#evelynatthecircus

[thelioninmybed]

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imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post “Discouse2017FakeMeta Proposal: Murderdad Mag is Elrond and Elros REAL...”

This is horrible STOP

make me

siadea replied to your post “Discouse2017FakeMeta Proposal: Murderdad Mag is Elrond and Elros REAL...”

Maglor. Just... fucking... maglor.

Elrond "THAT'S SICK STFU" Eärendilion.

Maedhros "fuck's sake, I'm a monster and even I'm not that much of a fucking dick" Feanorion.

Elros "yeah, bound by blood, absofuckinlutely" Eärendilion.

Nothing to see here, the children are being typically rebellious and can’t admit how much they respect their dad, and Maedhros is just jealous cause no one likes him. 

crocordile replied to your post “Discouse2017FakeMeta Proposal: Murderdad Mag is Elrond and Elros REAL...”

i'm reporting you

Report Maglor, he is the problem here. 

crocordile replied to your post “Hey @witchking-jr, I’m your not-so-secret santa! Your form said you...”

I love the detail of the noldo's eyes shining bright, and I love your Haleth a lot - I can feel her exhaustion so much, it's beautiful! And get bent, caranthir. This is lovely!

Haleth needs a hug so bad. From, like, an actual person, not a gross elf trying to manipuulate her. Is there a more lovely sight in all Beleriand than Caranthir getting- not even cockblocked, poor asshole never stood a chance. Thank you!

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post “Theory: Ungoliant is a regular spider and Melkor exaggerated her size...”

forever torn between my innate appreciation for ungoliant as a morgoth-distresser and my crippling arachnophobia

Why couldn’t she have been something less horrifying, a giant, darkness spinning silk moth or something?

actualmermaid replied to your post “Theory: Ungoliant is a regular spider and Melkor exaggerated her size...”

one time a moth the size of a sparrow landed on my face and there was definitely shrieking

i take it back

cocchilweran replied to your chat “June: does Maedhros [> Maedros] indicate that at one point he DID get...”

The sheer beauty of this post

something something well-formed something dick something

vardasvapors replied to your chat “June: does Maedhros [> Maedros] indicate that at one point he DID get...”

i want to frame this post

Tolkien was a linguist, that must have been the deliberate setup for that joke, right?

maedhrosrussandol replied to your post “Proposal:  Celebrimbor's still alive. The body on Sauron's banner is...”

Ooh. No wait. If Fëanor is Fingon. . . Nope nope don't like that train of thought AT ALL.

We were all quite happy with our crap half-cousin ship, why did someone have to come along and try to ruin it?

berrysphase replied to your chat “June: does Maedhros [> Maedros] indicate that at one point he DID get...”

At least some of the digitized PDFs use d in place of the original edh, which Tolkien was using for a while. I got tripped up by this

It’s infuriating. If I want to search for all the times a character fucked up I have to do it like three different times with different spellings. 

gurguliare replied to your post “Proposal: Celebrimbor's still alive. The body on Sauron's banner is...”

it's not that all elves look the SAME, it's--

no no, they do

witchking-jr replied to your link“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy -...”

dhskbrbfksjjahhhhhhgggg my HEART. they're so hopeful, and I am so sad. also WAR WEASELS. i am never over the war weasels.

In which Tolkien briefly...cribbed from Brian Jacques or something, I don’t know what was going on with the war weasels. All I can say is that I’m disappointed we didn’t get giant CGI ones in the Hobbit movie. 

evelynatthecircus replied to your link “My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy -...”

oh nooooooo D:

Cackling

emilyenrose replied to your link “My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy -...”

OH NO THIS MADE ME SAD

Louder cackling

[thelioninmybed]

evelynatthecircus replied to your post “@emilyenrose and I were supposed to be doing a write night but somehow...”

Tell it stories about its real parents!

“What happened to our mother?”

“Well,” said Maglor. He struck a cord. “Once upon a time there was a princess, swan fair and light of foot-”

“She jumped off a cliff,” said Maedhros. 

“She- yes, yes she did. She jumped and fell and flew, borne up by great, white wings. They carried her, swift and safe, over the vast salt wastes of the sea until she found the tiny boat where her true love awaited her.”

“I checked the rocks afterwards,” said Maedhros. “The gulls and crabs had been at her but-”

“Ahahaha no more stories it’s time for bed.”

[byzantienne]

Hello! I apologize for this being out of the blue but I am kind of stuck for Anyone Who Is Interested In The Silk Road. I'm debating buying a version of Ibn Battuta's Travels and there are a bunch out there. I have no idea which are well-regarded. I wondered if you had any recommendations for one translation over another? I realise this isn't your field exactly but thought it might be worth trying. Thanks for your time!

You're right, this isn't my field! And while I've read ibn Batutta, I haven't ever worked with the Travels as a scholarly text.

So, two recommendations: the Gibb translation, which is old (1929!) and standard, but is still taught out of; and the Dunn translation, which is much more recent, and produced by a professor of World History out in California, and should be up-to-date and well-thought-through (but no guarantees on literary quality of translation.)

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evelynatthecircus said:Yeah, I agree, it’s really hard to see how this will work in anime :/. Unless it’s a really niche arty, beautifully animated one with few high-quality episodes. But the story doesn’t seem at all suited to the mainstream.

The problem is that by the very nature of anime being produced so it is released on a weekly basis, its very difficult to create a consistent high-quality, highly-detailed product over an extended series of episodes. Using Attack on TItan as an example, it has some gorgeous fighting animation, but also, some incredibly lazy one-frame panning shots, all down to budget, time and capability. I think its fair to say that an anime adaptation just won't have the same consistent quality the manga has. But you're right, the story and chapters are very fluid and work more as a soap opera than an on-going plot with a specific goal/achievement at the end, or as a very episodic production like Mushishi. I mean a beautifully crafted anime like Mononoke is stunning, but even then it only has 12 episodes to its name (with each 'plot' spanning over 3-4 episodes). I just can't see a chapter such as the 'Embroidery', 'Wood Carving' or 'Bread Making' chapters spanning the length of an episode, and I think its those little chapters that really give the story and its characters that very realistic, natural feel. More people should just read the manga instead of faffing about with anime adaptations :P.