#gratuitious tolkien reference

[shrikeseams]

#asdfhjklsds#johnny boy it's literally your invented language. if you don't like it change it#what's WRONG with you#this is like 'appear to have been unmarried' according to what? according to what jirt?#the historical record?#like ''i WISH i could've written them into wholesome heterosexual relationships''#''but alas these two extremely eligible royal bachelors APPEAR to have been UNMARRIED''#what did you have in mind john ron. what do you expect us to think#gratuitious tolkien reference -@nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui

underexplored hilarity in this footnote tolkien left under felagund

[ao3feed-thehobbit]

Bag Eng Bakery: Here Goes Muffin

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2wba7ug

by tari_roo

After a successful party, Kili and Fili embark on a brilliant plan to earn money by selling baked goods. All they need to do is convince Mr Baggins to help them. Can't be too hard, right? Selling baked goods to starved students will be a breeze. The Bakery AU continues (Second story in the series)

Words: 2852, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Bag-end Bakery

Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf | Mithrandir, Kíli (Tolkien), Fíli (Tolkien)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Bakery, Bakery, Bakery and Coffee Shop, Muffins, Baked Goods, Gratuitious Food References, Not to be read when on a diet, GBBO Inspired

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2wba7ug

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Unironically love being in a fandom where ‘It's in footnote 51 to "Of Dwarves and Men" in The Peoples of Middle-earth specifically' isn’t even an uncommon thing to say in casual conversation

The Tolkien fandom really is just... people who for one reason or another didn’t get a job in academia but still want to do academia like. One the side. As a hobby

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

There was actually an Eglise St Magloire in a town near where we spent the fall holidays. Reader, I squeed

I just come across saint from 6th century named Magloire of Dol and I’m thinking what if it was Maglor? It’s said he killed a dragon and fight in battle against Vikings. Also rescue two children who drowning in sea and miraculously curing people. I think it’s interesting AU. Have nice day. :)

I have to admit, the Wikipedia entry for Magloire of Dol (a Breton saint to later moved to Sark, in the channel islands, REALLY sounds like him! 

I imagine he’d be rather surprised to be sainted, but then, the Vita Sancti Maglorii is from the ninth century rather than the sixth, so perhaps by the time Men decided to call him a Saint, he had moved on from Sark to ... somewhere else!

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Don’t even know what pisses me off most about the “LOL evil Tolkien Society coming after a poor innocent fan account for posting a copyrighted image” post Like. Is it

- people being genuinely too stupid to understand the difference between copyright and a fucking NFT

- people just reblogging for the LULz without even bothering to understand what the situation is actually about

- people defending the M/ellonH/eads’ and their followers’ right to behave like assholes bc the TS were kinda petty

- people acting like Tolkien would be horrified about the whole thing as if he didn’t sue AceBooks back in the day (rightfully) and his descendants haven’t regularly been coming after every uncopyrighted use of his name writing or art (sometimes understandably, sometimes less so)

- people apparently not understanding that whether or not the image is widely available via google search, IT CAN STILL BE COPYRIGHTED? And those other places may or may not have paid for the right to use the image, either to the TS or the previous copyright holder? Like. What the hell is too difficult to understand here?

- people acting like this is covered by fair use like the M/ellonH/eads aren’t a commercial podcast (no matter how fan-run) using this image to advertise their project? Like, no, that is not actually a non-profit use. What isn’t clicking here

- people acting like asking whether they have permission to use that image is harrassment. Like. The TS literally asked “Do you have permission”. How is that “harrassing” or “threatening” IDK how you people survive

- people blaming the TS for everything the Tolkien Estate and/or Middle-earth Enterprises ever did like those aren’t three entirely separate entities

- rightwing dudebro fanboys using the whole kerfluffle to once again hate on the TS for acknowledging that POC and/or queer and/or disabled people reading Tolkien’s works might kinda have a right to exist and do their thing

- people acting like the TS was stupid for paying 18K pounds on the picture as if they didn’t buy an entire set of photographs by photographer Pamela Chandler as well as several letters at that price

- again, people acting as if paying (or expecting) money for the use of a picture (or the accompanying copyright) is the same thing like people creating NFTs? Like no? That’s just how art works?

