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LEE PACE as Calpernia Addams Soldier's Girl | 2003, dir. Frank Pierson
@lotrweek 2024 ā Day II: Histories and Legacies ā³ Silmarillion References in The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
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Reasons I believe my friend is secretly some kind of deity
1) First time we spoke was a week after the beggining of freshman year she summed up my entire character and most of the events of my life Sherlock style. I asked her how the hell she knew all that. She just shrugged and said she figured out our entire class already.
2) The one time we had religion class instead of ethics she listened to the teacher for a few minutes, laughed and told me:
āHumans have wished to be gods so much theyāve forgotten they have to ability to create them. Imagination has truly suffered from this āmonotheismā stuff.ā
I was confused and asked her if she was an atheist. She rolled her eyes and said:
āOh I believe in god alright. I just donāt think the bastard deserves to be worshipped.ā
3) Out of nowhere she gave me this advice:
āThe only truth a liar ever told was that lies werenāt going to save you. Donāt become the liar who has to pass that wisdom on, because they speak from experience.ā
4) To this day, she has one of those old-timey phones with buttons she only uses to ocassionally call someone. When I asked her why she never got a smartphone she got pouty:
āI hate social media. On Facebook they talk a lot but never say anything. If I wanted to listen to people moan about their problems and ask for help they donāt expect Iād listen to their prayers.ā (Notice the choice of words)
5) I noticed she was stiff and I offered her a massage since Iām really good at it but when i started kneading her back I swear to this day those were not muscles I felt. I asked her what she did to turn her muscles into rocks covered with a thin layer of skin and she kinda froze then shrugged and said she was just really, really stiff. My hands hurt after ten minutes when I can usually go for an hour. Next time I offered she seemed surprised and laughed. She still has rocks for muscles.
6) We were having a debate over the way neural pathways are formed (I study biology and she forensics) and I jokingly asked if I could have her brain for study when she dies. She laughed.
āSure, if you find a way to kill me you can have it. Iām actually curious what youāre gonna find.ā
7) One time she was tired and miserable and I tried to comfort her. We both have really dark sense of humor so I told her she could scare the dead out of their graves with that glare. She told me the dead canāt come back and I rolled my eyes and said 'obviouslyā but she continued:
āWhen you die you descend to the underworld with nothing to lose. To keep you, they give you something to lose. When you want to return, they will demand it back. Thatās why nobody ever leaves. The only way out is to never enter.ā
8) One day she just came up to me with a disappointed look on her face. When I asked her what was wrong she was quiet for a few seconds and then just told me:
āBetrayals committed in good intentions are still damning. Just⦠keep that in mind.ā Then she left and didnāt speak to me for three days. I still donāt know what she meant but even three years later I havenāt forgotten it.
9) We were casually sitting on a bench when, out of nowhere, she asked me: āIs it just me or have humans gotten dumber? Or have they always been this stupid and I just havenāt been paying attention?ā
10) She asked me if I ever wondered what it was like to die. I said no but told her I would tell her when I found out. I meant it as a ghost joke but she smiled at me and said:
āGreat. Iāll wait for you to come back. Maybe youāll even remember me.ā
In conclusion, she is some kind of low-key god and she lost her faith in humanity even before we lost our faith in her but sheās stuck with us because immortality is a bitch.
P.S. I just remembered her name is a variation on 'Eveā. Maybe I should reconsider my atheist status?!
UPDATE (Jan 9, 2019): Since people liked this so much Iām making it a thing. All I have about Eve can be found under #god goes to college
One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was writeĀ 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.Ā
This just in: Eowyn and Eomerās names actually start with the letterĀ āL.ā [source for other nerds]Ā
#wait so they have hobbitish names and common names?
No, they have Westron names and English names.
