carlandrea
'There lies the fastness of Southern Mirkwood,' said Haldir. 'It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling.
:( i didn’t realize that like—Legolas can see his home from Lothlorien. He can see the difference he can see the shadow over his forest from the golden light of this one
We shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually — their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on — and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same — like old Mr Bilbo. But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we’ve fallen into?
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), dir. Peter Jackson
last inktober things(30+31)!
it’s next part of hobbit-landscapes that i drew for last year
inktober………………
this year I drew places from The Fellowship of the Ring :3
overthinkinglotr
Idk how to phrase this but Gay Lord of the Rings and Straight Lord of the Rings are two completely different trilogies. hilariously different. I hear straight people talk about lord of the rings and it’s like they watched the movies in a bizarre funhouse mirror alternate reality
fioblah
βLegolas Greenleaf long under tree // In joy thou hast lived. Beware of the Sea! // If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore, // Thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more.β
is-it-mungojerry-or-rumpelteazer
I will dissect this entry of the newsletter line by line later, but I just wanted to say, the sheer longing and awe in Gimli’s voice when he sees the mountains of his ancestors pierce my heart.
And Legolas remarking that the stones themselves miss the Elves that lived here.
Ouch.
