Currently Making A Witch King Plushie

Tag who you want to catch up with / get to know better !

Tagged by @hippodameia thank you so much!!

Last song: Champagne & Sunshine by PLVTINUM, Tarro (i love the singing of approximately the second verse but i don't like the end so i always replay the beginning) [ps: yours is sooo good]

Last film: was interrupted in the middle of The Two Towers

Currently reading: I was in between books! I just finished The Spears Of Jerusalem by George Bordonove (about the Crusades and King Baldwin IV, which i did like but some parts were seriously weird -women written by men stereotype, no need to elaborate-, ps: wondering if historical romance, even if published, if about a real person, counts as xOC fanfic, bc i've read all of the romance ao3 has to offer about this king already so how is this book any different?), and was planning to read A Splendid Ruin next, by Megan Chance, but lotr is also ever-ongoing

Currently Watching: Outlander, i like it! but the violence made me cover my eyes

Current Obsession: my ao3 WIP, i'm knee-deep in the outline doc (Witch-King fanfic)

Tagging without pressure: @konartiste @eyredragneel @diet-cokette @thewitchkingiscool-ace @destinyeternity1 @burgerkingpiccolo @horsewithaface @uvanym

ooooh I love numbers

If you recall, a little while ago I manually scraped data regarding popular LotR ships from Ao3 using an extremely rough methodology. I had a request for the data, so what the heck, here you go.

Now, these numbers are ridiculously rough. In fact, you might even say they're bad. The first 10 are approximately correct. But, as explained in that link, every group of 10 after that is undercounted by more and more because I excluded fics from my search that contained the ships already on the list. Also, anything tagged in the Hobbit movies/book but not LotR was really, really undercounted.

Let this be a lesson in data sources! In fact, the best use of this data is to use it as a starting point for getting good data. Instead of checking every permutation of ships (like idk, Merry/Elrond) for proper numbers, you would start by checking the top 50 on this list. This is of course assuming you didn't have a better method of getting data out of Ao3 than using the work and tag searches like I've done here.

(The second-best use of this data is to go "lol, really?" which is what I assume/hope you're here for, because otherwise you're probably gonna be disappointed.)

(The third-best use of this data is to note that because the Hobbit movies came out 2012-14, right when Ao3 had achieved critical mass, it is much, much easier to find Hobbit-related fic on Ao3 than LotR, the films of which came out in 2001-03.)

For ships that intrigued me I've included the "actual" results in purple. But even those numbers are probably undercounting because some people don't use tags that map to the canonical tags.

Anyway, the top 140 ships for "Lord of the Rings - All Media Types" on Archive of Our Own using a Very Bad counting method are:

1 Frodo/Sam (2207) (2,250) 2 Gimli/Legolas (1918) (2,121) 3 Aragorn/Arwen (1509) 4 Aragorn/Legolas (1492) 5 Éowyn/Faramir (1055) 6 Bilbo/Thorin (996) (12,085!!!) 7 Erestor/Glorfindel (955) (1,158) 8 Aragorn/Boromir (766) 9 Celebrían/Elrond (752) 10 Galadriel/Halbrand (688) (691) 11 Legolas & Thranduil (439) 12 Legolas/Original Female Character (347) (539) 13 Legolas/Thranduil (308) 14 Merry Brandybuck/Pippin Took (305) (488) 15 Thranduil/Original Female Character (294) (653) 16 Legolas/Reader (269) (328) 17 Gimli & Legolas (248) 18 Elrond/Lindir (244) 19 Éomer Éadig/Lothíriel (233) 20 Thranduil/Thranduil's Wife (232) (512) (this tag cracks me up) 21 Celeborn/Galadriel (216) 22 Frodo & Sam (196) 23 Boromir/Faramir (157) 24 Aragorn/Frodo (155) 25 Boromir & Faramir (153) 26 Rose Cotton/Sam (147) (331) 27 Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor/Sauron (145) 28 No Romantic Relationship (128) 29 Elrond/Thranduil (123) (325) 30 Thranduil/Reader (114) (620) 31 Elrohir/Legolas (122) 32 Aragorn & Legolas (119) 33 Original Female Character/Original Male Character (117) 34 Aragorn/Faramir (99) 35 Aragorn/Reader (89) 36 Kíli/Tauriel (80) (2,604!!!) 37 Elrond/Reader (78) 38 Elrond & Maglor | Makalaurë (75) 39 Haldir of Lothlórien/Legolas (71) 40 Thorin/Original Female Character (68) 41 Merry Brandybuck & Pippin Took (82) 42 Denethor II/Finduilas of Dol Amroth (80) 43 Elladan/Elrohir (78) 44 Haldir of Lothlórien/Original Female Character (77) 45 Boromir/Original Female Character (70) 46 Bard the Bowman/Thranduil (67) (1,727) 47 Bilbo & Frodo (64) 48 Minor or Background Relationship (60) 49 Elladan & Elrohir (58) 50 Éomer Éadig/Faramir (57) 51 Elrond/Ereinion Gil-galad (72) 52 Éomer Éadig/Reader (59) 53 Celebrimbor/Sauron (55) (783!!!!) 54 Fingon | Findekáno/Maedhros | Maitimo (51) 55 Éowyn/Gríma Wormtongue (48) 56 Other Relationship Tags to Be Added (48) 57 Celebrimbor/Talion (Shadow of Mordor) (47) 58 Frodo/Faramir (46) 59 Arondir/Bronwyn (46) 60 Elrond/Legolas (45) 61 Arwen/Éowyn (52) 62 Aragorn/Éowyn (49) 63 Glorfindel/Original Female Character (48) 64 Legolas/Original Character (43) 65 Aragorn & Elrond (39) 66 Thorin/Reader (37) 67 Elendil the Tall/Tar-Míriel (34) 68 Legolas/Original Male Character (33) 69 Aragorn & Boromir (33) 70 Elrond & Elros Tar-Minyatur (32) 71 Durin IV & Elrond (37) 72 Ecthelion of the Fountain/Glorfindel (32) 73 Legolas/Harry Potter (30) 74 Original Character/Original Character (29) 75 Haldir of Lothlórien/Reader (29) 76 Glorfindel/Legolas (27) 77 Boromir/Reader (27) (85) 78 Legolas/Tauriel (26) 79 Elrond/Erestor (26) 80 Boromir/Legolas (26) 81 Frodo/Rose Cotton/Sam(25) 82 Diamond Took/Pippin Took (23) 83 Thorin/Thranduil (23) (723) 84 Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (22) (48) lol 85 Thranduil/Original Character (21) 86 Boromir/Théodred (21) 87 Éomer Éadig/Legolas (21) 88 Merry Brandybuck/Éowyn (20) 89 Aragorn/Original Female Character (20) 90 James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers (19) 91 Éomer Éadig & Éowyn (25) 92 Elrond & Glorfindel (22) 93 Éomer Éadig/Original Female Character (20) 94 Sean Bean/Orlando Bloom (18) 95 Éowyn/Legolas (18) 96 Erestor & Glorfindel (18) 97 Sean Bean/Viggo Mortensen (17) 98 Frodo/Merry Brandybuck (17) 99 Fëanor | Curufinwë/Nerdanel (17) 100 Elladan/Glorfindel (17)

