The Last Sea

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. - George Mikes

[old-hippies]

Vintage 1960s Tolkien flair

[tolkien-shitposting]

[apatheticskeleton]

i can NOT stop thinking about when c.s. lewis introduced a character by saying “his name, unfortunately, was Eustace Scrubb” like BRUH no need to do him dirty like that 😭😭 you GAVE him that name. tf

[jedi-valjean]

You forgot he immediately followed it with “and he almost deserved it.”

[lioncalledparsley]

#clive staples you are throwing bricks in glass houses 

[iraffiruse]

[gracegisela]

“Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles”

[commander-cullen-deactivated201]

The Beatles did not have a fuck to give

[norvicensiandoran]

I can’t even name 5 Beatles songs and I find this hilarious.

[sam-writes]

@moonvinyls I love these boys

[oscarwetnwilde]

Alan Davies: 1

Stephen Fry: 0

[tkkatherineblog]

Inst @charlotte_annefidler

[noyaboya]

scottish twitter strikes again

[expertpedestrian]

tory power stance is still the funniest thing to come out of uk party politics in a long time

[expertpedestrian]

[strangehorse]

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

[bemusedlybespectacled]

[nerdynbhuman]

I feel like I need to talk about the random shit I know about this pose. As they paid a guy a lot of money to come up with a pose that’d make the important tories look POWERFUL and IMPOSING. And they guy came up with this, but it was only meant for photos of the torso up and none of them realised.

[spank-the-villain]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_power_stance

funny, funny article. “ The stance is believed to be intended to be a display of power and confidence. “

[wondersmith-and-sons]

how could you leave out the best part of that wiki entry

[respectablegeek]

Don’t forget this high quality [citation needed]

[yeaka]

Has this been done yet? Because I love you Elrond but wtf. [Screencap credit]

[elenorasweet]

LAUGHING BUT CRYING INSIDE

[thequeensenglish]

Beatrix Potter’s Yew Tree Farm, Coniston, Cumbria, England.

Yew Tree was owned by Beatrix Potter in the 1930s and is still home to many of her furnishings.

In 1929, when Beatrix Potter was 64 years old, the Monk Coniston estate came up for sale. The estate included 2500 acres of land around the head of Coniston Water.

It consisted of the well-known beauty spot Tarn Hows, seven farms including Yew Tree, Boon Crag, High Arnside, High Tilberthwaite and High Yewdale, as well as cottages, quarries and open fell land. She later sold the half containing Tarn Hows to the National Trust, and bequeathed the rest of the estate to the Trust in her will.

Yew Tree is still a working farm and is home to a special little flock of Herdwick sheep- a breed Beatrice help save together with her shepherd Tom Storey. Beatrix bred Herdwick sheep on her farms in the Lake District, which at that time were a threatened native breed.

Yew Tree Farm featured as ‘Hill Top’ in the film ‘Miss Potter’ starring Rene Zellweger.

[nevver]

Slugs of London, Monster Chetwynd

[babeimgonnaleaveu]

“The Enchanter’s name is Tim because John Cleese forgot the character’s original name. He ad-libbed the line, “There are some who call me…Tim”.  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

[thephantomasthmatic]

[cesaray]

[ex-foliant]

This is from call the midwife and I was howling at this scene

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to ‘defeat’ it by being humble when we get the treasure.

Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, it’s a real dragon and it has my gold

[misbehavingmaiar]

It’s living in my house, Bilbo

[dannyburgess]

So I had intended to do these for INKTOBER, but I was sick the entire month of october.. great!, So now Ive just done a few.  I wanted to do each one of these as quick as possible, just quick book cover sketches.

[thelongvictorian]

This is the view from Charlotte Brontë’s bedroom (now the Brontë Parsonage Museum), Haworth, Yorkshire. Charlotte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature.