an-archangels-vessle:glamourweaver:morrissarty:theumbrellaseller:bofurthebrodwarf:onamelancholyhill:
an-archangels-vessle:glamourweaver:morrissarty:theumbrellaseller:bofurthebrodwarf:onamelancholyhill:mmirkwood: #most people don’t get the extent of what this means #THEIR FATHERS HATE EACH OTHERS GUTS #LIKE NOT DISLIKE #BUT ACTUALLY LEGIT HATEGod bless Tolkien.#somewhere else in middle earth thranduil and gloin are (separately) sobbing angrily #except their friendship mADE THEIR DADS STOP HATING EACH OTHER #I’M SORRY BUT THESE TWO WIN EVERYTHINGTwo households, both alike in dignity,in Middle Earth, where we lay our sceneFrom ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.From forth the fatal realms of these two foesA pair of star-cross’d brothers make their lifeWhose misadventure Sauron overthrows,And with his death, end their people’s strife.Their fearful passage, that shall death mark’d proveAnd the continuance of their parents’ rageWhich but The One Ring’s end, naught could remove,Is now, like, twelve hours’ traffic of our stage;The which of you with patient ears attend,What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.did you just rewrite shakespeare for lord of the rings and make it work better than the originalYou know how Dwarfs get epic “deed names” like Oakenshield that are forever tied to their legend? Gimli’s is “Elf Friend” - no fucking joke. It is the heart of his LEGEND to his people.This^^^^^ -- source link