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One of the funny things about LotR is that almost every people in it professes to disbelieve in the supernatural, but because they live in a fantasy world their baseline for "natural" is so jacked up. The Rohirrim are like, yeah, there's a wizard in this tower and ancient tradition that we have no reason to doubt says this mountain is full of ghosts, but walking trees? Short people? I don't think so. Galadriel is like, "Listen I heard you describe what I do as magic and look I just gotta clear some things up, okay." Gondorians are like, yeah, of course the Enemy has spectres of men who lived long ago and never died and can now fly above us and incapacitate us with just their voices. This is just a fact of life, okay? But shut up about this magic weed that makes comatose people better. That's an old wives' tale. Royalty? Press X to doubt.

The people group in Tolkien's work who seem most receptive to magic and least restricted by their own notions of what it can do actually seem to be the hobbits. And they use it to avoid meeting people they don't want to talk to

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*mystical witchy sounds as i beat the shit out of bad vibes with a broom*

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Charlotte Brontë, from “Jane Eyre”

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Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.

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If the devil has a pitchfork and the grim reaper has a scythe, is agriculture a major industry in the underworld?

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Klaus: It's locked. You got a lock pick?

Violet: No, but I can make one really quick. Wait just...

Sunny: *kicks in the door*

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lemony snicket be like "a colleague of mine once said" and proceeds to quote fucking nietzsche or thoreau or congreve

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Heartbreaking: girl has to get out of bed

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cozy girl forced to get out of bed no survivors

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nearly 30 years I've lived and I'll constantly be surprised by the moon when it's night. I just caught it really large and yellow through the trees and went "good god is that the moon"

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okay now that i’ve calmed down what am i going to buy myself as a treat for enduring this suffering

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grieving as an adult is so funny it's like. im sobbing my eyes out i'm laughing like a maniac im pondering the mortality of everything around me. ok glad thats out of my system because i have a dentist appointment in an hour

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epic that anxiety is not confined to the brain and just poisons every inch of the body. stomach. chest. neck. shoulders. everywhere else. really really cool

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god.... remember the euphoria of river song being introduced (and "killed") in ten's era, only to then be re-introduced in eleven's era as a fresh new character whose personality is fully developed and explored by the story? and how that deep character exploration made her death retroactively more tragic - but complete, like a snake biting its own tail - which we, the Doctor, have been consumed by, dragged helplessly from one end to the other like a rat in its digestive tract??

from the day they met, he knew how, when, and where she was going to die - but he didn't know her, and she knew everything about him. it reminds me of this quote from Reinette Poisson, "The Girl in the Fireplace":

"There is a vessel in your world where the days of my life are pressed together like the chapters of a book, so that he may step from one to the other without increase of age, while I, weary traveller, must always take the slower path." does that sound familiar?

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there should be a national break from school and work in october for watching scary movies and reading gothic literature. and for sitting on the porch & hanging up string lights. i think.

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Why did Galadriel make her star glass?

Did she have a vision of it’s future need?

Or is it like how those who have faced starvation compulsively hoard food?

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” Says someone who lived through the darkening of Valinor, when light far stronger than the sun and moon went out, and took all the safety and sanity with it.

Three ages of the world later she is moved to capture the echo of the Silmaril that sails the void in a glass vial. Despite all the horror that her family capturing light in artifacts has historically caused.

Just in case.

And then faced with the days growing darker, she faces the same choice her uncle did with his creations: hold on to paranoia, and keep it close. Or give it away, that it might go where it can do the most good.

And she chooses to let it go.

OR

Exile to middle earth wasn’t a problem, until her daughter needed to go to Valinor to heal. Now, she needs a way to get to Valinor when the Valar have not forgiven her.

Because she WILL see her daughter again.

She only knows of one thing that has gotten a ship to Valinor when it was fenced from the Noldor- A Silmaril, carried by Earendil. And so she sets about capturing the light of Earendil, that one day she might trade it for entrance and keep her pride.

But, turns out, the Valar sent a different test.

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"Some people can almost approach genius in their stupidity."