The Wolves Den

a meme you all know but arcane flavored

When a beloved book gets translated into a more visual medium, you’re always going to have reservations about the book’s imagery becoming “set in stone,” where images that previously only existed in the readers’ imaginations now take on “canonical” faces that everyone is going to end up sharing whether they like it or not, which can detract from the joy of having an ongoing conversation with the story (especially for a book like LOTR, which spends pages upon pages just chewing on scenery).

But I’m 100% okay with everyone and myself thinking that Aragorn looks like Viggo Mortensen, because he always sort of looked like that to me already.  If you showed me this guy with no other context at all:

“Pose for me,” she says, voice lower than she’s ever heard it. She grabs the camera again, her free hand pushing a strand of Coco’s hair out of her face. Her girlfriend obeys, stays still. She opens up for her alone- a testament to how far they’ve come, how Coco lets herself be seen and felt beyond the physical.

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