the times he had gold it was when he was in the room with Odin/Frigga and trying to ‘save’ Asgard by killing Laufey #he went to meet Thor when he was captured by SHIELD and things were WHITE #THEY WERE WHITE

[anghraine]

It's honestly kind of funny when people in Silm fandom go on about how Tolkien's narrative is biased against Fëanor et al., and meanwhile it's like

Tolkien: his name was Curufinwë Fëanáro and he had raven hair and limpid grey eyes like tears (also like my wife, a major fucking hottie) and he was the greatest craftsman of the Elves and a brilliant linguist, he made the Silmarils and invented the tengwar and so many other things, oh and he had a great body and was an incredible warrior, and he and Galadriel were the most amazing of all the Elves in Elf heaven, and he slammed his door in Morgoth's face, and you wouldn't believe what it took to actually defeat him but it was really cool, guys, there were all these Balrogs and

#you know how tolkien talks breathlessly about how amazing and beautiful and cool túrin is while chronicling his disasters? #that's not him being unfairly biased; that's one of his main ways of showing love for a character #the treatment of denethor is also of this type imo—they're very different people but the basic type #of a very cool and powerful and brilliant and beautiful figure who falls tragically but with a weird kind of glamour #is SO much his type #i think that's a large part of why he kept going back to the narn and trying to get it right #and it's part of why the narrative adores fëanor so much (gandalf: imagine. imagine seeing his hands at work O_O) #it's not an uncritical adoration but that's because the character's fuck-ups are part of the appeal in the first place #and yeah i like túrin and denethor a lot more but it's clear that fëanor is treated as the middle-earth apotheosis of that type #anghraine babbles #legendarium fanwank #legendarium blogging #honestly tolkien's treatment of his characters sort of reminds me of my fantastic dm #who will create involved storylines spinning off from dubious player choices rather than #a) just letting them pass or b) aiming to punish them #for him 'your choice has consequences... so many consequences' is fundamentally affectionate #and i feel like tolkien treats his characters similarly tbh

[nighttimepatrons]

One of the reasons I like killing Erestor is because him being actively afraid that he will not be let into Mandos or simply cast into the void is sooooo juicy to me. Like, several nights ago, I was thinking about him dying and Glorfindel keeping him company (ofc) and Erestor feels so much guilt for his actions as a feanorian (i think he was very feanorian) and he;s just barely able to whisper his fear to Glorfindel (yes Erestor is remorseful, yes he has turned his back on the ways of his past, and yet) and I just imagine Glorfindel gently cupping his face and wiping a blood tinted tear and eventually saying, just as quietly, that he suspects that Erestor will find Namo merciful beyond his belief.

#sometimes you can do all the good in the world and it simply #will not wash you clean of your sins #merciful mandos #sometimes you just have to think about part of you otp dying i don't make the rules #the silmarillion #mandos #glorfindel #erestor #ect ect #listen #Namo and Mandos are so special to me #I love them so so so much #oneday i will write/draw some of my HCs #alternatively giving him extremely potent sea-longing and the fear of being turned away from aman works too #middle earth #silmarillion #the silm #silm

[hms-tardimpala]

Reading Sansûkh and I just gasped out loud because a character was rude to the point of self-endangerment. SHE SAID WHAT!

(It's lady Inorna in chapter 39. You're a human refugee in Erebor and call dwarves "viles little beasts [with] greedy grasping ways" to their face??!)

#it takes very good writing to get an audible reaction from me I'm loving this #sansûkh #Sloan's Middle Earth phase

[bmpmp3]

i know love triangles are a contentious topic but sometimes a love triangle shoujosei manga will create the best most pathetic wonderfully embarassing little man BUT he's only this good Because theres a love triangle that gave him that character arc. or sometimes they'll give you the greatest gal pal on earth but only after she tries to kill the main character because they both have a crush on the same guy. i understand love triangles can be frustrating but sometimes they are. a necessary evil

#this is about mashimo from 200m saki no netsu. highly recommend its a great manga #i love that the main character wants a sub boyfriend so bad. i hope she gets it #actually specifically. i hope she gets two. i really adore her relationship with 40 year old puppy man hirara. but also #mashimo gets more and more embarassing and pathetic each chapter and i really love him. come on mashimo we can throuple this #im sure hirara would be down hes probably experimented in his 40 years. we can throuple this #but for real honestly i dont mind love triangles. tbh most of the hate for em seems to come from like #fans of ya novels and stuff so i understand. i also didnt really like the way love triangles were written in most ya novels i read in #middle school either. but i like em in shoujo manga i think they can be like #hilarious or sometimes really dramatic and tense or sometimes goofy as hell #or sometimes you desperately want all three to get together. and sometimes it makes the most embarrassing guy on earth <3 #mashimo youre such a dumbass <3 <3 <3 i want to see your downfall so bad #NOT because hes bad or anything hes a kind character i just want to see him dissolve into the saddest pile of embarrassment on earth #awesome character type. i hope kikka gets to see him like this more too im sure she would enjoy it #losing in a love triangle really is a great way to build character LOL

[amethysttribble]

It occurs to me that I feel like I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about Elros’s motivations for why he chose Men but little and less on why Elrond chose Elves. Which is an oversight. 

