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"
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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.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. 
The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time given to us"

 -Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring. 

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Day 19 - Weirdest Screencap: Uhh okay, so this was a weird one, so I'll just go with Gimli passing out drunk, haha. And yeah, there's not much more to say about this one.

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Day 18 - Coolest Visual Effect: The size difference between Hobbits and normal sized people. I know that there are so many "cool" ones to pick from, but I was tossing up between this and Gollum, and I just think that this is the most consistently well-done visual effect. With the use of both body doubles and CGI, they've pulled it off so well for movies that came out ten years ago, and it's only got better in the recent Hobbit movies.

P.S. Sorry that my updates have slowed down a little bit, I've been super busy, but I'm still trying to regularly update this!

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Day 17 - Elves or Dwarves? Elves. I chose Elves because there is just so much history, with Feanor and the creation of the Silmarils, to the lost city of Gondolin, and Luthien, being a pivotal role in the starting of the line of Numenor, just everything about them. Also I like their style of weapons and armour more than the Dwarves.

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE:
Day 16 - Favourite Female Character: Eowyn. Ahh I just realised I totally messed up with the last answer so I'm gonna go ahead and skip to this question. So I like Eowyn because she was born as a warrior, but was never allowed to follow her dreams because she was a woman, and a noble woman at that so she had to be a lady. But despite that, she rode to the Fields of Pelennor and with the help of Pippin she was able to kill the Witch King of Angmar when no one else there would have been able to.

LOTR 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Day 14 - Favourite Outfit: Sauron (armoured). I know I've used Sauron as a previous answer, but I think he has the coolest looking armour out of everyone. It's completely terrifying plus you know that it would be the absolute best quality as well, like obviously not made of mithril, because it's too dark, but it's bound to have some kind of crazy enchantment on it to make it impenetrable, because that's just how Sauron is. Only an enchanted Elvish blade was able to cut through it, and that was with the strongest enchantment that they could put on the blade.