obtrta: prismaticprince: frodo and sam’s love for each other is literally the only thing keeping middle earth from just spontaneously combusting No, but like, that’s literally it. Gandalf straight-up says to Elrond this Quest can’t succeed by force or wisdom, but by friendship. If Frodo and Sam hate each other even a little, Middle-Earth is …
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mxcleod: marriedetectives: The Hobbit is a story about massive introvert who was forced to go outside. yeah and look at how that turned out for them, friends dead, ring addiction, and your house gets ransacked and sold off.
mapsburgh: One of the key things that got Tolkien started on creating his legendarium was seeing the name “earendel” in the Anglo-Saxon poem Christ. He said to himself “that’s a cool word – there must be some sort of backstory to it,” and then went and wrote the first draft of what would eventually become …
‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship …
mxcleod: marriedetectives: The Hobbit is a story about massive introvert who was forced to go outside. yeah and look at how that turned out for them, friends dead, ring addiction, and your house gets ransacked and sold off.
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reytistic: go outside. go on an adventure. find some people living in forests. watch your friends die. come home a changed person after witnessing the horrors of war.
margareetling: bananaraisinface: J. R. R. Tolkien on escapism in “The Lord of the Rings” (x) “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our …
sophiamcdougall: poorquentyn: It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations …
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