the last march of the himbos

she/her | 25 | mostly tolkien

[weevilwizard]

so we all agree that lord of the rings is a musical

[weevilwizard]

you. you get it

[nimphelos]

of his [aldarion’s] first journey little is known, save that he made the friendship of círdan and gil-galad

[buniix3]

Haha funny twitter image redraw I’m on vacation

[escondidx]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

[egonkula]

practicing my hot weather affirmations. You are not evil, you are just sweating. You do not hate your friends you are just walking down a street with no shade. You aren’t anger incarnate, you just need a glass of water.

[anthonycolonthree]

(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information

[happyheidi]

𝚁. 𝙻. 𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝙿𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝟷𝟿𝟶𝟶𝚜

[cparti-mkiki]

"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights

[tauindi]

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[lichen-punk]

honestly i think the reason why it’s so common for kids to have the “it’s not a phase, mom” argument in their adolescence is less because they genuinely plan for their current state of being to remain utterly unchanged forever and more because they’re tired of having their interests/self expression/beliefs/etc dismissed as foolish due to being probably temporary

i know that when i was that age i certainly wasn’t thinking about whether or not i’d be into whatever shit i was into then when i was 80, all i knew was that i was sick of feeling like the adults in my life were just rolling their eyes and waiting out everything that was important to me at that moment

[lemonomelette]

Feanorian lineups are apparently a rite of passage for silm artists, so I wanted to include Feanor and Nerdanel but they're on honeymoon.

[ryebreadgf]

women be looking at pictures of their childhood selves and trying to find a way back to them

[probuccalfat]

people will describe their incredibly nebulous sexuality to you that they’ve never been able to define and the whole time you’re thinking that sounds like bisexuality brother

[josh-lanceero]

May it be

[anasabdin]

Beirut

[cherryspliced]

Orin the RED

[writers-solace]

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

[msilverstar]

It's not just that. There were contemporary fantasy writers who were just not as good, no matter how much they nerded out. CS Lewis was OK, but Charles Williams was boring as hell, and just try to read George MacDonald, William Morris, Lord Dunsany, ER Eddison or Mervyn Peake. I tried: no joy.

Tolkien really was special.

[cia-o]

felt ok but then remembered