In some countries in Central and Eastern Europe, roughly one-in-five adults or more say they would not accept Jews as fellow citizens.
Lithuania: where my great-great-grandmother, two of her daughters, and their husbands and children were shot into a pit they were forced to dig – by their own neighbors – in 1941.
Sam: *walking about like a cat in booties* oh no… Oh no…
Frodo: *stands up* *immediately falls down*
Merry: you just spend all your time with your feet in… jail? In foot jail?? This is the worst
Pippin: *stomping about* haha Merry look, I’m a human! Get out of my way! I’m in a hurry! Where’s my horse? My name’s Boromir- *trips over laces and goes down hard* ow
Pippin: Merry help I’m stuck Merry *wrenching at shoes* STOP LAUGHING i’M A TOOK WE HAVE WIDE FEET
Merry: why are there so many laces this is so over-complicated
Frodo: *frantically kicking off shoes* nope nope nope nope nope
Gimli: Sam just walk normally
Sam: I don’t know where my feet are!
Gimli: they’re at the ends of your legs lad!
Sam: Mister Frodo help
& while all this is happening literally every other member of the Fellowship losing their gotdamn shit at the sight of a bunch of grown men (+Pippin) unable to figure out how shoes work
Frodo: alright I’m going to try again *stands up* *WHAM* oww
Aragorn: *sobering up* Okay Frodo seriously take those off before you really hurt yourself
~later~
Pippin: I suddenly have a new respect for all you shoe-wearing folks
Boromir: Pippin no offence but that is literally one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard anyone say
I wonder how Peter managed to turn a whole cast into a bunch of 5 years old. He did the same in LOTR.
i can’t not reblog this much hobbit happiness in one post.
I’m going to miss them oh so much…
I love this cast more than words can tell. I shall not miss them, for they are with me always. There are meetings and encounters yet to come. Details are still to be revealed, for all great stories need embellishment. And extras will exist forever.
abuse survivors don’t own their abusers a single thing. they don’t owe them a phone call, they don’t owe them a card, they don’t owe them a hug, or forgiveness, or any other thing. abuse survivors don’t have to invite abusive relatives to christmas. they don’t have to call someone who abused them for years just because it’s their abuser’s birthday. if you ever pressure a survivor into contacting their abuser, you absolutely suck.
additionally: abuse survivors don’t owe anyone accused of abuse a single thing.
One of the the craziest things about “The Hobbit” film trilogy is the fact that like in many mainstream films, the concept of “home” is romanticized, and yet unlike many mainstream films, the reality of “home” is shown to be incredibly toxic.
Both Thorin and Bilbo glorify their homes in their minds, yet in both cases when they actually reach the home they’ve been dreaming about, they find them to be empty, desolate, and nightmarish. Their homes literally trap them in a downward spiral of corruption and bring them into proximity with evil objects of gold that subvert their inherent personalities and goodness as people. Their homes destroy them.
This is still wild to me. Sure there’s other, more artistic films that will deal with the idea of “home” being a toxic rather than a healthy place. But it is unusual to see the reality of their homes vs. the narrative about their homes that the characters believe to be true running so contradictory to one another in a film that isn’t otherwise too concerned with being intellectual. Even the books don’t focus on this message to that extent. Whereas in the films, there is a central theme that the idea of “home” as a fixation on a place is less healthy for us than the actions we take, and the people we choose to be with.
And that is quite bold and unusual.
I’m not going to deny that you’re right (because I think you are!), but that’s actually one of the things I DON’T like about The Hobbit movies. At least on Thorin’s end.
Gold sickness aside – and I’m fairly convinced that Smaug had a lot to do with it – Thorin and his people had every right to reclaim their home, and the idea that the home wasn’t all it was cracked up to be and made their leader sick just…kind of doesn’t sit right with me. I might be an oversensitive Jewish complainer here, but IDK.
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