#bolge

[femininitysworld]

Danish Summer 🇩🇰👙

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

In a world full of likers. Only you were brave enough to reblog

[beebundt]

bolgs + MY bolg mimsy 🥰from earlier this year

[fatedroses]

Finally I draw the flipside of the scary adventuring duo that is estinien and zenos. aka one man using the other as a third eye blindfold and the other being absolutely dead to the world because cozy (until he overheats in two hours and is unable to escape).

[dreamofbecoming]

i’m thinking about that one post that talks about how the ring doesn’t make the wearer invisible, but actually enhances whatever the wearer’s natural strengths already are- it multiplied sauron’s powers of control and raw destruction, hobbits are naturally sneaky, etc. basically how the reason the story tells us it’s an invisibility ring is because bilbo is the one telling the story, and he just assumed his experience was universal. isildur didn’t go into the river invisible and uninjured, only to get shot when the ring abandoned him and he became a target again, he already had multiple arrows in him when he went into the water, but only succumbed to his injuries when the ring stopped magnifying his numenorean longevity and damage resistance.

so i’m thinking about hobbits, right? like yeah, they’re small and quiet on their feet and invisibility totally tracks for them, but what if that’s not their most impressive skill set?

i’m thinking about how all five of the hobbits whose stories we hear in full traveled enormous distances on foot with minimal difficulty. they all managed extreme altitudes, rough terrain, heavy snowfall, almost lava???, swamps, trees, jagged rocks and gravel, and just about every other possible terrain, not to mention hundreds of miles, without seeming to flag heavily or (genuinely) complain overmuch. despite being used to at least seven meals a day, they were able to keep up their pace on minimal rations, on foot, without losing stamina until the very end, which arguably had more to do with the ring than the trip itself.

my point being that hobbits are almost unnaturally good at traveling massive distances on (bare!)foot, and what if the ring picked up on that instead?

what if instead of going invisible, bilbo could teleport?

[edbydawn]

i tell myself that i'm immune to the broody anime elf boy. but i am lying

[boozy-dwarf]

Let's applaud the super strength of the elves. Their bodies are unusually strong. Considering that the orcs in the hobbit movies have incredible strength and can use ±300 kg stones as weapons...oh my...

Imagine the strength in those muscles :D

[maniculum]

Sample page from our current kickstarter project, a collection of 50 system-neutral magic items for TTRPGs, inspired by medieval literature, marginalia, and archaeology.

Since this page doesn't have the name of the item (it's on the facing page), y'all should know this is the Gae Bolga, a spear wielded by the Irish hero Cú Chulainn.

The actual nature of the Gae Bolga isn't completely clear, as you might expect from a story cycle that has been interpreted by many different voices over the centuries. However, one theory that particularly grabbed us was that it could be a sort of harpoon tipped with a stingray spine. So that's what this one is. (A giant stingray, though, because that's cool.)

If you want to see the rest of this, and the other 49 items, I would encourage you to back the project at the link below -- it runs until the end of June.

[sensoryeen]

✦ | Deadpool Stimboard

✧ ✧ ✧ | ✧ ✧ | ✧ ✧ ✧

[unremarkablelunacy]

I still insist that if they were bent on having a vengeful orc leader pursue Thorin and Company throughout the Hobbit movies, it should have been Bolg, the son of Azog. Azog is killed in the Battle of Azanulbizar (by Thorin's cousin Dáin, but I could have accepted switching in Thorin himself). The death of Bolg's father (not just the loss of his hand) and the defeat of the orcs would be a stronger motive for revenge against the line of Durin. In fact, I imagine that's why Bolg is the leader of the orc army that assaults Erebor in the book.

Azog gives me the impression of pursuing Thorin nominally for revenge, but mainly for the evulz. If they had to use him, though, I think they should have suggested that maybe he DID die, and the Necromancer brought him back to menace Thorin and the dwarves (I know that reviving the dead-- with a few iconic exceptions--isn't done in Arda, but the movie could take one of several different approaches). An additional reason to be concerned about the Necromancer.

Bolg would be better though.

[yildizin-sesi]

[legendsnjk]

Nothing like a dangerous red head that has mastered the spear.

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

While you were studying the blade. I was studying in school

[shi-yin-drawings]

I went to Nobutoshi Canna's (F/SN Lancer) Q&A panel at Otakuthon (2024)

I'm not sure how much of the panel I'm allowed to say so I'll just mention my question to him:

In the Fate series, Lancer and Archer have a rivalry yet somehow end up in the same war together, do you have any fun moments or reactions with Archer's VA?

He says that the VAs for Fate are all very busy people so he actually records his lines alone, however Junichi Suwabe (Archer's VA) and he are on another series together where they meet each other once a year. When that time comes, Nobutoshi Canna says to him "So, we meet again".

I thought it was such a great answer and I don't think there's anyone better than him to portray Lancer.

[timohernandez]

Du musst Lernen ruhig zu bleiben, Auch wenn du viel zu sagen hast.

[ad-ciu]

do we know what happens to the fir bolg after they are defeated and given connacht? are they related to the connachtmen we see in the ulster cycle and later, or have they just faded into obscurity?

Ah, an excellent easy answer! The Fir Bolg are absolutely related to the Connachta of the Ulster Cycle. If you remember the Gailióin from Táin Bó Cúailnge, that's just the name of one of the three population groups that make up the Fir Bolg.

While from a modern perspective, where as a result of Tolkein's influence on the modern fantasy genre and how that influences how people approach early traditions, we often have a reflex to get very 'Taxonomic' when discussing things like Elves, Dwarfs, Fauns, and the Fir Bolg, that is a very modern view. The Fir Bolg are just some of the ur-peoples of various bits of Ireland (peoples move around, occasionally in strange and confusing ways), but especially Connachta.

While I highly doubt anyone in modern Ireland bases their identity around being a descendant of the Fir Bolg, they're just part of the genealogical tradition. Just a deeply mundane fact of the genealogies.

So, the Fir Bolg never faded into obscurity. They've always just been there, and technically still do if you take medieval genealogies seriously (again, let me stress, I am not saying that any people in modern Ireland go around claiming Fir Bolg ancestry, it is just that the Fir Bolg were just 'some dudes' in the genealogical tradition, and some people are descended from them like how the genealogies have everyone going back to Adam because, you know, he's Adam). They're not like a 'Species' or anything, just an ancient, imagined political faction.

Of course, if @margridarnauds has anything to add to that, I'd absolutely welcome it. I'd normally direct all Fir Bolg stuff over there, but since this seems like a rather simple one, I thought I'd avoid just throwing this off onto someone else's lap.