oh my fucking god
THIS IS THE ONLY MEME I’VE EVER TRULY LOVED
omg this is perfection
The Ring: If I had a quarter for every time a hobbit picked me up, I’d have two quarters.
The Ring: Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Of all the bearers of Sauron’s ring, 4 of them were hobbits.
I was wrong. It’s 5. Not 4
The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.
- Sauron.
- Isildur
- Deagol
- Sméagol
- Bilbo
- Frodo
- Samwise
I love how Deagol counts as a ring bearer even though he had it in his possession for all of like five seconds
He held it for the rest of of his life!
[Image description: Tweet by @banalplay saying “but something happened then that the ring did not intend. it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, the same fuckin thing that just had it for like 500 years.” End Image Description.] Link to original here. Otherwise reblogging for the final rb there, which made me cackle.
From the ring’s perspective:
1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.
2. Well, I don’t like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.
3. What the fuck is you?
4. Right personality, wrong species, I don’t know what you are but I hate you and I don’t know why you’re so resistant to my powers.
5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This one’s even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.
6. Listen, I’ll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesn’t work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop.
7. FUCK
8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least you’re not number seven. Think I’m starting to get through finally.
9. (Smeagol again) YES it’s you I actually missed you now get me back to the Master and NO FUCK NO I HATE YOOOOUUUUU…. *fzt*
you CHAIN The One Ring?! you chain it like the prisoner?! oh! OH! trauma! deep psychological trauma for hobbits for One Thousand Years!
Heh. :)
pomrania asked:
If I recall correctly, you're roughly my age; so, which one were you more into, Aragorn or Legolas, when the movies came out?
prokopetz answered:
Assuming you mean which one I found more attractive, I’ve never been terribly into either portrayal. As far as cinematic elves go, Hugo Weaving’s Elrond is more my style than Orlando Bloom’s Legolas, and frankly I probably would have put Bernard Hill’s Théoden ahead of Viigo Mortensen’s Aragorn; even back then, my taste in conventionally masculine men wanted ‘em older and distinguished.
(Now, Elijah Wood’s Frodo… well, no comment!)
GANDALF FUCKED UP AND EVIL MOMENT!? WHY DID HE FEEL THE NEED TO SCARE HIM LIKE THAT!?
This is so funny
'Sean Astin, the “Rudy” and “Lord of the Rings” star who is one of the negotiating committee members for SAG-AFTRA, told IndieWire outside of the Warner Bros. lot how amazed he was at the unity he’s seen on display, including how miraculous it is that the SAG-AFTRA national board unanimously voted to approve today’s strike.
“Anybody who knows anything about SAG-AFTRA, because it’s a member-run union, there has been a lot of in-fighting over the last couple of decades. That is gone. We are in lockstep. We are as unified as a union has ever been,” Astin said. “That is a testament of how serious the issues are and how narrowly you can interpret them. It is what it is, and we need what we need.”
Astin described the mood the last couple of weeks in the negotiating room as having “a sinking feeling.” After agreeing to a 12-day extension following the initial contract’s June 30 deadline — one that came at a cost politically among members — negotiators felt duped by the studios, as though the only reason they wanted to extend was not to further talk in good faith but to buy more time to promote tentpole summer movies as though they were expecting a strike.
“When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time,” Astin said. “They came back with virtually nothing. And they were disrespectful. We’re volunteers, and we sat around for four weeks. And it’s basic human courtesy that was a little missing.”'
“With the strikes it’s back to watching reruns and old movies!”
Me, who already doesn’t see new movies til like 5 years after they come out and has a backlog of shows to watch a mile long:
The elves of the Silmarillion are missing the “oh tra la la lally” elf energy. I bet the kinslayings wouldn’t have happened if Feanor just had a bit more “oh tra la la lally” in his life.
get out of here with your squeaky-clean, morally unobjectionable stories. no one wants to read about someone with no problems
Tolkien writing the Silmarillion
this is so true this is a silmarillion post now
Elrond be like: I am 4/8 human, 3/8 elf, and 1/8 angel. My mother is a bird and my father is the North Star. My twin brother was the first king of Atlantis but somehow I seem to be more famous than him. I am one of three ringbearers, the other two being the female version of Feanor and a guy who loves fireworks. My foster father is a crazy homeless guy who likes music and his whole family is dead. My many-greats grandnephew is in love with my daughter. No one can tell my sons apart. I like waterfalls and am both a glorified innkeeper and a top-notch doctor. I am the voice of reason no one listens to.
