Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to âdefeatâ it by being humble when we get the treasure.
Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, itâs a real dragon and it has my gold
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Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to âdefeatâ it by being humble when we get the treasure.
Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, itâs a real dragon and it has my gold

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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.â
Ăowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan âď¸
Based on EugĂŠne Grassetâs âJeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes dâarmesâ (1894)
Diary of a Redwall Mouse
July 22nd: breakfasted on a lovely array of fresh strawberries and goatâs cheese with honey, oat cakes and barley porridge. For luncheon we feasted on a catch of smoked trout, vegetable stew, and of course a couple of flagons of October Ale
July 23rd: countless deaths

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@lotrweek day 4: The land
um. guys. not to ruin anyoneâs christmas or anything but a goblin army is approaching from the west
I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.
I Am Not Okay
You have to understand. I watched the movies maybe once as a kid when they came out twenty years ago. I've somehow avoided learning like anything about these books my entire life. Literally everything about these books was a complete unknown and surprise to me. Totally blank slate going on. I barely even knew how it ended.
Holy shit.
Frodo didn't complete his task. Sam literally carried him up Mount Doom. And when he got to the end, he couldn't throw the Ring away.
But for Gollum biting it off with his finger, it wouldn't have been destroyed.
So Frodo's journey saved the world nonetheless.
And it broke him.
It was too much for him to bear. He could no longer live in the Shire or live in Middle-Earth. He wasn't of the world anymore. He had to go to the Undying Lands.
He took on the task that no one else would. He saved the world. Everyone got a happy ending. Aragorn became King, Sam rebuilt the Shire, Merry and Pippin became heroes. They all lived in renown.
But Frodo had the hardest task of all. No one else would do it. A simple hobbit who came by the Ring by chance. Not a King, not an immortal. Not a wizard. No power save his will and his friends. And he did it and saved everyone.
And he never got to rest. He never got to remain in peace. The task destroyed him. It was too much.
But there was no other way. Nobody but a simple hobbit could bear the ring all the way to Mount Doom and resist its power so long. Not a man, not an elf, not a wizard; they would have succumbed. Gandalf knew this, which was why he chose the hobbits in all his designs.
It's amazing that one of the precedent setting works in the fantasy genre holds up so well because it subverts what ultimately became the genre's core tropes. The hero was not the King, or a chosen one. In fact, the hero not being the King was a key point that allowed Aragorn to distract Sauron and allow the task in the first place. The hero was someone unassuming but courageous, who did the thing because no one else would, even though it was just by chance he came upon it.
But Frodo couldn't resist the Ring completely. He wasn't superior to anyone else in that way. And in the end it left him broken. The burden crushed him. No one else could do it, and in the end, he couldn't either. He wasn't so special that he was invulnerable.
I'm not okay. Holy fuck you guys.
It's been a week and I'm still not over this, I'll never get over this.
Something that I've been thinking about, as I struggle with depression and anxiety and *another vague gesture at everything* is that LOTR does not criticize Frodo for being broken. It does not shame him or deny him what he needs.
The task was too much and it broke him and that's okay. His friends nonetheless take care of him and let him go with understanding. The book doesn't treat it as a bad thing.
This seems to be a theme throughout the books. The characters rest and heal. They spend time recovering in Rivendell, Fangorn, Lorien, Ithilien. It's treated as good and necessary. They don't heroically endure endless torment from the second they set out until they're done.
And in Gondor's march from Minas Tirith to Mordor, Aragorn recognizes that some of the very few men he's taking with him don't have the heart to go to battle against the Enemy. And he says that's okay. He gives them other tasks the they can do. They hold other strategic points. They aren't shamed for not going all the way, or kicked out, or told that they aren't manly or whatever. Their limitations are recognized and respected. The task was too big and it was okay that they couldn't do it.
I don't know man. I've held on through some absolutely crazy shit. White knuckled through mental health crises when my doctors were begging me to take a break, to go to the hospital before I hurt myself. My therapist has tried to slow me down and tell me that I've been going through it and it's understandable that I am feeling some kind of way. Even one of my colleagues remarked that I've had an absolutely fucking wild career and that I've seen more as a lawyer of seven years than she has as a lawyer of forty. But I've gotten it into my head that I have to be strong, I have to be independent.
Fuck me, man, I'm currently white knuckling through life and hanging on by a fucking thread. A few weeks ago I was about an hour away from checking myself in to a mental health facility until my best friends swooped in to help me. And then I went right back to work.
And then I read this book. This fucking brilliant and beautiful book written by a man who had seen the horrors of war and spilled it all over the page. And I read it for the first time as an adult with full understanding and experience of what it all means. And it hits me like a fucking truck.
And it says that you can't endure everything. That at some point you need to rest and heal. That if you take on too much you will break. And that all of that is okay.
How am I supposed to move on with my life after reading this?
"The hearts of men are easily corrupted." Wake Up Dead Man (2025) & Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Bonus for @mykingdomforasong:
Watching âThe Fellowship of the Ringâ for the first time. Yes, really. Gandalfâs tits are smaller than I was led to believe

