carrying the world around his neck
"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."


thatquietearth:

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Book IV, Chapter One - The Taming of Sméagol

‘Yess, wretched we are, precious,’ he whined. 'Misery misery! Hobbits won’t kill us, nice hobbits.’

 ’No, we won’t,’ said Frodo. ‘But we won’t let you go, either.  You’re full of wickedness and mischief, Gollum.  You will have to come with us, that’s all, while we keep an eye on you.  But you must help us, if you can.  One good turn deserves another.’ 

faramircaptainofgondor:

middle earth meme: {2/3} races
→ hobbits

glorfindels:

30 days of lotr | 2. the fellowship of the ring

Nine companions. So be it. You shall be the fellowship of the ring.

wrathandruin-blog:

And the Fellowship of the Ring, though eternally bound by friendship and love, was ended.

fuck-yeah-middle-earth:

“Strangers from distant lands, friends of old, you have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction; none can escape it. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom.”

remusjohnslupin:

Tolkien Read-Along
↳ Many Meetings

Frodo woke and found himself lying in bed. At first he thought that he had slept late, after a long unpleasant dream that still hovered on the edge of memory. Or perhaps he had been ill? But the ceiling looked strange; it was flat, and it had dark beams richly carved. He lay a little while longer looking at patches of sunlight on the wall, and listening to the sound of a waterfall. `Where am I, and what is the time?’ he said aloud to the ceiling.”

‘In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning.’ said a voice. `It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’

andrewserkis:

“I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten.”

looklikealittleotter:

by ~Sidus-U

celaborn:

Favorite lotr Scenes [3/9]: The End of All Things

↳ “The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. But the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”

nimrodels:

lord of the rings meme: six relationships [1/6] → “Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo’s face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: “I love him. He’s like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.”