hcbbiton:

September 22 – “At last the day of the Big Party arrived. Everywhere there was too
much to eat, and by midafternoon there were broken presents lying all
over the Shire attesting to the low quality of their manufacture.
Gandalf
set off a series of fireworks later on in the day, including great
skywriting missiles and little flaming butterflies who took to wing,
sailed off into the Eastfarthing and burned all its trees to the ground.
The last firework sent up a great black smoke which took the shape
of a giant mountain of fire. A flicker could be seen of a giant dragon
sailing about its peak; after a moment the great dragon went sailing over
the heads of the crowd, causing great panic and consternation and six
outright heart attacks before imploding somewhere over the
Sackville-Baggins’ neighborhood, causing considerable property damage
which was never properly repaired for generations afterward.
‘That is the signal for supper!’, Bilbo cried out to the survivors,
who were only partly mollified.”

So I’m forever salty about how short all the elves hair is in the movies like no that’s not long it’s like two years of hair growth And for immortal beings that is so LAME… like I’m talking we need big full length hair waist long minimum ok elves like long hair and by god they’ll get long hair

OOOH YES, I haven’t seen much written about this! That’s a really, really good point, Nonnie. The only two elves in the films with hair that even approaches the stated length are Tauriel and Galadriel. Huh. 

Elrond, Legolas, Celeborn, Lindir, Haldir, Thrandy, even Arwen – ALL the rest are extremely short-haired, for elves. No bowstrings are gonna come out of THOSE heads! 

Perhaps it’s a fashion trend of the Third Age? Perhaps it’s the Elven equivalent of a mohawk dyed pink – Middle-Earth punk rockers? 

idk, but I feel and understand your annoyance on this one, Nonnie! *hugs*  i am a ball of festering resentment over certain movie things as well, after all 🙂

striders-walk:

Legolas was away much with the Galadhrim, and after the first night he did not sleep with the other companions, though he returned to eat and talk with them. Often he took Gimli with him when he went abroad, and the others wondered at this change.

-The Mirror of Galadriel, pages 349-350

I really love these moments between Legolas and Gimli. Lothlorien is a place of rest and healing for the fellowship, and a lot of healing happens in Legolas and Gimli’s relationship. Additionally, while everybody in the fellowship has lost a beloved friend and mentor, Gimli has lost a family member as well as his ancestral homeland. The loss he suffers is overwhelming. Legolas could be spending his time with his own people, which would certainly be easy and comfortable, but he chooses, of everybody in the fellowship, to seek Gimli out. He supports Gimli throughout the grieving process by showing him some beauty.

Also, I’m really into the idea that at some point Aragorn asks him what he was doing all those nights in Lothlorien, and it turns out he was having a lot of sex.