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The Two Towers film is actually really impressive for how it feels like a cohesive story despite being about three groups of characters whose plotlines almost never intersect during the filmâs runtime (Frodo/sam, Merry/Pippin, and Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli.)
Because the Fellowship almost never interacts with each other during the main plot, the filmmakers instead had to connect the plotlines thematically. Frodo/Sam never actually talk to Aragorn, but their plotlines mirror each other.
The Two Towers film is structured so that each splinter group of the Fellowship ultimately struggles with the same goal: they need to convince a despairing grief-stricken ally to aid in the war against Sauron. Theoden, Treebeard, and Faramir are all people who have suffered some great loss in the past wars. As a result, they are all set in their ways out of grief, and refuse to listen to the Fellowshipâs advice or agree with their plans. (Until the very end.)
This is also where the films depart a lot from the source material. The two towers was probably the biggest adaptational challenge of the entire series, because the original book is split into two parts that focus on the POV of two different groups of characters (A Three Hunters book, and a Sam/Frodo book) â and then ends on a horrible cliffhanger. This works in the books but would not have worked on film at all.
The filmmakersâ attempts to build a Structured Film Story led to them emphasizing the idea of the Fellowship recruiting reluctant allies, and emphasizing the thematic idea of people being trapped within grief and stasis. Elrond predicts that the worst fate for Arwen would be to âlinger on, in darkness and in doubt,â permanently frozen in grief; and this is the state we find most of the new characters in. Film!Theoden is portrayed as far more hesitant and grief-stricken than he was in the book, film!Treebeard is more reluctant and afraid of what war means for the Forest, and film!Faramir is more overwhelmed by the pressure to be like Boromir⌠and all three of them are overall far more heavily swayed by the Fellowshipâs presence. (Though I still have beef with the way Faramirâs plotline was handledâXD) Because they needed to build out a structure that could work on film, they found this thematic throughline and really emphasized it.
Theodenâs grief over the death of his son makes him refuse the Fellowshipâs advice to reach out to his allies or ride out against Sarumanâs forces; Treebeardâs grief over the waning of the forest makes him decide that âhe is on nobodyâs side because nobody is on his side,â and Faramirâs grief over the death of Boromir makes him unwilling to try a solution that isnât âwhat he believes Boromir would have done.â
These characters all start the film in a state of hopelessness and stasis and avoidance; then theyâre ultimately forced to confront the source of their grief, and end the film by aiding the Fellowship.
This is also connected to the journey that all the Fellowship members need to go on. Frodo and Sam are forced to confront the grief at the idea that Frodo is being consumed by the Ring; Merry and Pippin have to face that âthere wonât be a Shireâ after Sauronâs victory; and Aragornâs relationship with the people of Rohan forces him to confront his own fears about becoming a king and leading people to their death.
The plotlines are also really well connected through the use of musicâ like the Last March of the Ents leitmotif being used for Theodenâs choice to ride out against the Uruk-Hai, emphasizing the parallel between the way both characters have hesitated to âride out and meetâ the source of their grief.
And then Samâs final speech, where a variation on the Shire leitmotif â (a version of the same variation that played in the end of Fellowship of the Ring)â becomes the final moment that ties all the disparate plot threads together. The film is centered on characters being overwhelmed by grief, and entering a state of numbness or stasis where they cut themselves off from the world. When this happens to Frodo, Sam encourages him to believes that there is still goodness in the world thatâs worth fighting forâ a culmination of all the ideas that have been built up throughout the past three hours.
Despite its flaws the film feels so cohesive, and the end of the film feels like such a satisfying resolution? Which is easy to take for granted because like, there were so many different moving pieces, and without a really clear thematic focus the film couldâve easily ended up falling apart.
Things Iâve Realized - Aragornâs claim is preposterous
Aragornâs lineage includes forty (thatâs four, zero) generations to get back to Elendil: âmany fathersâ, indeed. That is a staggering number which requires a bit of context to fully appreciate the magnitude of it.
Compare that to the situation of Alfred the Great, the self-styled âKing of the Anglo Saxonsâ, who stands atop the list of monarchs of the UK. He was the 36th generational ancestor of the current king (according to britroyals.com) and reigned in the late ninth century. Can you imagine a guy claiming to be the long lost descendent of Alfred walking into Windsor Castle and expecting to receive the Crown Jewels from Charles the Third?
Now imagine an alternate history where the original house of Wessex had been dispossessed in the south, and had ruled over Scotland which had been subsequently destroyed by Vikings, and the lord protectors had been ruling in the place of the southern royal line since the time of Oliver Cromwell. Itâs downright preposterous. (And thatâs only 36 generations, not the 40 between Elendil and Aragorn inclusive.)
Boromirâs incredulity is not only understandable and forgivable, itâs the only reasonable reaction to such an incredible and frankly unverifiable claim.
âI asked chatgptâ well I journeyed to Rivendell to seek council of Elrond Half-Elven, wise among men and wizards alike, and he invited me to a meeting with representatives of all the free peoples of Middle Earth. It turns out that my trouble is but part of the trouble of all the world, the origins of which lie in earlier, grander agesâbut none of us stand alone!
Low opacity Elrond, watercolour on cotton paper

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