"I wish the ring had never come to me, I wish none of this had happened.“ “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that’s been given us.”
The world is changing. Who now has the strength to stand against armies of Isengard and Mordor? To stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman and the union of the two towers. Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Dir. Peter Jackson DP Andrew Lesnie
I looked into your future and I saw death. But there is also life. You saw there was a child, you saw my son! That future is almost gone. But it is not lost. Nothing is certain. Some things are certain. If I leave him now, I will regret it forever. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson
Then Aragorn took the crown and held it up and said:
‘Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’
Ambar-metta!’
And those were the words that Elendil spoke when he came up out of the Sea on
the wings of the wind: ‘Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In
this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.’
I love this scene (though I like the book version even better) and I love Elendil’s words. Then a while back I read someone’s observation about how they don’t hear it in a proud, kingly voice (when Elendil says it) but rather defeated, and how it seems to show acceptance of his loss and a promise that his line isn’t going to try and recreate Númenor or reach the Blessed Realm and… that makes it even more amazing.
Let me also use this chance to pimp Tolkien’s original calligraphy (?) of the second line, sinome maruvan…. because it’s so completely different from the aesthetics of movie Gondor. I love it. (I also love the movie aesthetics, but it’s still exciting to see this completely different style!)
(Also, I can barely read Tengwar without vowel marks, I AM SUCH A FAILURE)
TL;DR I am obsessed with this line and love everything about it
i just watched season 2 episode 1 of the queer eye (it’s the first episode i’ve seen) and it has me in tears. the message of unconditional love and what true faith looks like hit so close to home. no matter my sexuality, i am a child of God and He loves me more than i can imagine. nothing can change how much He loves me.
true Christian faith reflects Jesus and His unconditional love for all members of society in both words and actions. i prayed for years that God would give me the strength to stop, like, interacting with queer media because i felt that i was committing sin. eventually as i started coming to terms with my bisexuality this last year that prayer became God please tell me that what i am isn’t a sin in Your eyes.
but God You made me this way. you knit me together in my mother’s womb. you know exactly how my life is going to play out and you knew my name before the earth was created. i may be broken by the Fall and stained with sin, but God You sent Your Son and completely redeemed me. im completely overwhelmed by the magnitude of that. Jesus thank you for Your sacrifice on the cross.
i can have peace knowing that i am Your child and that i am fearfully and wonderfully made. Jesus You are my lord and savior. I can never live up to the perfect standard that You set but because of You I don’t have to.
ok so, for people who have seen the LOTR films but not read the book I’d like to share some things that are 100% canon:
– Sam Gamgee uses the word ‘boner’. In a song. Several times.
– he also writes a poem that contains the phrase ‘golden showers’. (this is actually in the extended cut but they changed it to ‘silver showers’)
– at one point after he’s defeated Saruman steals Merry’s weed & runs away
– Denethor has actual mindreading powers
– so does Faramir (but he’s a nice person so they manifest more as heightened empathy)
– Gandalf ALSO has mindreading powers but for entirely different reasons. he reads Frodo’s mind while he’s sleeping at one point, casually reveals this to Frodo, and Frodo’s just like ‘huh neat’
– rather than bravely drawing the orcs away from Frodo like in the film, in the book Merry and Pippin just kind of, panic, bolt into the woods, and run directly into the orcs’ arms.
– Merry then draws his sword and hacks a bunch of orc hands off
– Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli name themselves ‘the three hunters’ before setting off to rescue Merry and Pippin because they are dorks
– they also improvise a whole song about how much they loved Boromir
– Aragorn does not initially tell the hobbits he’s a friend of Gandalf bcos he wanted them to like him for who he is. im not kidding. he openly admits to this.
– i feel like this is fairly well known but, if you didn’t know Frodo is 50 years old and looks 33
– hobbits PROBABLY age different to humans so looking 33 in practice means he looks about 21
– in accordance with the above Pippin is the equivalent of a 16-17 year old human
– Pippin can pass for a human child and looks like ‘a boy of nine summers’
– this isn’t that weird i just think it’s really cute: Pippin has 3 older sisters and their names are Pearl, Pimpernel and Pervinca.
– Sam & Rosie have 13 children. One of them is called Goldilocks.
– Frodo has another best friend. His name is Fatty. He stayed behind in the Shire to cover for Frodo’s absence and ends up getting jailed for months by Saruman’s forces.
– Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, who steals spoons, is also jailed by Saruman. (She whacked one of his goons with an umbrella.)
– Grima Wormtongue MAY have eaten an entire hobbit
– Saruman invades the Shire and turns it into a communist hell police state.
– the whole Tom Bombadil thing is common knowledge but if you haven’t read the book i guarantee you he is weirder than you think.
– to give just 2 examples: 1) the whole tom bombadil arc provides the explanation as to how Eowyn and Merry were able to dispatch the Witch King
– and 2) for unknown reasons sleeping in his house causes everyone to have horrible nightmares… EXCEPT for Sam who has a peaceful and dreamless night. no explanation offered for any of this.
considering that Pippin’s dad is named Paladin, you fucking know he claimed the right to name each and every one of his children and his poor wife just begged him to choose a different letter to start with
also aragorn openly admitting to being fucking lonely and just wanting friends is treated like a weirdly funny joke in the book by the way that some of the hobbits react to it, and frodo also proceeds very soon after to basically tell aragorn that he’s pretty foul-looking but seems a good guy
yes to the above & a small correction + one i forgot:
– Merry does in fact gift Saruman the weed. It’s the bag it’s in that Saruman steals and runs off with. (also give that Merry stole the weed from Saruman’s personal supply in the first place i can’t say i blame him)
– Aragorn literally has magical healing powers. i don’t think they ever explain this in the films but he does very much have healing powers.
Aowyn Tumblr Backup 