so the songs tell us

thranduil by ユエ

“IT IS NOT THIS DAY!”

tolkien meme → 100 characters ↳  [5/100] samwise ↳  hero of middle earth, mayor of the shire 

“So it is before the walls of Minas Tirith, the doom of our time will be decided.”

the fellowship of the ring ↬ a long-expected party  

Gandalf, taking a hit from his joint: Did you guys know that mithril is super expensive? Like insanely valuable? That it’s very much a finite resource mostly plundered from the earth and invaluable due to its many uses? And also Sauron has most of it so it’s now lost to its Elven and Dwarvish makers? And to think Bilbo’s precious gift of mithril mail is probably sitting in the local Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum. Just makes you think lol ...

Gimli, a dwarf who has lost most of his people’s cultural artefacts: ... I’m sorry Bilbo was given what and did what with it

Frodo, secretly wearing Bilbo’s mithril mail at that very moment but only after nearly 70 years of it sitting in the Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum gathering dust because Bilbo had no idea his cool shirt was worth approximately the net value of their entire country:

Lord of the Rings is a comedy

Random Legolas Greenleaf moments: 26/?

my dear, you’re merely a boy (insp)

@oneringnet‘s favourite villains event → The Witch-king of Angmar

Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East – whispers of a nameless fear. 

What business brings you to Bree?

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

“Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold… but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.”

Be at peace, son of Gondor.