We Dug Too Deep and Found These 32 Lord of the Rings Memes

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John Summers • Contributor
Sep 28, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Look, I love The Lord of the Rings as much as the next person who can recite "The world has changed" before their coffee kicks in. The movies are masterpieces. The memes? Even better. But while we're here laughing at hobbits and second breakfast and Legolas defying the laws of physics, I need to say something I've been holding in for years: justice for Gimli.

In Fellowship of the Ring, Gimli was funny because he was proud, stubborn, and ready to swing an axe at anything taller than him (which is, like, everything). The humor came from contrast. But starting with The Two Towers, they turned him into a walking punchline. Falling off horses. Huffing and puffing behind Legolas. Getting tossed. Again. And again. I didn't love that for him. He deserved more than just comic relief duty while everyone else got cooler and cooler.

Anyway. These 32 Lord of the Rings memes are a beautiful blend of clever, dumb, chaotic, and deeply relatable. Scroll forth, laugh heartily, and maybe - just maybe - remember Gimli as the heroic, axe-wielding legend he was meant to be.

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  • 01
    anna @myelessar hot girl summer is over it's officially hobbit girl autumn
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  • 02
    Lord Aragorn... where is he? idk somewhere out of your league m'lady 000
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    This is Sting! You've seen him before!
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    OOPS! YOU ADDED TOO MUCH: BUTTER SUGAR FLOUR BAKING SODA EGG Cruelty, malice and will to dominate all life
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    The pizza
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    Bilbo You have a lot of nerve coming in here. Lobelia Sackville- Baggins You have a lot of nerve being alive.
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    0 The Loudest Sounds On Earth CONCERT SPEAKERS FIREWORKS GUNFIRE BLUE WHALE SPACE SHUTTLE The skeleton in the well of Moria
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  • 08
    Give him some medicine boys I don't believe that man's ever been to medical school
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  • 09
    Gondor Westfold Gondor Westfold
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  • 10
    Galadriel Frodo IN PLACE OF A DARK LORD YOU WOULD HAVE A QUEEN!!!
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  • 11
    how I picture myself singing in the shower what I actually look like
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  • 12
    Hobbits: *enjoying themselves at the Prancing Pony* Aragorn: Christian Middle Eart Memes Hey.
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    No one: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins: I am once again asking spoons for
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  • 14
    One breakfast was gifted to the race of men, who above all else desire bacon sandwiches But they were all of them deceived, for another breakfast was made...
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  • 15
    The Hobbits: (light fire on weathertop for tomatoes, sausages, and nice crispy bacon) The Nazgûl: [tough guy finger snapping]
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  • 16
    Balrog Balrog Gandalf the Grey "Ahh call an ambulance!" Gandalf the White "But not for me"
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  • 17
    Anyone: *puts on ring* Sauron:
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  • 18
    Glorfindel died protecting my kin from a Balrog. Stop telling people I'm dead! Sometimes I can still hear his voice.
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  • 19
    FROM THE DIRECTOR OF 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY HRAAGHBBIT NEW LINE CINEMA ANT THE DESOLATION OF HRAAGH S PRESENT & WINGHULT FILMS "THE HOBBIT THE DESOLATION DE SMANIC" IAN MCKELLEN MARTIN FREEMAN
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  • 20
    "Legolas." ...what do your elf eyes see?"
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  • 21
    Well, babe? What do you think of my soup? I wish now that our places had been exchanged. That I had died and Boromir had lived.
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  • 22
    Theoden, checking if he, not Aragorn, was King of Rohan.
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  • 23
    WHEN THE BEACONS ARE LIT AND GONDOR CALLS FOR AID You son of a bach. I'm in.
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  • 24
    "I'd like to talk to the manager" "I need to speak with the regional director" "I demand a parley with the Chief Executive Officer" "Let the Lord of the Black Land come forth! Let justice be done upon him!"
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  • 25
    the four horsemen of pausing the movie and explaining pointless facts to some poor new viewer
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  • 26
    RANGER THINGS
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  • 27
    in a dream, i saw the eastern sky grow dark, but in the west a pale light lingered. Boromir that is called a sunset.
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  • 28
    Dwarves: *delved too greedily and too deep* Balrog of Morgoth: and I took that personally
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  • 29
    Melkor Other Ainur Eru Other Ainur Melkor Enough, Melkor. Eru 2/2
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  • 30
    I am something of a Tolkien enthusiast myself Oh really? Name seven dwarven kings That's on me, I set Durin? the bar too low
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  • 31
    when you're getting roasted but then you think of the perfect comeback hours later Gandalf the White... Gandalf the Fool!
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  • 32
    Bilbo: * Gets a cup Smaug: TOREK 2 I'm never gonna financially recover from this
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