maggieblueberry:

lecterings:

But you will not see that.

#sobbing #because though aragorn was the divinely-chosen king descendent from the line of kings #boromir was the one who had grown to manhood among his people; grown up defending and loving them #to him they were not just a faceless mass waiting to be led #or helpless children in the face of the power of the east #they were the warriors that fought beside him and the women that sold their goods in the market and his brother and his father #the houses of healing and the white tree #everything boromir was or ever hoped to be was inextricably bound to gondor; to minas tirith #and here was this elf-raised numenorean who not only was rightful heir to the throne boromir thought defunct #but did not even have the decency to respect and care for the people he would be ruling from it #of course boromir is angry #of course he tries to make aragorn see #boromir you are my favorite until the end of time #the fleeting voice of falliable humanity amid a narrative of gods and heroes#humanity that loves and humanity that falls #ack (via notbecauseofvictories)

Anon w/ filk-dad here. He’s been asking about you/Sakush since learning ‘Iron Hills for Me’ and while he’s not one for fic he wanted you to know this: He is proud of you. He’s been a teacher for decades and raised two kids during that time; he can’t imagine adding writing a novel, let alone three, as well as cultivating such a welcoming community for collaboration and inspiration. He wants you to know that he is so impressed and that you are amazing. Never doubt it, he says, you absolutely are.

oh my god. 

I am honestly very blown away by this. I am very honoured, and very touched. Coming from a person in my profession who knows this job inside out, who knows what it’s like, that’s INCREDIBLY validating. I have been sitting here trying to put together my thoughts because his praise has seriously and truly flattened me. 

I am also hugely grateful to YOU, Nonnie, for passing on such amazing messages and for introducing your dad to my stuff. Thank you, you wonderful person. 

I would like to tell your dad thank you so so much. I am so thankful, and I appreciate his words more than I can EVER say. I would also like to tell him that I hope he also liked the Cradle-Song and Gimli’s Jig, and that I’ve got another song in the pipeline that I hope he will enjoy – and also that I think he has done a fab job raising a very wonderful person. 

since it’s the month of Halloween in the US, I’ve seen a lot of dog-costumes in stores, which leads me to… Dain definitely had outfits for his battlepigs created, that were not armor or protective in any way, shape, or form, but just so that his pretty, pretty pigs could be *EVEN PRETTIER* Just imagine: PIGGY FASHION SHOWS!!!! bby!Stonehelm loves them. As he gets older… he tolerates them. (For his funeral, Dori and Dis make sure that his favorite pigs are wearing mourning colors.)

OH MY GOODNESS I NEED 

THOSE GREAT BIG HAIRY PIGGIES IN THEIR PRETTY DUDS, ALL DOLLED UP

ohhh noooo piggy mourning clothes AUGH no, that’s not playing fair

(i think I have been warped by children’s tv tho, bc the first enduring image my mind threw at me was THIS:

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WARPED, I TELLS YOU)

Laerophen is so ??? about how his Dwarf clothes work? Like, all these buttons? Toggles? Unknown fasteners???? The first few times he tries to put them on, it doesn’t work – there are weird bulges and tight spots and unfastened bitsies. Merillin tries to help, to no avail. Eventually Dori has to give him a tutorial. Dori did not need to see so much nearly-nekkid elf.

Oh god poor poor Dori. Poor Merilin. Poor LAEROPHEN. He is much too Awkwardtm for this… THISNESS. 

popularlesbian:

mapfail:

Where’s Ukraine? Each dot depicts the location where a U.S. survey respondent situated Ukraine; the dots are colored based on how far removed they are from the actual country, with the most accurate responses in red and the least accurate ones in blue.

I wanna meet the people who thought Ukraine was in the United States

I wanna meet the ones who thought it was in Western Australia

thearkenstoneandtheacorn:

Honestly if the fellowship had cellphones the #1 change would be Aragorn constantly complaining on the phone with arwen in the two towers like “they’re flirting again. Yes again. Literally I don’t even want to tell u what I walked in on yesterday but it involved gimli cleaning his axe in an inappropriate manner. And the worst bit is they still pretend like they hate each other my god. I’m gonna lose it I swear” while arwen is like “mhmm that’s nice dear”