#dwarves?

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

Lotr characters when told that anything other than their species exists: sounds fake but okay

[spoopyghostgirl]

Just waiting for the next elder scrolls game

So we can find a city of Dwarves in the Soul Cairn, because I'm moderately convinced that the Dwemer, in a last ditch effort to save their people, sent themselves there.

I mean, it is feasible, given that Valerica was there for awhile.

And it would be nice to see them (even though I hate them) and maybe some snow elves (before they became Falmer).

[gynvaell]

&;  In  Blood  of  Elves ,  Sheldon  Skaggs  said  he  remembered  humans'  arrival  to  the  Continent .  So  was  anyone  gonna  tell  me  dwarves  live  as  long  as  elves  or  probably  LONGER  or  was  I  supposed  to  find  that  out  myself ?

[canuckerrant]

it turns out we’ve been pluralizing dwarf wrong

"It may be observed that in this book as in The Hobbit the form dwarves is used, although the dictionaries tell us that the plural of dwarf is dwarfs. It should be dwarrows (or dwerrows), if singular and plural had each gone its own way down the years, as have man and men, or goose and geese. But we no longer speak of a dwarf as often as we do of a man, or even of a goose, and memories have not been fresh enough among Men to keep hold of a special plural for a race now abandoned to folk-tales, where at least a shadow of truth is preserved, or at last to nonsense-stories in which they have become mere figures of fun. But in the Third Age something of their old character and power is still glimpsed, if already a little dimmed: these are the descendants of the Naugrim of the Elder Days, in whose hearts still burns the ancient fire of Aule the Smith, and the embers smoulder of their long grudge against the Elves; in in whose hands still lives the skill in works of stone that none have surpassed.

It is to mark this that I have ventured to use the form dwarves, and so remove them a little, perhaps, from the sillier tales of these latter days. Dwarrows would have been better; but I have used that form only in the name Dwarrowdelf, to represent the name of Moria in the Common Speech: Phurunargian_ For that meant 'Dwarf-delving', and yet was already a word of antique form. But Moria is an Elvish name, and given without love..."

- from Appendix F of Lord of the Rings

[maybekatherine]

Today I found out that if an abdominal pregnancy progresses far enough and isn’t dealt with properly, it’s too large to be reabsorbed by the mother’s body and so to protect her from the dead baby the outside of the baby calcifies and that people have carried around literal stone babies inside of them for 40+ years.

And have given birth to healthy children with the dead rock baby still inside of them.

[delanceyxbrothers]

((When I'm sad I listen to into the woods because nothing makes me laugh more than Agony (Reprise)

[octobersurpriserevolution-blog]

Is Ringworld anywhere near as cool as this image suggests?