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i deserve unrestricted access to old churches and castles i want to know all the secrets
every patronus hermione granger has ever produced was done with the memory of how it felt to deck malfoy right in his smug bastard face
what she says: iâm fine
what she means: the words âchristmas treeâ are used in the hobbit, and since we know that bilbo is the author of the hobbit, hobbits must have christmas which means there must be a middle earth jesus. but hobbits seem to be the only ones who have the concept of christmas which means it was probably a hobbit jesus. but frodo says in return of the king that no hobbit has ever intentionally harmed another hobbit so who crucified hobbit jesus?? were there other hobbit incarnations of religious figures?? was there hobbit moses?? did jrr tolkien even think about this at all??
Wait wait I might actually have an answer
Tolkien wrote The Hobbit like waaaay before he even dreamed up the idea for Lord of the Rings, so when he DID dream up LotR, he had a whole bunch of stuff that didnât make sense. Like plotholes galore
Like for example in the first version Gollum was a pretty nice dude who lost the riddle contest graciously and gave Bilbo the ring as a legit present and was very helpful and it was super nice and polite and absolutely nobody tried to eat anyone because this is a story for kids and thatâs very rude
But that doesnât work with LotR, so Tolkien went back and re-released an updated version of The Hobbit with all the lore changes and stuff to fix everything that didnât work
This is the version we know and love today
BUT rather than pretend the early version never existed, Tolkien went and worked the retcon into the lore
If you pay attention in Fellowship, thereâs a bit where Gandalf is telling Frodo about the ring and he mentions how Bilbo wasnât entirely honest about the manner in which it was found
To us modern readers, this doesnât make a ton of sense, so mostly we just breeze by itâbut actually that line is referencing the first version of The Hobbit
The pre-retcon version of the Hobbit is canonically Bilboâs original book. The original version with Nice Gollum is canonically a lie Bilbo told to legitimize his claim to the ring and absolve him of the guilt he feels for his rather shady behavior
Then the post-retcon version is an in-universe edited edition someone went and released later to straighten out Bilboâs lies
So itâs 100% plausible that the in-universe editor who fixed up Bilboâs Red Book and translated it from whatever language Hobbits speak was a human who knew about Christmas Trees and tossed the detail in to make human readers feel more at home, because thatâs the kind of thing that sometimes happens when you have a translator editor person dressing up a story for an audience that doesnât know the exact cultural context in which the original story was written
Tolkien was a medieval scholar and medieval stories are rife with that sort of thing, so like⊠yeah
Thereâs a good chance it maybe did cross his mind
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Not only all that, but Tolkien was also working within a frame narrative that he wasnât the real author, but a translator of older manuscripts; so, in-universe, the published The Hobbit isnât actually Bilboâs book, but rather Tolkienâs copy of an older copy of an older copy of an older copy of Bilboâs book. So when errors and anachronisms came up, he would leave them there instead of fixing them, and he may have even put some in intentionally; what weâre supposed to get from the âChristmas treeâ bit is that the first scribe to translate the book from Westroni to English couldnât come up with an accurate analogue for whatever hobbits do at midwinter.
Yes. Another example of tolkien doing this is him using, for instance, Old High Gothic to represent Rohirric - not because the people of Rohan actually spoke that language, but because Old High Gothic had the same relationship with English that Rohirric had with Westron (Which is the Common Language spoken in the West of Middle-Earth). Thereâs tons of that stuff in the book.
Like, Merry and Pippinâs real names (In Westron) are Kalimac Brandagamba and Razanur TĂ»k, respectively (to pick just one example of this). Tolkien changed their names in English to names which would give us English-speakers the same kind of feeling as those names would to a Westron-speaker. Lord of the Rings is so much deeper than most readers realise.
tolkeinâs entire oevre is just one epic in-joke with the oxford linguistics department imo
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So Rowling had no way of knowing the political climate during the 19 Years Later epilogue, but we do now. So consider this: what kind of world does the Golden Trio live in right now?
Their country is in the middle of Brexit talks, with racism and protectionism at their worst and the magic community isnât far behind.Â
Young Pure Bloods march the streets with torches and capes, shouting âThey will not replace us!â They wear Deatheater masks and temporary tattoos (oh itâs not the real thing, theyâll wash it off and be back at the office on Monday).
In the news, the authorities call for a cease of violence and ask people not to fight the young pure bloods. In the streets, people talk about talking to them calmly to fix things. Ron is livid. âYou donât reason with bloody Deatheaters! You throw curses at them!â
Hermioneâs work for equality in the magical world gets harder every day. She starts getting death threats in her mail, many howlers that leave her in tears. She keeps going. When people insist that every werewolf is dangerous to society and they should all be banned from country, she tearfully remembers Lupin giving his life to protect them all, she remembers Dobby with a knife in his heart and Hagrid with his half giant blood and his giant heart. She keeps fighting.Â
As much as he hates it âand he hates it a lotâ Harry becomes a vocal public figure again, constantly condemning blood purists and calling for action against them. His office calls horrified after the first interview, telling him he canât be calling for violence against this people who are only protesting. âThey are Deatheaters and this is how we deal with them,â he snarls back. âHave you forgotten Voldemort?â On the other side of the line, he can feel them flinch.Â
No one who fought the war has forgotten it, but so many others seem to, it pains Harry. Itâs been barely twenty years since he saw children die in the grounds of Hogwarts, killed by grown angry men who believed themselves superior. Itâs been barely twenty years since Tom Riddleâs death body laid on the ground and he thought they could finally have peace.Â
The trio sends their kids on the Hogwarts Express and they canât help but remember their experiences there in a time much like this. They never thought their own children would have to suffer as they did, they pray they wonât have to.Â
Harry touches his lighting scar and reminds himself it hasnât hurt again for years. All is well. A quiet voice inside his head wonders bitterly:Â âIs it, really?â
Hermione smugly presenting the findings of the international symposium that declared Pluto not a planet as final proof that astrology is made up.
But it turns out thatâs whatâs been throwing off everyoneâs readings so a lot of divination quickly starts becoming more refined and accurate when they take that into account.
Hermione is hailed as a divination savant and thatâs what sheâs most known in the history books for.
this is some Arthur Conan Doyle shit
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