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Namárië, Christopher. Thank you for your unwavering dedication to your father’s legacy; all the note-organizing, the compiling, and publishing of the most prolific fantasy literature to ever grace the world. I will treasure these books all my life. Go in peace.

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I realize this is not new information to anyone, but what struck me so hard this time I read the Lord of the Rings was the sense of melancholy.  Like it’s painfully obvious to the reader that this world is Not As It Once Was.  All of the characters we meet reference this feeling of loss in one way or another.  

The elves are the most obvious - with their fading light and their ships sailing away.  Treebeard talks about how the woods aren’t as they once were, about the ents who are falling asleep and withering to nothing.  The dwarves lust after the glory of their forefathers, be it in mountain fortresses or caverns of mithril - now empty and echoing.  Old Tom Bombadil remembers a race of great men and women, reduced simply to trinkets in cold tombs.

And even men, the race set to inherit this new age, even they are experiencing this sense of melancholy, of losing hold of something great.  We see their great cities reduced to rubble on riverbanks, or possessed by evil.  Aragorn longs to return to his throne to restore the glory of ages past, to somehow rejuvenate that which is dying in the race of men. 

And hobbits?  At first we see them as living in the present, with no great glory of the past to tie them down.  Yet when Frodo returns to the Shire, it is…Not As It Once Was.  And I think while the other hobbits are able to shake off this feeling and return to their love of life and the present, maybe Frodo’s true burden is to inherit this sense of loss from the rest of Middle Earth.  

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Kazjilia

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guardian spirit, of a sort

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cloaked in starlight

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The GW2Hook greenscreen preset/shader I made seems to be quite popular at the moment. So here’s one of the first things I did with it.

The Griffon/Shatterer was from above the Lowland Burns, following the loop the Shatterer does while the world boss is not up. The Brand background is from Prophet’s Fall in the Desert Highlands.

The Greenscreen Preset/Shader: [Link]

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“You’re always welcome here”

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blank spaces - desert highlands

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Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire Raptor mount idle animation -> “Shake It Off!”

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Mirror, mirror from the sand.✦

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Refreshing the look.

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Do you want your mount to be the most terrifying creature to ever roam Tyria? Of course you do! But gosh, how expensive those spooky skins are! If only there was a way you could obtain them for free…

But wait! There is!

Thanks to the morbid generosity of us folks here at Charr With A Camera, we’re offering a free Spooky Mounts Pack to one lucky winner! All you have to do to enter is reblog this post. That’s it! How simple! You don’t even have to be a follower of the blog, though of course we highly recommend it ;)

The giveaway closes at 11:59pm on October 31st, so you have just over a week to enter. The winner will be selected by random draw within the next 24 hours, and will be contacted via Tumblr messenger. If there’s no response within 48 hours, a new winner will be drawn.

Happy Halloween and best of luck!

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new weaver and latest 80 :)

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faramir: *exists*

me: thank you

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so since anet killed the trahearne fandom’s biggest meme by giving us the mini, what will replace “still no trahearne mini”

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💎Reblog this Scourge Krizza for a chance to WIN 400 GEMS!!💎

Time for another GEM Giveaway sponsored by Arenanet! for a chance to win, reblog this post and for a better chance you can retweet it too! The Giveaway ends on Oct 16th at 10pm CEST. 

I want to thank everyone who came to my last Arenanet stream where you could watch this picture get made, i hope you had fun! Keep you eye out for more streams in the future too! (cough- at the end of October -cough)

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:( poor Glint.

“The Forgotten told me much, but not everything… What did they tell the Six? What do the gods know that I do not?” (Glint’s Lair, Desert Highlands. Crystalline Memories instance.)