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Elaine (1874) - Toby Edward Rosenthal (1848-1917)

soulless-wave

I am sending some love to everyone thats feels lonely today

smileljns

dark academia moodboard

marcuscrassus

Vincent van Gogh - The Mulberry Tree (1889)

dormouseking

pretty sexy of me to keep going despite each day being more unbearable than the last

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one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

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theelvenkingshalls

Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.

Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.

Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?

Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.

jumpingjacktrash

to be fair, you’d assume the name means “there’s a lot of spiders here,” not, “there is one spider the size of a draft horse here.” so you go up expecting to have to shoo a lot of skeeter eaters out of your tent, and instead you have to figure out how to rope and shoe godzillarantula.

ceescedasticity

Hmmm…

They do live in a world where godzillarantulas feature prominently in mythology and history (Ungoliant plunged the world into darkness, scared the crap out of Sauron’s old boss, etc) and existed within the last century in Mirkwood. Assuming they ever talk to anyone who’s been to Mirkwood. They… probably know they were giant spiders in Mirkwood pretty recently? It’s hard to figure out how much anyone in Middle-earth has been talking to anyone else when we didn’t actually see it.

On the other hand – what if it’s the giant evil spiders’ prominence in history/mythology that’s causing trouble? What if lots of evil/nasty things/places get called “spider” just to indicate how nasty and evil they are, rather than any association with literal spiders, and it’s just… overloaded? Maybe the bad part of town in Minas Tirith is the Spider District. Maybe every tavern trying to be edgy calls itself the Spiderweb.

Actually spider/Ungoliant references could be really appealing to Gondorians trying to be edgy. They’re dark and evil! Plunged the world into darkness! But they AREN’T involved in the war they’re actually fighting, they aren’t directly associated with Sauron at all, so getting too interested in them would be creepy without being potentially treasonous. Because no one’s ACTUALLY going to worship those dangerous but not epic spiders up in Mirkwood, and no one’s heard anything from any proper spawn of Ungoliant in ages and ages.

In fact, spider/Ungoliant references might be appealing to ORCS trying to express that something is nasty and creepy! Nobody likes Ungoliant.

Maybe Faramir’s been to fourteen different Spider Caves across Ithilien, and half of them he didn’t even see regular spiders in, they’re just dark and damp and may have had orcs at some point, or something, and at some point in history someone got spooked. So you know, it’s POSSIBLE Spider Pass has something to do with spiders? But really it just means people don’t like it.

(The problem with this theory is we never actually SAW anyone overusing spider references. But it’s plausible they would!)

wordswithkittywitch

“The average spider on Middle Earth is the size of a dinner plate” is a statistical error. The average spider on Middle Earth is smaller than a coin. Cirith Ungol (lit: Spiders Gorge), which contains a spider larger than a horse, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

iwilltrytobereasonable

OH MY GOD

superstressedspidergirl

@dendritic-trees

theleakypen

Come for the Tolkien linguistics, stay for the Spiders Georg reference

roach-works

this map, by jonathan hull, shows all the places in the USA named after the devil or hell. assuming big giant awful spiders were a common thing in middle earth, it’s likely that there were a shit ton of Spider Stairways.

you don’t wander into Devil’s Lick assuming that satan himself is gonna give you a rimjob. you presumably also don’t head up Spider Stairs assuming an arachnid the size of a cottage is gonna try and eat your friend.

findingfeather

Also a relevant perspective. XD

milfyspamton

pisses me off when people get upset that someone posts art that They don't think looks good enough. like the artist is posting art for Free fuck off. you GET to LOOK AT IT for FREE. you can just Not Look.

thecollectibles

Library by Marco Turini

idrinkcoffeeandiknowshit

A dream🤤

reh-hateshumans

girls don’t want boys, girls want vampires who drink their blood while fucking them into oblivion.

accio-prongs

physically im here but mentally im dancing with a vampire in a ballroom while tchaikovsky plays in the background

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[In continuation of our pride month celebration today we’re gonna talk about Amelio Robles, one of the earliest transgender figures in Latin America. Amelio was born in Xochipala, Guerrero, Mexico in 1889 and was assigned female at birth. And from a young age it is said that Amelio showed interest in “masculine” activities such as taming horses and handling weapons. And that he even confessed to a close family member, when he was younger, that he felt he was a boy.

Then came the Mexican Revolutionary War in 1910, in which many women joined and fought were known as the Adelitas. And many of these women chose to take on male aliases to protect themselves. And Amelio chose to take on a male alias as well. And Amelio became extremely respected in the army for his leadership skills, eventually working his way up to colonel.

He was respected by his peers and his superiors. And even long after the war ended, Amelio continued to live his life as a man. And he was loved by the Mexican people for being a military hero and his male identity was accepted by family, society, and the Mexican government.

And in 1973 he was awarded the Mexican Legion of Honor, an award that is given to veterans who made outstanding efforts to defend Mexico. He also met and married Ángela Torres and they adopted a daughter together. He passed away in 1984 at age 95. And his legacy lives on as one of the earliest accepted transgender figures in Latin America.]