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The king might also be designated to suffer and atone for his people, meaning that the sacral king could be the pre-ordained victim in a human sacrifice, either killed at the end of his term in the position, or sacrificed in a time of crisis

via Frazer

#The white goddess my beloved

aregebidan

This man belongs to me!

Watched Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula and was so impressed by the set and costume designs and so offended on behalf of the female characters that I started fantasizing about on-the-way-to-vampire Mina using her mental bond with Dracula to send him bad dreams instead <3 (WIP)

#This Jonathan is lovely. Keep him #dracula

phoet

Art truly reflects life, for just as my dear friend Jonathan Harker sits on the morning of June 17th, cudgelling his brains — so do I, on the morning of June 17th, find myself doing the very same.

Reading CoH. Morgoth Is afraid Turin could break the curse by sheer force of will. Oh my my my... He COULD HAVE!!! Even at his lowest, he was a man with free will and then a menace for a literal god. Turin just lost the frist round, not the match. He could have been the most powerful man alive by Will force and morgoth knew this and broke him. I need a moment... Tolkien, love you

#tolkien #turin #turin turambar #the children of húrin

He wanted to see all burn, them all, except her. Maybe this way she would notice his light too, if he burns all down.

He could have died as a hero, mouth shout, but he wanted to see all burn. He would die like his father, he knows this, but she's radiant and maybe, just maybe, this is enough.

He comes back home, the hidden city sleeping. He hears a laugh, the blonde half-man kid greeting him, he's not like her, he's diminished. He's not like her, until he's. He's just a child like he was. He can't have her, it's foretold. He can love her and watching her child and her husband burn?

"I did something... I must tell, then I can die"

"You can't"

"Why?"

"We don't allow that"

"So I can live with my shame?"

"so you can live to be lifted of it"

Terrified both of them, and the man fighting too, and he see his pain in their eyes, the pain of a child. He's crying watching the city burn, the half-man kid clinching to him, he tries to reassure him, he's just a kid, and he was a kid too. He's crying, watching the city that he sold, the light going out. Her light going out.

"I didn't want this, little one" he says, holding the kid "I didn't want this, I didn't want to make your mum cry... You think that you could forgive me?"

The reassured child nods, he's a little star in the chaos, like her.

"Idril, stay down, Idril" he calls her, a spear comes out of nowhere.

He doesn't think, he's mid-air, the spear pearching his shoulder, just like the spear that pearched his mum, he didn't want to see her cry. He falls down, she's safe, Idril and the others, he see them running away in the darkness of the safe way. That's the last thing he sees, then he fall and dies like his father, but in the light.

#silmarillion #tolkien #Maeglin #What if maeglin decided to do the right thing (in the end)#The curse still works but he goes out as a hero

fieldsofbran87

buon pride month brunetto latini

theheroheart

Underappreciated thing about the Don Rosa canon of Donald Duck comics is that the symbols for swearing are consistent enough that you could probably figure out what swears they are saying through context.

For example, @*%# is definitely 100% "fuck".

fllowerrpowerrr

more human ducks because nobody can stop me 😼

unhinged-soapbox

I love that Dracula adaptations and spinoffs continually characterize Van Helsing as a badass veteran monster hunter when in reality he was called in because Jack Seward was like "Well he's the smartest guy I know and we've tried everything else so...." and then he pulled up like "Ah yes I've read a LOT of books about vampires so we're gonna hope they were right." And then he was thankfully correct.

thesummerestsolstice

Assorted thoughts on the Silm AU where all the elves are hobbits:

Eol isn't a bad dude here he's just a hobbit who was raised by men and is therefore very unaccustomed to Hobbit social norms. He takes Aredhel on their honeymoon and everyone think he's kidnapped her. Aredhel loves the trip though, even when Celegorm interrupts it to try and "rescue" her.

Gondolin is a neighborhood that hosts really awesome exclusive parties that very few people get invited too and no one can ever find. Turgon runs all the parties but no one's ever been able to get any information out of him about it.

Maeglin did once get kidnapped by Morgoth and blackmailed for party location information. He showed up and it was the most awkward night anyone there had ever experienced. He didn't even steal anything he just loomed over everyone and made insensitive comments about how short they were. No one blamed Maeglin of course, and he was fine afterwards. Turgon called Morgoth several mildly rude things at the party though so you know he was at the absolute end of his rope.

Caranthir is an aspiring textile merchant who often does trade outside of the Shire. During one of his trips, he meets a dwarfish warrior named Haleth and they end up getting married.

One day two very lost, sad dwarves named Tuor and Turin show up in the Shire and become the absolute talk of the town, especially when Idril (who has completely refused the many gentlehobbits who tried to court her) almost immediately runs off and marries him (say it with me, good for her!) Soon afterwards they have adorable little dwobbit Earendil.

Said Earendil, as a young adult, takes a perilous boat journey up the river to seek the elvish king, Manwe, to tell him that Morgoth is being a huge dick. Manwe is confused about this, because Morgoth was released from elf-jail with a guard who was supposed to stop him from doing anymore crimes. (He got imprisoned first because of an incident involving public drunkenness and tree-related vandalism)

The guard was Sauron. He did not, in fact, stop Morgoth from committing more crimes.

So Manwe and the other elvish nobles (the Valar in the original Silm) go down to the Shire, apprehend Morgoth, and return the stuff he stole.

As an apology for letting Morgoth cause so much chaos down there, Manwe leaves one of his finest warriors to guard the Shire. And that is how Eonwe ends up becoming the first elf ever to be deemed a hobbit-friend.

pontmercii

I'm rewatching BBC Merlin after 84 years and god, I actually forgot how much they just loved eachother. Like, it was not fun and games it was real. They Loved eachother. For real. From the very beginning. It was visceral and deep and violent and as easy as breathing for them. There's something about you Merlin, I can't quite put my finger on it. He may be an idiot but he's a brave one. Is it my imagination or are you beginning to enjoy yourself? The half cannot truly hate what makes it whole. I want you to swear to me that what you're telling me is true - I believe you. You can trust me. If I don't get the antidote, what happens to him? I can save him. Please Father. He saved my life. I can't stand by and watch him die. You can't stop me. Leave them Arthur, go, save yourself. Follow the light. Just make sure the antidote gets to him, I'm begging you. Someone knew I was in trouble and sent a light to guide the way. Arthur, thank you. I'm going to be sick actually what the fuck.

pontmercii

"That connection wasn't gradual it was instinctual" you nailedddddd it 👏👏👏 it was there from the very first moment and it just works and it's beautiful and it's tragic and it's

bubbiegummie

sure hopin' you’re considerin’ the future, mr. eastwood

happy birthday part 3 this took me way too long LMFAO rendering got hands….. anyways this is for project i’m working on shshshshhhhhhhh but i wanted to share the piece for it! yay

closeups under cut 🏜️