Oh be still my heart. At some point one of Legolas’s ridiculous stunts had to have caught up with him, right?? And he totally didn’t enjoy all of Gimli’s doting while he was laid up. Totally. (Thanks for the prompt! I’ll try and get to the other one at some point!)
*SQUEALS LOUDLY WITH SHEER DELIGHT*
oh my GUH this is ADORABLE AND AMAZING – bandages and gimli’s hair and legolas’ expression: ‘awww, worried Dwarf is worried, AWWWW’ and all the little details – and the background!! WOW
And over their hearts crept a shadow, the fear of a great danger: the end of the Mark in a darkness to which Gandalf was driving them, while Saruman stood beside a door of escape, holding it half open so that a ray of light came through. There was a heavy silence.
It was Gimli the dwarf who broke in suddenly. ‘The words of this wizard stand on their heads,’ he growled, gripping the handle of his axe. ‘In the language of Orthanc help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain. But we do not come here to beg.’
“The Voice of Saruman,” The Two Towers (via syrasi)
Gandalf’s encounter with the Balrog was terrifying for the rest of the Fellowship, but for Gandalf it was probably just super awkward. Like running into an ex-coworker that you hate. Legolas is all, “Ai! Ai! A balrog!” And Gandalf is like, “dammit, not fucking Greg again.”
Aw Yiss 