Year of the Ring

Confessions of a former Legolas fangirl

The limits of 2000s-era internet made a safer space for stanning In late 2002, right after Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was released, a message board of Orlando Bloom fans compiled a care package to send to Orlando Bloom himself. Assuming that everything that was…
Year of the Ring

The truth about elven immortality

Ooooh (elf) heaven is a place on (Middle-)earth The opening of The Fellowship of the Ring finds an elven war-leader ordering his archers to fire, with arrows aimed so precisely they clip his exquisitely braided hair on their way past. We don’t see Elrond, the lord of…