Andromeda24601 - Have You Ever Confused A Dream With Life?

Can we talk about the scene in Fellowship of the Ring where Arwen first appears for a second?

Aragorn goes from “oh shit” to “really, Arwen?” in like three seconds. Like he’s scared one moment, and then he’s just fondly annoyed.

I appreciate this scene for so many reasons.

“Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. July 1907

“There is hope, but not for us.” - Franz Kafka

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means that you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

— Coraline, Neil Gaiman

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”

— Neil Gaiman, Stardust