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I've seen your flag on the marble arch And love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

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I mean. I mean if you are ASKING for more suggestions. I'm. You know. I'm gonna ask for either Sauron and Finrod (because your tol-in-gaurhoth Sauron design is Delicious) or Annatar and Celebrimbor. Because I am obsessed

♪ The captives sad in Angband mourn Thunder rumbles, the fires burn- And Finrod fell before the throne ♪

I choose Finrod and Sauron because I'm currently listening to Clamavi de profundis - The battle of Sauron and Finrod Felagund on repeat.

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Art of Finrod inspired by this picture:

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the joys of today's writing: autocorrect coming up with the splendid idea of some of Manwë's servants being beagles. The King of Arda surrounded by baby beagles. Checks out.

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“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

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More horses, this time with Turgon and Finrod 💙

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mr hickey says im not to call you captain anymore

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Reading through some old plot notes for a half-finished canon divergent Silmarillion fic and realising that I sound exactly like Celegorm and Curufin

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🤎🤍

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also they shouldve kept the scene in s1e10 where frmc sees the masts of erebus in shallow water off the adelaide peninsula and, realizing that the skeleton crew has sailed her here and thereby forged with their lives the last link in the northwest passage, says, ‘bravo, gentlemen.’

“more than god loves them” in s1e9 makes me fucking FERAL

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Hello Jeanne! As someone who has recently become more interested in Alexander the Great and has actually started reading the dancing with the lion books (which I'm loving so far) I have a question for you. I was recently given Mary Renault's book the nature of Alexander as a gift and I've been debating whether or not I actually want to read it. The main complaint I have about it (and I know she included this given the fact that she wrote the Persian boy) is that she tried to argue that he and bagoas were intimate partners in life, even though, as you argue, that wasn't really the type of relationship he had with Alexander. But that aside, I guess what I want to know is whether or not this is a biography that you would recommend about Alexander for a sort of beginner like me? I haven't been able to find many articles by historians providing any commentary on the book and whether or not it's historically accurate and paints a realistic picture of who Alexander was as a person, regardless of the fact that she had no formal education in Classics.

Sorry for the delay on this. It's not a complicated reply, I've just been swamped.

And yes, sure, Renault's biography is better than some make it out to be. That said, my chief caution would be that she adopts a lot of ideas from Tarn about him. This is not unlike my personal complaints about her novels about him.

Alexander was her hero. Ergo, she was more inclined to forgive him (and justify) things that were really quite horrible. It definitely lands on the more positive views of him.

There are some biographies I think are better, and still cheap (which I know can be an issue). Brian Bosworth's Conquest and Empire is fairly even-handed, more so than his later Alexander in the East. Lindsay Adams' Alexander the Great: Legacy of a Conqueror is one I've used in my own ATG class. Ed Anson's Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues is also reliable. All these are intended for students really, and as such, make great introduction texts. If you happen to be able to read German, Sabine Müller's Alexander der Grosse is superb.

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my fav thing about sunrise on the reaping was when haymitch was like yeah caeser i'm a lone wolf 😏 i'm with the newcomers but i'm not WITH the newcomers, yknow? they call me a rascal. a rebel against the gamemasters. I scored a ONE and that is a THREAT. you do not want to mess with me 🙅

cut to him with like 20 kids following him around like ducklings, him hiding in his t-shirt, him letting a bunny guide him to safety because it reminded him of his girlfriend, and him making nightlights out of potatoes.

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“more than god loves them” in s1e9 makes me fucking FERAL

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I 100% adore the Lord of the Rings movies, but the fact is that the Arwen-Is-Dying-Because-Ring-Magic plotline makes zero sense by the lore (if I’m wrong please correct me I’d love to learn). Don’t get me wrong, it works great for the movie, brilliant, in fact, but it doesn’t really make much sense in book logic. Why would Arwen’s fate be tied to the Ring? If she’s mortal now she can’t Fade, and if she’s still Elvish there’s no reason why it should affect her more than anyone else.

BUT, I was watching the extended scene where Aragorn looks into the Palantir and Sauron speaks to him in Black Speech and shows him pictures of a dead Arwen and smashes the Evenstar (Which is a whole other The-Books-Call-Bullshit shebang), and I came up with my own in-universe explanation.

Sauron: *Chilling in Mordor*

An Orc of some kind: My Lord Mairon (Because THAT is what they would call him), the spies have come back from Rivendell.

Sauron: Show me.

Magic Evil Spy: *Shows Sauron the image of a mortal man of the race of Numenor making out with an Elf lady who looks suspiciously familiar…*

Sauron: OH HELL NO!

Evil Spy: Indeed, Master. The Heir of Isildur lives.

Sauron: Get rid of her, now.

Evil Spy: Right away, Mast- her?

Sauron: Yes! Yes yes yes, I don’t care what it takes, get her out of here.

Evil Spy: My Lord, but surely, Isildur’s heir-?

Sauron: Do not harm that man, you hear me? Do not lay a finger on him until she is taken care of.

Evil Spy:

Evil Spy: Are you sure-?

Sauron: Was there a dog?

Spy: A dog, Master?

Sauron: Yes, yes, a dog, a big one.

Spy: Not that I could see, no.

Sauron: Oh well thank Eru for that, at least.

Spy: Are you feeling ill, Master?

Sauron: No, and I’d like to keep it that way. Arwen annihilation is priority number one, ok? And don’t you lay a finger on her man until I say so, got it?

Spy: Alright then…

Sauron, still looking at the image: HE’S GOT THE RING OF FELAGUND!!!

Spy:

Sauron: KILL HER KILL HER KILL HER KILL HER KILL HER RIGHT NOW!