#the council of elrond

[littleguy-pi]

Legolas:

The entire rest of the council: yeah it’s soooooo good gollum is locked up in Mirkwood

Legolas: um

The council: really that’s the only silver lining. This is a terrible situation but at least gollum isn’t here

Legolas: so

The council: we’ve so much to worry about at least we know where he is and don’t have to dedicate resources to finding him

Legolas: haha um

The council: the elves of Mirkwood never let a prisoner out of sight! Except that one time but they’d never let that happen again they are so responsible

Legolas, tears in his eyes: y’all….

#lotr #lord of the rings #legolas greenleaf #the council of elrond #Legolas #gollum

[gandalf-the-fool]

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[theworldsoftolkein]

The Council of Elrond - by Breath-Art

The main purpose of the council was to discuss what should be done with the One Ring, which was brought there by the Ring-bearer Frodo Baggins，

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[bluebangsthepirate]

people online discussing how the council of Elrond is a difficult chapter to get through but i’m loving it. truly just a big gossip session, living for the drama. if i were bilbo, would totally just be munching on a sandwich while my friends talk about the horrors and peril of the ring

#bookish #booklr #currently reading #jrr tolkien #lotr #tolkien #the fellowship of the ring #the council of elrond #the hobbit #bilbo baggins

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

#fellowship of the ring #the council of elrond #elrond #hugo weaving #aragorn #viggo mortensen #legolas #orlando bloom #gandalf #ian mckellen #boromir #sean bean #gimli #frodo #elijah wood #sam gamgee #sean astin #merry and pippin #dominic monaghan #billy boyd #bilbo #martin freeman #hobbit gifs #lotr gifs #bill the pony #the hobbit

[winwin17]

Hear me out: I think if Éomer had joined the Fellowship rather than Boromir, his plotline would've been similar.

Imagine if Éomer, disenchanted, frustrated, and at his wit's end with the mysterious spell Théoden was under due to Saruman/Wormtongue, somehow heard about the Council of Elrond and traveled to Rivendell to seek advice or even a means of healing for Théoden. Imagine if Éomer was chosen to represent the race of Men in the Fellowship.

Like Boromir, Éomer is desperate to save his land from the corruption, destruction, and desolation that is pressing in. Éomer feels the heavy weight of responsibility to stand up for the good and right in place of his uncle and father figure who has fallen to some delusion. Just as Boromir feels for Gondor, Éomer of Rohan is passionate about protecting his people, his beloved sibling, his homeland. He has the qualities of a leader, is proactive, ready to step up and be king himself if/when the need arises. And both of them them are action-oriented heroes who take delight in the glory of conquest.

I can see Éomer in the same place of desperation as Boromir. Maybe the Ring could save his uncle! Surely he, Éomer, a noble man, could wield the Ring's power to take down the awful Wormtongue and bring him to justice! Perhaps this thought would eat at his mind as the days passed, as it did to Boromir.

So all I'm saying is that I really think Éomer would have much the same plotline as Boromir had he been at the Council of Elrond/included in the Fellowship. I know you can't really replace the character of Boromir with Éomer without doing some major changing to the whole story, and by no means am I saying it should be that way. I just think that it's simply the fact that Éomer did not know about the Ring and was not in close proximity to it nor closely involved with the quest surrounding it, that his story takes him high while Boromir's story took him low. I believe the two of them are similar in temperament and motive, so similar that Éomer could've met the same fate as Boromir had he been in that position.

#i feel like im just rambling here lol #but i am still convinced boromir and eomer are alike in a lot of ways #and that eomer could easily have had the same fate as boromir under the right circumstances #lotr #lord of the rings #eomer #eomer of rohan #boromir #rohan #gondor #the one ring #the fellowship of the ring #the council of elrond #theoden

[sonofarathorns]

reading lotr for the first time: the council of elrond

(yes, this one chapter gets its own post)

• ya girl struggled with this chapter, friends. there were parts of it that i absolutely loved, but there was so much lore involved that wasn’t described in the movies that i had to take many breaks :(

i didn’t get confused, per se, but there were.. a lot of names and places. and the quotation marks are different than what i’m used to, so i sometimes couldn’t tell who was speaking. and i have a kid who needed my attention so i was distracted.

i want to learn all this lore though, because i love tolkien’s world-building and i want to go on to read the silmarillion when i finish return of the king. @glorf1ndel gave me the great idea to make a character/location chart so i can know who all is related to who and where they’re from, which i might have to go back and do!

• i did like hearing an account of how the ring came to each of its bearers - elrond’s and gandalf’s speeches gave a lot more backstory of isildur and the ring, and even what denethor had to say about it.

and we receive more detail of gandalf’s visit to saruman and his imprisonment on orthanc, what radagast was doing during all of this, and more information about the eagles, shadowfax, and rohan. very important stuff!