But what metaphysical, philosophical reasons might one have to choose the fate of the Elves? The immortality and god paradise are enticing, sure, but that feels like its far to shallow for Elrond, especially considering he didn’t go to the god paradise until literally the curtain call. I also hesitate to say it was to have the time to help others over many years- which is what he ends up doing- because that’s so dismissive of the Elvish Condition

There has to be something worthwhile, philosophically speaking, to taking on Elvish metaphysical suffering and Elvish metaphysical joy.

I just don’t know what it is and I’ve never bothered to wonder and still’ve got few thoughts on the subject.

Which I think is funny, and far more telling about the Human Condition, because even in fantasy books, we bend over backwards to try and explain why one might want to be Human and never even question why one wouldn’t want to be one.

#even in Middle Earth where some people don't live to die #there is meaning to life #and to dying #fascinating bit of philosophy #especially if you ask the question #'Are elves even alive if they can't die?' #(i know they 'die' but come on that's really regeneration) #(this question is just like my dad asking me at the age of 7 about my new puppy 'does Walker know he's alive?' of course! - #'does he know he can died?' Of course not! 'then how can he know he's alive?' blew my child mind I love my dad) #I propose that a lot of Mannish language have a third state of being besides alive and dead and that category is exclusively for elves #I want more mannish philosophy give me those Gondor dissertations #and I have also completely gotten away from the question of 'what is worthwhile about being an Elf" #which is very telling #anyway #tribble post #elrond #tolkien

[intertexts]

the firebird is back babeyyyyy!!!

#i LOVE this car shes like the cool hot girl i always admired from afar in middle school or whatever #she finally came back from months at the shop & my brother got all the paperwork sorted out last week... #AWESOME getting picked up in this thing. peace & love on planet earth #txt

[fiendishartist2]

guys what if i want to make my own apollo justice game.

#i need to write a prequel to aa4 pls pls pls pls pls #okay get this: so phoenix isnt disbarred yet and he doesnt have trucy. hes still taking and winning cases #one day he gets a call from edgeworth and hes all like ''wright i need your assistance'' and hes like what for and edgeworth goes #''ive been given the most ridiculous case and i think youre the only man in law who can take care of it'' #so phoenix bikes his ass to the detention center and boom. child behind bars #and phoenix is like ??? hey kid what are doing here. and this kid is the most surly mfer on the planet like you couldnt get- #-a word out of him if you tried. hes kinda giving phoenix the stink eye too but hes just the littlest guy on earth #and phoenix feels bad for him so he tries to get a rundown of the case (maybe edgeworth gave him an autopsy report or smth beforehand) #but get this. the kid still wont speak. he hasnt even moved a muscle. and after some prodding you find out this little dude- #-doesnt speak english (i dont love aa6 but i think apollos tragic backstory can be interesting so we're going w that but taking it seriousl #anyways so maya is like omg this kid is speaking khurainese but hers is kinda broken bc shes not from the mainland and only knows it- #-from like prayers #so you only get bits and pieces of the kids testimony. plus he still doesnt wanna talk bc ''dhurk told me not to talk to you'' #so you start following the new lead but you ask too many questions and apollos like oh shit i said too much and wont talk to you anymore #but now you have two leads: khur'ain and a man named ''dhurk'' plus the fact that this is kid might be new to america since- #-he cant speak english but is smack dab in the middle of california. its all v curious and phoenix wants to get to the bottom of it #for the rest of the case i feel like it would go in the direction of ''we dont know exactly whats up w this dhurk guy or where this kid- #-came from but we do get him acquitted and phoenix is able to save him from the dark path he was heading towards'' thus steering apollo- #-in the direction of law and giving him a wayyyy better reason than aa6 gave him <3 #i kind of like the interlinked nature of ace attorney's storytelling. like everything leads into smth else and everyone is impacted- #-by another person before they even become properly entangled w each other's lives #like how mia faced dahlia years before she met phoenix but dahlia was the one to connect them #or how trucy gave phoenix the diary paper but she's also the one who ropes apollo into the waa. even before they know they're siblings #or how lamoire left apollo and trucy as children and when they reunite as adults they cant recognise each other but they all find each- #-other anyways #i could go on but i think this could be cool yknow esp bc i think the most interesting thing about apollo's aa6 backstory is his life- #-post dhurk. like where did he stay? was he a foster kid? was he put into the system? how did that affect him? what kind of ppl took him in #i just wanna know how that whole thing would have effected him bc like when yiu think about it how did he even get to america?? his dad's #-considered a terrorist. idk man i think its interesting and apollo and dhurks interactions are one of the only good parts of aa6

