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“I am not the meek and obedient type.”
omitting the Randall was a conscious choice
I really thought I did something here
Marlo! Are you writing anymore? I have read several of your stories on AO3 and would love it if you could post more..
Hiya!!
I took a break from writing since I’ve been in college, and having mixed feelings about Outlander after Season 4, but now that I’m hone for the foreseeable future, I plan on getting back to writing as soon as I’ve wrapped up all my important school work for the year!
OZAI CHALLENGED HIS 14 YEAR OLD SON TO A WHAT
ZUKO GOT HIS SCAR FROM WHO
yknow what? mr. firelord i am inviting you to meet me in the fucking agne kai pit and i do not care that i am not an expert firebender and will be facing you with nothing but my wrath and my 2 fists i am going to die historic + i WILL go down calling you a bitch and a chode. thank you in advance.
i challenge ozai to agne kai and i’ll be bringing a 12 gauge shotgun. did you just say that’s not fair, lord puppy kicker? grand high bullies the little children? say it again, i want to record it for youtube.
Uncle Iroh ghostwrote this
I can’t tell if op was discovering this for the first time or woke up at 3am and suddenly remembered how terrible Ozai is.
Shitty Canon Divergence Idea #1
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins takes the ring to Mordor
This is the top tier content you can find on my tolkien side blog
christine: daddy?
the phantom: do i LOOK like-
Anyone that follows me for Tolkien content go follow my side blog @lobeliasackville-bloggins (and follow @estelvish too because we love and support Mik in this house)
Gondolin by Lomehir
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wear the fish I like
Talking about unresolvable bad blood, it’s very important to me that some members of the fellowship actually don’t get along and just never will. I get the desire to manufacture rad friendship dynamics between very different people but you’ve also gotta have a few motherfuckers that a character can’t stand so that the actual ‘surprising’ friendships have a contrast to them to make them more impactful. Not only that, it emphasises the kind of strange camaraderie that the Fellowship represents, they’re all working towards a common goal and sure Legolas will risk his life for Boromir but… a conversation? You couldn’t pay him to try… It also just makes everything WAY funnier too.
This ok, this is where the magic is.
Lord of the Rings was published in the fifties, and largely written in the forties. Tolkien’s opinions on society and morality and technology are at some points genuinely more conservative than what I’m comfortable with. And yet, the more I think about it, the more sure I am that Tolkien actually deconstructs most of the clichéd fantasy tropes he supposedly originates. Some examples.
The long-lost heir is not the hero, he’s a side character who deliberately uses himself as a decoy.
The real hero actually fails in his quest, his goodness and determination and willpower utterly fail in the face of evil, and the world is saved by a series seemingly unrelated good deeds.
The central conflict is not between destroying the world and preserving it. An age of the world will come to an end, and many great and beautiful things will perish, whether the heroes win or lose. The past may have been glorious, but preserving it is impossible, and returning to it is impossible, time has passed and the world has moved on. The king returns, but the elves are gone and magic fades from the very substance of Middle Earth. The goal is not to preserve the status quo, the goal is the chance to rebuild something on the ruins.
Killing the main villain seems to instantly solve the problem, eradicate all enemies and fix the world, except it doesn’t, not wholly, since the scouring of the Shire still has to happen.
Also, the hero gets no real reward, and what he gets, he cannot really enjoy. He is hurt by his ordeal, and never fully recovers.
There is a team of heroes, a classic adventuring party, except the Fellowship is together for less one sixth of the series. The Fellowship is intact from the Council of Elrond to Gandalf’s death, four chapters. The remaining eight are together until Boromir’s death, an additional six chapters. This is nothing compared to LOTR’s length of sixty-one chapters, if I count correctly.
Tolkien is not classic high fantasy. If you actually think about it, there is very little magic. The hobbits’ stealth is not magical, most elven wonders are not unambigously magical, wizards are extremely rare, and even Gandalf hardly uses magic if you compare him to the average DnD wizard. Most magic is indistinguishable from craft, there is no clear difference between a magic armor and a very good armor, between magic bread and very good bread, between magical healing and competent first-aid plus a few kind words.
TLDR: Stop praising recent fantasy for deconstructing Tolkien if they’re “deconstructing” something Tolkien has never actually constructed.
Marlo’s Bad Ideas #19382
A Court of Thorns and Roses au...
Claire: What if someone catches us?
Jamie: We’re old and confused.
This is the award-winning ad Sam Heughan narrated for the Royal Bank of Scotland. His voice is like butta. (X)
Years ago I saw a Lord of the Rings display at Barnes and Noble that included a Hallmark-style greeting card with Frodo on the front and inside text that read: “We set out to save the Shire, Sam. And it has been saved. But not for me.”
And I have been thinking about that card ever since, desperately wishing I had bought it, and wondering what the fuck kind of occasion would warrant a card featuring that sentiment.
weirdly enough, i have actually been the recipient of that exact card. it was a birthday card from someone who knew i loved lotr but didn’t really know much about the actual movie, but i feel like she should’ve been clued into the ‘wtf’ vibe from the incredibly agonized face frodo is making on the front of the card.
If you still have that card… I would do anything to see a photo of it. You can cover up the personalized message, but I really, really, really want to see proof that this card existed and was not the product of my overactive imagination.
@glumshoe I FOUND IT!!
I’d forgotten just how close to death Frodo looks on the front, not to mention Sam’s agonized face and the very odd stylistic choice of including the Ring instruction and the Eye of Sauron in the background. who the hell is the target audience for this?
Fuck!!!! It’s so much better than I remembered!
What sentiment is this supposed to CONVEY
This is the card you leave for your family and friends before you pack up all your belongings and sneak off to go live in the French Alps as a goat herder
@ the Outlander Fic Community
While I’m taking a bit of a break while I try to finish up the fics I have in progress (cough cough Medical Emergency) I was trying to come up with a way to stay involved in the community!
One of my passions outside of writing is History, and I currently study the subject at a University level. I know so many people write historically inspired fic, and I would love to help out in any way whether it be in research, fact-checking, etc.! In particular I have a lot of knowledge on historical fashion, Prohibition though Depression era America, Most things 18th-mid 20th Century, and Medieval!
If you or anyone you know is writing or planning a historical fic and would like someone to help out, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Love you guys lots, and can’t wait to come back with new writing!