even darkness must pass

What are you doing?

“A shortcut to what?”

But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet, and good tilled earth. For all Hobbits share a love of things that grow.

for @oneringnet‘s objects event

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | dir. Peter Jackson

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (2013) dir. Peter Jackson

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

“By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!”

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Dir. Peter Jackson

I miss the Shire. I spent all my childhood pretending I was off somewhere else. Off with you on one of your adventures. My own adventure turned out to be quite different.

↳ Maps

“I’m not doing it for you. I know that Dwarves can be obstinate and pigheaded and difficult, suspicious and secretive, with the worst manners you can possibly imagine, but they also brave and kind… And loyal to a fault. I’ve grown very fond of them, and I would save them if I can.”

“Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders.”

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)