How many times am I allowed to reblog this before it gets weird?
Fun facts: Tolkien constructed this scene because he came out of Macbeth thinking that Shakespeare had missed a golden opportunity with the ”Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” prophecy
Being letdown by Macbeth is apparently a significant factor in Tolkien’s writing because the Ent/Huorn attack on Isengard was the result of his disappointment that the whole “til Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane” thing was just some dudes holding sticks and not actual ambulatory trees.
so he basically took his favorite shakespeare headcanons and put them into his AU fic
This revelation just knocked me over.
i don’t know whether to laugh or slam my head against my computer to learn that lord of the rings is just one giant AU fanfic of machbeth
Frerin’s reaction to Eowyn and Faramir kissing (which I’ve drawn here). Thorin is much confused.
I’ve entitled this comic “Frerin’s Shipper Heart”. He manages to express what most fans feel when their OTP finally get together pretty accurately imho.
This was fun to draw! Frerin has a very expressive face and it was really easy to get right for some reason. Thorin, on the other hand, is a nightmare. It’s much easier to draw him silly than with some sort of normal expression. I re-drew him at least four times in the second panel.