vanessayves:

And thus it was. A fourth age of middle-earth began. And the fellowship of the ring… though eternally bound by friendship and love… was ended. Thirteen months to the day since Gandalf sent us on our long journey… we found ourselves looking upon a familiar sight. We were home. How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on… when in your heart you begin to understand… there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend… some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold. Bilbo once told me his part in this tale would end… that each of us must come and go in the telling. Bilbo’s story was now over. There would be no more journeys for him… save one. My dear Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be and to do. Your part in the story will go on.

bagginshield:

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

orlandobloom:

“I wonder,” said Frodo, “But I don’t know. And that’s the way of a real tale. Take any one that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know. And you don’t want them to.”

LOTR 30 day challenge: day 6 favorite member of the fellowship → gimli, son of glóin.
Tell me, Legolas, why did I come on this quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would have never come, had I known the danger of light and joy.

thorinss:

MIDDLE-EARTH MEME: [1/10 characters] Legolas

“A messenger of his father, Legolas became a vital member of the Fellowship by use of his keen eyesight and his masterful skill of the bow.  He is the only known recorded son of Thranduil and previous to the war, he lived among the Silvan Elves of Northern Mirkwood. After the Breaking of the Fellowship, he continued onward with Aragorn and Gimli in search of their captured friends Merry and Pippin.  Along the way, he developed a strong bond with Gimli the Dwarf and despite their previous animosity, the two remained friends until they both sailed West after the death of King Elessar.”