ori, dori and nori
silly little gigolas doodles instead of homework . maybe so
Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
O slender as a willow-wand! O clearer than clear water! O reed by the living pool! Fair River-daughter! O spring-time and summer-time, and spring again after! O wind on the waterfall, and the leaves’ laughter!’
So I've been really in love with the Goldberry design for the Magic the Gathering; Lord of the Rings Set and I wanted to draw her in my style.
something absolutely lovely about especially the first half of fellowship is that the hobbits keep meeting random kind helpful strangers - the elves, bombadil, butterbur, aragorn (also farmer maggot and his wife, though they're not strangers) - until the book solidifies in you the feeling that these are not really instances of random luck, but rather the inherent nature of the world. kind people are everywhere, and no matter where you are, there is surely someone closer than you think that would offer help if you needed it. it's such a beautiful theme across all of LOTR, and it's very sweet to me that it starts from the very beginning of the journey, on such a 'small' (comparatively), everyday scale
The king has got a crown again.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
I already loved Gollum as is (and frankly, he's right, Bilbo absolutely cheated), but ever since I found out he's a Cain character, I feel like I have no choice but to absolutely root for him. I loved the story of Cain and Abel ever since I was a child. This is so up my alley