12/5/2023 0 Comments Lotr frodo feet reference images![]() ![]() Her motivation is a lot like Steve Rogers’ back in the first Captain America movie: “Bucky, come on! There are men laying down their lives. Eowyn doesn’t want to fight just because she’s afraid of seeming “lesser than the men” she wants to fight because she’s afraid of living a purposeless life, of sitting around uselessly while the world is in peril and she feels she can help. Eowyn bemoaning the “part of a woman” is both startlingly modern and better than any more recent attempt I’ve seen to write the exact same thing.Eowyn: “Please don’t go.” Aragorn: “Sorry, no.” Eowyn: “You’ll die.” Aragorn: “No, I won’t.” Eowyn: “Then take me with you so that I can die too.” Aragorn: “Emphatically, no.”.Ohhh so the Grey Company is Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and the other Rangers.I have little to say about Aragorn’s story of looking into the Palantir except that I’m glad he’s had something to eat and I really hope he gets some sleep soon :-/.Like guardian angels with mud-stained boots. ![]() Oooh the Rangers have been guarding the Shire, and the hobbits didn’t even know about it!! That’s so cool, man.Pippin, constantly: “I miss Merry :-(” Merry, constantly: “I miss Pippin :-(”.DID I RECALL IT SUBCONSCIOUSLY AGAIN? HEEEEHHHH? The right-side one, not the left, but STILL. I’VE BEEN DRAWING ARAGORN’S CLOAK PINNED ON HIS SHOULDER THIS WHOLE TIME. !!!!!!!!! HELLO? All the Rangers wear their cloaks asymmetrically? “Pinned on the left shoulder” it says.HECK YEAH KINGS AND KNIGHTS AND CASTLES MAN LET’S FRICKIN’ GOOOOOO I think the buzz in my head is my entire British ancestry all waking up at once in a patriotic fit. WOW that’s like a high-octane shot of unfiltered medieval chivalry right to the veins.‘May I lay the sword of Meriadoc of the Shire on your lap, Theoden King?’ he cried. “Filled suddenly with love for this old man, he knelt on one knee, and took his hand and kissed it.Merry’s opinion of Theoden went from “I want to talk to you about pipeweed” to “I would die for you” in like.Evidently, the Rangers are here because of Galadriel ex machina.I don’t have anything to comment here except that casual platonic intimacy is delightful. Tolkien quietly implies that Legolas and Gimli stood around talking to Merry while he got dressed.Legolas calling Merry “Master Sluggard” for sleeping until noon X’-D Give me the Legolas and Merry roast battle STAT!.All of Aragorn’s old friends, in fancy foreshadowing language, at once: “HI WE BROUGHT YOU A FLAG AND YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO GO WAKE UP SOME GHOSTS”.Yooo so these are all Rangers like Aragorn? And Elrond’s sons are here too? SICK.…It seemed that there would be no need to die in Theoden’s defense, not yet at any rate.” Whoa, Merry, that’s pretty hardcore. Aragorn, immediately, upon seeing an old friend again: IT’S HUGGING TIME.Literally Merry: “Welp, if I run now, I’ll die, so I might as well stay and fight.”.Many hopes will wither in this bitter spring.” Aaaaand Aragorn accidentally foreshadows Theoden’s death :-( It will be long, I fear, ere Theoden sits at ease again in Meduseld. “But do not look for mirth at the ending.Legolas and Gimli don’t even wait to hear where Aragorn is going before they loudly volunteer to come with him.‘I cannot say yet,’ Aragorn answered.” *hums to myself* And whither then, I cannot say… “So four of the Company still remain.” Dramatic much, Aragorn?.EYYYY MERRY!! Aragorn! Legolas and Gimli!! I missed you guys! 8-D.More Reading Thoughts: The Passing of the Grey Company ![]()
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