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Babe wake up new Vulgate chapter just dropped

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my job made the mistake of giving me photoshop access

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Bravo also to Robert Eggers for probably the least bad depiction of Transylvania in Western vampire cinematic history:

1. Having actual Romanian actors doing the dialogue in Romanian. You'd think this is a low bar to clear but nope.

2. High quality costume design that looks pretty accurate to 19th century Romanian and Roma peasantry, even down to specific braided hairstyles from the Transylvanian region.

3. Depiction of Roma people but refrains from having them as some typical Hollywood exoticizing role like a magical fortune teller etc. They're in like half a scene, just chilling and playing music in front of an inn.

4. Use of the word "strigoi" which are actual spirits in Romanian folklore, unlike the term "vampire" which didn't exist in Romania.

5. Sorry to the Nosferatu moustache haters, but a Romanian nobleman would have had that exact facial hair.

6. Depiction of religion (nuns, churches) that actually looks like Eastern Orthodoxy and not some vaguely spooky goth Christianity.

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SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS 2.16 "Graveyard Shift"

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in dracula there is a cowboy and the female lead lives. in nosferatu there is no cowboy and the female lead dies. ergo, the existence of a cowboy is highly important for the survival of the female lead in a gothic vampire story.

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tom blyth fishing with daniel webber and alex roe.

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Lucius to a bunch of men who were torn from their (likely massacred) families and homelands and rendered mere entertainment for their coloniser: Up until now you fought for nothing worthy, we must now fight for my the empire!!

Gladiators: wasn't your entire family murdered by Rome?

Lucius (for some reason): don't worry about it

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I adored the pause between Tom saying 'Now let the song begin' and the rest of the song. It was just a little thing, but it's lovely how it reads as Tom saying 'right, now let Gandalf's part of Ilúvatar's song begin', and what a kind and appropriate way for it to begin – enmeshed in all things hobbity, earthy and good.

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Gil Galad: Most of the elven race has been destroyed!! 😤 Who will we turn to? What will we do? We are alone. 😔

Arondir: What about Oroph—

Gil Galad: ALONE! We are all ALONE!

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!!! TROP SPOILERS !!!

Celebrimbor's chain scene being a direct reference to Maedhros... unable to cut the magic chain that had both of them bound so they had to cut off a limb...

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Hello Mr Mouse 😭

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Let's talk about Thranduil (and the Mirkwood Elves)

The Woodland Elves are well known for being a suspicious and reclusive people, Thranduil most of all - but they are also as merry and light-hearted as the other Elven civilizations when it comes to their own people.

So I want to talk about why that is, why Thranduil is so determined to remain isolated. The reason is actually pretty simple: he lost everything in the War of the Last Alliance.

The army of Greenwood joined forces with the Elves and Men against Mordor, though their army was smallest and their people less skilled with open war, led by Oropher, Thranduil's father. Thranduil himself was there as well (and though not much is known about his wife, I headcanon her as fighting alongside her husband and her people).

The Free Peoples won that war, but with a heavy cost - and the Silvan Elves suffered greatest of all. They lost two-thirds of their army and their King, and returned to Greenwood crippled and mourning. (I headcanon that's when Thranduil lost his wife, too). The Prince of Greenwood had to take the burden of the crown while his people were suffering and while his home was rapidly falling into decay, along with struggling through the grief of losing his father (and his wife).

To my knowledge, there is nothing in the lore about the Silvan Elves receiving help from their allies, so I assume that they were left to rebuild alone, and also to contend with the Necromancer who had taken up residence in their home, and who they were not strong enough to exorcize themselves. They were even forced to take refuge underground, which hurt their woodland and tree-loving souls.

Thranduil was alone. Of course he would become bitter and reclusive, wanting to focus on helping his own people while resenting the fact that, though they had sacrificed so much, no one came to their aid. He decided that he would lend no more aid, make no more sacrifices, and suffer no more losses on account of those who would not return the favor. That was the end of that.

And really, who can blame him?

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Arondir's going to survive and return to the Greenwood at the beginning of S3 where we will be introduced to Oropher, Thranduil and Celeborn who've been sitting around drinking wine and cracking jokes while everyone else is out here getting traumatised

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i’m not even lying when i say he literally just took my breathe away

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Art by Marchesi Cristiano (an italian, like me)

Therefore Morgoth issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable unblazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals; and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice.

Then Morgoth hurled aloft Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld, and swung it down like a bolt of thunder. But Fingolfin sprang aside, and Grond rent a mighty pit in the earth.... Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leaped away.

By The Silmarillion

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Literally

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A young Celeborn and Galadriel, sometime during the first age