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expressions-of-nature

by Babar Swaleheen

xanaxfarts

Arches National Park, Utah photo: Elliot McGucken

maureen2musings

thedreadlocktraveler

dyrkwyst

Layers - Hometown in Morning Mist

throughwinterfields

Garðar Ólafs

getamovieon

dirtyriver

“Retiring Zhora” by Adam Cockerton

lakemojave

The reason tumblr should have a mutuals only filter for notifications is cause I wanna know which of you i need to demand reparations for my posts getting popular

flagellant

Oh? So you don't want a post to get popular? Hm. Be a shame if this post went viral, don't ya think?

lakemojave

You know how Bilbo Baggins was just minding his own business one day and Gandalf just brought a dozen uninvited dwarves into his home

elodieunderglass

Hello OP nice house. what have you made for lunch.

elodieunderglass

OP do you have any cheese

the-enchanted-little-star

everglow-ing

BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve

j-k-i-ng

“LIGHT AMIDST DARKNESS”

By | Joonas Kähkönen

fantasy-inspiration

The Dragon's Gate Anato Finnstark

maureen2musings

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niko_lenatti

automnecoziness

A U T O M N E C O Z I N E S S 🍁

forbidden-sorcery

Ancient Lovers by Igor Krstic

overthinkinglotr

One thing I feel people miss about lord of the rings is that it’s sort of……….post-apocalyptic?

Like– the world already ended, a long time ago, and the characters are surrounded by the ruins of dead countries. They spend most of their time journeying through places that are either abandoned (Moria) soon to be abandoned (Rivendell/Lorien) or half-destroyed and falling into decay (Rohan/Gondor.) The villains are creatures that Used to be Human; I feel like Lotr’s orcs/ringwraiths have more in common with zombies than they do with DnD-style orcs, because they’re a state that “normal” people enter when they’re corrupted by a supernatural force.

Even the Shire is surrounded by ruins– the ruins of watchtowers, the ruins of the old Northern Kingdom, the ruined city near the Grey Havens. The people around there have an idiom “when the king comes back” that means the same thing as an idiom like “when pigs fly”– “when a completely ridiculous improbable thing happens.” They’re so used to the disintegrated state of the world that the idea of a central government is fairy-tale-like and bizarre. They have their little mayors and thains; they don’t need anything else.

So yeah! I see people try to “modern-real-world- au” versions of Hobbiton by making it “a peaceful suburb” but to me, a modern au version of Hobbiton would be more like…….

You are a hobbit.

You don’t know much history, but you understand that there were Wars a long time ago that destroyed a great amount of life on earth.

You live in a little hole in the ground. You don’t know that long ago these holes used to be called “bunkers;” you decorate them with flowers.

When you want to say that something won’t happen, you’ll sarcastically say things “lol yeah SURE that will happen! And tomorrow pigs will fly, Parliament will come back into session, there will be a president in the White House, there will be a prime minister making speeches, and diplomats will intercede between all of them! ha! XD”

If you journey even a little outside of your home, you’ll find the ruins of old cities and skyscrapers. There are messages in the ruins that are written in languages you don’t speak. Human beings used to live here; they don’t anymore.

And you’re not supposed to leave the Shire because sometimes you’ll meet the things that used to be human, but aren’t anymore.