lotrsincebirth:

theumbrellaseller:

bofurthebrodwarf:

onamelancholyhill:

mmirkwood:

 #most people don’t get the extent of what this means

 #THEIR FATHERS HATE EACH OTHERS GUTS #LIKE NOT DISLIKE #BUT ACTUALLY LEGIT HATE

God bless Tolkien.

#somewhere else in middle earth thranduil and gloin are (separately) sobbing angrily #except their friendship mADE THEIR DADS STOP HATING EACH OTHER #I’M SORRY BUT THESE TWO WIN EVERYTHING

Two households, both alike in dignity,
in Middle Earth, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal realms of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d brothers make their life
Whose misadventure Sauron overthrows,
And with his death, end their people’s strife.
Their fearful passage, that shall death mark’d prove
And the continuance of their parents’ rage
Which but The One Ring’s end, naught could remove,
Is now, like, twelve hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which of you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Oh. My. Gosh.