DivineDarkness

[fyp-psychology]

10 Seemingly Ordinary Examples of How Our Brain Gives Out Profound Secrets About Ourselves

[wordsnquotes]

culturenlifestyle:

Originally posted by bl00dydemon

The human mind is nothing short of a mystery. We do things that often share our innermost thoughts. The problem is that most of us don’t know how to adequately analyze our actions. So below, we have shared 10 things we do on a regular basis, which reveal 10 profound secrets about everyone.

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[earth-witch]

[glitterlessgold]

So I have to give a drunk lecture for a club I’m in, and I picked Tolkien of course, and I thought you all might want to see my visual aids.  (These are just the fun facts, lecture itself will explain important things like what the hell is a silmaril and why do Maedhros and Luthien want it)

[themotivationjournals]

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.

Howard Thurman  (via wordsnquotes)

[daybroken]

How to Thank in Sindarin

It’s neither “hannon le”, nor “le hannon”. Not even “le channon”, or “len hannon”, or “len channon”, or “hannon len”… Seen it all.

This phrase comes from the Lord of the Rings films. David Salo, the linguist who prepared the Elvish (and other) dialogues for them, reconstructed the verb hanna-, “to thank”, about 17 years ago. Yet the story of this reconstruction goes back to 1980, to the publication of the Unfinished Tales.

In the book, we see the word Eruhantalë, its meaning given as “Thanksgiving to Eru”. Obviously, Hantalë means “Thanksgiving”, and it is safe to assume that that -lë is one of Quenya’s abstract noun suffixes. This leaves us with Q. hanta-, “to thank” or “to give thanks”. Seeing other medial NT words in Quenya appearing as NN in Sindarin, we can reconstruct the same as S. hanna-. So far so good.

Then, in January 2002, Vinyar Tengwar published its 43rd issue, and some of Tolkien’s previously unpublished works were released. This is when we learned that the Primitive Quenderin root for this verb was √HAN. And now we have a problem…

Page 365 of the eleventh volume of the History of Middle-earth, War of the Jewels (or simply, Tolkien), tells us that the initial H disappeared:

PQ h- only survived in the dialects of Aman. It disappeared without trace in Sindarin.

In other words, hanna- needs to be anna-. But now, another problem. We already have that verb and it means “to give”, not “to thank”. Yet, if we look closer, we can see that √HAN and anna- actually shares the meaning “to add to”. Then we have han- “to give” in Telerin. These led some of us (linguists) to the idea that anna- can be used to thank without a direct object and by employing the dative case rather than the accusative case. In other words, we’ll use “to you” instead of “you”.

First, let’s clear up the pronouns:

Le - Nominative, you (thou)

Len - Accusative, you (thee)

Allen - Dative, to you (to thee)

Now, the examples:

Len annon - I give you (as if you own someone, and you give them to someone else)

Annon lembas allen - I give lembas to you

Annon allen - I give thanks to you

A word derived from two different roots is not uncommon in Sindarin. Just as Quenya’s hanta- and anta- end up as anna- in Sindarin, Q. lamba and lambe are seen as lam in S. Also, like anna-, we have eitha- derived from both √HEK and √EK.

This is one of the most common mistakes made by Elvish enthusiasts / LotR fans. The problematic nature of hanna- is known for fifteen years yet the word couldn’t get out there, since most people just want to use the phrase and be done with it. I myself have learned about this only two years ago or so. I think this is a great example on how complex these languages are, even with seemingly simplest things. And I hope this post will serve well for everyone.

Annon allen!

Elaran, Lammengollon

[fyp-science]

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Richard Stallman (via fyp-science)

[90377]

Untitled by Yasushi MIURA

[queenerestor]

I always comfort myself with the fact that no matter how badly I mess up, I will never mess up as badly as literally every character in the Silmarillion

[donnahosie-deactivated20180210]

One of the many brilliant scenes in the best Doctor Who episode of all time!

[sirpeter64]

[dehanginggarden-deactivated2018]

sirpeter64:

A lynx climbs a tree at the Langedrag Nature Park in Norway.

[emhyrvaremris]

[inkweaverabc]

Lets all just stop for a second.

Boromir dies to save Merry and Pippin.

The hobbits are later freed from the orcs because Eomer attacked

Pippin goes on to save Faramir’s life

And Merry to save Eowyn’s.

Faramir and Eowyn then fall in love

Thanks to Eomer and Boromir saving the hobbits, their siblings survived and ended up married.

…

Now you may go weep.

[halcyon-noir]

horses of Middle Earth

[myrkvidrs]

Silmarils of Feanor // by Helena Nikulina

[historyy]

welcome to the silmarillion fandom, where everyone has at least two names, your favourite characters live a few chapters at the most, and sauron is better looking than you ever knew.

[tempestpaige]

sad? watch lord of the rings. happy? watch lord of the rings. sick? watch lord of the rings. sleepy? watch lord of the rings. dying from a festering wound? watch lord of the rings. have homework to do? watch lord of the rings.

watching lord of the rings solves 100% of all problems. trust me i am a medical doctor.

[swordwieldingeowyn]

The spouse of Aule is Yavanna, the Giver of Fruits. She is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind, from the trees like towers in forests long ago to the moss upon stones or the small and secret things in the mould. In reverence Yavanna is next to Varda among the Queens of the Valar.