#i am lying

[babyblankyerror]

I think we need to draw and see Stan in pink more often, it's literally the color of his suit in prom. His color is actually pink but he wears red because its the closest thing to it, I'm not lying, he told me so himself

[canice2137]

Scavenging every thrift store for the next few months to curate the ideal y2k purple and silver look. I will be the shiniest see through gameboy this side of the Mississippi. Look out Akron and dnp cause I am here to serve cunt.

[discordthefish]

Drew Adira because I'm totally normal about her and i'm rewatching TTS right now 🙏

[bylerist]

hey byler nation how are we coping

conformitygate

door one </3

fix it fic

door two

pure rage

analysis

foah

Voting ended onJan 5

[balrogballs]

The Tenth Hole: Tolkien Archive Dive 3/29

Many here know of my (equal parts academic and morbid curiosity) ongoing investigation into the portrayal, or rather, strategic omission of bodily functions in Tolkien. After my last failed archive-dive, I finally caught a second-wind and decided to look at the pre-print plates of the History of Middle Earth in the Bodleian Library. After a fruitless hunt through earlier plates, I came across Volume 8, where I chanced upon two pieces of curious marginalia buried within an early, mercifully abandoned draft of Fellowship.

[Scanned Plate – Early Draft Fragment, circa 1949, HoME Vol. VIII, folio 112b] Then Aragorn spake low to Legolas as they made ready to depart: “See that thou keep to the western side of the trail, where the moss lies thick—there the Rangers of Imladris have long kept to their manner. We must continue in our practice of the Hollowing, as was taught in Rivendell of old: to mark an additional hollow beneath the roots of trees, in remembrance of years past.” And Legolas nodded, saying only: “The trees remember.”

It is only in the following segment, however, that The Hollowing is properly explained, here presented in its scanned copy form directly.

A shite hole? An empty shite hole?

Obviously, this was the first I heard of the matter too. Turning to The History of Middle-earth, Volume X (Morgoth’s Ring: drafts), I began combing the Annals and linguistic appendices because, well, it sounded like an interesting practice even outside of my specific area of interest.

Buried (quite fittingly) in a nearly-legible margin of an abandoned draft of The Shibboleth of Fëanor, I came across what appeared to be a secondary reflection by another author, regarding the initial fate Fëanor had envisioned for the Silmarils. Once I located that specific tome, I realised the paper was smeared and dusty, and the page itself bound upside-down in the volume, but I managed to get a scan. It's presented quite tersely as simple dialogue, with F standing for, obviously, Fëanor and M for Manwë.

Elendil, R. & Galdor, M. (Eds.) (1956). “On the Secret Fire: Fragmentary Notes from Aman.” Uncatalogued Glass Plate MS, Shelf D-42b, Special Collections. Transcribed by author.

And there we have it, another potential version of the fate of the Silmarils. This act, though omitted in later editions of course, just might shed disturbing light on the oft-quoted line: “...and Fëanor perished, but his spirit was consumed from within.”

I also ended up thinking, well, had Fëanor consumed the Silmarils in advance, Morgoth would have found himself with little more to steal than constipation. And thus, the High King himself would have been spared. Perhaps in his obsession with possession, Fëanor could have inadvertently saved his father’s life, though at the expense of his own dignity. And yet, was his father not dearer to him than dignity too?

Unfortunately, when I presented my findings, the archivists at Special Collections were less than thrilled.

"Some knowledge is best left to circulate elsewhere, Dr. Balls," said the head librarian, and with that, I was promptly told to never return. But, much like Fëanor’s unfortunate gastrointestinal journey, I shall press on. After all, some things cannot be allowed to simply pass, without further probing.

[daydreamingbambilesbian]

So who's gonna kiss me every time I finish a sentence of my assignment? I promise I'll be more motivated <3

[metalheadyuriwriter]

I’m so normal about them

[eclipserewrite]

thank goodness no one can see me being abnormal !