always tragic that adaptions of The Lord of the Rings leave out the bit in the beginning where Frodo is about to leave the Shire on his great journey that he’s been angsting about for years and goes to say goodbye to his friends, expecting them to be surprised and confused and demand answers that he can’t give because he needs to maintain secrecy—
—only for his entire friend group to be like “Ha ha oh you mean your secret mission to destroy Sauron’s ring? Yeah, we know all about that. We’ve been plotting on your behalf for like, half a decade. We grade your an ‘F’ on keeping secrets from your friends, you angsty bastard.”
Frodo: “How did you find out about my secret plans?!”
His friends: “Oh, I don’t know, we’re just very clever and perceptive. Also for the last year you’ve been breaking off conversations to stare into the distance and mutter ‘Oh, woe is me, for I must go on a perilous quest to save the world!’ and we inferred the rest from context clues.”
folks, I’m just gonna say it. I don’t think it rains for long enough periods of time. it rains hard, it sounds good, I’m comfortable inside, but within 5 minutes the jig is up. the dream is over. I think it should rain for longer periods of time than it presently does
Everybody who wears The One Ring in LOTR starts to refer to it as ‘My Precious,’ and Tolkien’s right that is super creepy, but what I really love is that everybody does it, which says to me that this super powerful scary evil sentient ring has a favorite pet name and just, like, will not respond to anything else.
Hey uhh @piyo-13 you cant hide brilliance like these in the tags
look i’m just saying, even as educated as frodo is, would he really KNOW the true name of sauron? like shit, of any of the elves left in middle earth by the time the events of LotR actually happen, only círdan and galadriel are old enough to remember that sauron existed in valinor (not counting old sindarin/avari elves because iirc sauron was never called mairon on the shores of ara [except possibly by melkor wink wonk]), let alone what his name was. so to everyone in ME, he’s always been sauron, and there’s no connection to “precious” in any linguistic sense… but mairon remembers.
no you’re a hundred percent right!! no one would know, and it wouldn’t make sense to anyone except maybe Gandalf, but that shredded little piece of sauron’s souls remembers
Oh, wow.
this is why i love lotr fandom. this right here
so what you’re saying is there’s a tiny piece of sauron’s soul tucked smug into the Ring just going around introducing itself as “i’m babey”
This post has justified every second of every minute, hour, and collective day I have ever spent on Tumblr. It was all worth it for this.
Vantablack™ is no longer the blackest black. Congratulations to MIT.
Watch Stuart get the rights to this and ban anish kapoor from it
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it’s a metaphysical reaching (and also
religious allegory
I guess) where characters say the right words to phone up the author and politely request a supernatural effect to happen
