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viv | 20 | she/they

[bisexualingmaliciously]

-hi I’m viv, a 21 yr old hockey fan !

-I care primarily about the leafs, but I also have soft spots for the kraken and the golden knights :)

-during the off-season/when stuff crosses my dash I tend to blog about romcoms I enjoy !

-I tag my liveblogs accordingly, usually under #leafs lb or a similar format

[kosmogrl]

lore dropping is kinda crazy because sometimes when I’m mid conversation I realize that actually did happen to me

[kosmogrl]

a while ago I was talking about something childhood related and at some point all I could think was 'hold on maybe this has something to do with me being the way I am'

[austronauts]

mitch marner as tumblr posts (and one tweet i guess?)

(tumblr posts mostly taken from @himbeaux-on-ice‘s mitch marner tag - thank u for ur VISION)

[austronauts]

wow i finally get to update this.

[3416]

"I got emotional. It felt good." (x)

Mitch Marner scores his 200th career goal to beat the Oilers in OT.

Leafs vs Oilers | 11.16.24

[autistook]

Merry Brandybuck as text posts

[apolladay]

Hyperspecific poll time! Pick a fact about me that applies to you.

Broke the same bone twice

Had/has a pet scorpion

Loves seafood but hates fish

Has 30+ cousins

Saw a manatee in the wild and cried out of joy

Played the euphonium at some point in time

Has a visible facial scar

Owns 75+ CDs

Has a fossil collection

Regularly listens to industrial music

Multiple (which ones?)

None of these

Voting ended onSep 7, 2024

[wmnylander]

marner trade marner nmc marner extension how about you marn your own business

[mitchmarner]

“People hear leafs/bruins and it makes them feel some kind of way” yes, traumatized.

[realmikedirnt]

breaking fast after Mass on Good Friday like

[whatincornation]

lofi girl mitch marner

[leveragecentral]

ALDIS HODGE as ALEC HARDISON in LEVERAGE, 1.1 THE NIGERIAN JOB

[mirkwoodest]

One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was write 473k words about some hobbits called frodo, sam, merry, and pippin and then write in the appendices that their names are actually maura, ban, kali, and razal. 

[mirkwoodest]

This just in: Eowyn and Eomer’s names actually start with the letter “L.” [source for other nerds] 

[mirkwoodest]

#wait so they have hobbitish names and common names?

No, they have Westron names and English names.

What you’ve got to understand is that everything Tolkien wrote was him pretending to merely translate ancient documents. He was writing as if the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings had actually been written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam (or Bilba, Maura, and Ban) and he was just some random contemporary academic translating it all into English for us. 

There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the language “Westron.” Therefore any names that come from Westron, he translated. Names coming from other languages, like Sindarin, he left as they were. Why? IDK. Maybe because the stories are from a hobbit perspective and hobbits speak Westron, so he wanted the Westron parts to sound familiar and the other languages/names to remain foreign? 

“But Mirkwoodest!” you cry, “The word ‘hobbit’ isn’t an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck” all sounds super weird and not like English at all!”

Psych! They are in English! (Or Old English, German, or Norse.) Once again you underestimate what a nerd Tolkien was. Let me break it down: 

In Westron, hobbits are actually called “kuduk,” which means “hole-dweller,” so for an English translation, Tolkien called them “hobbits” which is a modernization of the Old English word “holbytla” which comes from “Hol” (hole) and “Bytla”(builder). 

“Maura” is a Westron name which means “Wise.” Weirdly enough, “Frodo” is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing. 

“Banazîr” is Westron for “half-wise, or simple.” In Proto Germanic, the prefix “Sam” means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use. 

“Razanur” means “Traveler” or “Stranger” which is also the meaning of the word “Peregrin(e)” This one is a twofer because  “Razar” means “a small red apple” and in English so does “Pippin.”

“Kalimac” apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened form “Kali” means “happy,” so Jirt decided his nickname would be “Merry” and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name “Meriodoc” to match. 

Jirt chose to leave “Bilba” almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to an “O” because in Westron names ending in “a” are masculine. 

I’m not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except Tûk, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently). 

The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also “translations” into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e. “Eowyn”  is a combination of “Eoh” (horse) and “Wynn” (joy/bliss). 

“Rohirrim/Rohan” are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves the “Éothéod” which is an Old English/Norse combo that means “horse people.” Tolkien tells us in the “Peoples of Middle Earth” that the actual Westron for “Éothéod” is Lohtûr, which means that Eowyn and Eomer’s names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L. 

The names of all the elves, dwarves, Dunedain, and men from Gondor are not English translations, since they come from root words other than Westron. 

The takeaway from this is that when a guy whose first real job was researching the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter “W” writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.

Notes: Sorry I said “Razal” instead of “Razar” in my original post I’m a fraud. 

Further Reading: 

Rohirric , Westron 

[mithrandirn]

favourite costumes in lord of the rings requested by @klngfili & @padme-deserved-better

EOWYN (THE TWO TOWERS)

[glumshoe]

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

[mantis-lizbian]

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

[glumshoe]

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

[glowingghosty]

[unicorngunter]

It's been in my head for far too long

[prokopetz]

I suppose it’s a testament to Tolkien’s economy of language that the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy – interminable preamble and endless appendices and all – has a smaller total page count than the individual books of your average modern doorstopper fantasy series, yet manages to pack in such a high density of worldbuilding detail that reading it feels like it takes about a thousand years.

[prokopetz]

(For those expressing incredulity at the idea of Tolkien being an economical storyteller, one must understand that the ability to communicate a great deal of information very efficiently is a totally separate skill from the ability to get to the damn point.)

[masterelrond]

I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise! “Don’t you leave him, Samwise Gamgee.” And I don’t mean to! I don’t mean to. (insp)

THE TIMELINE OF SAM AND FRODO’S JOURNEY