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camille-lachenille · 1 month

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Happy Stabbing of the Witch King Day!

Let’s not forget that, on 15th March it wasn’t just Julius Caesar who got stabbed to death by unexpected opponents! On this day, Éowyn daughter of Éomund and Meriadoc Bradybuck killed the Witch King of Angmar, chief of the Nazgûl, during the battle of the Pelennor Fields.

#tolkien #the lord of the rings #the return of the king #battle of the pelennor fields #éowyn #i am no man #merry brandybuck #ides of march #this happened today

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southfarthing · 1 year

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20 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (18 DEC 2002)

I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales?

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bloodybellycomb · 2 years

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middle school girls didn't obsess over Legolas and Aragorn in 2001 just so that amazon could give all the boy elves super short hair in 2022

#lotr #rings of power #lord of the rings #tolkien #cannot believe that the youth of today are gonna be robbed like this 😔#birdy chirps

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bioluminesced · 4 months

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historians will tell u frodo was not serving insane cunt during his recovery at the house of elrond but i will refute it

#happy last frodo friday of 2023 #Today its a slay one #with book frodo #frodo #frodo baggins #lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #hobbits #the fellowship of the ring #tolkien #the mithril mail shirt is THAT girl

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nathsketch · 9 months

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No way Today on Tumblr is celebrating The Lord of the Rings, bless!

It's like having plenty of dresses but still having nothing new to wear 😂

Have some old ones, then! 🌱🌋

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#the lord of the rings #today on tumblr #lotr #lotr fandom #artists on tumblr #lotr fanart #my art #tolkien #visual development #tolkien fandom #nathsketch

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todayontumblr · 4 months

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Monday, December 18.

Willkommen.

History was made on this day, twenty years ago. The last installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, was released in cinemas. It grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of all time. It won all eleven Oscars for which it was nominated, including Best Picture (the first fantasy to do so), at the 76th Academy Awards. The sequel to 2002's The Two Towers, and the completion of the story started by The Fellowship of the Ring, it was a cinematic landmark and a pop culture behemoth. Like its two predecessors, the film was widely acclaimed by critics and loved by audiences across the globe. But they were, all of them, deceived—for another film was made.

In 2004, Dominic Monaghan, the actor alias used by renowned German film critic Hans Jensen, interviewed the trilogy's star, Elijah Wood. In these nine bracing minutes of footage, Mr. Jensen probed his interviewee on the matters of the day: losing time within yourself, kicking balls, dolphins, and the wearing of wigs. It makes for quite remarkable viewing almost two decades later.

#today on tumblr #lord of the rings #LOTR #elijah wood #dominic monaghan #hans jensen #german film critic #wigs #when will you wear wigs #return of the king #lotr memes #tolkien #the lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #middle earth #lotr shitpost

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myceliumelium · 7 months

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He just looks so comfy

#art #silmarillion #maedhros #tolkien #one day I will do real backgrounds #today is not that day

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mrkida-art · 7 months

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Prince Balin of Durin's Folk

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spookyjarchivist · 1 year

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while i do have a soft spot for “hobbits age slower than humans so 33 for them is our physical 18” i rlly dont think that’s how it is bc they get to about the same age as humans before death by old age, i also really dont think we appreciate enough a few things about what this means narratively and thematically

tolkien really said no child soldiers, no 20-something year old soldiers, they’re not really adults yet, they barely know anything of the world we’re sending them to die for it and that’s not okay, not when there are other options

he also addresses this with the hobbits specifically, frodo and bilbo are 50 when they go on their journeys, FIFTY, and we can see that they handle them differently than the others. while bilbo changes afterwards, it’s not in a coming of age like we would see if 50 really was the equivalent of ~27, he just accepts a part of himself he’s been suppressing for years, for him it’s accepting that getting older and being an adult doesn’t restrict you from the excitement and opportunities of youth. similarly frodo doesn’t change much either outside of his ptsd, all of his change is trauma, not maturity

now sam and merry are both past the age of majority, but they still grow into themselves in a way bilbo and frodo do not, they mature

but pippin, sweet beautiful pippin grows the most out of all of them. he’s the most childish, always running after his cousins and you can tell he’s not even 30, this is HIS coming of age story, before this journey he’s known nothing of true responsibilities, but by the end he’s ready for when he eventually has to take over as thain of the shire

and i think that this is a really beautiful way of saying something that has started to get really popular in the last few years

instead of being terrified of that big 30, we should be excited for it, we should embrace it wholeheartedly, because it’s the time when we’ve finally started ironing out the last of the kinks in being an adult, we’re growing into our responsibilities and and we can start learning how to cultivate that balance of responsibility and excitement and FUN that makes life living instead of surviving

#tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #hobbits #the hobbit #god i love these books so much #tolkien was so far ahead of his time #like obviously he had some issues #the race issues have had some really good talking points lately thanks to rop and people being more receptive to these discussions #but like everything else aged pretty well #his themes on gender are rarely paralleled even today by shit that passes the bechdel test #which is insane #*noodlespeaks

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fflewddur-feanorion · 5 months

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