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we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs
hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?
Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it
Hey tumblr friends, in case I haven't told you lately, I have no idea what the FUCK half of you are on about and I WISH I didn't know what the rest of you are on about. Great work. Keep it up.
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."
Arwen Undómiel - The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien Countess Laudine - The Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes
I am literally BEGGING y’all to read the Xena Scroll archives since its going around
They are offical!! And part of the “present day” world in the show, where the show is also just a show based off the scrolls. My guess is they stated writing these during/after season one, and continued to update it throughout season two? The Xena Restoration Scotiety are a bunch academic nerds and these emails seem to take place in 1993 to 1997, a couple years before the “show” started
Its super fun, it introduces a bunch of characters, two of them named Melinda Pappas and Janice Covington (who may or may not be who you think they are, i low key don’t want to spoil it) 😏 all of them speculating, who is the author of the scrolls, are they real historical figures or just mythology, what are their weapons, discovering new scrolls and stories, and how they should translate certain things.
All leading up to the XRS being approached by Mr. Tapert wanting to know more about this character so he can potentially make a show, to having one of the characters making an appearance at the first Xena con WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE IMPLYED TO BE STEVEN SEARS AND I THINK ITS SUCH A FUN AND BRILLIANT THING.
I dont think it was ever finished which suuuuucks cause it kind of ends on a cliffhanger, BUT ITS SO, SO MUCH FUN.
https://web.archive.org/web/19980114133014/http://www.mca.com/tv/xena/xena_scrolls/
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i've searched every combination of words imaginable and i still can't find that gif of the german star trek parody where gay spock is quickly drinking coffee and smoking freaking out PLEASE send it to me i need it urgently
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I've another tolkien academic article to recommend, though this one is far more easily accessible than 'Wretched of Middle-earth' thankfully, though is also amusingly written by some 'Millers'
"Tolkien and Rape; Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman’s Body in Middle-earth" by T. S. Miller and Elizabeth Miller contains #1 an excellent examination of Shelob's often remarked upon 'monstrously-feminine sexuality' #2 a robust (if still too nervous for my liking) critique of Tolkien's treatment of rape in all his body of work, and #3 a whole new anecdote about Tolkien's medievalist scholarship that I had never heard about. This anecdote is also, crucially, so fucking embarassing for him like it has to be read to be believed.
The paper is (I think?) pretty approachable apart from the quotes that are in middle english. And somehow a bit funny too! Which I understand is strange to say about an article discussing rape but look;
In what follows, we will insist on paying close attention to what Tolkien and his writings say and show about women as embodied beings who desire and who age, even when these women take the shape of outsized arachnids.
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Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses
King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.
He didn't want to talk to you.
Uh.
Point of order.
King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.
This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.
King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.
He just doesn’t do much about his administrative duties
But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.
reading about jellyfish again and I think it would be rly funny to propose the theory that elves essentially function like the immortal jellyfish. the similarities are already there - a) won't die of old age b) can still be killed (jellyfish often by getting eaten; elves usually by other kinds of violence but I suppose also by being eaten) so therefore what about c) revert to earlier stages of life when damaged severely enough, and then regrow themselves from there. I'm not saying elves start out the same way as jellyfish bc I wouldn't want jrrt to have put in all those horrible thoughts about elf pregnancy for nothing, but I just think perhaps the elves deserve a polyp stage which they can access in very dire straits, or else maybe after fading long enough that they take on a new form and get sort of a do-over. this solves nothing and helps nobody :)
real talk why do so many fantasy universes think giant spiders are necessary
The sad part is there’s a decent chance a large proportion of them can be blamed on one spider.
The tarantula that bit JRR Tolkien as a child.
He swore he didn’t have a spider phobia and the experience had nothing to do with the man-eating giant spiders in The Hobbit, the even more giant and even more man-eating spider in Lord of the Rings, or the unholy eldritch spider from outside creation that plunged the world into darkness and made literal Satan scream like a little kid in the Silmarillion. Very few people believe him.
Given LotR’s influence in the fantasy genre, there is a high probability that tarantula is the progenitor of even more fictional spiders than Ungoliant was.
wow fuck that one tarantula
“fantasy universes have too many spiders” factoid actually just statistical error. Georgs Spider, who bit JRR Tolkein & is to blame for menacing over 10,000 fantasy universes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
"It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill today."
James T. Kirk how dare you make me sob.
I like how this wip looks at this stage, so I thought I'd just post it
ughuhhuhuhghuhh the tangible realization of his mortal life ending right here right now, far from the echoes of his city sketched in the background, on a quest that never truly felt like his own, what if I CRIED
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