![]() ![]() Gandalf takes on a sometimes kind, sometimes frustrated grandfatherly role to the hobbits. They fondly tease their other cousin Frodo, and talk down to working-class Sam. Merry and Pippin are cousins, and banter like cousins. There are many relationships between men in the book, most of them platonic. ![]() ![]() Revisiting the book in the last year, as someone who has been out for many years and who is deeply engaged in making and consuming queer stories, I was amazed to find a same-sex love story at the heart of the narrative. The essayist Italo Calvino defined a classic as “a book that has never finished what it has to say,” and The Lord of the Rings is certainly a classic. But for a long time I avoided it, for the same reason that I learned not to talk about the movies at school: The accusations of queerness somehow tied into a story about elves, hobbits, and looming evil. It’s written on my creative DNA as the first book I really loved. I listened to The Lord of the Rings before I knew how to read. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. There are many levels such as "Flight to the Ford", "Rivendell", "Pelennor Fields" and more.2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story. The game is composed of sword-fighting, horse-mounted combats and travelling Middle-earth through the experience of Aragorn from all of the adventures with the Fellowship of the Ring and the battles. During the gameplay parts in the Shire, the playable character is Frodo Gamgee, with the second, optional one being Elanor Gamgee, replacing Aragorn and Gandalf, respectively. The game's protagonist is Aragorn and an optional player is Gandalf. Samwise Gamgee is the one who will re-tell the events in the Shire (which is the hub world) to his children, most importantly Frodo Gamgee. “The game is set not long after the events of The Lord of the Rings. Should I buy and do a play through next week? □”Do not tempt me!”□ #biblememes #biblememe #biblememehistory #biblememesdaily #lotr #lotrmemes #lotrfunny #lotrfunnymeme #lordoftherings #thelordoftherings #Gandalf #gandalfmeme #christianfunny #christianfunnies #lotrtrilogy #middleearth #middleearthmemes #frodo #frodomeme #frodomemes #reformation #calvinism #reformer #tulip #reformed #reformedchurch #arminianism #churchlife #church “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You that they also may be one in Us, THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE that You sent Me. "Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to ALL MEN, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to ALL MEN, resulting in justification of life." ~Romans 5:18 "And I, the Lord, have made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and have determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek Me, in the hope that they might grope for Me and find Me, though I am not far from any one of them." ~Acts 17:26-27 Edwards: "Well whatever you did, you've been officially labeled "A Disturber of the TULIP." ![]()
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