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It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for a decade redraw! I chose my piece of Legolas after the battle at the gates of Mordor, which I first drew while in New Zealand in 2009. I liked the idea of him having lost/given away/destroyed his arm guard in the chaos of the previous few weeks. My redraw is sort of the next breath, when he looks up and realizes that the gates are down, the mountain is crumbling, and the tower of Barad-Dur with its fiery eye is no longer standing.

I know I haven’t posted as much LotR content since my own books started being published, but I have a lot of feelings about this character and this scene in particular. Legolas is practically the last Elf anybody would choose to go on a quest to save Middle Earth. He’s the least noble of any Elvish heroes, with absolutely no deeds to his name besides losing Gollum (oops), he’s from the least of the Elf-realms, and he has unremarkable lineage at best and bleak family history at worst. His grandfather led a disastrous charge at the Battle of Dagorlad that got his whole company killed (Book of Unfinished Tales), which Thranduil witnessed first hand. The passage that comes after is one of my favorites:

“[Thranduil] had seen the horror of Mordor and could not forget it. If ever he looked south, its memory dimmed the light of the sun, and though he knew that it was now broken and deserted and under the vigilance of the Kings of Men, fear spoke in his heart that it was not conquered forever: it would arise again.”

And now here’s his son, who almost certainly expected to die that day for a world he has no moral obligation to, surrounded by absolutely none of his kin, sitting on the threshold of Mordor, instrument of Sauron’s final destruction and LIKE? Come on, that’s a great arc.

broke: midsommar is a girl power movie

woke: midsommar is a horror movie about a manipulative cult

bespoke: midsommar is a litmus test to tell how easily you could be indoctrinated into a cult and if your first thought after watching it is that it was a girl power movie you’re very susceptible to cult tactics and you should be aware of that

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Some gorgeous person a while back made a post about if various other famous elves had been part of the fellowship instead of legolas, one of them being Maglor, and now I can’t stop thinking about that au

Elrond: Hi Frodo. This is my dad. He’ll be coming with you on your impossible quest.

Frodo: Wait, I thought your dad was Earendil? Bilbo did a whole musical number about it.

Elrond: Yes, that was awkward for all of us. Have fun!

(more hilarious outtakes beneath cut)

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This doodle is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen...

Omg, Norway's so perfectly perfecy ;-;

a very fast doodle of aph Norway I did to practice anatomy

“Ares caught sight of Halirrhothius, a son of Poseidon, pursuing his daughter, Alcippe. Pursuit turned to annoyance and subsequently harassment as Halirrhothius displayed the fierce lust for young women he inherited from his father. When harassment turned to rape, however, Ares didn’t hesitate for a moment to brutally murder Poseidon’s son.

Poseidon, disinterested in the plight of Alcippe, was furious at Ares and called a meeting of the gods the likes of which there had never been before. Rather than meet on Mount Olympus, Poseidon convened the immortals into a court of law (the first of its kind) in the city he had lost to Athena. It was on a low hill in Athens, then, that Poseidon made his case against the God of War, calling him by all the abominable names known to man and god. The gods listened and awaited Ares’s response to the accusations of his cold-blooded murder of a fellow immortal’s son. Ares’s defense was simple: Halirrhothius suffered the fate of a rapist.”

-Ares: The Origins and History of the Greek God of War by Andrew Scott and Charles Rivers Editors

i don't remember the books so well, what is legolas' personality like in them? all i remember is tht the books and movie where massively different?

Oh my dear anon. I could go on about book Legolas for hours.

Book Legolas is a sassy little sh*t who skips on the surface of the snow when everyone else is drowning in it up to their waists and carrying the four hobbits. Book Legolas sleeps with his eyes open. He watches Aragorn throw himself to the groud and listen to the sound of running horses, only to say afterwards, “yeah, there are a hundred and five of them, they’re all blond and they all have spears nbd“. Book Legolas cries that Gollum escaped grom Mirkwood right after everyone was like, “phew, it’s good that Thranduil’s elves keep an eye on him, what could go wrong???“. He screams all the time, and occasionally drops his bow too. He kills a warg, shooting it right in the throat with a burning arrow. Book Legolas is a trees stan. Book Legolas walk away singing “To the Sea! To the Sea!“. Book Legolas is not afraid of zombies, thank you very much. He addreses his friends “children“, even though he is probably the youngest elf in Middle-Earth that we know of. And of course, book Legolas takes none of your bs, builds his own grey boat because who says he can’t sail on his own ship right, packs his best friend and shows up in Valinor 120 years late with Starbucks and a dwarf.

I think I overdid this

Oh my god what I have done

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