see i have NOTHING AGAINST aragorn/legolas...

see i have NOTHING AGAINST aragorn/legolas shippers and may they ship what they love and enjoy it so much and have the most fun with it ever, i simply DO NOT SEE THINGS AS THEY SEE THEM FOR REASONS OF:

arwen
no seriously arwen, THERE IS NO LOVE PURER THAN LOVE THAT IS LIKE “AFTER THE SORT OF CAREFUL CONSIDERATION THAT COMES FROM BEING ALMOST THREE FREAKING THOUSAND YEARS OLD, I’VE DECIDED I WILL GIVE UP IMMORTALITY BECAUSE A MORTAL LIFE WHERE YOU’LL STILL DIE FIRST BY A WIDE MARGIN AND I’LL STILL HAVE TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU FOR YEARS AND YEARS IS TOTALLY WORTH IT LET’S MAKE A BABY OOOH YEAH MAKE ME SCREAM LIKE I’M THE HORN OF GONDOR”
(also tbh i kind of cannot imagine a reality wherein aragorn/legolas happened and aragorn wasn’t like oH MY GOD LEGOLAS I’M TRYING TO RUN A KINGDOM HERE COULD YOU LIKE SHOW UP AND BE AVAILABLE INSTEAD OF RUNNING OFF INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR TEN SECONDS and legolas wasn’t like YOU DON’T OWN ME DAD I MEAN KING I MEAN THRANDUIL I MEAN ARAGORN but obvs ymmv)
the literal ship that legolas and gimli literally sail away together on, have i mentioned that that gives me some feelings because SERIOUSLY I HAVE SOME FEELINGS
GIMLI BEING THE ONLY DWARF EVER TO GO TO THE UNDYING LANDS SOBBING FOREVER
legolas’s face
just like, in general
his giant besotted eyes of longing
i don’t care that they’re not in the book THEY’RE IMPLIED OKAY
“you would die before your stroke fell” just leave me here i can’t go on it’s too much
GIMLI’S DAD WAS TOTALLY KIDNAPPED AND HELD PRISONER BY LEGOLAS’S DAD AND THERE IS *ALSO* NO LOVE PURER THAN LOVE THAT IS LIKE “WELL I GREW UP HEARING TERRIBLE STORIES NOT JUST ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE IN GENERAL BUT ABOUT YOUR SPECIFIC FAMILY SPECIFICALLY BUT I LOVE YOU ANYWAY LET’S RIDE OFF INTO THE FANGORN FOREST TOGETHER ON ONE HORSE YOLO”
i have a lot of trouble letting go
of the one horse thing
if you haven’t noticed
NEXT DOOR KINGDOMS
LIKE THEY’RE TIM BURTON AND HELENA BONHAM CARTER BUT WITH KINGDOMS
(i guess aragorn can be the johnny depp in that situation in that legolas keeps telling adventure stories about him over various campfires and gimli keeps being like “laddie you are fixating kind of a lot on the circles under his eyes and how terrible he looked again and I WAS THERE, HE REALLY DIDN’T LOOK THAT TERRIBLE, not everyone is an elf why are you like this”)
TO
ME
THEY
ARE
PERFECT