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How solemn it is to lie in melancholy

Drifting in a tempestuous sky

The rolling clouds

The abyssal depths.

Summer without, Winter within.

It would be nice to come home, I guess.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien. Art binding and box by Dimitris Koutsipetsidis (2022). Book cover designs by Mia Heath. One of a kind.

source [more photos and information from Dimitri]

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Rest. By u/MyMinds1

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Once the time is right,

I'll be firelight.

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This is the way. I watched RoP full of fear and came away incredibly satisfied right now. I'm really liking it! It has the right vibes and I love being in a high-fantasy world again.

YouTube has been trying VERY hard to clickbait me into some terribly right-wing looking videos on RoP. Which I've ignored. It's so sad to see how petty and defensive these Tolkien fans are, and how they use Tolkien's name to further various isolating agendas.

much ado about Finrod, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Legendarium multiverse concept

While I was watching the first episode of RoP yesterday, it hit me as to why they presented Finrod’s death as they did – because they don’t have the rights to The Silmarillion, thusly Lúthien and Beren’s tale can’t be told, so…what do you do for narrative coherency when something is legally unfilmable?

You make like Peter Jackson did for what was cinematically unfilmable and tweak a few details, thus creating a coherent complementary narrative.

The idea that there can be happily coexisting canons for different forms of The Lord of the Rings kind of settled as just the accepted thing in fandom around about early ‘04, after RotK’s release, and honestly? I think it’s the best way to think. There’s book-canon, movie-canon, and now show-canon, and that’s all okay. It just makes the scope of the Legendarium even wider: it turns a universe into a multiverse.

And people are going to say “that’s disrespectful to Tolkien!”, but I hasten to remind you that Tolkien himself was forever making lore changes and going back and forth on what is and isn’t canon. (See lady dwarves as a prime example!) And that is in no way a criticism of the Professor – it’s a compliment. This is, for lack of a better term, a living mythology. A mythology with as many brilliant facets as a Fëanorian-made gem, seen through a myriad different windows. We as fans have a choice as to which of those windows we want to peek through.

Anyone who says this “ruins Tolkien’s legacy” makes me want to roll my eyes. Let’s do an experiment: go pick up your copy of The Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion and point out to me exactly where the existence of the show or the movies or the musical or anything has erased or changed any of the words in those amazing books. The books are and always will be the ‘base’ canon. The books are what we look to first, the books are where all adaptions spring from. Nothing changes that. Not PJ, not Amazon, nothing.

If you honestly think so little of Tolkien’s amazing stories that you believe an adaption, however good or bad, can ruin them…

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7ish years late to therapy but better late than never, am I right?

"I am not my thoughts, even though deep down you’re not sure what exactly that makes you."

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Farewell the rolling hills

And farewell to the fields

Farewell love, my fate tonight is sealed

On the sea love, on the sea

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“You’ve been feeling tired,” said the stranger, “but I can do something about that. I’ve come to ask whether you’d care to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you and you’ll enjoy it. If you’re ready, we might go along now.”

They went out past the young sentry, who paid the visitor no attention. The sun was shining and in spite of the cold there were a few bucks and does at silflay [feeding above ground], keeping out of the wind as they nibbled the shoots of spring grass. It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch the rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses.

“You needn’t worry about them,” said his companion. “They’ll be all right — and thousands like them. If you’ll come along, I’ll show you what I mean.”

He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.

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all you killers on your killing sprees

a massacre's the new American dream

and all the kids on the murder scene

A massacre, the new American dream.

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Every second, every day

You're waiting for the

Day to come when they will notice.

It's time to wake up now.

Fighting battles at your lowest,

Your fire is dying out.

Dragging every step forward but

It won't happen again.

And I'm not gonna pretend

I Don't Want The Money.

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You come and go in waves,

Leaving me in your wake.

You come and go in waves,

Swallowing everything.

Are you satisfied?

Love's the death of peace of mind.

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Regirock awakens… Ash still forgot his jacket, will he remember one for the icy tundra? That’s the real cliffhanger here Instagram I Twitter

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The butterflies I felt had only begun to cut and itch. As much as you tried to hide it I knew You were just dying to flip your switch. Tried to play dress-up, but never learned to play house. Fear giving license to the words falling from your mouth.

Poking corpses and throwing blame. How could I have thought I'd be the one to drive the demons away? Romanticism seduced by the beauty of form, Those supple lines, a familiar warmth Turned heart as cold as stone

Our love was lost Your heart turned cold, And that was when I let you go.

Fall back to the upstairs bedroom. Way back when it all just seemed To make more sense then and fall in place, There was a time when I felt okay.

I felt okay.

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DUNE 2021, dir. Denis Villeneuve

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girl help i managed my time poorly and now im suffering the consequences