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there should be like. one of those untranslatable german or japanese words for the suffering of having no friend hog. sometimes i see a pig and my soul cries out in longing

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I’m particularly enamoured of the character 熊 for bear, a 能 on four little legs, that bear has can do attitude!

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I keep thinking Frodo’s sister in Dirk Gently is Wonder Woman

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So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

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Swedish | English -------------------- gräs | grass ogräs | weeds (literally "un-grass") gräsogräs | weeds that are grasses (is there a one word name for this?)

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fascinating thread

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Mr Frodo, I know Mr Gandalf said we had to take the Ring to Mordor and all, I just wasn’t expecting the journey to involve this much emotional labour

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"Sauron just lying back and thinking of Mordor"

One of JRR Tolkien’s ideas for Aragorn’s backstory in The Lord of the Rings was that he was actually just three or four generations removed from Isildur himself.

Then how did he survive for the thousands of years between the Second and Third Ages?

The story goes something like this:

Many hundreds of years ago, young Aragorn fell in love with an Elven woman, who exactly resembled Lúthien Tinúviel in shape and outward form.

She called herself Arwen Undómiel, the Evenstar.

He fell for her, and romanced her, and gave himself to her; together they lived in her kingdom, where her magic and her power slowed Time to a crawl for them, while hundreds and hundreds of years passed in the world outside.

At first, the Elven-maid seemed every inch a queen: beautiful, graceful, soft-spoken, meek, and with the manners befitting an upbringing in Valimar long ago.

But over time, Aragorn came to realize that his beloved had a hard, greedy, grasping side, even a cruel streak, which more and more showed itself in unexpected flashes.

Worse, she was not who she seemed to be.

Eventually Aragorn pieced together the secret.

His bride was Sauron, divested of her usual male disguise.

Greatly weakened by the loss of the Ring, Sauron yet maintained strength enough to craft a prison for the heir of Isildur: a false realm of hollow bliss and sterile delights, where the one she thought was the greatest threat to her power could languish in eternity.

A part of herself, wearing a female aspect – the gender she had hidden long ago in the deeps of time, to gain entrance as an apprentice to the smithies of Aule – remained in this pocket world, as Aragorn’s bride: a plaything to keep his attention from the bars of his gilded cage. 

But eventually, Aragorn figured it out.

Eventually, Aragorn escaped.

Thousands of years had gone by in the world outside since Aragorn had been ensnared by Sauron.

Now, emerging from long captivity in a magical sub-realm, he studied the world around him, and learned what had changed and what had endured.

He met Gandalf, and learned much from the Grey Pilgrim, and taught him some things of his own; and, in search of information, he pursued and captured Gollum, who had possessed, and been possessed by, the One Ring for so many centuries.

And, shortly before his ascent to the throne of the reunited Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor, he met his future bride: Eowyn Elfsheen, sister-daughter of Théoden, King of Rohan.

(PS: Christopher Tolkien or another amanuensis may have written this story down as part of the Secret Library Archive Project.)

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Thesis: one major reason that straight dude writers keep accidentally writing male protagonists who read as gay or bisexual is because they have no close friends in real life, so the only model for non-familial emotional intimacy they have to draw on is how they interact with their SOs.

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Have you yet drawn a crossover with Star Wars and Tolkien's work?

now i have

behold

porgoth

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A proposal

English added by me :)

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incredibly friendly shop assistant who knows every customer so well that they pretend they don’t know the ones with social anxiety at all.

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Be a man, Mitch.

(he said to himself)

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I'll take, "Things we already knew" for 300-

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good omens… i liked it mostly but i literally could not get over anathema and newton banging during the storm because prophecy said so like that grossed me the fuck out. and any time they showed up on screen together after that (which was always), i was reminded of that scene and honestly i just hated the whole romantic subplot so much. they banged once and now suddenly newton is her boyfriend, then husband?? anathema! device! deserved! better!

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really astonishing how closely David Tennant resembles Chow Yun-fat.

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I image searched for and Chow Yun-fat and first even thought a Tennant picture had sneaked in while I was scrolling down.

The lower parts of their faces!

Is it just me think David Tennant and Chow Yun Fat look similar? P.s. Chow Yun Fat is a famous actor in Hong Kong