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[mollyjames]

It's really important when you're at work to go out there and really give it your 60%. Maybe 35%.

[wizardysseus]

the song of achilles has truly done so much for the anti-intellectual lgbt community 🙏

[hedgehogoftime]

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

[ach-sss-no]

I think I've said this before, so, sorry about that. But I was taken aback when I read LOTR because I'd heard that it's a foundational work to the fantasy genre, and I was expecting it to be somewhat basic and cliché. I got the opposite experience. It read to me like a thoughtful and detailed deconstruction of the modern fantasy genre instead of the thing that spawned it. Mostly it's because Tolkien took things through to their logical conclusion where many of his imitators did not (the scouring of the shire, the lasting irreparable psychological damage to frodo, the fact that frodo actually can't bring himself to throw away the ring, etc)

[miriamforster]

JRR Tolkien’s world was shaped by war. He knew firsthand that battles are not glorious, that heroes always pay a price, that sometimes you can’t return home because either home was ruined, or you were.

He KNEW it, knew it intimately, the loss and fear and sorrow behind the propaganda. And he knew that what helped, in his time, was kindness and community and small joys and undying friendship.

Tolkien didn’t belive in epic heroics, he believed in simple humanity. Ordinarily people persevering against all odds.

His imitators missed that. Much like Sauron at the end of the trilogy, they were distracted by armies and kings and wizards.

They never really saw or understood the hobbits at all.

[evilmathsuggestions]

Write zeta as a different squiggle every time.

[evilmathsuggestions]

This is less a suggestion and more an inescapable reality.

[haus-of-wu]

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RYEOWOOK IS GETTING MARRIED!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[incorrecthomer]

[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Some people: The Silmarillion is a work of such literary significance. 

Me: Obviously Feanor would choose charmander, but would Fingolfin go with squirtle or bulbasaur? What does the text tell us?

[hmslusitania]

God season one of nuwho is so. Your budget is a half-eaten cheese sandwich. Your props department is the rubbish tip behind the BBC studio offices. You may use one (1) cgi, and also photoshop that is exceedingly bad even for 2005. And its one of the best seasons of television ever made

[seawherethesunsets]

KYUHYUN x WON JI AN

그렇지 않아' MV | KYUHYUN EP 'Restart'

[poobletoods]

ursa minor, or "bear minimum",

[thelordofgifs]

the piped tags discourse is actually so funny. never change silm fandom <3

[melestasflight]

Are you a Maedhros (Tolkien) girlie or a Maedhros | Maitimo | Nelyafinwë | Russandol girlie?

[caeciliuswashere]

oh so you like Homer??? name every simile

[naramdil]

‪sometimes I can’t believe there are ppl who don’t wash their rice before cooking it but then I rmr that western medicine was revolutionized by the simple act of washing your hands

[screamatthescreen]

need you all to know rick astley was given his own NYE show on the bbc and the very first song he played after the fireworks stopped was never gonna give you up. the new year is 14 minutes old and the whole of the UK has been rickrolled. this is the tone for 2024

[curioscurio]

who else up hurkleing their durkleing

[tolkien-feels]

Elrond: Let's maybe not swear a binding oath to keep jewelry away from an Ainu at all cost. Let's maybe. Let's maybe just like, pinky promise to do our best. Trust me on this, you don't want to swear any oaths

[warrioreowynofrohan]

I find this moment very interesting not just because of the Oath of Fëanor but because of what it says about oaths in general.

Because imagine that all of the Fellowship did swear to go with Frodo to Mount Doom. Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn would have felt obligated to abandon Merry and Pippin to the orcs to go with Frodo; who knows how the Ring could have used that guilt to twist them. Gollum would never have had the same dynamic with Frodo, because he hated Aragorn. Gollum wouldn’t have been at Mount Doom to destroy the Ring. Aragorn wouldn’t have been there to take the Paths of the Dead. Minas Tirith would have fallen. There would have been no march on the Black Gate that cleared a path to Mount Doom by distracting Sauron.

“No oaths,” means: the world is larger and more complex than you know. You don’t know that the thing you’re swearing to do will turn out to be the right thing, the best thing, in every possible circumstance. Have the humility to recognize that complexity.