Silmarien

Greek | 28 female | | Tolkien, Romantics, Classical Antiquity, Medieval

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Watercolor pallet take me home 🎨

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Fëanorian star (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[hwhwgwhnwnwbwbwg-deactivated202]

still waiting for a letter🪶

[charlottearthistory]

‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)

[tolkienillustrations]

Gondolin by Ted Nasmith

[camellia93]

Job application: Me:  "In that time were made those things that afterwards were most renowned of all the works of the Elves. For I, being come to my full might, was filled with a new thought, or it may be that some shadow of foreknowledge came to me of the doom that drew near; and I pondered how the light of the Trees, the glory of the Blessed Realm, might be preserved imperishable. Then I began a long and secret labour, and I summoned all my lore, and my power, and my subtle skill; and at the end of all I made the Silmarils."

[camellia93]

I find it ironic how men throughout history accused women as the root of all evils. They made such a hassle about a fictional woman eating a fruit, but few were willing to look at what the observable crimes around them told about men’s nature.

If you want to see how bad women can be, look at myths. If you want to see how bad men can be, look at history...

[shakespork]

i know i wouldnt survive in an austen novel because someone would be britishly, discretely rude to me and i would be completely unable to restrain myself from calling them a cunt to their face

[shakespork]

my detested rival: why, madam, you look so drawn and pale today! does the small size of your estate not give you enough freedom to take in the sun?

me: listen you waxy, lemon-faced bitch,,

[thoodleoo]

somebody: oh you study latin? that sounds so sophisticated!

me, thinking about a poem that martial wrote where andromache rides hector like a horse and their slaves are hanging outside the door beating their meat while it happens: yeah it can get pretty deep sometimes

[thoodleoo]

since yall freaks are demanding a source:

it’s martial 11.104

the basis of the poem is martial complaining that his wife wont bang him enough

heres the line in question: Phrygian slaves used to masturbate outside the door whenever the wife sat atop her Hectorean ‘horse’

according to martial, penelope is so horny for odysseus she likes to touch him even when hes asleep

this is not the dirtiest martial poem ive ever read

[camellia93]

“Wife, leave my house or adopt my ways!

I am not a Curius, a Numa or a Tatius.

Nights made happy with drink please me:

But you hurry to leave with water to drink.

You love the shadows, but I’m happy to play

With a lamp as witness or with light let in on my ‘bulge’.

Tunics and obscuring robes must cover you:

But no girl could ever be naked enough for me!

Kisses to mimic eager doves delight me;

But you give those from a grandmother’s ‘good morning’.

It is beneath you to help out with movement or voice,

Not even fingers, as if you were readying incense and wine.

Phrygian slaves used to masturbate outside the door

Whenever the wife sat atop her Hectorean ‘horse’;

Chaste Penelope always used to keep her hand down there,

Even when the Ithacan was snoring!

You won’t abide anal sex! Cornelia permitted this to Gracchus!

Julia allowed Pompey; Porcia bent for you, Brutus!

When the Dardanian was not yet his servant mixing sweet wine,

Juno was Jupiter’s Ganymede.

If you want to be grave, then be Lucretia all day

But at night I want a Lais.”

[roseydoux]

Atonement (2007)

[gangsters-wife]

[camellia93]

"Like a high-born maiden  In a palace-tower,  Soothing her love-laden  Soul in secret hour  With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower."

[ultrafacts]

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[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Those are the countries. It will be drought-resistant species, mostly acacias. And this is a brilliant idea you have no idea oh my Christ

This will create so many jobs and regenerate so many communities and aaaaaahhhhhhh

[jumpingjacktrash]

more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall

it’s already happening, and already having positive effects. this is wonderful, why have i not heard of this before? i’m so happy!

[jenniferrpovey]

Oh yes, acacia trees.

They fix nitrogen and improve soil quality.

And, to make things fun, the species they’re using practices “reverse leaf phenology.” The trees go dormant in the rainy season and then grow their leaves again in the dry season. This means you can plant crops under the trees, in that nitrogen-rich soil, and the trees don’t compete for light because they don’t have any leaves on.

And then in the dry season, you harvest the leaves and feed them to your cows.

Crops grown under acacia trees have better yield than those grown without them. Considerably better.

So, this isn’t just about stopping the advancement of the Sahara - it’s also about improving food security for the entire sub-Saharan belt and possibly reclaiming some of the desert as productive land.

Of course, before the “green revolution,” the farmers knew to plant acacia trees - it’s a traditional practice that they were convinced to abandon in favor of “more reliable” artificial fertilizers (that caused soil degradation, soil erosion, etc).

This is why you listen to the people who, you know, have lived with and on land for centuries.

[thatlupa]

^ The bold.

[awed-frog]

Or, whatever, you can also listen to the people who studied the subject and know what they’re talking about? Since this idea was first put forward in 1952 by a British biologist and environmental activist? Meet Richard St. Barbe Baker -

- a guy who started talking about the Earth being a living organism decades before Lovelock and fought for the environment and the importance of reforestation his entire life.

Among other things, Richard St. Barbe Baker:

categorically condemned forest clear-cutting, an idea that he took to governments and forums all over the world, pioneering and fearlessly advocating selective harvesting techniques;

conferred with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and proposed what became America’s Civilian Conservation Corps;

gave tenacious, determined, active leadership, over decades, that helped halt the destruction of the California coastal redwoods, groves that include two-thousand-year-old trees;

drafted research into, and cogent analysis of, the world history of forestry—which he pursued for most of his life—that provides a benchmark for future generations;

traveled to Central and South America and was among the first to propose and plead for an economic solution from the international community to halt the devastation of the Amazon rain forests;

at the age of ninety, made the first of two trips to a remote area of the Himalayas in India where the women of the Chipko tree-hugging movement had, in desperation, taken a bold stand against the deforestation of the region; he was the first Westerner to visit them in their villages and then publicly speak out in support.

(Oh, and in 1929 he was fired from his job as Assistant Conservator of Forests in Nigeria because he defended an African man against a British official.)

Anyway - he does deserve some credit for the amazing Great Green Wall project and for his life’s accomplishments: by the time of his death, he’d been responsible for the planting of 26 trillion trees. Kudos.

[zealouswerewolfcollector]

Eru: Behold, Men! For I bestow upon ye the gift of free will, so ye may do as ye wish.

Eru:

Eru: But, like, not that.

Eru: *destroys Númenor*

[henryclervals]

Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

Academic Theory Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima ‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja  The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia

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[tenaciousdcepticon24]

This joke was beyond ahead of its time

[historylovers]

Author-Félix Thiollier.

Date: c. 1899.

Location: France (?)

I find this photo amazing.