zenosanalytic:

purified-zone:

booktolkien:

scribefindegil:

fredgolds:

tbh nothing is weirder to me than manly grimdark dudebro lord of the rings bc it’s just??? the epitome of light and love to me???? no narrative embodies hope and gentleness and healing like lotr does why must you insist on talking to me about badass aragorn vs. useless frodo. that’s not the point brad

I feel like this is also why so many of the post-LOTR Tolkien ripoffs are so terrible! It’s people pulling from Tolkien when they fundamentally don’t understand what makes Tolkien work. You get all these stories written by people who don’t think Frodo was worthy of his plotline and so they give it to their Aragorn expy instead, and it’s dull and boring and totally lacks the themes and the heart that make LOTR an important, enduring story.

#lord of the rings is about beauty and love and good and hope and gentleness in the face of overwhelming sadness and darkness#less about the battlefields and more about frodo and Sam holding hands through Shelob’s lair#and Galadriel’s star-glass in the darkness of mordor#overwhelmingly the point is beauty and love#even though those things are tinged in sadness#the reason I can never get into any other fantasy stories is because they focus on the battles and the hardship#and not about the beauty and the love and the sadness#‘I will not say do not weep for not all tears are an evil’ (tags from @greyacedipperpines)

hey @LEGO take some fucking notes next time you make a halfassed grey and brown adaptation of a beloved franchise that people have been asking for years

I really like @greyacedipperpines tagcomment here; I mean all the comments are good, but the bit about beauty is one I think some people miss. One of the most persistent complaints I see about LotR and the Hobbit is all the ink Tolkien spends describing the world, food/the feeling of eating, objects, ect. What those complaints don’t get is that those descriptions of all the beauty and simple joy to be found in the world, even in the midst of hardship and strife, are central to the story’s message.