we are homesick for the places we have never known

all human emotions can be found in either the mamma mia soundtrack or hozier’s album

Thank you, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert 12 September 1931 - 19 June 2020

Concerning Hobbits

↳ Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Edition

it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)

What more it wasn’t just losing his friends, he was a commanding officer of a battalion of working class men. All farmers and miners from the same area of Lancashire. He felt affinity for them, but wasn’t allowed to socialize between the ranks due to military protocol and he hated it. 

 "The most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."

I don’t think it was even 6 months later that he contracted trench fever and was sent home. 

His entire command was wiped out in one charge shortly after, the majority of a whole countryside’s youths slaughtered while he survived. Youths who were brave and steadfast, but thought of as lesser than their superior officers while still being the ones carrying the actual battle. Youths who deserved fellowship, respect, and above all to go home and dance with their own Rosie.

“My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflection of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself”. 

i’m not sleepy in a cute way but in a chronic depression and insomnia way 

Sir, please, that’s my emotional support Joaquin Phoenix movie.

What are we going through, wait and see Days of brutalism and hairpin turns

I still think ‘For Frodo’ is the most motivational phrase I could ever hear

Colin Firth is really out here living his best life in 2018, swinging around on a boat to Dancing Queen and Titanic posing with Stellan Skarsgard on the prow and still ending up drenched in a body of water while wearing a white shirt because he respects his own legacy. 

in el tango de roxanne when the narcoleptic argentinian goes “ROOOOOOXANNE” and ewan mcgregor is like “WHYYYYY DOES MY HEART CRY” and the violins are just freaking out in the background that’s the most intense moment in film history

Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch at the Avengers: Infinity War premiere in Los Angeles on April 23, 2018.

Andrew Scott meeting Alfie at Wales Comic Con 2018.