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As we all know, everybody lived after the BoFA. Thorin got a few cuts and Bilbo’s sustained the worst injury when his leg was injured stepping in to help defend Thorin against Azog. Thorin carries Bilbo down Ravenhill bridal style and everybody comes running up to celebrate their victory and they all Iive happily ever after. Pretty sure that’s how the movie and book end.
Cold Cold Cold
Something I’ve been thinking about since 2012...That glamor sketch of Bilbo he’s kept all these years...icon, I love him.
“plant your trees, watch them grow" is such a tender thing to say. thorin’s telling bilbo to go back home and live a long and happy and peaceful life after all he’s put him through
it’s just so sweet that thorin’s last thoughts are of bilbo being home, happy and safe, growing old living the quiet life he loved so much
Another hilarious thing I feel we should talk about more is the fact that *film* Aragorn and Arwen break up right before Aragorn leaves Rivendell……. meaning that film!Aragorn spends most of the quest in an “oh my god my relationship of 50 years just ended what do I even do with myself????” depression haze.
It explains so much…..
Like. Externally Aragorn is on an epic quest to save Middle Earth, internally he’s crying on the couch in his sweatpants eating a tub of the Middle-Earth equivalent of Ben and Jerry’s
Legolas: Aragorn?
Aragorn: Arwen used to call me Aragorn…..
Legolas: Because it’s your fucking name
To be clear I actually love the film’s version of Aragorn/Arwen’s relationship, there’s a lot of Dramatic Potential/ angsty meta you could write on it, but–.
BUT
It’s also like– you think Aragorn has to put up with Legolas and Gimli’s annoying romance antics? Legolas and Gimli have to deal with Aragorn spending half the quest staring wistfully into the distance and sighing dramatically about What Can Never Be™…with how often he sings the Lay of Luthien, basically the Middle Earth equivalent of Adele’s Someone Like You….
Gimli: You haven’t washed your hair in MONTHS. We’re staging an intervention.
Aragorn (lying flat on the ground with his face in the dirt): aweralwkerjwae
Legolas: You’re only 87– you’ve got your whole life ahead of you. You can find love a second time!
Aragorn: I did. Boromir died.
Legolas: Maybe three is your lucky number!
Aragorn, any time he gets a moment to himself during the quest:
Gimli: This lovely Rhohirrim woman is clearly into you. She’s a fighter. You’re a fighter. She loves horses. You love horses (also you smell like one). Give her a chance!
Aragorn: *flashbacks to him and Arwen making out in Imladris while the elvish version of “when somebody loved me” plays in the background.
Can tell Merry & Pippin apart, of course they can, what kind of question is that: Frodo, Sam
Could not initially tell Merry & Pippin apart but made an effort to learn their names & can now tell them apart: Aragorn, Boromir
Try as he might cannot consistently tell Merry & Pippin apart: Gimli
Can absolutely tell Merry & Pippin apart but pretends not to be able to: Gandalf
Cannot tell Merry & Pippin apart and not even trying: Legolas
What do you mean you can’t tell us apart, I’m much taller??: Merry
“I’m Merry”: Pippin
middle earth twitter pt 2
some future husbands beating around the bush with their not-so-secretive gifts ;)))
This is why they fucked him up so bad.
That post of the girl marrying a 5’5 king but it’s Tauriel and Kili
here u go op
THIS IS EXACTLY IT... THANK YOU
Pointless LOTR headcanon of the day: Frodo & Merry both take after their mothers, meaning Frodo looks more like a Brandybuck than a Baggins and Merry looks more like a Took. This is a constant source of petty contention.
(Pippin meanwhile absolutely takes after his father & is the most Tookish looking)
Merry: call me a Took one more time
Gandalf: if it looks like a Took and acts like a Took it’s a Took
Merry: I will END you
Gandalf is the only nonhobbit in the fellowship who understands the minutiae of Took Vs Brandybuck Vs Baggins rivalry & he delights in it, everyone else baffled
Frodo: look it’s perfectly simple. The Brandybucks don’t like the Tooks because they play golf and think they’re better than everyone because they occasionally go on adventures. The Tooks don’t like the Brandybucks because they live on the wrong side of the river and like boats. And nobody likes the Bagginses because they’re annoying.
Aragorn: are you… Including yourself in that
Frodo: I said what I said.
Frodo: now the Bagginses don’t like the Brandybucks OR the Tooks because they’re highly disrepectable but also richer than they are. And as far as a lot of the Bagginses are concerned I’m a Brandybuck because I grew up in Buckland and I have the Brandybuck Profile
Merry: which just means he’s not pug-ugly
Frodo: quite.
Aragorn: this is all ridiculous. Keep going.
Gandalf: Hm now I wouldn’t say UGLY but… every Baggins I’ve ever met has been perfectly Round or perfectly Square… There is no middle ground.
Gimli, baffled: Frodo isn’t round OR square
Merry: that’s because he has the Brandybuck profile
Gimli: so… Is he a Brandybuck…
Merry: ABSOLUTE not
Frodo: slander!! I’m a Baggins how dare you
Pippin: was your father a Round Baggins or a Square Baggins
Frodo: my father… Was the ROUNDEST Baggins who ever lived… A perfect Sphere of hobbit…
frodo: my father was an absolute UNIT
Meanwhile Sam is sitting by the camp fire going: Don’t look at me, this is all gentlehobbit nonsense. My folks have sense
There is a 100% chance that Bilbo tried to pass off his adoption of Frodo as a burglary.
Frodo: *sees Gollum rolling on the ground cringing in pain*
Frodo: same. big mood
so i went to hobbiton and took a picture of my fifty year old copy of the book. no big deal. i mean, it’s in front of bag end, but no big deal.
Okay, but what about this: Drunk Dwarves meet baby Frodo? based on this.
(I know Frodo doesn’t show up in canon after a long time before The Hobbit, but I don’t care!)
