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friendly neighborhood bookverse blog friendly neighborhood bookverse blog a quiet corner for tolkien fans who prefer the books tags about the blog ask submit a post fangirl erdariel warrioreowynofrohan fangirl erdariel warrioreowynofrohan a bit of a theory that i ve struck on while rereading the start of fotr i think there s something guarding rivendell besides the bruinen i think elrond has taken a leaf out of melian s book there are some hints that the distance to rivendell varies depending on who you are frodo starts approaching the ford in late afternoon he is in desperate need of healing and is brought to rivendell midway into that same night in the hobbit in contrast the dwarves and bilbo cross the ford of bruinen in the morning and the sun is down by the time they reach rivendell there s lot of references to the journey being longer than bilbo would expect they came on unexpected valleys narrow with steep sides that opened suddenly at their feet and then looked down surprised to see trees below them and running water at the bottom there were gullies that they could almost leap over but very deep with waterfalls in them there were dark ravines that one could neither jump over or climb into there were bogs some of them green pleasant places to look at with flowers growing bright and tall but a pony that walked there with a pack on its back would never have come out again it was indeed a mich wider land from the ford to the mountains than you would ever have guessed bilbo was astonished then there s aragorn s line when merry asks him how far it is to rivendell i don t know if the road has ever been measured in miles beyond the forsaken inn a day s journey east of bree some say it is far and others say otherwise it is a strange road and folk are glad to meet their journey s end whether the time is long or short but i know how long it would take me on my own feet with fair weather and no ill fortune twelve days from here to the ford of bruinen by the way it always amazes me now i ve noticed it that the hobbits manage this journey which aragorn says would take him 12 days on the road with fair weather and no ill fortune in only 14 days with frodo severely injured travelling mainly off the road and with some bad weather and wrong directions some of that s due to the extremely fast pace glorfindel sets for the last twoand a half days but it s incredibly impressive if anyone should know the distance from bree to rivendell it should be aragorn a ranger of the north fostered in rivendell who has probably covered that journey dozens to hundreds of times and the road is fairly straight it shouldn t be hard for travellers to keep track of the general distance and also aragorn only gives the distance to the ford not to rivendell itself what if the distance and difficulty of the road from the ford to rivendell varies based on how well a guest is known frodo is the ring bearer in desperate need he makes it there fast thorin company are vouched for by gandalf but are largely an unknown quantity it takes them the better part of a day someone with hostile intentions might never find rivendell at all even after days of wanderings oh this is genuinely an interesting point one thing it makes me wonder about though is boromir and particularly that the book mentions he arrived in rivendell in the grey morning which personally i ve always taken to mean in the very early morning when there s some light but the sun may not yet be properly up and the dim light has that kind of greyish quality granted that it s late november so even with rivendell being further south in middle earth than my home in the real world at that point the sun probably rises quite late so it may not mean as much as otherwise idk maybe that s just my reading of the text but given that earlier in the chapter the morning is described as sunny so the grey can t refer to cloudy weather that s how the phrasing would seem to me anyway and it s always struck me as a little bit odd in the sense that for that to be the case he would ve had to either both start his journey very early that day which granted in itself is plausible and have been very close to rivendell already when he started or he would have had to push through the night without stopping to rest at all and to me it s kind of on one hand if he knew he was close enough to rivendell to reach it that early wouldn t he have known he was close and rather pushed through in hopes of getting somewhere inside before the night was over instead of spending it camped by the roadside in cold damp late november weather but if he was so far from rivendell as to have to travel the whole night through without stopping to reach it in early morning then how would he have known he was close enough for continuing through the night instead of stopping to make camp and sleep to be worth it for reaching rivendell faster but your point about the distance to rivendell being different to different people in different times would make either of those more plausible either being shorter than he thought to allow him to reach rivendell in time to attend the council since elrond implies that those who were in the council had been called there by fate or some such power and were meant to all be there on that day to play their part in the events at hand or being longer than he thought it would and forcing him to travel all night to reach it since he was a stranger unknown to elrond and coming unexpectedly or idk maybe none of this makes any sense to anyone but me but yeah this makes sense to me after thinking about it i figure that boromir crossed the ford of bruinen late in the day on the day before the council continued on for a little ways and then camped and then set out early in the morning any found he was practically on the doorstep of rivendell despite having seen no sign of it the previous night which adds to his general sense of disorientation yeah probably honestly no wonder he was a bit in a grumpy mood in the council i d be too if i d spent the night camped in the wild in late autumn woken up sometime in very early morning to continue my journey and somehow found the destination right there almost no distance away at all when i could ve sworn it wasn t so close yet the night before lol via tanoraqui 17 may 2026 652 fluentisonus alt legolas but i ve been looking at too much late medieval art 7 may 2026 814 theoppositeofprofound has someone written the story where sauron doesn t do all that swords in the dark art nonsense and just sends the witch king to hobbiton to file a lawsuit instead it s not a strategy that would work in any other jurisdiction in middle earth but hobbit law does not