What youāve 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 were 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.Ā
There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the languageĀ āWestron.ā 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?Ā
āBut Mirkwoodest!ā you cry,Ā āThe wordĀ āhobbitā isnāt an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuckā all sounds super weird and not like English at all!ā
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:Ā
In Westron, hobbits are actually calledĀ ākuduk,ā which meansĀ āhole-dweller,ā so for an English translation, Tolkien called themĀ āhobbitsā which is a modernization of the Old English wordĀ āholbytlaā which comes fromĀ āHolā (hole) andĀ āBytlaā(builder).Ā
āMauraā is a Westron name which meansĀ āWise.ā Weirdly enough,Ā āFrodoā is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing.Ā
āBanazĆ®rā is Westron for āhalf-wise, or simple.ā In Proto Germanic, the prefix āSamā means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use.Ā
āRazanurā meansĀ āTravelerā orĀ āStrangerā which is also the meaning of the word āPeregrin(e)ā This one is a twofer becauseĀ āRazarā meansĀ āa small red appleā and in English so does āPippin.ā
āKalimacā apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened formĀ āKaliā meansĀ āhappy,ā so Jirt decided his nickname would be āMerryā and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name āMeriodocā to match.Ā
Jirt chose to leaveĀ āBilbaā almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to anĀ āOā because in Westron names ending inĀ āaā are masculine.Ā
Iām not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except TĆ»k, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently).Ā
The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also ātranslationsā into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e.Ā āEowynāĀ is a combination ofĀ āEohā (horse) andĀ āWynnā (joy/bliss).Ā
āRohirrim/Rohanā are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves theĀ āĆothĆ©odā which is an Old English/Norse combo that meansĀ āhorse people.āĀ Tolkien tells us in theĀ āPeoples of Middle Earthā that the actual Westron forĀ āĆothĆ©odā isĀ LohtĆ»r, which means that Eowyn and Eomerās names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L.Ā
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.Ā
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 āWā writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.
Notes: Sorry I saidĀ āRazalā instead ofĀ āRazarā in my original post Iām a fraud.Ā
Further Reading:Ā
RohirricĀ , WestronĀ
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Tolkien was the most extra son of a bitch my goodness
This is why C.S. Lewis wanted to punch Tolkien in the face sometimes.Ā
In the great hierarchy of nerds, Tolkien remains at the very top.
No one can top Tolkien.
pretend? pretend to translate????
Does translating a language qualify as actual translation when the language being translated is a language created by the translator for the purpose of translating it?
Or should I just have had a second cup of tea before writing this comment�
To add⦠Jirt? JIRT!? Are you really telling me, having been a J.R. Tolkien fan for 22 years, that I am only learning his first name from a Tumblr nerd deep dive post. And. Jir.t. j!rt. J|ąøÆŠ. J/rTĀæ?
His first name is John. His friends wrote his name JR2T, which is pronounced āJirt, like dirt.ā Here, this should help:
Hogwarts Legacy update!
We've confirmed the plot: there's an uprising among the race of hook-nosed bankers who control the economy. (Note that the more evil they are, the bigger their noses are. There's a good one who has a big nose but he used to be evil when he was younger.) They're "rebelling" because they want their stolen cultural artefacts to be returned to them and want to not be oppressed anymore, which for some reason means they also want to massacre their oppressors' entire race, because of course marginalised people asking for liberation actually secretly want to kill you. As part of this sinister cabal's nefarious plot for whiteāI mean, wizardāextinction, they want to kidnap a child, because that's what hook-nosed bankers like to do, right? And their leader is willing to do anything for material gain, up to and including teaming up with fascists who hate his race.
You guys know that conspiracy theorists think Jews funded the Holocaust, right? They claim we did it so we could milk it for reparation money afterwards. And did you know they think we kidnap children? Or that we actually want supremacy rather than equality, and plan to subjugate the rest of the world for our own gain? Presumably you've at least heard the claim that we control the banks. And you know this is all very popular with the alt right, don't you? Have you also heard that this game's original head developer was an alt right YouTuber?
Don't act like this is a fucking coincidence.
No, JKR wasn't involved in the game, and it's actively intended to be trans-positive. Yes, she gets money from it, and will likely donate some of that to anti-trans causes. But even if you pirate the game so she doesn't make any money off of it, you're still going to be be playing the fucking Protocols of the Elders of Gringotts.
