Art is art, isn't it?

E. Meckm (rhymes with Beckham)  -||-  Fan of science fiction and fantasy. Quotations enthusiast.

[twloha]

[paperback-mummy-blog]

I really love this and I know exactly why but I can’t explain it.

[in-thislight]

Because it’s just another indication that we, as Human Beings, are one.

[e-meckm]

Roman Ondák’s Measuring the Universe

[ssszzzleepyhead]

[groudon]

i like this but i don’t fully understand it…

[lizardclubpresidente-deactivate]

whoa

[llovelylamb-deactivated20140328]

you don’t understand how sad this is. each adult is a cross, and each child has been crucified by said cross. 

the priest (i assume he’s a priest, correct me if i’m wrong) killed the little boy in one way or another, probably rape, which is common among corrupted clergy men. 

the tourist comes to an overcrowded, poverty stricken country, taking up any and all resources that could have gone to the little native girl

the soldier comes to fight for his country, but ends up killing the innocent girl, probably in her village.

the little boy dies under the doctor’s knife

the man kills the little girl in a school shooting (represented with the uniform)

the “fat” kid is killed by obesity caused by a fast food epidemic in america, most commonly mcdonald’s, shown by ronald mcdonald himself. 

this is /haunting/ to look at. children can die at anyone’s hand. even the “heros”

[thewickedlittletown-blog]

i think the tourist guy/native girl is more about child prostitution.

[e-meckm]

Crucified by adult greed and sin: Poignant portraits capture the evils that harm innocent children all over the world

Los Intocables by Erik Ravelo

[rpgrules]

[e-meckm]

cover illustration for the Southlands by artist Aaron Miller

[valtsv]

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

[valtsv]

[tiwaztyrsfist]

Tolkien had personal beef with the Beatles

[solepunk]

He actively encouraged Led Zeppelin to write songs based on the LOTR series and considered it an honor

[taylsthetrap]

I am Arran, god of the most important thing

EDIT: if y'all don’t wanna use your name use your username

[e-meckm]

I am Emmie, God of course

[moshita-deactivated20180620]

[tinygaysouffle]

bUT SEX ED IN SCHOOL WILL CORRUPT THE CHILDREN IT’S OKAY THEIR PARENTS WILL TELL THEM

[cloacacarnage]

i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit i’ve ever seen a human being do

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Wtf????

[theryanproject]

Smoove with it too 

[meqabitch-deactivated20200901]

This is the kind of shit you see in anime that shows that a certain character is stronger than other characters. 

[bankuei]

“Pathetic.  You can’t even hold the bat you dare step to the plate? Have you no respect for the sport?”

[pardonmewhileipanic]

reminds me of this gif

[sueanoi]

[batter-sempai]

Baseball players are to be feared

[cynosurecosplay]

[thenamesdede]

Reblogging for the last one

[saito-91]

^Same for me

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

They just kept getting progressively more “woah”

[scp2008]

much woah

[lord-blongus]

Oh my god this is a lucky universe

[cleoselene-deactivated20260315]

every time this post comes around, my favorite part is the “I know it’s the Mets” qualifier at the beginning lmao like how baseball that this zillion note posts starts with “sorry for putting this hellteam on your dash, bUT”

[lostspirit101]

Y’all have no idea how hard I was trying not to laugh in class at that poor bird

[wazimoomoo]

They…they just blew up a fucking bird…

[greatcomputerearthquake]

Ball’s dead. Bird’s dead. I’m dead

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

This is so funny I don’t even care for baseball but this is great

[doctorsawbones]

Yep! And what ended up happening is what we baseball fans call a FARTSLAM, which stands for Fielder Allows Runner To Score Like A Moron.

Plays like this are why I love Baseball

[e-meckm]

[byjove]

THE PROPRIETOR OF MY LOCAL ANTIQUE MALL IS THREATENING MASKLESS PEOPLE WITH A BASEBALL BAT, MY FUCKING KING

[byjove]

review I just left after buying $150 worth of records there :)

[cptkitten]

op where is the store

[byjove]

the AntiQue mall

[byjove]

violence is not bad especially when you’re a little old man selling antiques for your livelihood and people keep threatening your life by attempting to infect you with a deadly virus

[musicofthe-ainur]

Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

[eleemosynecdoche]

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

[modernclaire]

another hilarious example:

[captorations]

aragorn: and then i’ll say “this army” and then you run at them right through me with your army behind you

ghost king, known dramatic bitch who habitually spends like five minutes scaring and chanting at intruders before killing them: oh FUCK yeah let’s do it

[gunpowderchant]

Get your facts straight, CNN.

