Magic and Dreams and Good Madness

twenty-something new englander. shameless captain america fangirl. supporter of ginny weasley. YA book and teen TV enthusiast. still figuring everything else out.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

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[memewhore]

[quoted-books]

I will not walk backward in life.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin (via quoted-books)

[apathetic-revenant]

favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:

Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)

Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”

Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”

Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”

John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!” 

Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings

Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.” 

Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other

Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.” 

Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him

[fandom-frenzy]

#i literally hold every film up to the standard of lotr#including the quality of extras#and literally no other film will ever compare#fucking legends

[glorious-spoon]

the lotr cast interviews are literally the real life version of that trope where you cut between characters telling wildly divergent accounts of the same event, each of which paints the other as an incompetent buffoon, and it’s hilarious

[white-throated-packrat]

There’s also the “I know the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back, Peter” that Christopher Lee apparently said to Peter Jackson when Jackson was trying to give him direction for Saruman’s death scene.

Christopher Lee, in case you were unaware of it, was attached to the SAS in WW2.

[bucky-is-my-precious]

I can’t remember if this is from the cast commentary of Fellowship or was also part of the extras, but the fake game that Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd got Elijah Wood to participate in called “Tig”

The day that Andy Serkis accidentally ripped off Sean Astin’s wig during a take in Two Towers.

[philosoverted-deactivated202006]

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

[systlin]

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

[gallusrostromegalus]

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

[filthyprotozoan]

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

[hubris-i]

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

[fridge246]

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

[jemthecrystalgem]

Sorry it’s what to elves

[dvandom]

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

[moomoobooboo-deactivated2020102]

This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.

[endreal]

Legolas said fuck the horizon

[whitebear-ofthe-watertribe]

I’m having a crisis around this LotR knowledge I didn’t have until now, in the year of chaos, 2020

[steadyasthe-stars]

spent a very long time searching for this after being reminded of flat-earther elves while listening to the House of R podcast episode of LOTR: the Rings of Power ep.3 deep dive on Ringerverse

[steadyasthe-stars]

me, putting a bunch of hand wash only things in the washing machine: you guys look out for each other in there OK

[henryofwales]

Belly x Conrad:

[madeline-kahn]

You’ve Got Mail (1998) dir. Nora Ephron

[fashion-runways]

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[grackleclaw]

the human body is an engineering marvel. I sneeze in bright light. if I dont get enough sunlight on my skin I get tired and sad and have to drink a lot of milk to fix it. standing too much hurts, but sitting too much also hurts. if I get a virus, my body will increase its temperature in an attempt to cook it, which also cooks my brain cells. toenails exist. I have to turn the radio down to see better when I drive. there are 17 genes dictating what my hair texture is, but it completely changes when the air is too humid. yawning is contagious. there are more species of bacteria living in my body than there are species of birds in the entire world. every few months I grievously injure my neck by "sleeping on it weird." it took seven million years of human evolution to form me, and now I'm afraid of phone calls.

[dduane]

“...Intelligent design.” [snicker] ...Yeah, right.

[copperbadge]

New definition of gritty reboot: the story is exactly the same, but one main character has been replaced by Gritty.

[princesssarcastia]

#pride & prejudice (via @mylordshesacactus)

[mylordshesacactus]

#but who would be gritty?#darcy’s too obvious so that’s out#elizabeth has phenomenal comedic potential#so does lady catherine de bourgh#NO WAIT I’VE GOT IT:#MRS. BENNET

Jane. All the dialogue about how she’s objectively the prettiest and sweetest sister with the most delicate manners and constitution and has trouble expressing her emotions especially when in love remain 100% unchanged.

Meanwhile, Jane “Gritty” Bennet is in the background of the shot in a 100% period-accurate dress, throwing Mr Collins through a window.

[priscellie]

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

[copperbadge]

The responses to this post just keep getting better. 

[leaveharmony]

@lone-gunwoman-of-the-week

[muffinworry]

Mr. Darcy: You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room.

Meanwhile:

Mr. Bingley: She is the most beautiful creature I have ever beheld.

[annakarenina]

Everything Everywhere All At Once 2022 • dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

[annacheungpoems]

[mavortis]

🌈 "maybe hi will be our always"

[podcastwizard]

hearing the john mulaney “do my friends hate me or do i just need to go to sleep” bit is the best thing to have happened for my mental health because every time i’m afraid my friends hate me it’s around the time i should be going the fuck to sleep

[bladesandstars]

I read somewhere “if you feel like everyone hates you you need to sleep and if you feel like you hate everyone else you need to eat” and it was honestly world-shattering and I wish I’d heard it years ago!

[alextfish]

[blurglesmurfklaine]

“I’m gonna be normal about consuming this piece of media”

*narrator voice* she was, in fact, not normal about consuming this piece of media