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Frodo Laid a Geas (and other invisible magic)

This was so obvious when I realized it, but I think most people miss it, because we’re so desensitized by D&D-style magic with immediate, visibly, flashy effects, rather than more subtle and invisible forces of magic. When Gollum attacks Frodo on the slopes of Mount Doom, Frodo has the chance to kill him, but he doesn’t. Instead, he says:

Frodo: Go! And if you ever lay hands on me again, you yourself shall be cast into the Fire!

Frodo’s not just talking shit here. He is literally, magically laying a curse. He’s holding the One Ring in his hands as he says it; even Sam, with no magic powers of his own, can sense that some powerful mojo is being laid down. Frodo put a curse on Gollum: if you try to take the Ring again, you’ll be cast into the Fire.

Five pages later, Gollum tries to take the Ring again. And that’s exactly what happens. Frodo’s geas takes effect and Gollum eats lava.

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I need to meet him solely for this purpose let me stare into your eyes Bobby Dylan

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seattle's uneasy truce with the giant skeletons

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ST. DENIS MEDICAL • S1E01 ↳ “Welcome to St. Denis”

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RIP two jags

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Hell yes

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Why would anybody read fanon when yours is an example of how cancerous it is 💀

anon did you think when i said "read fanon" i meant fan canon instead of... Frantz Fanon, author of The Wretched of the Earth?

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everyones a fucking critic

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calling in to work sick with a “weird dream”

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"Centipedes don't fuck" is one of my favorite animal facts. There are plenty of sexually reproducing animals that don't fuck per se (like a lot of fish) but centipedes don't even meet. Males just leave sperm packets lying on the fucking ground and females pick them up and take them home. They don't even hang out