Aurë entuluva

apparently i’m a millennial woman

I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the “grimdark” and “gritty” settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it

It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassion—for our friends, for our families, for the strangers we’ve never even met—that will save us in the end.

Underutilized bit in LOTR, I feel, is how deeply out of his depth Boromir is within the Fellowship.

And by that I don't mean that he's the weakest or the stupidest or any of that, but rather that –against all appearances– he is the sole member of the Fellowship who is a Regular Normal Human, and he would have such a shocker slowly figuring all that out over the course of their journey. I mean:

Even just remembering stuff off the top of my head, Boromir must have had such a weird time adjusting to being the only normal human being among the Fellowship before he, y'know. Died.

(Plus I can totally imagine Merry and Pippin giving him shit for "Well, if you're the only normal one amongst nearly a dozen people, then that's not very 'normal', is it? Maybe Men are the odd ones out and everybody else is normal.")

the daughters of king maekar and dyanna dayne, princess daella and princess rhae

all sorts of echoes in these caverns

SIGOURNEY WEAVER as ELLEN RIPLEY Alien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

Feanorian Week Day Five- the Works of Curufin

ALL HAIL THE QUEEN

guardian angels are born from tragedy.

This was inspired by a dream I had where a school had been cursed and was haunted by dangerous entities (and subsequently abandoned).

Would-be urban explorers were warded off by the spirit in the pool. Ignoring her warning and passing by her marked a point of no return

She was a former student killed in the aftermath of the curse, hence the title 🖤

haleth and caranthir

Savannah Steyn as Lady Laena Velaryon House of the Dragon | 1.05 "Driftmark"

hold on. Was suck him good and hard through his jorts supposed to conjour the image of someone who has an unzipped fly because this entire time I've been imagining someone slurping on wet denim

Truly one of the sentences of all time. Wetpilled denimmaxer

ultimate horse girl (gender neutral)

they give me shrimp emotions

Baela and Rhaena Targaryen, the dragon twins

Just saw a note complaining about how The Terror glamorizes colonialism. You mean the show where everyone dies a horrible death from violence and disease bc they are hunted by a monster that is symbolically killing them bc of the colonialism they were trying to do? Which they were not successful in doing bc once again, they all died horribly gruesome deaths? You mean that The Terror? Or maybe a different one bc surely no one is that brain dead

From bottom to top: Turin Turambar, Aredhel, Maeglin, Haleth, Gil-galid, Beren and Lúthien, Feanor and his seven sons, Elwing, Vingilótë, Ancalagon.

Another little thing in FOTR that Gets me every time–

In Lothlorien, Boromir asks Aragorn if he’s ever “been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets,” and promises to return to the White City with him one day….. as if he believes Minas Tirith is Aragorn’s home too. But Aragorn is clearly hesitant.

Later, Boromir tries to convince Aragorn to take the Fellowship to Minas Tirith. He asks: “why do you have so little faith in your own people?”

 Aragorn snaps and responds “I would not lead the ring within a hundred leagues of your city.” 

Aragorn is flat-out saying: “they’re not my people— they’re yours. Minas Tirith is not my home– it’s yours.”

And Aragorn’s refusal to help Gondor is what drives Boromir to desperation. Aragorn was his last hope, and when he refuses to help….Boromir feels like taking the Ring is his only choice.

As Boromir is dying, he tells Aragorn: “All will come to darkness…and my city to ruin!”

Boromir no longer refers to Minas Tirith as “your city” or “our city.” Because he’s finally lost all hope that Aragorn will ever see Minas Tirith as his home. He’s stopped trying to convince him.

But then Aragorn responds:

“I do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall– nor our people fail.”

And just….. the shock, then the utter relief in Boromir’s voice as he quietly repeats “our people...our people…..”