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babygirl.. dont be dead. be alive

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if you hold a crystal while you are smoking it cancels it out

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trauma dumping at the Council of Elrond

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éowyn is your favourite lotr character when you’re ten because she’s a young woman who gets to FIGHT with a cool sword! and then éowyn is your favourite lotr character again when you’re in your twenties because she’s a young woman who is bitter and angry and deeply depressed but who learns to HEAL and find hope. and also she gets to fight with a cool sword.

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every time i see a pigeon it's fat fuck friday

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i don't want anything to do with john mulaney

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Thinking about the Fellowship and….. languages

The hobbits speak Westron, of course, and none of them are fluent in anything else. But Frodo knows some Sindarin, even if it’s stilting and book-learned, and Sam might even know a smattering of vocabulary, too, having learned his letters – and gotten his literary education – from Bilbo. And they all come home with more of it, learned more naturally, from friends, Merry likely with a smattering of Rohirric on his lips along with the Elvish.

Boromir, too, knows only Westron, with the sort of knowledge of Sindarin that people who took a language class in high school and then forgot most of it have. He was taught some, sure, as a nod to Gondor’s past, but he never expected to use it, and when he tries his halting greetings on the elves now (Siulad, mae g’ovann– uh, mae l’ovannan? Goheno… uh…. goheno nin….) he thinks of his younger brother, who was always more attentive in their lessons.

Aragorn is wholly bilingual, with all the speaking quirks that affords, drifting from Sindarin to Westron mid-sentence sometimes as a result of growing up around both. He probably knows some Rohirric, too, and maybe even some other languages of Men thanks to his travels and time as Thorongil. But he speaks Sindarin like an elf, not a Gondorian noble, with a Noldorin accent, courtesy of Elrond’s people. 

Legolas has passable Westron, really. He can get by, and you might not notice it at first – though the fact that he speaks it with so heavy an accent is obvious immediately. But he grew up quite sheltered, with a King and father incredibly suspicious of outsiders, and while his grammar is as strong as would be expected of a prince, his vocabulary outside of that which is needed for diplomacy has some notable gaps. The hobbits take it upon themselves to amend this after the first time he falters – turning to Aragorn on one of their first nights on the road and asking “Ai! Manen carfon ‘pesseg’?,” “How do you say ‘pillow’?” – and he trades words with them like gifts, as interested in their own tongue as they are in his.

(“That was very good!” he encourages, each time they try a new pronunciation, and Aragorn teases them not to listen to him, saying they’ll only pick up his strong Silvan accent. He and Legolas playfully bicker about the right way to pronounce everything. Only once do they ask Gandalf to weigh in. The wizard replies with the word in old Quenya, and there is a small riot.)

Gimli is bilingual too, of course, though you wouldn’t know it if his dwarvishness were not so plain in every other part of his being. His Westron is perfect and polished, like one who has spoken it from the cradle – and he has, because the dwarves teach their children other tongues alongside their own, so that the day they enter the outside world (and Gimli, Gimli grew up with his people in exile), they have the tools necessary to keep their Khuzdul buried deep and safe. Secret. He keeps it hidden, but sometimes when he speaks, there are other words that dance in his mind – ones that feel more of home.

(His stronger fluency in another’s tongue is something that gives him some satisfaction of his superiority over The Elf at first, but as they grow closer, he teaches Legolas new words himself, with sharper words of his own towards any on their travels who would criticize him for his imperfect speech.)

Gandalf knows many tongues, even some that are no longer spoken in Middle Earth. And he watches, as this fragile Fellowship trades words, laughing together over their learning, their gently correcting, their earnest curiosity. It is in joining together that the people of this world will prevail, and in their little band’s patchwork of languages, slowly being woven together, he hears hope.

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Oh no oh no my research into Khuzdul morphology lead me to a page on that brought up the connections between Khuzdul and Adûnaic, and the specific example it used was talking about how in Adûnaic, “gimlu-nîtir,” which means “kindler of a star,” incorporates the objective form, since “gimlu” is the objective of the word for star, which is “gimli”

And given that this is Tolkien and there is very little coincidence with his languages, and also that it’s canon that dwarves use names from the languages of Men instead of their Khuzdul ones when interacting with non-dwarves, that means Gimli is actually named “star” and I’m having some kind of feelings about it!

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my favorite scene in the hobbit is when bilbo has to save the dwarves from the spiders and the only thing he can think of to do is to shout very rude things at them to distract them because 1. it shows that bilbo, having been raised in upper-class suburbia, thinks that the spiders will be super offended by his lack of manners enough to chase him 2. it shows that spiders are super offended by his lack of manners and 3. in modern day, it’s the equivalent of shouting ‘FUCKFACE’ at man-eating monsters

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Hi all, this is a long post but please do NOT scroll past without signing the petition, or consider at least reblogging to spread awareness. Massive trigger warning for sexual abuse, revenge porn and child sexual abuse.

Revenge porn in Ireland is NOT a crime and we’re currently witnessing the unfolding of an obscure sexual crime: over 500 Irish men in a discord server sharing thousands of nudes of women without the women’s consent. not all the photos were of women. some were of underage girls. These sick men are distributing child porn. They have no remorse or guilt about the crimes they are committing and right now, if they are tracked down, the most they can be done for is possession and distribution of CP. however, they face ZERO legal consequences for the non consensual sharing of thousands of images of women. here’s some further details:

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Looking for CP:

More of their posts reflecting their scummy attitudes (it’s not discord tho, some chat forum they’re using)

Oh, and this arsehole’s reaction to Irish women trying to take action:

PLEASE sign the petition to make revenge porn a crime. The women of Ireland deserve better.

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Not to bring up peter jacksons h*bb*t trilogy (yuck) on main, but do you know how horrible of a writing choice was making the elves vegetarians for laughs? Elven history is full of legendary hunters. Hell, the god that first taught them how to road trip (an important part of elven culture) is literally the GOD OF HUNTING. In fact, we have more evidence for elves hunting than farming! Implying otherwise is celegorm erasure and i will NOT stand for it!

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my hot take

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ok but like…….. why did azog swear to wipe out the line of durin…… what was his deal…… was it just for the drama or

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*j.r.r. tolkien seeing a tree* effervescent……

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ok so it’s been said by cast and crew that they basically never saw peter jackson without a cup of tea during the filming of the hobbit. now, we all know that he was extremely busy and always occupied, and probably would not have had time for dozens of bathroom breaks throughout the day. therefore, i would like to propose the idea that while he was directing the trilogy, he wore adult nappies or at the very LEAST incontinence pads.. send post

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peak comedy is my name smeedle