101 Éowyn/Tauriel (20) 102 Frodo/Boromir (17) 103 Isildur/Valandil (17) 104 Elrond/Glorfindel (16) 105 Aragorn/Elrond (15) 106 Legolas & Original Female Character (14) 107 Lindir/Reader (14) 108 Elrond/Original Female Character (14) 109 Arwen & Elrond (14) 110 Elladan/Legolas (13) 111 Arathorn II/Gilraen (16) 112 Aragorn/Haldir of Lothlórien (16) 113 Galadriel/Sauron (16) 114 Elrond & Ereinion Gil-galad (14) 115 Human/Orc (13) 116 Sauron/Original Female Character (13) 117 Aragorn & Gimli & Legolas (13) 118 Witch-King of Angmar/Reader (13) 119 Bungo/Belladonna Took (12) 120 Frodo/Original Female Character (12) 121 Elendil the Tall/Reader (17) 122 Fíli/Kíli (15) 123 Frodo/Legolas (14) 124 Fíli/Original Female Character (13) 125 Ratbag the Coward/Talion (Shadow of Mordor) (13) 126 Estella Bolger/Merry Brandybuck (12) 127 Elladan/Elrohir/Legolas (12) 128 Celebrimbor & Talion (Shadow of Mordor) (12) 129 Loki (Marvel)/Thranduil (12) 130 Imrahil/Legolas (12) 131 Orlando Bloom/Viggo Mortensen (15) 132 Tom Bombadil/Goldberry (12) 133 Halbarad/Maglor | Makalaurë (12) 134 Frodo/Merry Brandybuck/Pippin Took (11) 135 Goldberry/Lady of the Blue Brooch (11) 136 Celebrimbor/Narvi (11) 137 Sauron/Reader (11) 138 Beren Erchamion/Lúthien Tinúviel (10) 139 Erestor/Reader (10) 140 Aragorn/Arwen/Boromir (10)

love the idea !! my account is very new so here is the little team: @hippodameia @diet-cokette (bc second account) @destinyeternity1 and you @thewitchkingiscool-ace ^^

🖤🖤🖤

Omg guys the LotR tag is trending :DDD

New tag game: tag all of the lotr/the hobbit mutuals you have

LOTR FANS I SUMMON YOU

@bilbo-baggins-is-a-fcking-vibe @unethicallypleistocene @hobbitwrangler @horsewithaface @local-pirate-king @solidorange69 @kylobith @am0o5 @frodothefair @raccooninmycabbages @lowopacityelrondpussy @friendofthefellowship @bookworm-with-coffee @deadlymistletoe @unicornslayerofd000m @spookylolbit @mairon-the-admirable @goblincoreinfp @melkor-the-first-dark-lord @mrfrodosstuff @bambino1294 @brigwife

I'm dying omg

you're all very good and nice but I'll stick to the Shire, respectfully

oooooh I have the little fan thing for March

presenting the reason I started this tumblr :

currently only 3 chapters (including the fake one in the middle) are out, I'm outlining it ! chapter 4 should be out this week or the next 🖤 I'm working on 4, 5 and 6 at the same time actually (for reasons)

if you have any constructive criticism I'd be happy to hear it, especially after chapter 5 and 6, since I'll be introducing subplots and side characters: the idea is that they should help the story go forward, but If I don't do it right and it reads messy / confusing / "author has introduced an oc I will never remember the name of" then I'd like to hear it, no matter how mean you think it will sound

I'm also welcoming any and all opinions about the music (bc chapter titles) as well as recs

I'm a bit divided on whether or not I'll include songs by ghost, but I'll definitely have a song or two by independant ghouls

if you ended up on my tumblr, you might like this :

i found the shop on insta (@ / silverdragontees) but they don't have a tumblr (is this proper tumblr etiquette to screen it like this????) either way it's cursed so obviously I ordered one

not a silmarillion girly but this guy in my tarot deck looks just like a character i keep seeing on my dash from the silm fanart accounts

sorry for disappearing and not replying to anything just as i was getting to know all yall moots, i moved to a new city and fell in love all in less than a week so it hit me like quite a fucking truck

I'm not dead, and I'll be back here soon