maedhrosrussandol:

absynthe–minded:

so I hope I’m not alone in saying this but

reading The Lord of the Rings again post-Silmarillion is so incredibly bizarre? Like, specifically: nobody dies. Okay, some people die. And die in really painful feelsy noble ways. But - and here’s the Interesting Part - people succeed. Pippin doesn’t die killing that troll. Gimli and Eomer aren’t killed in the Battle of the Hornburg. I’ve read LotR enough to quote it and I’m still reading it going “I SWEAR TO GOD IF THIS IS THE NIRNAETH ROUND TWO I WILL KILL YOU.” Reading LotR in comparison to the rest of Tolkien’s works is… jarring. No curses, no terrible fates, some people die but there are no Fingolfins or Finrods

also there’s one scene in particular that never made me cry before that leaves me a sobbing mess now, and it’s when we find out that Celebrimbor, of all people, marked the Doors that he made with Narvi with the Star of his House.

Also when you realize the light that Galadriel gives Frodo to take into Mordor with him is actually the captured light of one of the Silmarils.

And it is a bit cheeky of Bilbo to write verse about Eärendil in the House of Elrond.