I'm A Really Interesting Boring Person

It's like a sing along journey with less catchy jingles and more bleeding souls.

[catchymemes]

Nine Realms in Norse Mythology

[we-are-knight]

@we-are-viking

[cuirassier]

Napoleon’s future…

[lightninglures]

No offense but I send a pestilence and plague into your house, into your bed into your streams, into your streets into your drink, into your BREAD UPON YOUR CATTLE, ON YOUR SHEEP UPON YOUR OXEN IN YOUR FIELD INTO YOUR DREAMS, INTO YOUR SLEEP UNTIL YOU BREAK, UNTIL YOU YIELD I 👏 SEND 👏 THE 👏 SWARM 👏 I 👏 SEND 👏 THE 👏 HORDE 👏 THUS 👏 SAITH 👏 THE 👏 LORD 👏👏👏

[shevydouchebag]

I don't know what this is from but it reads like a killer speed metal song.

[blogsouls]

[lotrfansaredorcs]

One overlooked thing that really sets the Lord of the Rings films apart from other franchises is how earnest they are-

Most movies are so afraid of being “cheesy” that whenever they say something like “friendship is the most powerful force in the world” they quickly undercut it with a joke to show We Don’t Really Believe That! ;)  Even Disney films nowadays have the characters mock their own movie’s tropes (”if you start singing, I’m gonna throw up!”) It’s like winking at the camera: “See, audience? We know this is ridiculous! We’re in on the joke!”

But Lord of the Rings is just 12.5 hours of friendship and love being the most powerful forces in the world, played straight. Characters have conversations about how much their home and family and friends mean to them, how hope is eternal, how there is so much in the world that’s worth living for…. and the film doesn’t apologize for that. There’s no winking at the audience about How Cheesy and Silly All This Is; it’s just. Completely in earnest.

And when Lord of the Rings does “lean on the fourth wall” to talk about storytelling within the film, it’s never to make jokes about How Ridiculous These Storytelling Tropes are (the way most films do)…. but instead to talk about how valuable these stories can be. Like Sam’s Speech at the end of the Two Towers: the greatest stories are ones that give you something to believe in, give you hope, that help you see there are things in a bleak violent world that are worth living for

[nitrateglow]

Earnestness is so much cooler than all the hip cynicism in the world. You go LOTR

[lotrfansaredorcs]

[paper-mario-wiki]

a gallon of milk but with this kind of cap:

[iguanamouth]

quick suggestion

[lizzienoodles]

let me raise you an idea ive been keeping for years, just for this moment

[heatandapathy]

The unholy trinity.

[transmortifried]

[cindernet-explorer]

[crazy-go-lucky-deactivated20181]

only the finest culinary experiences for my followers

[mapsontheweb]

Map of the world on the day World War 1 broke out.

[mapsontheweb]

Deaths in WW1 by European Country.

[groupthinker]

[violaslayvis]

This is what I call mutual aid & working-class solidarity

[ewaneneollav]

just found this comic i drew in 2012

[beachgothgay]

Oops! Ball Bearings!

[emperor-ing-deactivated20191108]

CRUNCH

[beachgothgay]

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Black Swamp, a huge, nearly impassable swampland in Ohio that was dried up in the 19th century.

[markv5]

Свет и тьма…

[aellagirl]

I don’t usually reblog cats, but…

[mapsontheweb]

Roman Empire on the World According to Eratosthenes, 211 AD.

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[mapsontheweb]

Satellite image map of Northern Virginia 1991 vs 2016.

[shevydouchebag]

I briefly lived in Ashburn, VA and even in the two years that I was in the area the whole place seemed to explode with shopping outlets and housing developments. I think the D.C. metro might even run out there now (I know there were plans to to extend a stop to Ashburn when I first moved down).

[discreet45]

[fiztheancient]

i cant believe there are people who still havent seen this video

[jerkstorecalling]

I could probably recite this entire video, word-for-word, on demand.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Goddamn, this is nearly thirty years old and it fits like a glove into contemporary shitpost cadence and aesthetics, this is High Art