silentstep:

anghraine:

lemony-snickets:

mistergandalf:

mistergandalf:

one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

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this is why Denethor likes your brother better

#back in minas tirith    #faramir: okay if you don’t mind saying i’ve always wanted to know what metaphor ‘spider’ represents    #sam: what    #faramir: obviously something terrible is there. it’s literally called pass of the spider! but what IS the spider?    #sam: it’s um    #a spider    (via anghraine)