there should be a sign

rohnoc:

Welcome to the scenic Sansukh Nature Reserve!

Established in 2013, the Reserve is known for its native species, and dramatic scenery, including the soaring Mount @determamfidd at the its heart.

Stay a few nights at the Iron Hills Camp Grounds, just past the Blacklock Ranger Station and Toys of Erebor Gift Shop. Watch the sun rise over Boar’s Head Rock, and the fire moon over Jeweler’s Flower Fields.

The main path through the Reserve is the Durin Family Feels Trail, which starts at the Mahal Zero-Mile Mark and passes through many of the Parks natural wonders, including the Dead Dwarf Peanut Gallery Overlook, and Stonehelm’s Charge.

Other paths include Green Leaf Trail through Red Star Basin, and the Just Talk Already Ridge ascent to Finally Kissed Crest.

More experienced hikers may enjoy the climb up the Everyone I Love is Dead Couloir to Endless Feels Promontory, which overlooks the Lake of Tears and its pristine salt shores.

Mount Determamfidd also sits over one of the beautiful Crystaltongue Caves. The famous Crown of Stars Hall has the best acoustics and its formations will ‘sing’ if tapped correctly.

Located on the lowest publically accessible level of the Caves is the Ring, a natural hot spring and source of the Silver Fountain River.

Pick up your Reserve Pass at the gate, and just remember that you’re here forever!

#IT’S SO GOOOOOD #you can check out #but you can never leave

I AM DYING OF LAUGHTER BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i am a mountain, hot damn :DDDD but you – YOU are AWESOME. Thank you so dang much, I am still giggling like a loon here!!!

i dont know about you, but i kinda like the idea of glorfindel being very carefree, not particularly caring about much and being very happy 24/7. the only thing he does that shows only insight into some of the things that he’s been through is that he always keeps his hair very short, and even then it’s kept close to his head in many intricate braids. no says anything about it. even if someone wishes to compliment him on it, they feel that it’s best to leave it be.

I am 90000% behind you on dun-give-a-fuck Glorfindel! I mean, sure he cares about the fate of the world and etc, but he cannot be bothered sweating the small stuff. At all. He is gonna live in the moment, and goddamn it better be a good moment.

Oooh, I am? Sortakinda in love with the popular depiction of him as having very a luscious glorious golden mane of hair, so sorry. His name literally means ‘golden-haired’ and we’re told by Tolkien in LOTR that it was quite long. The actual lines are ‘

The rider’s cloak streamed behind him, and his hood was thrown back; his golden hair flowed shimmering in the wind of his speed.’ That’s why it is my own personal preference though – seriously, you should totally go with that idea, if you like!

I love love LOVE the idea that he would have a particular ‘tell’ concerning his past!! what a fab idea, Nonnie!

lesbiankiliel:

#relationshipgoals

Also if your OTP can’t have a conversation like this what’s the point?

giggle-fit:

Progress! Thorin looks a bit like Qui gon but…lol

SHRRRRIEEEEK

autistic-tauriel:

Finally got to reading the recent Sansukh update and damn
Glorfindel came to party and party hard

He got turned down for the Fellowship, but there’s no way he’s missing the after-party! 💃

on Big Deal Moments in Discworld

discworldtour:

poorlydescribedpterrybooks:

discworldtour:

Guards! Guards! has one of the first Big Deal Discworld moments for me, and I’m not very good at articulating what that means.

The moment I’m thinking of is the dragon’s speech to Wonse – “we were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But…we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.” That’s a passage that always makes me stop and reread it a couple of times. And it’s a small moment – it’s the only time we hear the dragon speak at all, and it’s a speech that has no bearing on the rest of the story. It could have been taken out of the book entirely and nothing would feel like it was missing. But the fact that it’s there is a Big Deal moment. The great big monstrous antagonist’s judgment of humanity is unavoidable in its accuracy.

And the Discworld series is full of moments like that. Sometimes it’s just one line, sometimes it’s a full scene, and most of the book is so full of shenanigans coming so quickly one after another that you don’t always see the Big Deal moments coming. We think of Pratchett as a humor/satire writer and yes, the books are hilarious, but in between the jokes are these Big Deal moments that casually rearrange our perspective and stick with us even after we think we’ve forgotten.

Then there are the other Big Deal Moments, that are Emotional Meteorite Strike Moments (e.g. the phrase “that is not my cow” can now instantly put me in the fetal position) but I’m having a hard enough time describing this one as it is so I’ll probably go on a tirade about those ‘round about that One Part in Feet of Clay. (You know the one.)

Suggestion: Reblog this with your favorite Big Deal Moment.

YES. It’s so fun hearing everyone’s Big Deal Moments! (although choosing just one is so hard…)

I think my favorite one changes, but right now it’s in Feet of Clay:

The vampire looked from the golem to Vimes.

“You gave one of them a voice?” he said.

“Yes,”
said Dorfl. He reached down and picked up the vampire in one hand. “I
Could Kill You,” he said. “This Is An Option Available To Me As A
Free-Thinking Individual But I Will Not Do So Because I Own Myself And I
Have Made A Moral Choice.”

“Oh, gods,” murmured Vimes under his breath.

“That’s blasphemy,” said the vampire.

He gasped as Vimes shot him a glance like sunlight. “That’s what people say when the voiceless speak.”

discworldtour:

kylorenedict
replied to your post “on Big Deal Moments in Discworld”

Vimes’ thoughts on “Us vs Them” in Jingo is my favorite and one of the reasons why Jingo is my favorite book

You know, I’ve been thinking about Jingo so much recently. I guess current events are always bringing it back around. Vimes has so many good bits in that one; Jingo is just bursting with Big Deal Moments.

And then he realized why he was thinking like this.

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to
imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by
privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this
sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the
fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who
brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of
then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It
was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to
think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s
fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all I’m one of Us. I
must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

A big test for prospective royal guards: tell Gimizh and co. that Dain has a big plate of chocolate chip cookies in his private sitting room. Goal: do not let Gimizh get the cookies. (After the guards get the test, Gimizh and his friends get the cookies as a reward for services rendered). This is a surprisingly effective test.

It really would be. More than any test of fitness or weapon-skills, it would be a test of extreme cunning and lateral thinking.

Gimizh is slippery as an eel, when he wants to be. He knows every nook in the Mountain. He can charm the socks off the birds. He can use Frerinith as a decoy. He knows nearly everybody. He can and WILL smuggle himself in somehow.

Jeri? Jeri won that test very easily.

Jeri asked around, and so came armed with a batch of Beri’s best spiced fruitcake.