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thedwarrowscholar

Hi I'm just wondering how you say numbers(1-10) in khuzdul?

Well met!

Here’s a handy little overview of the cardinal numbers from zero till ten.

And some extra information on the matter concerning some of the variations (or additions) seen in specific regions.

Ever at your service,

The Dwarrow Scholar

raise-your-axe

I can finally learn my numbers!

mylordshesacactus

Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a respondibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

azuranil

@wearepaladin

raise-your-axe

Wow, this is truly amazing. I'm practically speechless, and that never happens.

Which actor: Chris Hemsworth or Liam Hemsworth?

Chris duh

towkin-deactivated20160817

Make me choose between:

emilxx

two songs

two bands

two actors

two actresses

two singers

two movies

two books

two characters

two ships

two shows

two kinks

two anything

Do me do me do me

I volunteer

This is awesome.

LotR/Hobbit ;)

I’ll list my top 5 favourite LotR/Hobbit movie characters. Otherwise the list would look different.

1. Thranduil (ovaries explosion)

2. Haldir (still crying)

3. Galadriel

4. Elrond

5. and Sam (everyone loves Sam)

raise-your-axe

Ummm... Excuse me, m'lady. But there seems to be someone missing.

blogofimpossiblethings

Reblog if you spend more time lost in your imagination than you do living in reality.

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marijkeaurelia

I was tagged by my elvenfriend @feanory! Thank you! <3

How old are you? Going to be 24 years old in two days

Current job/Dream job Current job: I’m a student, dream job: (freelance) concept artist, VFX supervisor or freelance writer

What are you talented at? Drawing and writing

What is a big goal you are working towards? my drawing skills (especially my comic and digital drawing skills) and writing

What’s your aesthetic? elves, the style of elves, fashion with medieval touch, nature (especially pristine forests), handsome blond men in armour, bikes, tattoos

Do you collect anything? Books, DVD’s, Manga’s and since very recently also Funko Pop’s

What is a topic you’re always up to talk about? things I love like cosplaying, Tolkien, Markus Heitz, my favourite fictional characters, favourite movies/books/persons

What’s a pet peeve of yours? People who walk reeaaaaally sloooowly in front of you (same here)

Good advice to give? nope

Recommend three songs:

“Raido” by Wardruna

“Intro and Gjallarhorni” by Corvus Corax (go listen to it! the beginning is amazing!) (it’s also my absolute favourite band, so every song is perfect)

“Eva” (Demo version) by Nightwish, singed by Marco Hietala (he’s, apart from David Bowie, my favourite singer, his voice is incredible)

I tag: @incandescent-parisian, @fable-mind-palace, @novafaerie, @butterflysface, @raise-your-axe

raise-your-axe

I was tagged by @marijkeaurelia, thank you!! How old are you?: 25 Current job/dream job: C: Lumber associate and rock crusher. D: Airplane mechanic. What are talented at? Music, drinking. What goals are you working towards? Happiness, I'm also working on paying off student debts so I can go back to school. What's your aesthetic? Dwarven stuff. Also: Weaponry, jeans, camouflage, black shirts. Musical instruments too, a home is empty without instruments. Do you collect anything? Rubber duckies!!!! Weapons, modern and "primitive"; black shirts, hats and boots. Also instruments. What is a topic you're always up to talk about? Weapons, music, Brandon Sanderson, Warhammer, dwarves, D&D, Wheel of Time, Tolkien. What's a pet peeve of yours? Rude people, especially when shopping. Bad customer service, slow drivers and hateful people. Good advice to give? Never eat yellow snow. Recommend three songs: -Twilight of the Thunder god, Amon Amarth -Omerta, Lamb of God -Stone the Crow, Down I tag: @howler13, @myelvenkingdom, @zixxie

sherlock-and-his-hedgehog

is it possible to become their friendship when i grow up

gingerkittyart-deactivated20220

merry and pippin IRL

youcanchoosefreedom

I AM EMOTIONALLY COMPROMISED

hunksaplenty

#it’s like sirs mckellan and stewart: the early years

benesmauglocked

This makes me happier than a hobbit after second breakfast.

wymanthewalrus

@theclockistickingwrite

raise-your-axe

I love this so much

aly-naith

falling series

LOTR - the fellowship

raise-your-axe

I love how the Claymore on Aragorns pic says MacLeod... As in Collin MacLeod

trajans-deactivated20150201

A MAN NAMED OSKAAR FROM REYKJAVIK ICELAND GIVES US A PIECE OF HIS MIND FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS AND I THINK WE SHOULD ALL APPRECIATE IT

nicasiosilang

This is better than every single found footage film I have ever seen.

kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201

This is so good it deserves to be on my professional blog instead of my personal blog. I am crying in a cab over this

SAVE THE DAYLIGHT!!!

Dis da Rotty.

“Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep and caverns old. We must away ere break of day. To seek the pale enchanted gold.” The Hobbit Created for @doot by @verylikelynikp, IG

Scribe By Night - Calligraphy for Charity Join the Calligraphy Life at Calligraphy.Life/Join

raise-your-axe

OMV I love this.

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The Lord of the Rings Meme | ten scenes (2/10)

Farewell to Lórien.

the-other-anaander

This is my favorite fucking scene.

If you’ve read the Silmarillion, you know who Fëanor was. If you don’t, Fëanor was the dickhead who created the Silmarils: three indescribably beautiful and magical jewels that contained the light and essence of the world before it became flawed. They were the catalyst for basically every important thing that happened in the First Age of Middle Earth.

It is thought that the inspiration for the Silmarils came to Fëanor from the sight of Galadriel’s shining, silver-gold hair.

He begged her three times for single strand of her beautiful hair. And every time, Galadriel refused him. Even when she was young, Galadriel’s ability to see into other’s hearts was very strong, and she knew that Fëanor was filled with nothing but fire and greed.

Fast forward to the end of the Third Age.

Gimli, visiting Lorien, is also struck by Galadriel’s beauty. During the scene where she’s passing out her parting gifts to the Fellowship, Galadriel stops empty-handed in front of Gimli, because she doesn’t know what to offer a Dwarf. Gimli tells her: no gold, no treasure… just a single strand of hair to remember her beauty by.

She gives him three. Three.

And this is why Gimli gets to be an Elf Friend, people. Because Galadriel looks at him and thinks he deserves what she refused the greatest Elf who ever lived—- and then twice that. And because he has no idea of the significance of what she’s just given him, but he’s going to treasure it the rest of his life anyway.

Just look at that smile on Legolas’s face in the last panel. He gets it. He knows the backstory. And I’m pretty sure this is the moment he reconsiders whether Elves and Dwarves can’t be friends after all.

confusedtree-deactivated2013092

Everyone look at this great fucking post

samandriel

There are posts and then there are posts

lesbiankiliel

Not to mention that Gimli is super polite and bashful about it. He’s all “I’m not expecting you to give it, my lady, but you asked me to name what my heart desires, and I’d like one hair from your golden head but srsly, not expecting you to give it to me~” and like he’s just so sweet and adorable and shy and honestly I love that scene so much!!!

raise-your-axe

*coughs and wipes eyes* I uh... I liked this post a lot, it gave me.... What are they called? Emotions? Yeah, emotions... It was a very good post.

Ok, one more favor from the Tumblr clan

As you may notice, my icon is the generic box face. This must change. I want an original source but don't have the money for a commission. Does anyone have any ideas? @marijkeaurelia @howler13 @dwarrowdams @weredwarf @wearepaladin I know I'm missing someone.