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What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night

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Gonzo had to be incredibly careful not to gaze into the face of Kermadusa.

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Wandering Wizards

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𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍

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I’m just saying if they ever wanted to do a movie with a bunch of other messed up Mew clones I would be down

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snug bug of the day

Blue cloud forest millipede

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A small window of time

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Joel Slotte (Finnish, 1987) - A Possibility of an Idyll (2019)

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still waiting for you

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yesterday my friend hit me with the brilliant "connected the dots" moment of going like, hey, you know how the hobbits in the shire are doing weirdly well in material culture/leisure/political ease compared to the rest of Middle Earth? They have a museum... they have silver spoons... they have a super chill governing class rarely seen in agricultural societies...

Okay, you know how they have potatoes even though potatoes shouldn't exist in old world prehistoric europe?

so what if the potatoes are the reason hobbits are doing so well

My friend actually looked up the math and iirc the amount of calories per acre you get from wheat is like... 4 million calories. The calories you get from one acre of potatoes is like 18 million calories. That's an INSANE increase, that's more than wheat squared. To a degree, the same thing happened in real life when new world crops were introduced to Europe. If you can put in the same amount of labor to get exponentially more calories for your community, you're going to have a lot more leisure time and handcrafting time! More time for specialization, less need for every person to be involved in agriculture.

for my part I want to add, the original conceit of LOTR is that Tolkien is translating and localizing a story from an ancient text. So it may not be that they have literally got potatoes like we have now, but that they have some staple crop best understood in comparison to the mighty potato.