[infinitywhale]

If you didn’t know, Stephen Colbert is a literal expert on Lord of the Rings. He went onto the sets of one of the films and managed to beat the resident lore expert in a trivia contest. Someday he will die and Death will come, and he will live forever by challenging him to a contest of LoTR trivia.

[malapropsbookstore]

Headcanon accepted.

[wizardshark]

friendly reminder that when they were making armor for the monsters in the LOTR movies colbert came on set and gave tips to improve and make them more accurate

[e-meckm]

The Colbert Report: Balrog (Season 2 • 06/07/2006)

[e-meckm]

(We’re taking a calculus final. The TA is a well-known Lord of the Rings fan, and we’ve had running LotR jokes all semester.)

TA: “Okay, guys, everyone look at me. We’ve been over the rules, but just in case: no notes, pencil your answers in on the scantron sheet, and graphing calculators only – no more ‘can I just used my cell phone’ nonsense.”

Student: “[TA's name], my calculator batteries just died! What should I do?”

TA: “Here, I’ve got a big box of spares.”

Student: *struggling* “I can’t get this packaging open…”

Student 2: “Here, I’ve got a pocket knife.”

TA: “And I’ve got a pair of scissors if you need them.”

Student 3: *from the back of the room* “OR MY AXE!”

(Everyone starts laughing.)

TA: “The only axes allowed on the exam are in the graph section.”

(Everyone groans.)

TA: “Oh, come on, you’re in a math class. Deal with the math jokes.”

(The professor enters with a stack of exams. With him are two exam proctors.)

Professor: “Tolkien jokes already, [TA's name]?”

TA: “Hey, I didn’t start it.”

(The professor starts handing stacks of exams to the TA and proctors.)

Professor: “But I’m about to finish it. [TA], take these exams down the left flank. [Proctor 1], follow the desks down the center. [Proctor 2], take your exams right, along the wall.”

(At this point, many of the students have realized where this is going: Theoden’s lines from ‘Return of the King.’)

Professor: “Forth, and fear no problems! Solve! Solve, students of calculus! Points shall be taken, scores shall be splintered! A pencil day! A red-ink day! Until three thirty!”

(The professor pulls out a pencil, holding it out like a sword, and runs down the first row holding it out. Students hold up their pencils, hitting his as he passes.)

Professor: “Solve now! Solve now! Solve to good grades and the class ending! MAAATH!”

Entire Class: “MAAATH!”

Professor: “MAAAAATH!”

Entire Class: “MAAAAAATH!”

Professor: “Forth, exam-takers!”

(The entire class rises to their feet and gives him a standing ovation. A week later, we get an email from the professor.)

Professor: *at the end of the email* “PS: I appreciate all of you who wrote in their evaluations that I was the one professor to rule them all, but the best one yet was the student who called me ‘Mathrandir.’”

[the-peoples-of-middle-earth]

[cash-bundren]

“You fool. No man can kill me.”

How many times am I allowed to reblog this before it gets weird?

[davidkarpvevo]

[arachnofiend]

Fun facts: Tolkien constructed this scene because he came out of Macbeth thinking that Shakespeare had missed a golden opportunity with the ”Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” prophecy

[majere636]

Being letdown by Macbeth is apparently a significant factor in Tolkien’s writing because the Ent/Huorn attack on Isengard was the result of his disappointment that the whole “til Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane” thing was just some dudes holding sticks and not actual ambulatory trees.

[xekstrin]

so he basically took his favorite shakespeare headcanons and put them into his AU fic

[poutineisdelicious]

This revelation just knocked me over.

