The Big Picture

'Life and the journey for awesome'. If I had a catch phrase, that would be it. But I don't really believe in self proposed catch phrases....so better luck next time. I'm Erin, and this is my blog of mostly fandom related things. In fact...I should say this is my fandom blog that occasionally is graced by non-fandom things.

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Schemers!

what is a kid for if not to leave events early

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World War Something, A. Tamboly

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I….. I….. ….. I AM ALIVE FOR THIS

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K, the younger ladies are awesome but the older ladies absolutely steal the hell outta this show. (PS Nice to see the uniforms and decorations aren’t completely off the wall)

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Halley’s Comet as photographed May 13, 1910, by a wide-angle camera at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., during the comet’s last appearance. A streak across the comet near the coma is a meteor trail, and not a scratch on the negative. Streaks at the bottom right are the city lights of Flagstaff Bright spot above the city lights is the planet Venus

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A Khuzdul Vocabulary Primer

Here is a very basic list of khuzdul words adapted for common use. Please note that this list is simplified, and is neither complete nor definitive. I'm no expert, I've just researched and organized it for you. Sources are cited at bottom- check them out for more info and uses in Tolkien's text!

Aglâb: spoken language

ai-mênu: upon you

aya: upon

Azaghâl: warrior

'Azanul- : of the shadows

Baraz: red, ruddy

Barazinbar: Redhorn

Bark: axe

Baruk: axes of , ie, Baruk Khazâd! "Axes of the Dwarves!"

Bizar: dale, rill, small river valley

Bund: head

Bundushathur: "Cloudyhead", one of the mountains above Moria

Bûz: root

Duban: valley

Dûm: mansion, hall

Felek: hew rock

Felak: 1) (n.) a tool like a broad-bladed chisel, or small axe-head without haft, for cutting stone, 2) (v.) to use this tool

Felakgundu / Felaggundu: cave-hewer, miner

Gabil: "great"

Gamil: old

Gathol: fortress

Gundu: underground hall

Gunud: delve underground, excavate, tunnel

Iglishmêk: a gesture-code used by the Dwarves.

Inbar: horn

Khazâd: Dwarves; their name for themselves

Khazad-dûm: "Dwarrowdelf", Moria

Khazâd ai-mênu!: "The Dwarves are upon you!", Dwarvish battle-cry.

Kheled: glass

Khuzd: Dwarf

Khuzdul: Dwarvish

Kibil: silver (metal)

Kibil-nâla’: silverlode; the river Celebrant

Mah: create (verb)

Mahal: Dwarvish name of Aulë, aka The Maker

Mazarbul: Hall of Records, library; ie, The Chamber of Mazarbul in Moria

mênu: you (acc. pl.)

Nargûn: "Mordor"

Narag: black, dark

Nibar: horn

Rakhâs: Orcs

Rukhs: Orc

Salôn / sulûn: fall, descend swiftly

Shathûr: cloud(s)

Sharah: bald

Shimak: gestures

Sigin: long

Sigin-tarâg: "the Longbeards"

Tarâg: beards

Thark: staff

Tharkûn: Dwarvish name of Gandalf, said to mean "Staff-man"

Tûm: bold, delving

Tumunzahar: "Hollowbold", Dwarvish name of Nogrod

Turg: beard

-u: in/of (conj. suffix)

u-: and (conj. prefix)

Uzbad: Lord, Lord of

Zahar: Hollow

Zâram: lake, pool

zarab: keep, document, record (verb)

Zigil: silver (color)

Zirak: spike

Zirak-zigil: "Silvertine" one of the mountains over Moria

Sources:

"An analysis of Dwarvish" by Magnus Åberg; www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_khuzdul.html

"Khuzdul - the secret tongue of the Dwarves" by Helge Kåre Fauskanger; www.folk.uib.no/hnohf/k2.htm

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Interior Design by Vladimir Kuzmin

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A love-story about a pirate and his encounter with the beautiful queen and the annoying octopus. With sword fighting and wonderful music by Les Primitives du Futur.

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Space miniaturized with Tilt-Shift

More links and Spaceshifts http://imgur.com/a/yZcOB

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When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

Nikola Tesla (1926)

“Just think of the cat pictures! *shiny eyes*” - also Nikola Tesla. Really.

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Space Glass by Satoshi Tomizu: Galaxy Pendants Made From Glass, Opals, And Gold

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Macrocosm/Microcosm

Artist St. Tesla (great name, btw) applied tilt shift to pictures of nebulae and galaxies and it makes me feel like I could hold space in the palm of my hand like a tiny toy.

More here. Via Sploid. 

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The Heirs of Durin + Shakespeare

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Michael B. Jordan: Why I’m Torching the Color Line

You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue eyes—I wanted to check the pulse out there. I didn’t want to be ignorant about what people were saying. Turns out this is what they were saying: “A black guy? I don’t like it. They must be doing it because Obama’s president” and “It’s not true to the comic.” Or even, “They’ve destroyed it!  It used to bother me, but it doesn’t anymore. I can see everybody’s perspective, and I know I can’t ask the audience to forget 50 years of comic books. But the world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961. Plus, if Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, “You’re good. I’m okay with this,” who am I to go against that?  Some people may look at my casting as political correctness or an attempt to meet a racial quota, or as part of the year of “Black Film.” Or they could look at it as a creative choice by the director, Josh Trank, who is in an interracial relationship himself—a reflection of what a modern family looks like today.  This is a family movie about four friends—two of whom are myself and Kate Mara as my adopted sister—who are brought together by a series of unfortunate events to create unity and a team. That’s the message of the movie, if people can just allow themselves to see it. Sometimes you have to be the person who stands up and says, “I’ll be the one to shoulder all this hate. I’ll take the brunt for the next couple of generations.” I put that responsibility on myself. People are always going to see each other in terms of race, but maybe in the future we won’t talk about it as much. Maybe, if I set an example, Hollywood will start considering more people of color in other prominent roles, and maybe we can reach the people who are stuck in the mindset that “it has to be true to the comic book.” Or maybe we have to reach past them. To the trolls on the Internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It’s okay to like it.

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