[love-from-middle-earth]

Regardless of your motivation, it takes time to make any life change, major or not. It’s a myth that struggling with effecting these improvements indicates anything about your willpower, your strength, or your merit. Whether it’s trying to cultivate or break a habit; end an unhealthy cycle, recover from a crisis, or any other change, you are doing something really hard and it’s natural for there to be obstacles and periods where you aren’t making the progress you’d like to. Though it can be really painful to feel like you’re sliding backwards after having succeeded, the fact that you’re trying at all is testament to your bravery and persistence. You are worthy of the same love, care, and support regardless of how much you struggle. No progress is made all at once--it’s the little changes stacked on top of each other that eventually build up to make a difference, and each of those little changes is valuable in itself. A bad moment or perceived failure is not the be-all-end-all of your journey. Be gentle with yourself: you’ll get there at your own pace. ♡

Love,

Nimrodel

#love from middle earth #the silmarillion #lotr #nimrodel #encouraging words #encouragement #positivity #self love #self compassion #lord of the rings #mental health #tolkien #tolkien women #self care

[tathrin]

📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)

Answers for this LotR ask-game.

Ahh okay so at this point I have to confess something terrible: I still have not seen the third Hobbit movie. I'm sorry! I just couldn't do it. The fuckery of it all, especially in the second movie with Mirkwood and Thranduil and Legolas ("a lowly Silvan elf" what the FUCK what the fuck PJ WHAT THE FUCK), was just too much for me. Character-assassination is one thing, and I thought after Denethor I knew what I was going to be getting with Thranduil but NOPE! It was literal world building assassination and I just CANNOT.

Don't get me wrong, Lee Pace did an amazing job and actually seeing Mirkwood was amazing and it was genuinely delightful to see Orlando put those ears on again; but the OuTrAgE that filled my heart at the yeet-ing of what minimal canon we even have for the Mirkwood elves was just intolerable, and while I did mean to go see it, really I did, I just...couldn't actually get the motivation to go before it was out of theatres. I've heard the EE are better (less studio fuckery) so I'll watch them someday! Honest! I just...haven't. yet.

And as to the Lord of the Rings trilogy...man, I don't even know how to do this. In terms of which is the best film, or in terms of which one I enjoy watching most, or in terms of which on hits me in the heart hardest or...? I don't know if I can objectively rank my feelings about these movies even in my own brain because RotK ends with Into the West and I have FeelingsTM about the Undying Lands and Sea Longing okay. So the last scene of RotK at the Grey Havens is a fucking spear through the heart every time and I can't even describe the knot of feelings it engenders, and I think overall TTT may be my favorite but also it has Plot Issues that piss me off even more than the Plot Issues in RotK I think,...yeah, we're going to do this in terms of Film Crafting rather than personal favorites because I'm having too many feelings lmao. So! In order of most-well-done-movie to least:

Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

Return Of The King

The Desolation of Smaug

An Unexpected Journey

#look there are some REALLY LOVELY MOMENTS in the hobbit movies #(all three of them; i've seen enough stuff floating around the internet to know that even about the one i haven't actually seen lmao) #but the ratio of beautiful moments to what-the-fuckery is just so skewed to the latter #and the cartoonish unreality of most of the effects do NOT help #it's like somebody watched the mumakil bit from rotk and went ''more of that but dial it up to eleventy-one!'' and i just... #do y'all know how FUCKING EXCITED i was to see the White Council??? #to see GALADRIEL? #to see sauron thrown out of dol guldur? TO SEE THE WHITE COUNCIL!??? #because as soon as i heard ''three movies'' i knew I KNEW (i hoped) that they had to be adding that it #because how the fuck else were they going to pad-out that tiny little book into three whole movies? OBVIOUSLY with the white council!!! #and then...we got a chase scene in the mines that made the podracing look like it deserved an oscar #and the most cringe-inducingly-artificial cgi armies at war that i think i've ever seen even IN video games #it was like watching galactic battlegrounds middle-earth edition wtf #did y'all literally just make one elf and one dwarf and copy-past them a million times into the scene wtffffff #but i still need to make it clear that i DO love the good bits that's what makes the bad parts hurt so much! #like: does the fact that the elves coming to helm's deep make no sense and also VANISH from the plot as soon as it's over irritate me? YES! #but the battle itself is filmed with so much HEART that i don't care I DON'T CARE #i still cheer at ''no orc horn'' i still weep at haldir's death (GODS that MUSIC!) i still watch the whole thing RAPT and ENTHRALLED #but 80% of the hobbit's actions scenes don't DO anything they're just empty pixels with less purpose than the droid factory on geonosis #and there should be SO MUCH HEART because that's WHAT TOLKIEN IS auuuughhhhhh #and the fact that they missed the entire fucking EVERYTHING about MIRKWOOD of all fucking places...! UGH #DO YOU KNOW HOW AMAZING THESE ACTORS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THESE ROLES IF THEY'D ACTUALLY BEEN FILMING THIS STORY??? PJ WHY! #lotr movies #hobbit movies #middle earth asks