Fucking TALK ABOUT THIS.
#being trans and jewish makes this such a weird time to be in the circles im in online#because all i see in protest of the game is 'its transphobic to play it!' and nothing about the antisemitism#EXCEPT from other jews#with exceptions for my beloved frienda who are part of the Surprisingly Jewish friend circle (via @jonaldronaldrolkientolkien)
If you're not Jewish, read those tags and read them again.
I came across this and I'm not jewish but I've seen some on Twitter say that this "goblin artefact" is in fact a Shofar. In case anybody is still doubting that the goblins in HP are pretty much a caricature of jewish people.
This image is a shofar, literally a Jewish object of worship and celebration.
Compare it to the image from the game. See the eerie similarity? This means it's deliberate.
The part about hook-nosed bankers wanting to steal a child goes back to the (originally European) myth that Jews steal Christian (wizard?) babies in order to use their blood for matzoh. (Spoiler: we don't, matzoh is parve, humans are in no way kosher.) A kid goes missing? Blame the Jews. A toddler is run down by cart that doesn't stop? It's those Jews again. Someone abandoned their child? Traded to Jews for spells or money. Did I mention that we were supposed to have magical powers, even though we don't?
This game is straight up nazzy propaganda. (I write it like that to piss them off.) Antisemitism is so open and so widespread right now that synagogues have bulletproof glass, Jews get attacked in public, and this game gets released with no questions from the corporations funding it.
Don't buy it. Protest stores that carry it! Don't put money in the pockets of assholes and bigots, whether they hate Jews, trans people, or both!
friendly reminder that the antisemitic "Fettmilch Uprisingā, which saw the expulsion of Jewish people from Frankfurt and the confirmed deaths of two Jews, started in 1612.
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Itās not even particularly subtle.
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Micheal Sheen was originally cast as Crowley
(I will never tire of hearing this š„°)
Neil Gaiman: The truth is that Michael was meant to have played Crowley. That was where it all began: was me going, āWho do I know who could be Crowley? Michael Sheen loves the book, Michael would do it.ā, called Michael, do you want to do it, and heās like, 'Yes!ā, I thought, 'Great, I have a Crowley.ā. So when I started writing the scripts, I was writing them going I know I have - at least I have my Crowley, I have Michael Sheen. And around the middle of Episode 3, I was going, 'This Crowley doesnāt really feel a lot like Michael Sheen.ā, and I wrote this sceen when Crowley comes down the center aisle of a church hopping like a man on a beach on a hot day 'cause itās walking on holy ground and I thought, 'David Tennant would be really good at that, I could get David Tennant.ā, and then when it was all done I figured I had to break it to Michael, that he wasnāt going to be Crowley, that I wanted him to be Aziraphale, and he read the scripts, and we had this really really awkward dinner, that because I was trying to pluck the courage to break it to Michael that I wanted him to play Aziraphale, and Michael was trying to find the way to break it to me that he did not want to play Crowley that he wanted to play Aziraphale having read the scripts. So it was an awful dinner until the end where we just like, 'Oh, you too?! Oh! Oh, good! Well Iām thinking of David Tennant, oh good you like him. Okay.ā So it became a lot easier at that moment.
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after a point, the destiel denial is just funny. i mean okay they never kiss or have sex or hold hands on screen but they literally raise a kid together and live together and when something happens to one of them, the other just becomes insane and loses all sense of self-preservation and sam is just always there when this happens as if to highlight the contrast between the behaviour of someone who loves and cares about the other person, and whatever the hell dean or cas is doing. like. we essentially see their relationship play out and it's very obviously romantic but they just never use the words and it's so funny.
All of us chose to follow Yara. We left the Iron Islands for Yara. She would never leave one of us behind. Weāre not leaving her behind.
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Another piece on my headcanon that Loki has a special connection with any and all animals like the disney princess he is xD
āThere is no way in Hel! AND IāVE BEEN TO HEL!ā - Valkyrie, all the time, probably xD
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Costume Design by Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor THE HOBBIT TRILOGY 2012 - 2014 | dir. Peter Jackson