[urulokid]

LET ME TELL YOU A THING ABOUT JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN. BACK THE FUCK UP SIT THE FUCK DOWN YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING YOU’RE FUCKING JON SNOW HERE. LET ME TELL U A THING

JONNY T WAS LITERALLY THE BIGGEST FANBOY TO EVER WALK THE EARTH. LITERALLY THIS FUCKIN NERD WENT INTO WORLD WAR ONE AND WROTE NORSEFIC EDDA FANFIC IN THE TRENCHES AND SENT IT TO ALL HIS FRIENDS WHO WERE PRESUMABLY LIKE “JOHN WHAT THE FUCK”

BUT IT DOESN’T END THERE

HIS WIFE? MADE HER AND HIMSELF INTO SELF-INSERT OCS IN SAID FIC. ALSO MADE HIMSELF A TOTAL TYR SELF INSERT CHARACTER. ALL VERY DRAMATIC. KEPT WRITING THIS FIC UNTIL IT WAS HUGE. AFTER HE DIED HIS SON PUBLISHED IT AND CALLED IT THE SILMARILLION. JRR YOU FUCKIN NERD

WAIT I’M NOT FUCKING DONE YET. TREEBEARD? BASED THE WAY HE TALKED OF HIS OLD FRIEND JACK WHO YOU ALL MIGHT KNOW AS CS LEWIS. THAT’S RIGHT. THAT NARNIA MOTHERFUCKER. WROTE HIM INTO LORD OF THE RINGS AKA THE SEQUEL TO THE SEQUEL OF HIS ORIGINAL FANFIC MASTERPIECE. CS LEWIS FUCKING HATED LORD OF THE RINGS. TOLKIEN FUCKING HATED NARNIA. BASICALLY THEY STARTED THE OXFORD PROFESSOR LIVEJOURNAL CLUB AND THEY FLAMED EACH OTHER’S SHIT RELENTLESSLY YET REMAINED BFFS

SHELOB? FUCKING TARANTULA BIT J-TIDDY ON THE FOOT WHEN HE WAS LIKE 3. WROTE IT INTO LORD OF THE RINGS.

HIS AUNT’S HOUSE? NAMED BAG END. YEAH YOU GUESSED IT WROTE IT INTO LORD OF THE RINGS

THIS FUCKING DORKUS SUPREME MADE UP HIS OWN LANGUAGE. WAIT NO IM WRONG. HE MADE UP LIKE 80 LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS AND ALPHABETS AND SHIT 

BEST PART OF ALL?? HIS OWN LAST NAME, TOLKIEN, WAS DERIVED FROM THE GERMAN “TOLKHUN” MEANING “FOOLHARDY”. DOES THAT RING A BELL TO ANYONE FAMILIAR TO LORD OF THE RINGS??? BECAUSE YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT PEREGRIN “PIPPIN” TOOK’S LIKE FUCKING CATCHPHRASE WAS “FOOL OF A TOOK”. TOLKIEN FIC’D HIS OWN FAMILIAL LINGUISTIC HISTORY INTO HIS WORK WHAT A DWEEB

IN 2008 HE RANKED 6TH ON A LIST OF THE TOP 50 BRITISH WRITERS SINCE 1945. HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES AND OTHER IMPORTANT STUFFY SHIT AT OXFORD

AND JRR TOLKIEN WAS THE BIGGEST DWEEB EVER TO LIVE

THE END

[urulokid]

#somebody fuckin censored this post like a weirdo so i had to go back a bit to find an uncensored version????? #what a fuckin weirdo????????#worth it #lotr #jrrt

WHO THE FUCK CENSORED MY GLORIOUS FUCKING RANT ON TOLKIEN

DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THERE’S A VERSION FLOATING AROUND WITHOUT ALL MY SWEARS

UNBELIEVABLE

THIS IS THE WORK OF MORGOTH I TELL YOU 

[if-i-dosaysomyself]

this is probably one of the greatest things I’ve ever read

[loquaciouslyliterate]

Tbh I think my favourite character in LotR is that one ent whose hair catches on fire, so he dips it in the water when the dam breaks

Gets me every time

[lobstermania]

best part of all the movies, amirite?

[adaperturamlibri-deactivated201]

They think she believes without thinking, but that’s not it really.

It’s just that she thinks and the answer is always quite clear.

Aslan has always guided them when they needed him.

He sung the stars into being, the sun into glorious splendor, the moons into haunting beauty. The stars sing every night and the sun rises every morn.

Aslan has defended, has come, has died, has lived. He has not broken a promise (and she cannot see how he will start now).

She believes because He told her to. He told her to find Him, and so she will.

(And when London is too loud and too dark and the night seems longer than the day, she closes her eyes and remembers the brilliance of the Narnian sun and the warm, course, golden hairs of a lion running through her fingers, and she believes.)