[ruffgem]

my daily uniform in high school was always some version of Sweater Or Buttoned Shirt Tucked Into Pants because I hated how t shirts fit me (always so fucking LONG because im short) and then one day in college i magically realized that I could just take a pair of scissors to my t shirts and cut them so that the hemlines at the bottom/arms actually fit me in the right places.......... never looked back bro all my shirts are at various states of mutilation now but its so awsom........ Im Living Life...... in high school u never wouldve caught me dead in a tank top or any form of cropped shirt but thats because i didnt see the light. its also so practical........... its always 10000 degrees in the school studios and i'm always lugging heavy shit around... and all my hobbies involve full motion of my rotator cuffs okay they need breathing room. So That's The Story How I Became A Sleeveless Shirt Wearer like mac from its always sunny. and the cropped shirt..... POCKET ACCESS! POCKET ACCESS! a long-ass t shirt will drape over all ur pockets. absolutely diabolical when you keep as many treasures within your pockets as i do. anway.......... thats my speech about how everyone should mutilate their shirts if its applicable to them. peace on earth.

#im going to make a fashion blog but i never post fit checks i just describe in words what im wearing. jk #I love clothes though........... not like Real clothes just funny stuff from the thrift store #but i wouldnt make it far as a fashion content creator. i wear the same fits for like 3 days in a row and half of my clothing dates back to #middle school. but i can dream #wow this is the longest post on earth and I’m literally Shirtposting. sorry world . this is just who I am

[rekkandevar]

good fucking god i love dorohedoro so much

#sp #finished my second read through #nearly cried at the end #i love everyone so much especially kaiman but everyone else as well #i wish i could beam this manga into the heads of everyone on planet earth #so they too could know how fucking good it is #genuinely if i ever get a tattoo it's gonna be Kaiman's mask from the front #i thought for a while it was gonna be the gizzy gator but i think i honestly might like dorohedoro and Kaiman more #also the soundtrack for this manga is: #doom metal for the long confusing middle third #and flight by El Huervo for the very end #no strong designation for the other parts #but i basically kept on the doom until near the very end this time #drhdr #dorohedoro

[anghraine]

My mother has watched one episode of ROP and is now waiting for her family to leave so she can watch the rest, since she loved the first episode but (perhaps for the best) doesn't have much Silm knowledge.

She thought Gil-galad and Elrond were being very obnoxious to Galadriel, and we were talking about the "let's get you to a nursing home, Grandma" dynamic, even though my mother found Galadriel cooler and more engaging than any of the men.

My mother: And why does this king have any say over her, anyway? He's just some guy.

Me: Well, he's the king of her people.

My mother: That doesn't make it right!! He doesn't have any relationship with her or anything.

Me: I mean, I don't like it, but he is her great-nephew.

My mother: Wait, what?

Me: Okay, in fairness, Tolkien had different ideas about exactly how they're related, but I think he pretty clearly settled on Gil-galad being the grandson of Galadriel's brother.

My mother: And Elrond?

Me: Yeah, he's even further down, he's—her cousin's great-grandson, I think.

#then she had me basically summarize the first third of the silmarillion off the top of my head #i wasn't pretending to be unbiased but given that she's read lotr maybe twice ever and mostly knows it through the movies #the leap from pj elves to 'so that was the first kinslaying. there are actually two more' was a lot lmao #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #tv: lotr #she was also SUPER surprised that elves are from middle-earth #and loved the imagery of humans waking with the sun :') #anyway time to make a finwëan genealogy for when we watch the rest together #i'm not sure she's fully grasped that elrond is connected to númenor #long post