Now imagining Legolas picking up a normal and very standard rock for Gimli and saying, "Is this a good one? The kind you like?" in a similar way to sending links via DMs to your most beloved mutuals that lead to fandom posts relating to their unfamiliar and strange Blorbos, who you know nothing about and cannot see the appeal of.

Adding Fuck to LOTR, from the Hobbits.

I just wanted to draw Saruman with an IKEA shark

the movie really undersells the fact that frodo spent half a year planning to make his departure from the shire as inconspicuous as possible and merry and pippin and sam saw him doing that, figured out he was leaving the shire and that it had something to do with bilbo’s ring, and then spent nearly as long preparing to go with him. icons

worth nothing to people who havent read the books: they didnt tell him they were planning to come with him until the very last minute when he’s finally about to spill the beans, and merry’s just kind of ”yo frodo you have the worst poker face in the shire and you constantly walk around saying shit like ”oughhh i do wonder if i shall ever look down this path again oughhwh woe” out loud for everyone to hear” and frodo just sits there like

AND and. frodo's like don't try to stop me from leaving!! i must go!! and the girlies are like SILLY BILLY we mean to go with you!! and he's like NO NO you don't get it i'm probably gonna DIE!! and they're like no no YOU don't get it we KNOW!! you think we'd let you march off to your doom alone??

okay but don't forget fredegar "fatty" bolger...the one hobbit who was like "I see you're going on some sort of quest...have fun with that, I'll stay here and housesit" and then the freaking NAZGÛL come visit while he's housesitting

Me, ready to remind everyone about Fatty Bolger: I knew there was a reason Adib and I are friends.

But seriously, my boy Fredegar volunteered to deal with nosy Brandybucks and MAYBE Lobelia, and ended up with a Nazgûl drop in and then got thrown in jail for resisting Saruman.

#TRUE FRIENDSHIP#from everyone including Fredegar#who managed to ESCAPE the Nazgul#by running out the back door#he stayed behind in Frodo's house as a DECOY and it WORKED#time the Nazgul didn't know Frodo had left the Shire was lifesaving#they made it to Rivendell by the skin of their teeth as it was#a couple extra hours *mattered* - from @cygnahime

he wore Frodo's clothes for this which probably made no difference given the data the Nazgul had to work with but it sure does show his commitment to the body doubling bit