╚ [2/5] heartbreaking scenes/moments: Boromir’s Last Battle from Lord of the Rings The world of Men will fall, and all will come to darkness, my city to ruin.
I’m really not here for bashing on anyone for being a fan of Supernatural, Doctor Who, Sherlock or – gasp! – even all three. It’s grating to see people having to loudly declare how embarrassed they are of their “superwholock past”, or making disparaging remarks about those who still enjoy said shows. I’m sure there’s a longer and more in-depth post to be written about this, but idk man, I’m tired. I’m just not here for this shit.
Generally I’m not a fan of being expected to be embarrassed about stuff you used to be into.
Or the idea that once a thing is no longer one of your main interests, you no longer like that thing. Which I feel is sometimes connected to having to be embarrassed about your previous main interests.
are … are you not aware that mocking superwholock fans is less because they are “embarrassing” and more because of the extremely homophobic, racist, misogynist and ableist tendencies the fandom/s at large has/have exhibited?
Have you ever seen the Star Wars fandom? It’s a goddamn nightmare and it’s everywhere. The ableism and the misogyny was and is appalling. When John Boyega was cast as Finn fans of the franchise sprouted crap about “forced diversity” and “political correctness” on here and on Reddit and Twitter. and everywhere you went on the Internet. When the main character of Rogue One was announced to be a woman fans flipped their lids about “feminism taking over”. When Jake Lloyd was diagnosed with schizophrenia Star Wars fans laughed, because he was in the worst of the movies, don’tyaknow, and therefore his suffering was funny.
Plus the franchise itself still hasn’t got a single main LBGT character or WOC anywhere in the movies, in 2016, and it probably won’t anytime soon. John Boyega got paid less than Adam Driver, for more screentime. Most of the movies don’t have more than a handful of female characters, and only a couple of them even pass the Bechdel Test. Leia had that gold bikini. Whenever articles appear in the media saying how nice it would be for more diversity and less sexism to happen, they’re shouted down by Star Wars fans yelling and yelling and yelling.
Homophobia, racism, misogyny and ableism? Check, check, check and check. A franchise not being as progressive as it should be? Check. So where’s all the “fuck-no-starwars” blogs? Where are all the “ugh I can’t believe I used to be in Star Wars fandom” posts? Surely people should want to distance themselves from that toxic, unending crap. Why don’t they?
Lord of the Rings was used by Lord of the Rings fans as a rallying point for actual fascism and white supremacy, once upon a time, and in the modern day the movie producers can’t even bring themselves to cast non-white hobbits. Or any characters of colour at all. Number of Middle Earth blogs I’ve seen post a disclaimer to explain that it’s okay, they’re not like that, they just like the story, they’re not racists: zero.
No, it’s not that. Or if it is that, it’s deeply hypocritical.
Like fiery eyeball thing, no problem. But don’t even try to imagine a Samoan elf. (x)
Before the crossing of the mountains the Hobbits had already become divided into three somewhat different breeds: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides. The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides. The Stoors were broader, heavier in build; their feet and hands were larger; and they preferred flat lands and riversides. The Fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others; they were lovers of trees and of woodlands.
The Harfoots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, and long lived in the foothills of the mountains. They moved westward early, and roamed over Eriador as far as Weathertop while the others were still in Wilderland. They were the most normal and representative variety of Hobbit, and far the most numerous. They were the most inclined to settle in one place, and longest preserved their ancestral habit of living in tunnels and holes.
Like. It goes on to say that the tall skinny pale ones were “somewhat bolder and more adventurous“ and became the leaders mainly, because WHY, TOLKEIN, WHY. Nonetheless. This is absolutely a case of adaptation exacerbating the prejudices in the text, not merely reflecting them.
OMG, I can’t believe there are gifs of these amazing scene. I can’t get over how engaged Elijah is even though he’s not being filmed, and how he’s holding onto the ring. He is so totally Frodo in this moment.
to this day, the scariest part out of any of the lord of the rings movie still is that fucking nightmarish face that bilbo made when he tried to take the one ring back from frodo
Oh my gosh, the day I spent watching Lord of the Rings with commentary is finally paying off, because the Bilbo nightmare face is the center of why I love Fellowship a little more than the other movies.
So before Lord of the Rings became the CGI carpet bombing that we all know and love (see Legolas elephant surfing), the first movie was obsessed with practical effects to an unsettling degree. Perspective tricks (when Gandalf and Bilbo have tea they’re actually at two separate tables with the camera at an angle to make it look like one table – at one point Ian McKellen bumps his side of the table with his knee and only his side of the table wobbles), miniatures, makeup artistry, the works.
But the Bilbo nightmare face is maybe the best of it all. Because it wasn’t CGI. It wasn’t makeup artistry. It wasn’t even a mask.
They built a life-sized Ian Holm model, gave it a nightmare face, dressed it in the Bilbo costume, and put it in the shot for exactly a half second. There’s pictures (I can’t find them now, but I know they exist) of Ian Holm standing next to the model, and its uncanny insofar as it’s extremely unsettling but you can’t tell why.