- people mocking the TS for privating their account now like that isn’t the result of days of bullying

NO WAIT IT’S DEFINITELY

- volunteers for a non-profit literary society getting harrassed (actually harrassed, not just asked “do you have permission to use that image”) and sent individual hate messages because one of them may have been a little graceless but ABOVE ALL because a fucking COMMERCIAL podcast didn’t do their fucking research and instead of being graceful about it  and going “my bad, will remove the picture” or else asking for permission to use the image , acted like they were in the right and basking in the applause of various social media platforms

And thanks to the combined reading comprehension and critical thinking skills of Tumblr and Twitter, somehow the TS are the “monsters Tolkien warned us about” here? UUUUUURGH.

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Friendly reminder that the Battle of Nirnaeth Arnoediad (Tears Unnumbered) took place on Midsummer, F.A. 472.

HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE, SILMARILLION FANDOM

[shrikeseams]

#where's the lie#seeing an eight-pointed star and asking is anyone going to make this about fëanor or do i have to do it myself#and then not waiting for an answer#also works for ships on fire. or generally things on fire#blörbor from my elf history textbook#or diamonds of course#gratuitious tolkien reference#fëanor no.#fëanor yes! -@nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui

the real silmarillion fan experience is seeing an eight-pointed star anywhere in any context and going omg!! like blörbor from my elf history textbook!!

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

But speaking of intro monologues, what if the Amazon LotR series begins with Celebrimbor shortly before the end of his life... *record scratch* *freeze frame* “Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here --”

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Thingol: Quenya is the language of kinslayers and I absolutely forbid its use. Everyone speaking it must be shunned

Also Thingol: I’ve never gotten the hang of Cirth so my people are gonna adopt the Fëanorian Tengwar... sorry Daeron

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Getting a bachelor’s degree in music.... call that a macalaurëate

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Amazon: In the first season of our Middle-earth TV series, we will take a closer look at Aragorn’s backstory

Everyone, fools: Aragorn’s childhood & youth, “Thorongil”, raid on Umbar???

Amazon, an intellectual: So here’s the island of Númenor...

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Priscilla Tolkien passed away two days ago (28th February, 22).

I know there are more dramatic things going on in the world right now, and 92 is a good innings, but I still don’t want to let it go entirely unremarked. It’s the end of an era. Enyalien.

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Would they have called it the Union of Fingon if it had succeeded, I wonder

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Also I can’t help feeling that this promo shot from the Tolkien movie

low-key gives off similar vibes to the “Pepe Silvia” conspiracy rant

Discuss.

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

On a more humorous note

I’ll say this for Tumblr - it’s making the Oath of Feanor a lot more relatable. You do something that feels like a good idea at the time, but then it takes on a life of its own. Every comment notification is a reminder of your past sins. Even if you delete the original post, reblogs of it still reappear on your dashboard every now and then, and you can only stare in horror at what your post has become. Whenever you think it has finally settled down, it’ll pop out of somebody’s queue and spark the whole fight all over again. Unless you delete your account and walk away from Tumblr altogether, it will haunt you forever

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

Speaking of The King Must Die, I can’t get over the fact that Tolkien wrote about his admiration for this novel (and its sequel) in which

- people are half-naked to naked most of the time (like, if you’re wearing a codpiece and some jewellery, you’re fully dressed) - a quarter of the characters are just casually gay - those who aren’t gay acknowledge that some people are, just a fact of life, no big deal - like, explicitly? Not graphically but it’s mentioned a couple of times - it’s not a blink and you miss it kind of thing - you can’t tell me Jirt didn’t notice or was too naive to understand, it’s spelled out - but apparently this didn’t lessen his enjoyment of the story - I think we really ought to keep this in mind? he might not have written that kind of story but he could clearly read it? - I’m done rambling now, thanks