i recently rewatched the LOTRs and now i’m crying about Legolas and Gimli forever send help

‘It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.’

‘Yet seldom do they fail of their seed,’ said Legolas. ‘And that will lie in times and places unlooked for. The deeds of Men will outlast us, Gimli.’

Gimli and Legolas, The Return of the King (via one-small-garden)

@icesalamander submitted: Wood elf with tree climbing shoes

oh my god……he’s a giant tree frog…..anyway yeah ok charmingly dweebish especially if he just randomly walks in the trees alongside everyone else if there’s any available

Gimli/Legolas sex by lockoneyes122

aluxra:

elfandbowman:

do you think little legolas would sit down on the ending of thranduil’s robe (which is long as hell and drags on the floor) and thrandy would pretend he didn’t notice and just walk around like that

older Legolas doing it when he’s absolutely wasted tho

Do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unkown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun

Legolas, The Two Towers (via one-small-garden)

or Elrond for a character ❤️❤️❤️

I already did elrond here, but thank u very much! ❤ legolas/gimli below! u really know my tastes well anon >_o

when or if I started shipping it: I always loved their friendship but it didn’t really click in a fannish shipping manner until I started doing fannish stuff with LOTR generally – for a long time despite loving LOTR and re-reading it every year, I had not the faintest inclination to do anything fandom-related with it. but after I did, I shipped them from my very next re-read 🙂

my thoughts: GOD. THEY ARE. OTP TO END ALL OTPs…..i love everything. i love the progression of their relationship. i love every single interaction they have. i love how MUCH they interact. i love the greek-chorus-y role their interactions play in the larger plot. i love how their relationship kind of winds through LOTR like a river of gold, something unfailingly joyous and deep and bright and flourishing and funny, parallel to and brushing shoulders with all the other complicated plot threads, and not ignoring them or diminishing them, but kind of sucking sustenance from them to make their own subplot even sweeter and richer. i love their fucking cave/forest double dates. i love their endinnnnggggg.

What makes me happy about them: THEY LITERALLY SAIL OFF INTO THE SUNSET TOGETHER FOR SPACE PARADISE WHILE WINGING IT.

What makes me sad about them: Legolas is immortal and Gimli is very very much not 😦

things done in fanfic that annoys me: movie characterizations that are nonetheless tagged in the LOTR book category, or characterizations that purport to be book characterizations but are so tainted by movie characterizations and/or pop-cultural impressions of “how dwarves/elves ‘are’” that they bear not the faintest resemblance to the actual characters. sludge-projection etc. Gimli thinking of himself as an inferior ugly lil dwarf not Worthy of Legolas. Cliched (and see above for movie/pop-culture-tainted) plots about srs bsns proud rigid elf learning that uncouth rude rough dwarf is Better Than Him. Stupid demonization or snide treatment of various other characters (especially but not limited to Thranduil).

things I look for in fanfic: srs bsns proud dwarf learning that uncouth rude featherbrained elf is sorta cute, actually. culture clash/exchange/worldbuilding. Deep Passion. lots of dialogue. …..cliched mutual pining /)_o

My kinks: HAAAAAIIIIIRRRRRRR. body hair and lack thereof. both of them being either Kinky and Weird or pleasantly unconcerned with hotness from their own povs because each one falls well outside the other’s cultural beauty standards. height and body type differences. previous sexual experiences differences. and…….EMBARRASSINGLY ENOUGH……goofy LACE-as-natural-biologically-rooted-instinct stuff (which i actually don’t care for much in other pairings).

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: NO ONE.

My happily ever after for them: They get a good span of time in Valinor and Legolas recovers from Gimli‘s death in a deep-rooted sincere constructive way and they meet again at the end of the world in the Dagor Dagorath where they resume their bodycount competition. <33333 Most romantic Y/Y?

coconutmilkyway:

a medicinal herb!

I just finished the lord of the rings movies and I almost forgot how much i love that world ❤ elves and dwarves are so cute help. i love how legolas and gimli went on adventures together after the war like how adorable is that like honestly

eravee:

elves and dwarves? yes, please

i don’t remember the books so well, what is legolas’ personality like in them? all i remember is tht the books and movie where massively different?

sindar-princeling:

Oh my dear anon. I could go on about book Legolas for hours.

Book Legolas is a sassy little sh*t who skips on the surface of the snow when everyone else is drowning in it up to their waists and carrying the four hobbits. Book Legolas sleeps with his eyes open. He watches Aragorn throw himself to the groud and listen to the sound of running horses, only to say afterwards, “yeah, there are a hundred and five of them, they’re all blond and they all have spears nbd“. Book Legolas cries that Gollum escaped grom Mirkwood right after everyone was like, “phew, it’s good that Thranduil’s elves keep an eye on him, what could go wrong???“. He screams all the time, and occasionally drops his bow too. He kills a warg, shooting it right in the throat with a burning arrow. Book Legolas is a trees stan. Book Legolas walk away singing “To the Sea! To the Sea!“. Book Legolas is not afraid of zombies, thank you very much. He addreses his friends “children“, even though he is probably the youngest elf in Middle-Earth that we know of. And of course, book Legolas takes none of your bs, builds his own grey boat because who says he can’t sail on his own ship right, packs his best friend and shows up in Valinor 120 years late with Starbucks and a dwarf.