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Legolas saying ‘this city needs more trees’ is actually so valid. Not only from an environmental and social well-being point of view, but Gondor has one very important tree with very few fellows and therefore restricted access to nutrients, so the extended mycorrhizal network more trees would provide actively enhances the welfare of the white tree and symbolically the spirit of the nation. In this essay I will

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Fans of vintage fairy tale imagery will find over a thousand illustrations in my collection.

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Simon Vouet - Portrait of Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi (1623-26)

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Angelo Morbelli - Jour de fête à l'hospice Trivulzio à Milan (1892)

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Lord of the Rings's Gandalf the grey by artist Matías Bergara.

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Anne Anderson (1874-1952), 'The Travelling Companions', ''The Mammoth Wonder Book for Children'', 1935 Source

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Eero Järnefelt - Silver Moon 1911

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I was wondering if we, as humans, can ever escape our humanness and write something completely detached from our experiences. I concluded not.

But that led me to a realisation of why The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings have such different auras. One of the reasons is that they were written by two different species: elf and hobbit.

Of course, that is disregarding the fact that they're both fictional races and the books are ultimately still written by a human with very human experiences. But the effort is quite visible to me, to distinguish the two works into 'elf-written' and 'hobbit-written', with their respective species-specific views of the world.

Silm is all about the humbling of the mighty. "We thought we were meant to change the world, only to realise it isn't for the better afterwards."

Lotr is about finding the hidden strength inside. "We thought we're too small to change the world for the better, but together, we were proven wrong."

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the way Aragorn just fully zonks out any time he goes to sleep will never not be funny to me. like- I’m rereading the fellowship rn and after giving a whole rant about how they’re finally safe to sleep peacefully he just

“cast himself down upon his couch and fell at once into a long sleep.”

bro just collapses lmao

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Castle Drachenburg, Bonn, Germany

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i think women should get into polearms in a big way. not a lot of women in polearms these days. would love to see women doing battle with polearms.

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One last piece from “Altjugend” — This project began as just a handful of messy experiments with halftone patterns, many thanks to the MCAD Service Bureau for their assistance in turning them into beautiful risograph prints!

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These two are amazing!

@x-heesy 💃🏻🕺🏻 Friday vibes!

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this is your captain speaking……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..sorry i’m a little shy to be honest