sång och strid

I write a bit but read more and it is often about sad elves, foolish men and women who are both and neither. I reblog all kinds of stuff, but the Silmarillion/Tolkien is the main thing

[fflewddur-feanorion-deactivated]

dealing with the winter sadness by pretending I am in Himring. ok girl I know you want to hide under a blanket for 72 hours BUT we are running a fortress here. despair will only aid the enemy. get it together

[klapollo]

i seriously cannot comprehend the sex drive that makes one exclusively horny for captain america looking movie hunks or the victorias secret angel archetype of tall underweight women with generically pretty faces in bikinis. that shit is like carbon monoxide or infrasonic noise to my libido like my sexual senses cant even clock it

[klapollo]

i'll see heterosexual men posting pics of a group of women who are all identical in this vein and be like "AWOOOOGA BARK BARK BARK" and it's like. you see the world through eyes whose perception i greatly fear.

[gvalesdraws]

bird in cage

[blogvesperi]

Credits:

Jacques Cousteau

The Wave; Gustave Courbet, 1869

Pablo Neruda, The Song of Despair // Matthew Nienow, Bad Year Anthem

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Exiled Olin Ivory La Mer; Alexandre Calame, 1851 John Masefield, Sea-Fever

Bram Stoker, Dracula

Louise Glück, March

A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight; Claude Monet, 1864

Christopher Paolini, Eragon Sylvia Plath, Letters Home John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor

Armed Three-Master on the Open Sea Accompanied by a Galley from The Sailing Vessels; Hieronymus Cock + Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1561–65

Stormy sea; Ramon Martí Alsina, 1884

Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea // Cornelia Funke, Inkheart // Vincent van Gogh

Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds // Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast; Ludolf Bakhuizen,1667

The Black Sea; Ivan Aivazovsky, 1881

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Crossing the Bar

[philosophybits]

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

[philosophybits]

“Reading, and sauntering, and lounging, and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness.”

— David Hume, “Letter to Hugh Blair (1 April 1767)”

[aamuusva]

Curufin at Doriath

[theodysseyofhomer]

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[strinak]

oh, you meant they literally did, ok

[cparti-mkiki]

"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights

[tauindi]

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[philosophybits]

“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.”

— Nikolai Berdyaev, The Divine and the Human

[annebrontesrequiem]

The beautiful word minunthadios, 'short-lived,' is used of both Achilles and Hector, and applies to all of us. We die too soon, and there is no adequate recompense for the terrible, inevitable loss of life. Yet through poetry, the words, actions, and feelings of some long-ago brief lives may be remembered even three thousand years later.

The Iliad, trans. Emily Wilson

[pomorama]

I find it incredibly funny from a meta/author perspective, that Ancient Greece decided to name their protagonist that angers many people “Anger Bringer” but, even funnier, is the in universe understating that anyone who meets Odysseus must have had the thought “oh dear, how unfortunate to be named hateful/hated” and then they have exactly One conversation with him and go “Ah I see now”

For reference, Odysseus’ name sounds very much like the Greek word odussomai, which can roughly mean “I am angry at” or “I am the cause of anger” (or simply “to hate” or “to dismiss”), a fact that is used for ironic effect frequently in the Odyssey.

It’s also specifically stated in Book 19 that Odysseus’ grandfather, a master thief and one who has also pissed off a lot of people, specifically named him this because “I am disliked by many, all across the world, and I dislike them back. So name the child Odysseus.” 19.428

Bro looked at his grandson and thought “Ahaha, this one’s going to be a troublemaker like me. Better get him started early.”

It’s like a terrible allegory for cause and effect or something.

[mikkeneko]

Assigned Problem At Birth

[sarafangirlart]

Eirene and Dike

No Peace without Justice

[rogers-carter]

And no more despair.

REST IN PEACE BERNARD HILL (1944–2024)

[disgustinggf]

[son-of-drogo]

-Bilbo Baggins at his 111th birthday party.

[mithrandirl]

Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.

THE TWO TOWERS

[autistook]

Rest in Peace, Bernard Hill 🤍🕊