recognize wergild and does have the right of first finder with the time limit being the death of the original owner which works out great for sauron who never died the litigation comes down to is this dark lord fellow actually alive and if so can he prove it has he consistently been alive what is being alive actually when you think about it and he been making a good faith effort to recover his lost property for the last few thousand years both very tricky to adjudicate especially with the entire shire peeking into the court room the whole case eventually gets thrown out when a strange tall man abducts frodo in the night but it s quite the philosophical crisis in the meantime 16 apr 2026 1107 thelien art arwen undómiel this is the closest i could come to what i imagine imladris looks like as i never seem to quite settle on a design but i am delighted with how this turned out especially the stairs keep reading via veliseraptor 4 apr 2026 2347 aspecardaweek alt aspec arda week may 10th 16th 202 6 this event celebrates asexual and aromantic spectrum interpretations and headcanons of tolkien s legendarium any creations about the aromantic and asexual spectrums are welcome you can create edits gifs fanart fanfic fanmixes and more all versions of canon fanon and characters are 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any questions or suggestions feel free to send this blog an ask for further clarification check out our faq code of conduct and prompts pages happy creating more explanation of the prompts under the cut keep reading via astriiformes 28 mar 2026 108 tanoraqui tanoraqui tanoraqui tanoraqui merry brandybuck would ve fucking loved excel spreadsheets pippin meanwhile is two hours and 17 tangentially related pages deep into a wikipedia dive for the third time this week frodo is editing wikipedia he s the one who teaches pippin about the joy and strict requirement of citing original and or reliable sources inaturalist user samgardener is an mvp of identifying flowers grasses and herbs and adding little notes suggesting how to use them in cooking his accuracy record for shire local plants is matched only by strider2931 whose record is perfect in nearly every category and biome and the popular is that he s an ai via hirilelfwraith 16 mar 2026 4213 reblogging for spreadsheets merry lbr norloth thorin at your service via ermingarden 14 mar 2026 1124 astriiformes sindar princeling aragorn s terrible horrible no good very bad week the fellowship breaks on his watch forced to choose who to follow runs over 200 kilometers in under four days thinks merry and pippin are dead meets the reborn gandalf a rare win immediately has to do a 180 and ride to edoras immediately after that needs to ride to battle takes part in a battle which takes place over the whole night gets maybe 20 hours of sleep over the course of the whole week and i cannot stress this enough this is all still very far from over i ve reblogged this already but need to add a very important detail to this post in the middle of this whole mess march 1st aka he day that he meets gandalf again and has to do an immediate 180 that s aragorn s birthday via astriiformes 1 mar 2026 14063 cookiesandcantarella i get why it s easier due to time constraints and the comfort of a modern audience but the lotr movies recontextualizing sam and frodo as good friends at the beginning of fellowship rather than master and servant does such a disservice to their relationship and completely steam rollers over the inherent class divide that is an implicit point of tension throughout the books sam is the only lower class hobbit of the main four and as such he holds himself at a distance from the others and puts them especially frodo up on a pedestal from birth sam has grown up in a world where he s less than the gentlehobbits his father tells him he s reaching above his station for learning to read no his purpose is to serve his betters and the other hobbits aren t immune to this mentality iirc there s scene in fellowship where where pippin treats sam more like a pack mule than a friend even in mordor sam constantly refers to frodo as his master they are at the end of the world and they are still not equals sam clings to that normalcy of the shire but that normalcy entails holding onto a world where he ll always be less than frodo again and again he sacrifices his own safety and comfort for frodo giving the last of the water to frodo refusing to eat literally planning to kill himself when frodo is killed by shelob we can talk all day about sam gamgee and devotion a devotion that is genuine but you miss a lot when you don t factor in the hobbits unequal social status this is something that they do overcome i d argue they return to the shire as equals hell sam subsumes frodo s social status when frodo leaves the shire one of the draws of their story to me is watching this superficial master servant relationship grow into a very genuine love and friendship between equals the class divide is uncomfortable it was always uncomfortable and at the end of the day i feel the movies lose so much by shying away from that discomfort via hirilelfwraith 7 feb 2026 1006 toskarin aokozaki toskarin toskarin lotr using a translation framing device to get out of having to drown the reader in constructed languages for characters that are supposed to be mundane to the viewpoint but also being written when it was from the perspective of someone who was genuinely handling translation at the time leads me to the admittedly silly sentiment of you couldn t write lord of the rings today because that s not how modern literature approaches the translation of proper nouns if tolkien wrote his books today he couldn t have called him gandalf the grey because it was obviously important to him that the books represent a translation of authentic texts from another world and another time and while it would have been perfectly conventional in his time as an academic for books translated into english to find a way to represent the meaningful components of their names with equivalents that were likely to be more familiar to the reader this convention has been largely phased out and replaced with a preference for transliteration assuming he wrote the books today and pursued this same reflection of his academic interests in his creative ones it would ring inauthentic to not represent the languages he describes in this way you mean we would have the adventures of razanur kalimac maura and zilbirâpha an adventure prompted by dear old g no further components of gandalf s adûni name were ever confirmed see also g is for garden via tanoraqui 31 jan 2026 3585 tumblr theme by theme anorak back to top 1 265 tumblr theme by theme anorak