I Hate When I’m Trying To Write My Fics In Peace But Suddenly I’m Hit With A Ship That Would Make

don’t attempt to be cute if you’re easily spooked or have siblings with the tendency to ignore your privacy wandering about

so I'm rereading the lotr trilogy right now (after having just read it for the first time earlier this year) and I find it so interesting that tolkien is SO HEAVILY against allegory, specifically from an author-imposed perspective; instead, he says that the reader is the one with agency in any deeper meaning of the text:

"Other arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think many confuse 'applicability' with 'allegory'; but the one resides freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author." - The Fellowship of the Ring, Foreward to the Second Edition, p. xxvi.

I'm no English major but I exist in the sphere of literary and information studies (I'm a grad student in archival studies) and this is my favourite literary theory I've heard about in passing from my peers. anyway this is all a justification of my impending rants and interpretive posts upcoming as I go through the books and (lightly) annotate them this time around so uh buckle up for some unhinged analysis and general feral fan behaviour

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

my dream as a fanfic writer is for one day, one of my fics to be someones comfort fic. like the fic that they reread when they don't feel good and want to be happy. i want my words to comfort someone one day

Stolen from reddit kjjjj

this totally happened in the movie dw

Perfect remix, I wanna bring it to life.

I mean, fuck, I like fics, I like slash I like gettin' smutty, I like shippers, I like to fuck I like fic-writing' and blog posting about morning wood I like doin' fandom-shit, post it? Probably would (yeah)

Imagine if the reason that it took Bilbo sixty years to be badly effected by the Ring, was because it wasn’t Saurons voice speaking to him. Or the voice of the ring or whatever.

Imagine it was Thorin’s voice.

He spent all that time, not separating himself from it but also not doing anything evil or bad was because he was just grateful to hear Thorin’s voice again, no matter what it said to him, it was his voice.

And when he was separated from it, he was desperate and sad, but he could pull himself back because he knew the ring wasn’t him, he was dead.

Thoughts…

More family shenanigans...

First drawing I’ve ever shared on Tumblr is a quick Bilbo sketch that I just found funny