Middle-Earth

“I’d been shooting a scene for the final season of Spooks and I’d injured my back. I had the casting the following morning, I couldn’t get out of bed, I could barely carry my bag. So I took loads of painkillers and got on the train to go to the casting, but by the time I got into the city the pain just hadn’t gone away, so I took loads more painkillers and kinda walked in holding my bag like this and sat on my hands for the casting. It probably informed the pain of the character a little bit — maybe I just looked old and grumpy.”

Inside the passages were lit with red torch-light, and the elf-guards sang as they marched along the twisting, crossing, and echoing paths. These were not like those of the goblin-cities; they were smaller, less deep underground, and filled with a cleaner air. In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood. (The Hobbit)

Mister Frodo? What is it?

Lord of the Rings - Ring Bearers // by Marko Manev

Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life.

Now the Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it, to be subject wholly to it and to last only so long as it too should last.

Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books, and your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow.

But he [Morgoth] was not alone. For of the Maiar many were drawn to his splendor in his days of greatness, and remained in that allegiance down into his darkness; and others he corrupted afterwards with lies and treacherous gifts. Dreadful among these spirits were the Valaraukar, the scourges of fire that in Middle-earth were called the Balrogs, demons of terror.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

in a world full of pain

Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.

excuse me while i cry over the perfect and pure being that is sam gamgee

“You’ve changed, Bilbo Baggins. You’re not the same Hobbit as the one who left the Shire…”