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Wanderlustlover | Amanda
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She/Her. Demisexual Biromantic. ADHD. OCD. Bipolar II. Voracious reader, writer, singer, and world traveler. "I am large, I contain multitudes." - Whitman
How am I even supposed to live with this????? Either of them???? How do I wait 7 more days for more of all three of them?????

(I feel like this rewatch is going to be a test of my patience vs. my fixation, too.) #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"What's he saying to them?" / "I don't speak firefly."

This is a domino invention (of the best kind, mind you). Peter Jackson invented the talking to the moth part, which was believably Tolkienian, and then Rings added this, too & I love. #TROPRewatch

(P.S.S. In the book its Radagast & Gwaihar.)
February 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This woman is, also, A GODDESS.
No other opinions needed.
#TROPRewatch

Had the chance to run. Pushed through utter terror. Without A Sound. Fought & protected her child. (And from there went to demand that her people step up.) In my universe, she never dies.
February 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Sighting #1 of the crest of The King of The Southlands.

(I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS, AND THE TIMELINE, AND THE MILLENNIA BEFORE THIS, AND THE SILMARILLION LULL PRE-RE-FALL.)
February 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
God. I fell in love with this trio SO HARD in this scene. Especially when Durin tells him to sit down, and he's still (#justifably) angry/hurt, and both his wife & Elrond get these ABSOLUTELY FOND expressions about it.

It's so clear how much they know him & love him for just who he is. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Also, I've always loved someone putting it like this and sliding in the reference that Narvi & Celebrimbor, perhaps, both had reasons to incorporate beautiful elven trees. Both The Two & this one.
February 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"Planted it. Raised it up. Tends it like it's our third child." #TROPRewatch

My heart ACHES SO MUCH at this. Because of the lengths, you'd have to go through to make one of these trees bloom underground and how rare they are to begin with—
February 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
DISA. MY LADY. SUDDEN BRICK WALL HUG. #TROPRewatch

(I LOVE HER SO SO SO SO SO MUCH, TOO. HONESTLY, THE BEST MARRIED COUPLE & PARENTS & SOON-TO-BE-RULING-COUPLE SET ON THE THING SO FAR.)
February 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
THIS BOY. THIS BOY. WITH HIS SUDDEN UNDERSTANDING AND DEEP SORROW FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW MUCH HE HAS HURT HIS FRIEND. #TROPRewatch

The ever-present constant reminder he is still a boy with puppy eyes, and he's still so, so, so very young, and has so, so, so very far to go (/fall/grow).
February 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The MiddleEarthAlong finished rereading Fellowship of the Ring this month, so this is still loud in my head. AND IT'S SO FITTING HERE, TOO. #TROPRewatch

This reminder of how they are—but also a reminder to Elrond what he can't let simply "slip by" if he chooses family/kin among those races, too.
February 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
BOYS. HERE. IT. COMES.

THIS LITTLE DWARF AND HIS BIG HURT HEART.
#TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"Galadriel."
"I'm Halbrand."

#EP2 #CHANCEMEETING2
February 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I never never never stop seeing the crown. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
GOSH. I WONDER WHY YOU'D THINK THAT. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"The tides of fate are flowing; yours may be heading in or out." & Its canonical reference point. (Book 2, Chapter 7. || The ending that is her freeing from fear [& double-exile].)

Hiiiiii, also, your face.

[ Enter One Reluctant Villain ]
#TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
MANA ÚRË. [ Blessed Flame. || "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor." ] And the first time he draws the constellation for Nori. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Hello, my next love!!! I love you. I love him. His heart is just SO BIG, and he's trying to be a GOOD BOY so often, and he's at the heart of so much. I never expected him to move in the way he did, but I am so glad he did. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I remember how absolutely stunned and blown away by Khazad-dûm / Dwarrowdelf / Mines of Moria when we first got this shot. My heart stopped, stuttered, grew 12 sizes. #TROPRewatch #And #ConceptArt
February 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Annnnd we come into this scene, and Celebrimbor's Workshop, on Fëanor's hammer. Which I'm sure has 0% foreshadowing. Nothing bad could happen in a place this beautiful. Surely not. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
These first shots of Eregion being SuperGorgeous. Goddds, It's so pretty. Please to keep giving me gorgeous elven domains. || Plus: For You—The original Eregion Concept Arts, too. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"He could've landed anywhere, and he landed here. I know it sounds strange, but somehow I just know he's important. It's like there's a reason this happened. Like I was supposed to find him. Me." #ChanceMeetingNumberOne
February 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I love these girls, too. The simple 'folk of the Earth' were the most important to Tolkien. I giggle at their push-pull that lands Nori in the crater. Their push-pull that means The stranger goes ambling down the hill in his cart forgotten for san argument. Kids! Friends! <3 #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Hey-o, and we return to our Harfoot Girls and the big naked guy who landed in a fireball. Oh, Olórin. This was not at all what you expected when you took your task, was it?
February 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
—The Eye of Sauron, possibly our swiftly (tilting planet) changing (CURRENTLY FLAT, until after Numenor's downfall, planet) 2nd shoutout to Beleriand, and the point when Morogoth enters the music, dark, silken, serpentine #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I'm a Sil Girl so I'mmmmmaaaa have to yell about these things first. Because we open on the Ainulindalë in grains, shades, gold, and black. We have The Rings, The Trees, The Star of Fëanor, & The Silmarils. #TROPRewatch
February 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM