why yes, i will be talking about denethor's character assassination in the films as a lazy way to prop up aragorn as the de facto hero archetype for the rest of my life, thank you very much

Polish nobleman Thorin rules. Literally.

Frodo when Sam does literally anything: oh Sam

i love how no one died in the hobbit and thorin & bilbo got married and rebuilt erebor and ruled together for 40 years and then handed the crown to fili and then thorin & bilbo retired in bag end and then adopt frodo together and watched fondly as him and sam fall in love. ya know.

I love tom bombadil I love the ents I love that middle-earth is full of places that are wild and old and carry the weight of untold stories

Frodo may be Bilbo’s actual adopted nephew, but Merry and Pippin are his younger cousins, and Sam is his old gardener’s son whose family he clearly has a soft spot for and who he taught to read and write, and Gimli is the son of one of his old adventuring friends, and Legolas is, similarly, the son of the Elvenking who named him an elf-friend, and we know Aragorn is canonically his friend as well, who he very possibly could have met as a small child in Rivendell when he passed through, so really, like 7/9 members of the Fellowship are people he can employ weird elderly relative (or the honorary equivalent thereof) energy on if he wants to and I think that’s very powerful.

the fellowship is 7 people who Bilbo Baggins can employ weird elderly relative energy onto PLUS 1 person who can employ weird elderly relative energy onto Bilbo Baggins PLUS Boromir.