Personally I always felt like Hobbits age at roughly the same rate as exceptionally healthy humans and that the reason they don’t come of legal age until 33 is because have you met people in their 20s because Tolkien did
Funny: Pippin is an idiot because he’s not an adult yet.
[id: “Bilbo drew his hand over his eyes. ‘I am sorry,’ he said. ‘But I felt so queer.’”]
i have no doubt that rosie cottons is a hobbit stripper name. as if tolkien wrote an entire world as a vehicle for his elaborate language project and didn’t guess that naming a character ‘pink undies’ might maybe have a subtext
“Don’t go where I can’t follow” is one of the most anguish inducing and crushing otp lines out there and the fact that this line originated from Samwise Gamgee, a brave gardener with tender hands, just? Aches. There’s literally no heterosexual explanation for how Sam and Frodo treated each other
When it comes to elves there are three broad classes of ear length.
Classic:
Anime:
You Have A Fetish:
[id: first image, “classic” is Legolas from the Lord of the Rings films. his ear is just like a human ear, but the highest part tapers into a subtle point.
second image, “Anime”, is Deedlit, a high elf character from Record of Lodoss War, an anime based on a d&d campaign. she has long triangular, lobeless ears that point horizontally away from her head. each ear is about as long as her head is wide.
third image, “You Have A Fetish”, is of Jak from the Jak and Daxter video games. his long triangular ears are at least twice as long as his head is wide.]
gollums loincloth is like 2 inches of toilet paper and he’s hopping around like disneys quasimodo doing acrobatics and we as an audience are narrowly spared from seeing his peepee but you cannot you CANNOT argue that sam and frodo didnt see it at least once!! they didn’t want to but they didn’t have things like camera angles to save them they probably saw gollums swinging little meat sack a hundred times and both of them just decided to never ever mention it
did they decide to never ever mention it or are they talking about it constantly every time the camera cuts away? we the audience get to decide and that’s why i think fiction is so powerful
