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i love how much everyone cries in lotr like aragorn just had his boromir weep and we cut to frodo and he’s sobbing under the weight of his now entirely solitary task like yeah as an audience i need that cathartic placeholder!! well done i’m empathizing and processing my pain!! with big blockbusters today most of the time i come out of the cinema constipated and wondering if the men in them are even supposed to have human feelings 

they better fucking weep tho that shit is canonical! you can’t read a page of lotr without a man crying! i was reading rotk a month ago and pointing out this exact thing, just look at all these men with actual emotions!

Éomer, to an army of crying men: Do not cry! We have work to do!

Also Éomer: cries as he says this

I’m not crying, you’re crying

– Éomer, probably

Kind of unrelated so feel free to delete, but I realized seeing this that I actually associate it with the epics we’ve read this term in one of my classes (Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, etc)…like the thing of male characters not being allowed to have emotions in general has gotta be fairly recent (the DRAMA in a lot of 19thc novels man!) but with Tolkien I wonder if it isn’t a callback, not to those specific epics, but to others like them more relevant to times/places he studied?

But anyways yes, I support emotional leeway for men, and be it known that bizarre stoicism doesn’t seem to have always and inevitably been the rule, so