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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Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.
Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.
Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?
Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.
I built a nap hole in my closet which is great and has no downside until someone comes into my room looking for me and I have to crawl out of my closet which is frankly impossible to do with dignity and without looking like a sleepy Gollum hissing “what does it wants who wakes us up”
the fellowship of the ring is such a dnd party. it’s just like a bunch of 13-year-olds all wanting to be different races and varying degrees of royalty and the DM somehow having to figure out how they all met to work together
by contrast, the company in the hobbit are a situation when a DM was stuck with a 14-player party and said ‘fuck this, you’re all dwarves’ apart from bilbo who said ‘fuck THAT make me a halfling’
In LOTR “Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys” implies that Orcs know what a menu is, and have therefore been to a restaurant. I wonder what a restaurant in Mordor is like.
Lord of the Rings where everything’s the same but as Frodo sails away at the end Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root plays starts playing and goes into the credits
People take the LOTR movies way too seriously considering that the first movie had an actual scene with floating Elrond faces on a white background while Frodo was unconscious that actually made it into the actual movie
If I have a near death experience I hope Elrond slides into my consciousness at 60% opacity
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.