me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!
me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES
In the same vein:
Me at 14: oh protagonists that are 17-20-ish, theyāre basically adults, right?
Me at 28: Oh my Gods youāre babies who left you in charge?!
Ariel: Daddy, I love him! Me at 14: Yeah, girl, you tell him! Me at 30:
āThe stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about āa handsome princeā⦠was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for āa girl who was as beautiful as the day was longā⦠well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories donāt want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were toldā¦ā
a smug indulgence. tell yourself, āiām gonna do this thing because i like it, and thereās nothing you can do to make me feel bad about it!ā eat that cake! read that romance novel! be free!!!
religious affiliation: āCool Girlā speech, Gone Girl (2014)
Men always say that as the defining compliment, donāt they? Sheās a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like sheās hosting the worldās biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I donāt mind, Iām the Cool Girl.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe theyāre fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men ā friends, coworkers, strangers ā giddy over these awful pretender women, and Iād want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men whoād like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. Iād want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesnāt really love chili dogs that much ā no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: Theyāre not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, theyāre pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if youāre not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesnāt want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version ā maybe heās a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe heās a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesnāt ever complain. (How do you know youāre not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: āI like strong women.ā If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because āI like strong womenā is code for āI hate strong women.ā)
if i had to get in a fistfight with any member of the fellowship it would be Frodo because i would easily win
all i am saying is that he would ostensibly be the easiest one to take on in a fight given that heās like three feet tall and has led a life of (physical) leisure compared to all of the others due to his standing as a gentlehobbit
legolas, aragorn, and gimli are all used to combat, sam works as a gardener, merry and pippin often gallivant off and get into mischief so they have the advantage of experience in whatever it is theyāve gotten up to/would possibly fight dirty, gandalf is gandalf so while weapons are out of the question i suppose that depends on if magic is involved. i donāt think i could take him without magic even if he IS old because heās a very large guy, but maybe
it would be my knuckles against Frodoās baby soft poet hands, plus iāve got the additional height and fighting experience. i just think that he would be the easiest to win against in hand-to-hand combat out of the rest of them. also he isnāt real so he canāt offer a rebuttal to my claim
youāre absolutely correct BUT wanting to fight Frodo makes you a monster D:
this has nothing to do with WANTING to fight Frodo, i just think he would be easiest for me to beat in a fight with no weapons. unless he utilized his very large feet, but i think heās too polite to do that because itās a fist fight and that would be considered playing dirty
for someone who doesnāt want to fight Frodo you sure have put a lot of thought into fighting Frodoā¦ā¦ā¦.
OP is wrong though: you fight Pippin.
First off, Pippin has it coming, so you wonāt be fighting your conscience at the same time.
Secondly, Pippin is a spoiled rich kid. Heās no less gentry than Frodo is, but Frodo works out and is shown to have better stamina, at least at the outset. Pippin is also both the stupidest and the slowest of the hobbits. They both nearly beat one (1) troll, so thatās comparable, but Pippin appears not to have got a single hit in against the orcs that captured them while Merry was cutting off hands like a boss. Pippin also straight-up tell Bergil that heās not a fighter.
Also thereās a nonzero chance that Frodo will just straight up curse you (if the guilt of fighting Frodo isnāt enough if a curse by itself).
And, of course, if you try to fight Frodo, you will 100% end up fighting Sam, and he will wreck you (and youāll deserve it, you monster)
Also: if you fight Frodo youāll have a very angry Sam & possibly also the entire Fellowship to deal with BUT if you fight Pippin they will probably cheer you on.
Bold of you to assume one could attempt to fight Pippin and NOT instantly be killed by Boromir.
So hereās the thing - you absolutely DO NOT want to try and fight Frodo or Pippin because they are going to be protected by the rest of the Fellowship, which basically exists to stop asshole Big People from picking on the hobbits. Folk might talk a big game but when the chips are down, you are not going to lay a single hand on any of the hobbits. Either youāll find yourself immediately fighting all four of them or else youāll move to land your first hit and suddenly Aragorn will side-tackle you into the trees. And he probably hits like a freight train tbh.
So hereās what you do:
You fight Legolas.
The thing about fist-fighting Legolas of course is that you will lose. This is not a fight youāre gonna win no matter what. But Legolas has his standing competition with Gimli, so once the challenge is issued, heās not gonna let anyone else step in and fight you either. No one is liable to volunteer on his behalf, either, so you will only end up fighting the one member of the fellowship. If you are lucky he might also take his shirt off. Bonus!
Anyway.
Legolas will mop the floor with you, but heās also already convinced youāre weaker than him anyway because youāre not an elf, so heās gonna go kind of easy on you. And when you lose he will be all snide and superior about it, which means everyone in the fellowship is gonna sympathize with you, and Gimli will probably challenge him on your behalf afterwards, but hereās the key thing:
You will have lost a fist-fight to an immortal warrior prince.
Thatās a way better loss to cop to than that time you tried to fistfight a pudgy gentlehobbit and got beaten to the point of unconsciousness by his gardener, yeah?
okay so tolkien tumblr is fast becoming my fave tumblr community thank you thank you all you are the true fellowship here.