pointy-eared-muse:

elrondfucker69:

You either die a casual LotR fan or live long enough to become silm trash

Those who survive the longest enter a third age, moving past the bright hills of the Shire where hobbits live, through the storied legends of the Lord of the Rings, beyond the bloodied fields, drowned lands and scorched swaths in the wake of the Silmarils.  These doomed souls venture into the murky tangles of the Unfinished Tales and the Histories of Middle-earth and further yet into the unformed wilds, hopelessly trying to make sense of long-lost letters and obscure publications, looking for bright gems of insight into the world they love.  Some are never to be seen again.  Some curse those who remain innocent in their superficial knowledge, knowing they were once like that but can never return to such a state, too deeply have they been ensnared.  They are forever changed.  Some can be heard, weeping for their obscure and retconned favorites, or shrieking for details all but lost.  They become the necromancers for the thoughts of the Creator, Tolkien.

@bahnree