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Legolas' Song ↬ From the Poem "To the Sea, To the Sea!"
✒ J.R.R TOLKIEN :
↬ The Lord Of The Ring,
↬ The Return Of The King,
↬ Book VI.
Legolas saying ‘this city needs more trees’ is actually so valid. Not only from an environmental and social well-being point of view, but Gondor has one very important tree with very few fellows and therefore restricted access to nutrients, so the extended mycorrhizal network more trees would provide actively enhances the welfare of the white tree and symbolically the spirit of the nation. In this essay I will
Edit: I wrote the essay
Lord of The Rings Extended Edition Final!
Going out for the last time to finish off the trilogy. This has been such a blessing to get to see on the big screen.
I have noticed so many details I never caught before like the curly ques on the freaking finger parts between the joints of Sauron's glove. What a drama queen, stamping his scary as Morgoth looking Armor with pretty little embellishments his enemies will only see right before getting smashed to death by his fist in their face.
I have experienced the sound design and music like never before. Like the impact of dark speech as it shakes the very floor under me. Or the ethereal laments of the elves for Gandalf's death as it surrounds me from all sides.
These movies are why theaters exist. And that I should get to see them in all of their might with so many other fans who feel the same love and aw as I do is amazing.
Fatharani Yasmin
Fave ugly cry 10/10.
eowyn in the houses of healing 🩶
Happy Hobbit Day! :D
This one was a beast, but man it was fun.
Once again, the poetry is from my super cool friend, Meg. Who also wrote the poem for this set of drawings. Though, if you asked her, she'd just tell you that she only rhymed what Tolkien wrote in the House of Healing chapter. Regardless, scream some love in the comments for her!
Update! The poem has now been posted on AO3!
Or- check out her other poems and writings here! She's got a bunch!
With that being said, thank you, Meg, for giving me the proper outlet to draw this scene. I would not have been able to get nearly this far or include this much emotion without you <3
My apologies to Iroha's malewife dad, but whenever he speaks I just hear Chongi-re and then focus on that instead.
4 hours of LOTR, aka the extended edition of Return of The King is enough to give anyone bladder problems, amazing film but my goodness, my butt is numb. Bring back intermission!! 😭
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Known as the Jarkov Mammoth, this specimen was found in Siberia. The 23 tonne block of mud and ice was lifted to an ice cave where the mammoth inside was recovered and studied.
ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕄𝕚𝕕𝕕𝕝𝕖 𝔼𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙
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🇹🇭🇪 🇹🇼🇴 🇹🇴🇼🇪🇷🇸 (2002)
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Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him.
“I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.”
The Fellowship of the Ring
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"The Return of the King"
2023
Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Path's of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the Sea to the Kingdom of Gondor...
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", by J.R.R. Tolkien
2021 was the year of Fellowship of the Ring. 2022 was the year of Two Towers. And 2023 was the year of Return of the King. The final installment of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and not only my favorite of the three, but also my favorite film of all time. It features some of the most amazing, cathartic, emotional scenes of the whole saga, the grandest battle ever put to screen (Helm's Deep who?), and also my favorite villain (arguably also my favorite character) of the whole of Tolkien's legendarium in all his terrifying majesty. Happily Return of the King is also not only the most awarded of the three films, but one of the most awarded films in history ever. I well remember watching that Oscar ceremony as a kid and how surreal it was to have the presenters open the envelope and read aloud "Lord of the Rings" again and again. T'was a good night.
"Saruman's Downfall"
2023
There was a crack, and the staff split asunder in Saruman's hand, and the head of it fell down at Gandalf's feet.
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien
There are a lot of scenes in the Extended Edition of Return of the King that by rights should have been included in the theatrical release; Saruman's final fate ranks among the top of those. And I know this may be a controversial take, but I much prefer him being killed in this scene, fresh after his defeat by the Ents and at Helm's Deep, than at the very anticlimactic Scouring of the Shire business in the books.
"The Palantír"
2023
'Then he came. He did not speak so that I could hear words. He just looked, and I understood.'
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien
It is strange to realize that Pippin, of all people, is among the few main characters to have met or interacted with Sauron himself (albeit indirectly, via the Orthanc-stone). The youngest, most carefree member of the Fellowship, coming face to face (or eye to eye, lol) with evil incarnate; one can't help but feel bad for Pippin when seeing this scene, and then admire him and his hobbit-strength for not breaking, and resisting Sauron for as long as he did.
"Mordor's Call"
2023
And Minas Morgul answered. There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The earth groaned; and out of the city there came a cry.
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien
Behold! Mordor's own war beacon of sorts; immense, sorcerous, and terrible.
I really like how in the film the signal from Minas Morgul is discernible all the way from Minas Tirith, striking fear and anxiety in its inhabitants about the attack they know its coming. Notably this is also the scene in which my man the Witch-king makes his spectacular entrance, so what's not to love? When I first watched the film in cinemas almost twenty years ago, the volume was turned way up for every Nazgûl scene, so when Frodo and Sam cover their ears when the Witch-king screeches...yeah, I felt that too. And I know I wasn't the only one, because I've seen people commenting about it online.
Minas Morgul also holds the distinction of being my favorite of all the evil places of Middle-earth. Not only because it is the abode of my beloved Nazgûl, but also because the aesthetic of the place is just amazing, in a creepy sort of way. It's not barren like the plains around Barad-dûr and Mount Doom, for it has a river and meadows of flowers; but the water of the river is undrinkable, and the flowers are terrible to behold, and give up foul vapors. If ever a place can be described as neither living nor dead, it is the Valley of Morgul... just like its lords are.
"Hope is Kindled"
2023
'See! The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid. War is kindled. See, there is the fire on Amon Dîn, and flame on Eilenach; and there they go speeding west: Nardol, Erelas, Min-Rimmon, Calenhad, and the Halifirien on the borders of Rohan.'
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", by J.R.R. Tolkien
One of the most gorgeously iconic scenes in Return of the King, and a perfect showcase of the beautiful cinematography and soundtrack in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I like the contrast between this scene and the earlier one at Minas Morgul, where the war beacon from Mordor was a single, great sorcerous beam, discernible from miles around; here, Gondor's beacons are but tiny specs of flame in the mountains, insignificant by comparison, but put together they have the power to change the tides of destiny.