#besidemoonlight

Hi there! I am 99% sure you are talking about a post from my blog, which I was LITERALLY LOOKING AT LIKE TWO DAYS AGO. So when you sent this ask last night, I was like “Oh, I know exactly where that is! I just saw that one pop up again!” and I then proceeded to be unable to find it to save my life. Then I fell asleep. And then this morning, refreshed and full of coffee, it STILL took forever because tumblr’s search is often fairly terrible, and my blog’s tags are a mess. 

oh hell yes! Thank you for this list!

OKAY, God, enough beating around the bush. This has sat in my inbox long enough while I intermittently went over the entire LotR trilogy in my head, and you didn't even give me any criteria for judging this. This is a mess from start to finish. That being said, here is...my top five list of LotR scenes...painstakingly developed by a complicated algorithm which I also developed just for you.

This has better be one hell of an argument, and I want reports on the results. XD

Aragorn singing his coronation oath. fuck, I get chills every time

Frodo, falling on his face in the dank stone tunnels of Cirith Ungol -- and landing on a bed of last year's autumn leaves. he looks up to see Galadriel smiling down at him, extending a hand, the beauty of Lothlorien behind her. he takes it, and finds himself alone...but upright again

I am no man.

the sequential lighting of the Beacons, across all those gorgeous vistas, accompanied by gorgeous music, concluding with Aragorn chilling with his breakfast in Rohan as he watches the sunrise

Boromir and Faramir celebrating after they've just retaken Osgiliath. "remember today, little brother. today, life is good."

Honorable mentions to:

the entirety of the Grey Havens scene

Sam carrying Frodo to Mount Doom while a triumphant brass version of Into the West plays

Sam hauling Frodo back up over the cliff by his bloody, mutilated hand after the Ring is destroyed

"Bilbo! Watch out for the dragon!" "Dragon? Nonsense, there hasn't been a dragon in the Shire for thousands of years --"

Gimli talking with Galadriel

Boromir's last stand and death

Treebeard reciting his poetry while we survey Fangorn from above

the destruction of Isengard. all those trees just...going to town

Bilbo's introductory voiceover on hobbits and the Shire

Merry claiming that his unconsciousness was just an act to fool the Uruk Hai and Pippin being reassured even though he sees through the obvious lie

Eomer wailing over Eowyn's unconscious form and Aragorn healing her while Arwen sings

Bilbo in Rivendell, shaken by his attempt to snatch the Ring back from Frodo, apologizing for everything; Frodo reaching over to grip his shoulder and Bilbo clinging to his hand in return

Faramir's appropriately grim musings on the Haradrim man he just killed

Sam's speech about the stories that really matter

Theoden's death ("No. I'm going to save you." "You already did. -- Eowyn.")

Frodo waking up on Weathertop to find the rest of the hobbits having a cozy little fry-up...on the highest, most visible ground around, in the middle of the night, while they're being chased by supernatural ghouls and Aragorn (their sole protector) has gone off somewhere. "Put it out, you fools! Put it out!!"

the Three Hunters' reunion with Gandalf

the shot in TTT where someone, cast all in shadow, is striking a bell with a hammer and the light of the morning sun shines through the gap between arm and hammer with each stroke

"You will suffer me."

nice, Billie Holliday!

For years he was the only slightly younger than middle aged campus cop and he once went on a date with s recently graduated alum

Now there’s one younger cop, we call that one Stringbean 

YIKES

your response to the existence of gated communities is fair and accurate

besidemoonlight replied to your post “11:50am, 8/19/2020: Thus far an uneventful day. Watched an old Barbie...”

What a lovely bunch they are in the gated community >:[                    

Thank you, Alli!!

7. What do you enjoy daydreaming about most?

My usual go-to is whatever story I’m thinking about writing at the moment! It’s like writing but less intensive and can be done as I’m trying to fall asleep. Now that’s what I call multi-tasking. XD

13. What’s your ideal summer aesthetic?

Summer ball games or being on the water, lots of fresh fruit, sitting around a fire at night with the smell of citronella in your nose and fireflies all around you. Opening the windows and the way the house smells so good. Early mornings and lingering sunsets. The way the night sky looks -- soft, almost. Lying back in the grass, listening to the birds, watching the sunlight in the leaves over your head (what a lovely shade of green that is). The silky feeling of dust on bare feet. Feeling strong and young and invincible, tempered by heat, and laughing for joy about it.

17. What is something you own that is important to you? What makes it so important?

I’m going to try to think of an answer I’ve never given before...

Oh, I have a rock I took from G______ Gulch!! You maybe remember, we all climbed that big hill with all the mining stuff set into it but I don’t think anyone else made it all the way to the top (or at least I got there first). I took a rock from up there.