tolkienisms

Happy birthday!!!

Drop some PUMPKINS 🎃🖤

This is for Lord of the Rings fans. First of all, I respect Viggo Mortensen as an actor. He's great in Thirteen Lives, for instance. And he's clearly a dedicated, highly talented actor. Second of all, it isn't easy to play the role of Aragorn. He's not very fully delineated in the book. He is very like Gandalf in some ways, but Gandalf gets a lot more dialogue and scenes - and humour! Having said that, Viggo never made much of an impression on me as Aragorn in Lotr. There are excellent character portrayals in that film - Gandalf, Sam, and Gollum, in particular - but Viggo's just doesn't stand out. His Aragorn lacks charisma and emotion. It isn't easy to portray a character like Aragorn based on the books, because his predominant mood in the book is just 'grim'! However, while the 3 mentioned above did pull it off, Viggo just didn't. I appear to be alone in this reaction, as everyone else in the world seems to love Viggo as Aragorn. But I just don't get what's so great about him. Not saying he's bad as Aragorn, or that I dislike him in the role, but he just doesn't blow me away the way he seems to for everyone else.

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Happy ✨ Rings of Power ✨ anniversary, my beloved shillmarils 🫶

I LOVE THE RINGS OF POWER I LOVE
IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT THANK YOUUUU TEAM ANTI GEN AI YAS BABY SHOW GO KEEP MAKING MIDDLE-EARTH WITH REAL ARTISTS WE LOVE TO SEE IT 😘🥳🫶

All cows are Bessie, all pigeons are Frank, all dogs are Bubba, and all cats are Tevildo.

IYKYK.

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(well what did you expect? lmao)

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(wow it's so pixelated but iykyk)

Correction! Real friends show their friends all six extended films, Rings of Power, and then give them a ten hour talk on the Legendarium (especially Silm and Gondolin) because all Tolkien is good Tolkien and The Rings of Power is ✨ awesome ✨

The two issues they face are not having the rights to The Silmarillion, only the appendices and LOTR, and having to time condense thousands of years so that they don’t have a whole new cast of characters every season other than the elves. And given those restrictions, I think they’re doing great!

This might be a hot take but asking a Tolkien fan's opinion on The Rings of Power should be a first-date question! You can learn like 75% of what you need to know about a person by the way they respond...

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The Silmarillion paperback

Look at my new precious - it’s an older-than-me edition! 🥰

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My pookies 🥹

I'd bet money that 95% of those hating on TROP have never read a single book of the Legendarium themselves and do not even care about the films very much. They just love the controversy and jumped on the bandwagon of hate. They don't love Tolkien. They just like punching down.

a copy of the silmarillion for 13,924.58

now sis, that price is SHENANIGANS

Celebrimbor and Mirdania

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Elrond held by orcs

Elrond, Gil-galad, Arondir and Galadriel in Rivendell

‘Only I hear the stones lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone. They are gone. They sought the Havens long ago.’

If you see this, post a #castle 🏰

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I love the films so much, I truly do, but EL OH EL at the idea that they are remotely fucking canon and somehow better at honouring Tolkien than TROP.

'I won't accept anything but Peter Jackson!!!'

Ah yes, the maker of the Eyeball Lighthouse. Arwen's perplexing and underdeveloped storyline. The lack of Glorfindel and Fredegar. The character assassination of Isildur. Saruman's death in the films and no Shire Scouring. So canon.

shillmarils, it’s time for a rings of power rewatch methinks 🥰

The Sauron Lighthouse will forever bother me, I fear.

I'M SORRY BUT WHY IS THERE AN EYEBALL LIGHTHOUSE WHEN GOLLUM MENTIONS HIS FINGERS?! DO YOU SEE FINGERS ON THAT TOWER?! WHERE ARE THE FINGERS, PETER????

a man yelling at a group of people watching the rings of power: rings of power sucks. it's not even canon, it's just fanfic! QUIT HAVING FUN!

the most evergreen meme for the tolkien fandom, alas :(

Rings of Power is fantastic. Both seasons.

I AM SO SEATED I AM BASICALLY GLUED TO MY CHAIR

I've watched both seasons at least twenty times over and swap out my rewatches with Silmarillion and Legendarium rereads, which people on here apparently also hate. So here's me vibing in Middle-earth and not understanding one iota of this perception that the show and books aren't fantastic fantasy.

glad it went well! <3