I am having a Middle-earth crisis right now.

[twisting_vine_x]

So I just saw BOTFA and this is basically my thought process right now.

"I want to write all the Middle-earth fic ever.

I wanna write Galadriel and Gandalf chillin' in Valinor together before she came to Middle-earth. Hanging out in the gardens, and going for walks down by the water, and stuff. I wanna write how sad they were to part, and I wanna

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[dunderklumpen]

That's so interesting because I read all kinds of reactions on my f-list: From "OMG, loved it" to "booooooring" to "hate it with all my soul". I will probaly first watch it in january. But I'm looking forward to it. Although I'm a bit confused about all the different reviews.

[twisting_vine_x]

I will probaly first watch it in january. But I'm looking forward to it.

Eeee, awesome. Hope you enjoy. :)

And yeah - reviews definitely do seem to be all over the place for it. I think part of it might depend on how much of a Tolkien purist one is, maybe? Like, I know most of Tolkien's stuff pretty much inside-and-out - heck, I can even quote from The Silmarillion, at this point - and there have been things that PJ did with the Hobbit series that made me want to bash my head against a wall; but he kept those types of a things to a minimum for the third one, thankfully. There are a few things I would mostly definitely change, but, overall, I thought it was fantastically done (which was a nice change, since, IMO, a lot of the second movie was a train wreck), and there were some lovely moments of humour slipped in among all the seriousness, and he managed to tone down the CGI, and find a balance between the action scenes and the emotional moments; and oh my god, the emotional punch that this movie packs, holy crap. I'm going to be a

[rogueslayer452]

FICS WITH BILBO AND THORIN PLANTING THE ACORN IN THE SHIRE THO

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FICS WITH BILBO AND THORIN PLANTING THE ACORN IN THE SHIRE THO.

BILBO AND THORIN LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER TOGETHER.

NO MORE PAIN. NO MORE PERILS. NOBODY DIES AND THEY JUST LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE WITH THORIN LOOKING AT BILBO WITH SUCH AFFECTION LIKE HE DID IN THE FILM (BUT WITHOUT ANY THREAT OF A SICKNESS LYING BEHIND). NO MORE GOLD JUST THEM LIVING A COMFORTABLE LIFE AND A LIFE THAT BILBO AND ESP THORIN DESERVES AFTER EVERYTHING.

*CRIES*

YES VERY GOOD I LIKE ALL OF THESE HAPPY FIC IDEAS cause like ugggggh. Crying with you. :( I completely get bawling in the cinema. I pretty much cried my way through the entire damn movie.

I was, and still am, an emotional wreck.

Right there with ya. Ugh.

[rogueslayer452]

But yeah also the way Thorin looked at Bilbo, in that one scene where he just looked so fond it hurt? I want a thousand fics of that, but, indeed, without the threat of sickness lying behind it. Because that was beautiful.THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. Like, we knew he had smiled at Bilbo before, but the fact he smiled so affectionately and tenderly and openly at him just made me want to have so much more of that. Without the sickness, of course. It was almost like a fanfic come to life, really, since I've read so many of them where Thorin just continually smiles fondly at Bilbo like he was the most precious in the entire world, and THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DID HERE IN THIS FILM. I WAS LIKE OMG. I can't wait for all those little moments to be giffed so many times

[twisting_vine_x]

THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. Like, we knew he had smiled at Bilbo before, but the fact he smiled so affectionately and tenderly and openly at him just made me want to have so much more of that. Without the sickness, of course. It was almost like a fanfic come to life, really, since I've read so many of them where Thorin just continually smiles fondly at Bilbo like he was the most precious in the entire world, and THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DID HERE IN THIS FILM. I WAS LIKE OMG. I can't wait for all those little moments to be giffed so many times.

ALL OF THIS. I just about had a meltdown in the theater. It really is like a fic come to life - I could barely believe what I was watching - and it really is absolutely gorgeous. So many fics have that moment; and the fact that we got to actually watch something similar is just amazing. I can't wait for it to be gif'd over and over again, too.

(Also, I like how this was how "singularly obsessed" Thorin was with Bilbo, he saw Bilbo as his shining light, his beacon of hope, his good omen, and it

[bellajedi]

I WANT TO READ ALL OF THESE

[twisting_vine_x]

I'm slightly tipsy on this lovely juice-tasting wine and cackling at this comment you're the freaking best. ♥

And if I actually end up writing any of these, I shall be sure to let you know. It's probably going to happen. Definitely in the midst of a Middle-earth meltdown right now.

[dreamflower02]

PJ kept to his altered timeline, where the seventeen years in the Shire never happened, so the age difference for Aragorn is right in line with that, although it is wrong for bookverse. (He was 87 in TT, so in TH he would have been about 20.)

[twisting_vine_x]

Oh, riiiiiiiiiiiiight, of course, those seventeen years... thank you for the reminder! Truly, I appreciate it - I'd definitely gapped on that timeline change. (Also, on a related note, I'm never going to be over the fact that Aragorn's 88th birthday was literally the day they found Gandalf in Fangorn. Talk about one hell of a birthday present. ♥)

But yes. Thanks for the timeline reminder! That definitely helps to make sense of Thranduil's comment about 'Strider' in the movie. :)