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@silmarils-for-breakfast
Your url omfg
i have all of the silmarils. they are mine and i keep them in a cereal box. i pour them into a bowl and pour milk on them and i eat them with a spoon. they are crunchy. i spill silmaril crumbs everywhere. they are delicious
Looking back over some of your commentary on Falls Into Middle-earth stories, I'm struck by a sudden idea; as a side effect of whatever metaphysical chicanery has been used to make their existence possible, main character has been incarnated as an elf. So on top of the various forms of linguistic confusion and culture shock, you get to deal with "I can do what?!" cropping up quite often as the result of elven physical capabilities being so bonkers.
Elves can see much further than any other race, which I imagine would result in a lot of misjudging how far away things are. “Oh, it’s maybe about a mile away, it’ll only take us like ten minutes to get there!” *two hours later*
How much time would they waste trying to sleep? Would they miss sleeping? What if they accidentally slipped into an Elvish “dream,” which is supposedly more like waking life than what other races experience. I can imagine all sorts of weirdness around sleeping.
I’m not super familiar with the ability, but @pursuer-of-hope tells me that Elves with a close relationship can communicate telepathically. Obviously it would be alarming if someone suddenly did this to you without warning, but I think it would be really funny if the first time they experienced it they accidentally initiated it themselves. Also you could do a lot with the character and whether they liked it or preferred to avoid it.
You could get a lot of similar mileage out of the character turning up as a hobbit or an orc or any other sort of humanoid character, but you know what would be really funny? An ent. You get isekai’d into Middle-earth and now you’re a really slow tree. Have fun.
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King Thorin and his nephew Frodo
thorin and frodo my beloved
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS The Fellowship of the Ring
Bad: Hobbit pipeweed is probably just tobacco because [something from Tolkien’s unpublished letters].
Also bad: Pipeweed is totally marijuana. All hobbits are stoners.
Good: “Pipeweed” is a catch-all term for anything you can stick in a pipe and smoke. Some of it will give you a light nicotine buzz, and some of it will get you absolutely blasted out of your mind. Hobbits are perfectly aware which is which, but since their system of classification is based on what farm the pipeweed was grown on rather than what species of plants went into it, the distinctions are often opaque to outsiders. If a hobbit offers you a puff of “Old Toby”, make sure you know how old Toby likes his pipeweed before you accept!
It is not something from Tolkien’s unpublished letters. It’s literally in the forward to The Fellowship of the Ring.
Yup. Here’s an excerpt, emphasis mine:
2. Concerning Pipe-weed
There is another astonishing thing about Hobbits of old that must be mentioned, an astonishing habit: they imbibed or inhaled, through pipes of clay or wood, the smoke of the burning leaves of a herb, which they called pipe-weed or leaf, a variety probably of Nicotiana. A great deal of mystery surrounds the origin of this peculiar custom, or ‘art’ as the Hobbits preferred to call it. All that could be discovered about it in antiquity was put together by Meriadoc Brandybuck (later Master of Buckland), and since he and the tobacco of the Southfarthing play a part in the history that follows, his remarks in the introduction to his Herblore of the Shire may be quoted.
‘This,’ he says, ‘is the one art that we can certainly claim to be our own invention. When Hobbits first began to smoke is not known, all the legends and family histories take it for granted; for ages folk in the Shire smoked various herbs, some fouler, some sweeter. But all accounts agree that Tobold Hornblower of Longbottom in the Southfarthing first grew the true pipe-weed in his gardens in the days of Isengrim the Second, about the year 1070 of Shire-reckoning. The best home-grown still comes from that district, especially the varieties now known as Longbottom Leaf, Old Toby, and Southern Star.’
Old Toby is a specific cultivar of tobacco, one of many. It’s exported beyond the Shire and everyone knows what to expect from it.
I don’t mind the weed jokes, people are just having fun, but it matters to me that pipe-weed is canonically Nicotiana because of this:
‘The Men of Gondor call it sweet galenas, and esteem it only for the fragrance of its flowers.’
I love this an unreasonable amount because ornamental tobacco species like Nicotiana alata and Nicotiana sylvestris (pictured below) have long been grown for their perfume in gardens around the world.
They are night-scented plants, most fragrant after the sun has set. That means you can walk out into your garden one quiet evening and your garden could smell like the gardens of Gondor in the olden days. That just makes me crazy in the best way.
as someone with aragorn's kind of face framing layers i just know the front pieces are hanging in his eyes all day every day... "my path is hidden from me" you are 4 bobby pins away from utter clarity.
does this look good lmfao
I finished my first embroidery project!! After three years of putting it away for months only to pick it up again, my hobbit hole is finally complete and I’m so proud of how it turned out! If you’re interested, my blog holds some of my old progress pictures:)
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Someone pls take all of Faramir’s pain and give it to that crusty ass father of his.
I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL
Stop says the red light, go says the green
Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between.
KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL
THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY
@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.
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honestly I don't care that much about lotr but when my friend was teaching me magic and she whipped out Aragorn King of Gondor I almost forfeit then and there. they just have the world's most beautiful man over there what the fuck
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