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wait kids need ai to make their favorite characters talk??? they can't just do that in their heads normal style?? what happened to making your favorite characters kiss by making little videos in your head and projecting it into your psyche cinema style before bedtime

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Things that probably happened some time during Fellowship of the Ring: Merry and Pippin tell Boromir things about hobbits, but as a game of "one of us only tells the truth, the other one only lies", and Boromir has to figure out which one is which. Both Aragorn and Gandalf smile knowingly at the things the hobbits claim, but they're not telling. Gimli will argue that everything they're claiming sounds like bullshit, but there is no claim so wild and outrageous that Legolas wouldn't contemplate that it could plausibly be true.

The only thing that keeps Sam from interrupting and telling everyone which claims are outright lies and which ones have been taken so out of context that they sound like bullshit is the fact that Frodo clearly finds this amusing, and Sam can't ruin something that can still get a little fragile smile out of him.

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Mary Oliver, Felicity

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Happy Gimli !

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1/3 of the Fellowship

The Dwarfs are very clearly inspired mainly from Old Norse, so that's the main reference for Gimli's dress. There's also some other influences, like some Bronze Age Mediterranean influences and Iron Age Eastern Europe.

To me Tolkien's elves are very high Middle Ages and Gothic, but for Sindar I mixed in plenty of Celtic and especially Irish influence, and based Legolas' dress heavily on Irish léine.

Boromir's dress I based on mostly Byzantine but also some Medieval Arabic influences as I did for Faramir.

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resting

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when my shelter cat passes by me, he pauses for a second, and looks up. He is waiting for me to lean down, and touch my hand against his side, so that when he keeps walking, my hand skims across his fur. he doesn't really need attention. he has his own thoughts and plans. but after more than a year of living in our home, he has come to expect a moment of kindness whenever he crosses my path. if I don't do it, he will follow me. "where is your hand?" he asks, with his plaintive and impatient eyes. I give it to him. he bumps against it like a balloon before wandering away. this is a poem to me

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PLAGUE! PLAGUE! PLAGUE! PLAGUE!

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pingu is so ugly tho

you're a broken person for real

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pingu is so ugly tho

you're a broken person for real

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after a lifetime of hearing about aragorn but not reading the books or watching the movies, genuinely nothing could have prepared me for his actual introduction. the hobbits picked this man out of a dumpster. he is a textbook softspoken angst prince and he is covered in dirt and he probably smells so bad. he’s the coolest man alive and is so casual about it. his number one skill is Knowing Where They Are and his number two skill is Having A Horrible Destiny That Torments Him. tolkien got it in one i’m afraid aragorn son of arathorn you are the guy of all time

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15 minutes used to be a long time you know. now its barely 15 minutes

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he is about to hit you with his swagger

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And speaking of pronouns, flat-out my favorite part of the LOTR Appendices is when it’s revealed that the Gondorian dialect of the Common Speech differentiates between formal and informal second-person pronouns but the distinction’s been lost in the Hobbit’s dialect, so Pippin’s blithely been using familiar terms of address with the Lord of the City, and thus helps to explain both why the Gondorians are so ready to assume he’s a prince and why Denethor finds him so amusing to have around.

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