Sister Nightingale and her children. While a loving and gentle mother toward her children, Leliana’s callous and hard to others around her. Rowen and Hazel are mages. She does her best to shield them from the Circle and later the Mage/Templar war, and any prejudice they might face for being elven-blooded.
When the Inquisitor sided with the mages, she moved her family out of hiding and into Skyhold. ~~once Warden Surana figured out how to read a map of course~~
the thing about lotr that the movies don’t convey so fully is how the story is set in an age heavily overshadowed by all the ages before. they’re constantly traveling through ruins, discussing the glory of days gone by, the empires of men are much diminished, the elves (especially galadriel) are described as seeming incongruent, frozen in time….some of the imagery is even near-apocalyptic, like the ruins of moria and of course the landscape surrounding mordor
this is a strange thought to me, somehow: that the archetypal “high fantasy” story is set at the point where the…fantasy…used to be much higher? this is not the golden age; this is a remnant
LotR is Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome of the elves.
i want to emphasize that people have added excerpts of their theses in reply to this post but this is still my favorite reblog
“Don’t go where I can’t follow” is one of the most anguish inducing and crushing otp lines out there and the fact that this line originated from Samwise Gamgee, a brave gardener with tender hands, just? Aches. There’s literally no heterosexual explanation for how Sam and Frodo treated each other
best ending: new dragon age game normal ending: dragon age: origins or dragon age 2 remastered bad ending: mobile or card game worst ending: browser game
