QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of others"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, the Silmarillion

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
DAY 23 - Least favourite character: Denethor. The steward of Gondor, who rules when the king is absent. He should have been proud to welcome Aragorn as the true king, but instead refused to acknowledge him like he was the king and not just a steward. Also, the way he treats Faramir is detestable, his second son is a fine warrior and Captain of Gondor, who agreed to go out on a suicide mission just to make his father proud. This guy just gets my blood boiling.

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Day 22 - Character you pity the most: Frodo. I'm so sick of when people watch the Lord of the Rings and just bag out Frodo, like I hear it so much and it just frustrates me, they don't understand that he carries literally the biggest burden in Middle Earth. Not only does the ring mess with him mentally, like manipulating him to its evil will, he also feel the weight of it as well, as in he's physically weighed down by it. In the Return of the King book when Sam has to put on the ring to get up to the tower of Cirith Ungol, it says he instantly feels the weight of it, so for Frodo to have been carrying it for the better part of a year, I can't even imagine it.

"Death will come to all"
(credit to azogthekingofflowers.tumblr.com)

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Day 21 - Most inspiring moment: Sam carrying Frodo up Mount Doom. I had to use a gif for this one, I just think it's definitely the most inspiring. Frodo and Sam are on the brink of death, from starvation and dehydration, and Frodo trying to fight off the power of the ring. And Sam knows that it would kill Frodo if he tried to take the ring, or even Frodo might kill him, but the quest needs to be finished, so he goes right ahead and carries him up the mountain. I'm getting inspired just writing about it

Martin Freeman, Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson, Sir Ian McKellan and Richard Armitage at the New York premiere for "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Day 20 - Saddest character death: Gandalf the Grey. I already used Boromir's death for a previous answer, so I'll go for Gandalf this time. I know that by the time you see The Two Towers it's obviously not sad anymore, but this scene is so perfectly done with the music and with all the other character's reactions, it truly is the saddest death.
"I have not the heart to tell you, for the grief is too near." - Legolas in reference to the Elves' of Lorien singing about Mithrandir.