iconic parts of lord of the rings that sadly didn’t make it into the films:

toshio-the-starman:

bookshelfdreams:

sleepingreader:

crechemaasters:

absynthe–minded:

• Frodo and Sam getting into a fight about rope
• Gandalf and Aragorn tag-team sassing a convalescent Merry about the location of his pack
• the massive intra-Fellowship fight about how fair or unfair it is for people to be blindfolded
• “DO AS YOU PLEASE IN YOUR MADNESS! I WISH TO SEE NO EYES!”
• Legolas coming all the way from Mirkwood to deliver bad news and get bitched at by Glóin
• Bilbo’s passive-aggressive notes to his annoying relatives
• Aragorn and Éomer leaning on their swords to take a break and chat in the middle of a fight (twice)
• Saruman appearing out of nowhere and harassing the Three Hunters like a DND random encounter
• the disco ball/oil slick/sequin robes
• basically every time Ioreth or the Master of the Houses of Healing says anything
• Pippin jumping into his bath and soaking literally everyone
• Bilbo’s song about Eärendil and Aragorn trying to gently point out that some topics of conversation are Sensitive
• Frodo deciding that the best way to be inconspicuous is with a loud obnoxious song about when the Moon got drunk

feel free to add your own

• Gimli threatening to fight Eomer to the death over which girl was the prettiest
• Bilbo talking way too much at the Council of Elrond and asking for lunch while Elrond puts his diplomat face on
• “i liked white better”

– legolas enthusiastically singing a song and then forgetting the rest of it
– that tree that’s happy with the fire
– Legolas basically bitching about how young the rest is and almost literally saying that fangorn is old as balls
– Gimli breaking into song and then refusing to talk about it
– Aragorn carrying around a broken sword like #aesthetic

– Aragirn throwing a hissy fit when he us asked to leave his sword outside before seeing king Theoden
– Gimli waxing poetic about how absolutely beautiful the caverns beneath Helms Deep are and asking Legolas to come see them with him to which Legolas replies “I would literally rather die”
– Legolas complaining about the Galadhrim’s terrible accents
– Everyone being gifted with cool stuff by Galadriel except Sam who gets a box full of dirt
– Saruman taking over the Shire and becoming a brutal dictator

*SLAMS FIST ON DESK*

HOW HAVE NONE OF YOU MENTIONED THE LOVABLE CHUNK OF INSANITY THAT IS TOM BOMBADIL?!