"but they are not canon"
Do I look like I give a fuck
"why did the ring mostly affect frodo and not bilbo who had it for a gazillion years" objectively has a textual answer but i think the best answer is that sauron just likes bilbo more than frodo
bilbo: *uses the ring to hide from his relatives*
sauron, remembering almaren: yknow. real.
Beren: I'm going to fight god.
Luthien: Not without me you're not.
wdym i can't hug that guy that hangs on that mountain on his one hand? he's just a little girl
I’m so easily persuaded into a ship. All I need is one good piece of artwork and I’m like, yeah I see it. I approve.
really underrated part of the LotR films is when gollum gets exposition lines. like can you imagine? you're travelling with the most fucked-up evil little murder greyhound creature imaginable and he lives in a cave and doesn't know about potatoes but from time to time you have to ask him about local geopolitics. and he answers you
Something something about Curufin really resembling Fëanor. Sometimes Curufin catches his brothers looking at him weirdly. Like, really weird. Maglor standing in the doorway with tears in his eyes while Curufin plays with Tyelpe, softly singing the same songs Fëanor used to hum to them as kids. Or Maedhros going completely silent—teary-eyed silent—after Curufin delivers a fiery political rant they absolutely don’t agree on. Tyelko weirdly saying a soft “thank you” (with a smile, no less) when Curufin quietly replaces his worn-out arrows with new ones. Even Caranthir showing up at the forge, saying nothing at all, just standing there until Curufin asks what’s up and all he says is, “I like watching you work.”
It used to weird him out. Now he kinda gets it. They weren't looking at him at these times... they were seeing echoes. He accepts it. His brothers' pain is the same as his.
When Elrond and Elros were learning how to braid hair, Maglor and Maedhros had to let them use their hair for practice. The results were... well they tried. But Maglor and Maedhros had to run around, be scary and command their army while having, let's say, intersting hairdos beacuse they can't just take them out! The kids tried so hard!