Tag: THIS

killaidanturner:

this website really pisses me off sometimes because it lets people be really fucking toxic and spread their poisonous cloud and hurt people who don’t deserve it. like how about instead of harassing writers and artists and content creators because they made something You Didn’t Like™ you just fucking control yourself like a functioning human being and don’t look at it again instead of sending rude messages??? like who tf raised you??? when you’re at your friends houses do you just tell them you don’t like the poster on their wall and to take it down??? literally!! just!!! dont!!! look!!! at!!! it!!!!

mutisija:

friendly reminder that sauron is not even nearly as cool as lotr made him look like:

once he literally laughed evil villain laugh at his evil plan so hard that he didnt notice that the entire island was sinking into water and his body ended up drowning. he had to make new body out of anger.

evil-bones-mccoy:

tonight on all your faves are Jewish:

surprise! all of the dwarves of Middle-earth! especially the Longbeards!

because believe it or not Tolkien constructed Khuzdul as a Semitic language! and maybe we might not have been reading the same story but i definitely picked up a whole ‘covenant with the Maker’ thing and a ‘communities in diaspora’ thing especially with the Durin’s Folk narrative like come on

notbecauseofvictories:

it will never cease to delight me that in the trilogy, gimli is shown to be charming, with all the polish and grace of a trained diplomat—he trades wits with elrond and speaks so graciously to galadriel that she gives him a gift denied feanor; his extemporaneous description of the glittering caves is what convinces legolas to travel there with him after the war, he sings the song of durin so well that sam begs to learn it.

whereas legolas is this big cheerful lug of a hunter-tracker, incidentally a prince, only unwittingly beautiful and graceful—his speech is decidedly stiff and formal, even when he’s trying to be gentle, but then turns around and starts singing without realizing he’s forgotten half the song. He has strange moments of seriousness, when the ancientness of him shines through, but then—

I do wonder what their first conversations were, gimli dignified but a little chilly; legolas stiff even as he attempted humor, but a way forward nonetheless.