#the scouring of the shire

[velvet4510]

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[oldshrewsburyian]

In reaching "The Scouring of the Shire," there's a lot to think about, but one of the things that strikes me most forcefully is how dramatic of a perspective-flip it is. The hobbits have been feeling overwhelmed and adrift and insignificant for much of the trilogy, even as they have worked towards fulfillment of their shared and separate quests. And now, suddenly, they appear as astonishingly and exotically competent to their former neighbors. And seeing how they decide, individually, to accept and use that is a delight.

#the scouring of the shire #lotr lent #rotk

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

Ever since The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield came out, I’ve been desperately craving a horror/comedy style of movie for the Lord of the Rings content that is never covered like:

Horror: The Fell Winter

Comedy: The Scouring of the Shire

#feel free to add on #the fell winter #fell winter #the scouring of the shire #the last voyage of the demeter #renfield #dracula #re: dracula #tolkien #lotr #lotr memes #the lord of the rings #lotr fandom #incorrect tolkien quotes #silmarillion #silmarillion memes #incorrect silmarillion quotes #incorrect lord of the rings quotes

[tolkienosaurus]

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[lemurious]

 A very, very, very belated birthday gift to the wonderful @nocompromise-noregrets

May the muses keep visiting and your favorite characters talking to you! 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rose Cotton/Sam Gamgee Characters: Rose Cotton, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Farmer Maggot (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Scouring of the Shire, Rebellion, The Hobbiton Resistance, Hope, War, Crack Treated Seriously, Happy Ending Summary:

When Frodo and his Companions came back, they would've found Shire barely standing, if not for Rosie's and Lobelia's efforts. Not that anyone was ever going to mention it.

Or: the Ladies of the Hobbiton Resistance.

#lemur writes #my fic #lord of the rings #rosie cotton #lobelia sackville baggins #the scouring of the shire #hobbiton resistance fighters #codenames the apron and the umbrella #crack #but almost could be true

[son-of-drogo]

I just remembered the part in the Scouring of the Shire when the Hobbit cops tried to arrest Frodo and co and all four of them started laughing hysterically. Then Sam told them they looked stupid and said he'd punch their boss in the face.

#lotr #the scouring of the shire

[unnecessarilyliteral]

Redemption of lobelia sackville-baggins is not something i thought I want to see but MAN was i excited when i read it

#lotr #lord of the rings #return of the king #the scouring of the shire #lobelia sackville baggins

[mirillel]

Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

Now that's an unexpected Tolkien guest appearance

#merlin sheldrake #entangled life #the lord of the rings #sam gamgee #galadriel #the scouring of the shire #words

[bethanydelleman]

The Scouring of the Shire and WWI vs. WWII

I need to say something about the Lord of the Rings movies that has always bothered me: I am so sad that they left out the Scouring of the Shire.

I know it was probably a time issue (I wish they had done Return of the King as two movies instead of The Hobbit somehow as three...) and I know RoTK already has like two false endings, which is hard for an audience but I think the destruction of the shire is important to the argument by Tolkien that war is terrible. Also a possible analoge of the experience of British soldiers in WWs I and II.

In WWI, the English would have come home to a country untouched by war, as the Shire was untouched by most events in Middle Earth’s past. But in WWII, London was nearly burned and bombed to the ground, children had been sent away and needed to be reclaimed from places as far as Canada, and many civilians had been killed. Coming home must have been a shock, even if they knew on some level that bombing had happened in the UK. It would have been just like the four hobbits returning to the Shire, they are exhausted, they want to go home, but home as they remember it isn’t there. They have to keep fighting and they have to rebuild.

But that also adds a different layer to the homecoming, the Hobbits in the Shire understand, to an extent, what Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin have been through. They all go through it together (though not to the same extent). Them coming home to a Shire untouched by war makes the adventuring Hobbits even more different than their neighbours. I wonder if there was a comfort, a terrible, unfair comfort, of coming home as a soldier in WWII and knowing your family had been through something similar. In the bomb shelter while you were in the trenches, so to speak, and it gave you a similar trauma to work through together. Knowing that you all can make it through together in some way.

Those are my thoughts, I apologize if I’ve used the wrong term for the English, happy to be corrected.

#lord of the rings #the scouring of the shire #tolkien #world wars #return of the king #I feel like there is a big LotR and Jane Austen overlap #they are both great British authors #public domain in a few years baby!

[lotr-calligraphy]

They rode back to the middle of the village. There Sam turned aside and galloped off down the lane that led south to Cotton's. He had not gone far when he heard a sudden clear horn-call go up ringing into the sky. Far over the hill and field it echoed; and so compelling was that call that Sam himself almost turned and dashed back. His pony reared and neighed.

'On, lad' On! he cried. 'We'll be going back soon.'

Then he heard Merry change the note, and up went the Horn-cry of Buckland, shaking the air.

Poems in the Lord of the Rings [80/82]

#lotr #tolkien #calligraphy #egen #Merry #Hobbits #80 #The Scouring of the Shire #p. 1007 #Awake #Horn-cry of Buckland #the poems #Ine's work

[roselightfairy]

The dads rolling down different van windows outside Neverwinter to make the guards run around and talk to different people has very strong Scouring of the Shire vibes of when the hobbits return and make the guards arresting them walk in front of them while they ride like they’re being driven.

#dungeons and daddies #lotr #the scouring of the shire

[velvet4510]

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[warsofasoiaf]

So do you think the long night will happen after whatever is meant to go down in kings landing? As opposed to the order they did it in on the show. I thought it was so disappointing it was ended in one episode after seasons of build up and totally trashed the theme of uniting against a greater foe over petty politics

I didn't watch the show, but I'm fairly certain that the Others are the final boss - they were the antagonists of the first prologue chapter with Waymar Royce. Now, I do believe that there might do a Scouring of the Shire type chapter, but I don't think there will be a specific Sharkey. The Scouring, per Tolkien's words, was a way to add a personal, moral dimension to the hobbits' quest to complement and contrast with the physical, large-scale quest of destroying the One Ring. A Scouring for ASOIAF would be focused on the ruined kingdoms in the aftermath - sure the Others were destroyed but the lands are devastated. How are the fields going to be resown and what will it look like in the aftermath. Fortunately, GRRM can do this using the tools in his toolkit, he has intelligent characters with political minds who can look to building institutions, he has heroic characters who can ride and survey the land ala Dunk in the Sworn Sword, and he has Bran, who has visions, who can potentially see further into the future without the need for an epilogue time skip.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#predictions #the others #the scouring of the shire

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

The Scouring of the Shire is literally an anticolonial socialist uprising, that's why they had to cut it from them movie.

#I won't be accepting any criticism #Lotr #The Scouring of the shire #Return of the King #clearing out the drafts #post o' mine #Tolkien

[oneheadtoanother]

Random LOTR hot take incoming:

The scouring of the shire is poorly conceived, sloppily executed, written in a jarringly different schadenfreude-y style, and weakens the overall narrative. It's the first thing I would cut in any abridgment and I don't know how anyone can read it and come to the common-wisdom conclusion that it is an indispensable element of the narrative or even its core message. It is the most nakedly allegorical Tolkien ever got, it doesn't make a lot of sense in-world and his authorial intent with the chapter can only be understood in the context of the immediate aftermath of WW2 in the UK. It's like a bad side quest at the end of a great video game after you've already beaten the main boss. Y'all are right about Tom Bombadil though.

#lotr #the scouring of the shire

[spectraling]

Look, I don't particularly like Eddie, but he did make a reference to the Scouring of the Shire, which is objectively a cool reference to make

#stranger things 4 #eddie munson #lotr #the scouring of the shire