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I Bless The Rains Down In Agincourt

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Aralez || 18+ || they/them
"The most butch twink I've ever met.”
Actor, historian, space cryptid ✨🩰🎭⚔️
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Inbox is open for prompts! || Current WIPs || willing to write NSFW || for smut please specify AMAB/AFAB and pronouns, I want my writing to be as inclusive as possible

I'll give every prompt/request a fair shot, nothing is off limits. If the story isn't there or writing it makes me feel icky, I'll let the requester know that I'm dropping it, no hard feelings. || Warnings will be listed at the beginning of each fic || Titles with smut are in bold || All fics are cros-posted to AO3 || Thanks for reading!

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Hey universe like all my friends (irl and the friends that live in my phone) have been Going Through It- medical issues, personal issues, losing loved ones-

Could you maybe pls cut them a break k thx

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frodo baggins the iconic reluctant hero who saved the entirety of arda deserves so much better than “sam gamgee is the real hero” i said what i said

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thranduils

“Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far.” –J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 192

Let’s be real, at least half the reason people refuse to see Frodo as the “real hero” of the story is because he actively chooses non-violence and mercy. 

I remember some YouTube commenter writing “Frodo is so overrated, he never even kills anyone” and if that doesn’t win the award for Most Impressive Failure to Get the Point, I’m not sure what does. 

#tbh I adore sam gamgee#but he would throw hands if he knew people were praising him by putting frodo down via @the-artifice-of-eternity

some little hobbit child listening to a story: geez did Frodo even do anything

all the adults in the room: no doN’T

samwise gamgee vaulting in through the window: FIRST OF ALL

Hot Take time:

Neither of them is a hero.

They are two halves of a single hero. (No, this is not a joke about being hobbit-sized.)

Frodo is the one who has to bear the mental torture and hardship of the Ring–but without Sam, he couldn’t have. Who is there to offer a joke, a smile, a hug, an unjudging ear, an extra bite of bread when Frodo looks peaky and ill, a doubled-up bedroll when it’s too cold for a small hobbit used to a good hole with a warm fire? Frodo would have failed long before he reached Mount Doom without Sam to cheer him on.

Likewise: Sam could never have made the journey alone. He doesn’t have Frodo’s mental strength. But he’s a gardener: his job is to make things grow, to nurture them and make them flourish. Who is there to give him a purpose as he travels across a land so big, so far, hoping to save his home?

Separate the pair of them, and neither would have made it. Frodo needed the shelter of Sam’s heart in order to find his way–and Sam needed a leader.

It’s literally love and friendship and camaraderie that save Middle Earth. Neither could be the chosen one alone.

It’s literally love and friendship and camaraderie that saved Middle Earth. Neither could be the chosen one alone.

And that was, in fact, Tolkien’s entire point.

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