im watching khraniteli (the sovirt lord of the rings) and its perfect chaos a fat woman dancing in a bizarre vest with subtitle "at
ITS GAnDALF gandalf in a weird purple dress a la medieval timesgandalf in a weird purple dress a la medieval times
soviet gandalf is chill as fuck
this russian prog rock soundtrack is . incredible. #hraniteli
in russian bilbo baggins is "bilba torbins"
just wanna show you this stunning vision of frodo merry pippin and sam (at the end there)
smeagol and deagol
eat shit andy serkis its soviet gollum!!!!!!!!! with soundtrack of throat singing
sam is "sem skorbi" for some reason
wow ned stark much???
the 4 hobbits set off
disco nazgûl
i cant believe this is free on youtube (search "hraniteli") anyway heres old man willow
ITS SOVIET TOM BOMBADIL @alexsteed @Remember_Sarah
the hobbit sizing is masterful
end of part 1 will continue tomorrow
starting part II of #hraniteli. we have throat singing in a graveyard and shit got weird real fast ... this is the barrow wight
bombadil smooth as hell
i have lots of questions and most of them are about contraband soviet acid (the rest are about sam's lipstick)
WHY DOES SAM have purple hair and those eyebrows
this is strider
this is aragorn. you can tell bc he yells "i am aragorn"
1) the nazgûl are disco cossacks
2) mordor is just a random snowy castle
me trying to summarize in bad russian
ha ha ha
bilbo is singing and drinking
why is elrond a twink
why is saruman's cloak a chagall painting
what the fuck saruman..... the singing pipe head
im dying
the uh, wargs
this fight scene is spectacular. i have nothing to add. 10/10
lothlorien is just a trippy ass space ballet. gimli is a gnome in a red cap. legolas is a sexy blonde lady
found this meme of lego-lass
lorien is trippy as shit
thicc galadriel
honestly merry same
all right calm down thicc galadriel
they were ... very literal about the eye of sauron
what a beautiful experience this was, 15/10, heroes of the soviet union all
it was made in 1991 apparently... perhaps this caused the soviet union to collapse google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…

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