Barebacking on Arod

fully forgot that frodo is the one who calls boromir out for throwing the stone into the lake outside moria tho. frodo’s like WHY would you do that! quit it!! & then like 5 minutes later the tentacle beast tries to eat him. boromir’s just there, sweating

honestly the funniest thing about the lord of the rings is how gandalf is literally a minor god sent to middle-earth by The Big Man Himself and yet literally nobody apart from the elves seems to recognise this or take him seriously

like yeah gandalf is pretty grumpy most of the time but how would YOU feel if you were the fantasy equivalent of an angel and a bunch of people who only come up to your knee were just like “oh fuck it’s that spooky old wizard” every time you showed up for a friend’s birthday party

Third thing is that Hobbits build increasingly elaborate road systems to Keep Gandalf Out, which is really the sort of nonlethal enviormental enrichment he needs

Speaking as someone fast approaching 50, I see in Gandalf someone who is Tired™ and while he will not often smile, he adores the quietness of the Shire and also finds great joy in messing with people who take themselves too seriously

hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

love the end of the two towers where gandalf looks into the sunset talking bout "yea frodo had to go it alone it was his destiny and there is no changing it he will be ok 😌✨" and aragorn is like "sam went with him btw" and gandalf is like "oh fuck thank god"

ouagh lord of the rings really did say “it might be hopeless, it might be fatal, there may be no coming back— but it is always, always better to do something, to fight for what is good and true and beautiful, than to sit back and give into despair with an ‘it would have happened anyhow’”