Eryn Lasgalen

Pippin: erm, that’s Merry and Perry, Gandalf

Gandalf: oh yes sorry, Merry and Perry -

Gandalf: …

Gandalf: has anyone seen my pipe?

Gandalf: Gimli you can’t talk, you can’t even tell them apart

Gimli: that’s not true!

Gandalf: alright, then. which is which?

Gimli: …

Merry & Pippin: …

Gimli: -_-

Merry & Pippin: ??

Gimli: *points tentatively at Pippin* …Merry?

Legolas: So you have become fast friends with MerryAndPippin.

Faramir: I mean really just Pippin but I’m learning more about Merry every day!

Legolas: Thank you for protecting MerryAndPippin during the battle of Gondor.

Eowyn: You mean Merry? Just Merry.

Pippin: Hey Legolas!

underappreciated characters:

Merry and Pippin have a disagreement over, idk, whether cake or pie is better and both draw their swords like ‘HAVE AT THEE’ 

Boromir: hey Frodo wake up we need to talk-

Sam: he’s having his nap sir

Boromir: Sam please this is important

Frodo: *sees Aragorn with his sword drawn* oh is there trouble. should i get out my sword

Aragorn: …no that’s alright

Frodo: are you sure it’s no trouble

Aragorn: Frodo if i want you to draw your sword I’ll. I’ll say so alright

Sam: *does not let go*

Boromir: *pulls harder*

Sam: *still does not let go*

Boromir: *holding sword like 6 feet up in the air w Sam dangling off it* um

The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began

MIDDLE-EARTH + Scenery [PartⅤ] THE HOBBIT/THE LORD OF THE RINGS

In the Moria scene, the cave troll goes after Gimli twice and knocks him down twice. Both times, Legolas immediately shoots it. 

When the three of them are chasing after Merry and Pippin, Legolas constantly looks behind him to make sure Gimli is still there.

Obviously he threatens to kill Eomer for threatening Gimli.

He kills the warg that was going after Gimli. Yeah, Gimli wanted to kill it and Legolas may have done it partly to bug him, but still.

It’s Legolas that Gimli wants to stay close to when they’re in the Paths of the Dead.

Frodo and Sam are in a bind. They are hopelessly lost. They do not know this area of Middle-earth at all. If they hadn’t encountered Gollum, most likely they would have wandered aimlessly until they died or were taken captive. So they desperately need a guide.

Nobody knows this place better than Gollum. He knows that there is more than one way to get to Mordor. He knows of paths that the Enemy doesn’t use. He knows the dangers of each area and how to avoid them.

No, he cannot be fully trusted, but Frodo knows that. He doesn’t want Gollum to swear on the Ring due to its treacherous nature, and for quite a while he keeps a wary distance from Gollum; he won’t even let Gollum touch him. Frodo isn’t naive.

The films offer multiple explanations for Frodo’s rationale. Most of it boils down to “We cannot do this without a guide, and Gollum is our only chance.” Yes, there is more to it than that - I could write an essay on the “because I have to believe he can come back” line - but he does not act solely from intuition and emotion. There is a very practical reason for following Gollum, and the films acknowledge that.

and for the first time, I notice this blip down in the southwest corner…

THE FUCKING MENELTARMA’S STILL THERE

let me rephrase

the Meneltarma of Numenor, the giant mountain atop which was a sacred shrine to Eru, still stands above the waves despite the total destruction of the island by Eru.