• im boromir defender #1. his points were valid! i also love his interactions with aragorn. there’s tension, but they’re civil towards one another.

• i wish we had more information about aragorn’s hunt for gollum. i guess that’s what fanfic is for!

• legolas!!! felt so bad that mirkwood lost gollum omg. i can’t imagine sitting there with that knowledge and hearing gandalf and aragorn talk about how hard he was to track down and then…yeah. whoops.

• i love gloin! im kind of shocked gimli hasn’t spoken up yet!

• bilbo being like okay, fine, i’ll go, twist my arm why don’t you and everyone is just kind of like, oh sweetie, no… but like, nicely.

• frodo’s sense of dread before offering to take the ring, knowing no one else could do it and that he had to do it, absolutely broke my heart.

• if this post reads more like a dumbed down chapter summary, it’s because it is 😆 a lot happened, im still processing! but i enjoyed it and im sad i have school tomorrow so i probably won’t be able to read at all :(

#reading lotr for the first time #lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #the council of elrond #tolkien #fellowship of the ring #the fellowship of the ring #fotr #lotr fotr

[incorrect-lord-of-the-rings]

Frodo: I will take the Ring to Mordor

The other hobbits from their hiding places:

#help he just posted a lot of memey cursed images of himself so i needed to use at least one of them #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr meme #incorrect lotr #ateez #the council of elrond #frodo #hobbits #the fellowship of the ring

[lightthewaybackhome]

...and though all the mighty eld-friends of old, Hador, and Húrin, and Túrin, and Beren himself were assembled together, your seat should be among them.

The Fellowship of the Ring

#jrr tolkien #the fellowship of the ring #the lord of the rings #this is why I keep reading #the Silmarillion #this line alone is worth the work #because I know who these men are #and what they endured #and how loved they are by the elves #i'm not crying you're crying #elrond #Beren #turin turambar #elf friends #the council of elrond

[velvet4510]

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[slechterick]

four nights in a row I've been trying to finish The Council of Elrond in my audiobook and four nights in a row I've drifted off not even half an hour in, mixing the events in the fantasy setting with real life in my dreams

last night i dreamt that i was redoing the wallpapers in Rivendell while the council was convening

#im moving to a new home and my bf & i had to put wallpapers up in the entire house #it was a shitload of work and apprently left an impression on me #and i should reiterate that me falling asleep during a story is like. the highest honour i can bestow upon a work of fiction #as it marks the fact that it has drawn my attention so thoroughly that my normal thoughts cannot keep me awake #to which i should add that 'normal thoughts that keep me awake' are usually things like 'i should do groceries tomorrow'‚ not anything hars #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #the council of elrond #tolkien

[nocturnal-milk-dud]

Aragorn: it makes me feel so much better knowing Gollum is locked up and the Mirkwood elves are keeping an eye on him

Legolas:

#he's about to ruin aragorn's whole day #lotr books #the fellowship of the ring #lotr: fotr #aragorn #legolas #the council of elrond

[archidrews]

aragorn telling legolas to sit the fuck down after he basically yells HEY UR TALKING TO THE KING OF GONDOR has the same energy as the quiet friend whose mom has just told the restaurant it’s their birthday

#he’s like sonofabitch……. #aragorn #legolas #the council of elrond #aragorn son of arathorn #lotr #fotr

[theworldsoftolkein]

The Last Homely House - by Bohemian Weasel

#tolkien legendarium #middle earth #jrr tolkien #the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #rivendell #the river anduin #the last homely house #the council of elrond #council of elrond #lord elrond #gandalf

[ebaeschnbliah]

He then pointed out and named those whom Frodo had not met before. 

There was a younger dwarf at Glóin's side: his son Gimli. Beside Glorfindel there were several other counsellors of Elrond's household, of whom Erestor was the chief; and with him was Galdor, an Elf from the Grey Havens who had come on an errand from Círdan the Shipwright. There was also a strange Elf clad in green and brown, Legolas, a messenger from his father, Thranduil, the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood. And seated a little apart was a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance.

He was cloaked and booted as if for a journey on horseback; and indeed though his garments were rich, and his cloak was lined with fur, they were stained with long travel. He had a collar of silver in which a single white stone was set; his locks were shorn about his shoulders. On a baldric he wore a great horn tipped with silver that now was laid upon his knees. He gazed at Frodo and Bilbo with sudden wonder.

`Here,' said Elrond, turning to Gandalf, `is Boromir, a man from the South. He arrived in the grey morning, and seeks for counsel. I have bidden him to be present, for here his questions will be answered.'

JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Council of Elrond

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[thranduilofsmirkwood]

#fili and kili #dean o'gorman #aiden turner #frodo #elijah wood #gollum #andy serkis #boromir #sean bean #the council of elrond