Tumblr crosspost (26 April 2020)

[anghraine]

I reblogged this post and added:

I’m imagining a version of Gondor that actually leaned hard into the Byzantine aesthetic and just … *sigh*

#lotr on prime very probably won't ever get that far #i mean - gondor perhaps but not the 3rd age gondor of my heart #but even if it did i wouldn't trust it to do anything other than victorian-filtered quasi-western medieval renfaire whatever #while like... byzantine iconography and headdresses and architecture and everything would be so deeply cool #imagine lothíriel or finduilas completely decked out in it!! like