#r the middle

[qweenofurheart]

timmy with dami and kon !

[prokopetz]

Okay, so a thing about Tolkien's Middle-Earth is that, for elves and other beings of comparable metaphysical stature, the "distance" between an act of will and its tangible result is shorter than it is for mortals. The universe is just more inclined to play along with how they want it to work, which is why they're not lying when they claim not to know what magic is even though the products of their craftsmanship are by any reasonable standard supernatural – they just make stuff, and it works the way it does because that's how they intended it to.

This has a number of fun worldbuilding implications, like inventors having tangible authority over things crafted using their techniques, regardless of who does the actual crafting, because they literally willed the principles which allow those techniques to work into being, or the fact that when powerful beings die, sometimes stuff that depends on techniques they invented stops working. However, there's a bigger implication that that's generally gone unaddressed:

Elves can't do science.

Like, it's straight up impossible. A Tolkien elf cannot construct and carry out a meaningful experiment of any sort – it'll always works the way they expect it to, but only for that particular elf. Confirmation bias is an insurmountable barrier.

I want to read a story about the elf who figures this out and it bothers them terribly.

[thyinum]

Happy birthday, Professor 💛🍃

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien.

[bzjohndory]

HEARRR ME OUTTT ON THEIR DYNAMIC PLEASSEEEEREER

(+bonus)

You guys don’t understand I need clay to have been really excited to have a younger sibling so he dragged floyd to everything he could since he was “too young” for the things John and Bruce liked to do and as a result the two became close as hell and friendly bicker all the time

IM SICK I NEED FLOYD TO HAVE FOUND COMFORT IN THEIR DYNAMIC AS JOHN DORY AND BRUCE WERE ALWAYS MONITORING FLOYD’S HEALTH WHILE WITH CLAY HE FOUND A BIT OF NORMALCY IN ALL OF CLAY’S HOBBIES..!:!$ party animal floyd and bookworm clay you guys wouldve never guess theyre bffs

[saturnniidae]

Giggling thinking about Stoick full naming Hiccup when he's in trouble like

*something explodes* and entirety of berk is woken up by: "HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK THE THIRD, WHAT IN THOR'S NAME DID YOU DO THIS TIME?!!!!??"

[strawberri-draws]

Guys I love them… middle school me is being FED

[medical-malpractice-lawsuit]

The house and wilson in my brain everytime i pick up a pen:

[rowarn]

just remembered that time i saw someone be like "könig is a war criminal he would actually murder u if u tried to flirt with him"

why does half the fandom think the cod men r just like......serial killers who go around stabbing and shooting civilians in grocery stores for asking for their number for thinking they're cute 😭

[nycastrophobia]

yea, we're commiting crimes alright

[drenched-in-sunlight]

spy exes, their divorce rifle and forget-me-not 🌊

[clownsuu]

no silly 😔😔💔

Spooki month gettin REAL spooki this year 💔🥄🥄

[orbch]

some rando hazbin hotel art that manifested in my sketchbook this week somehow.. quite strange...

[mmyashas]

wow wouldnt it be crazy if we were all on a severely ominous poster at the fed offices

[potatobugz]

shout out to barbarian tweek how has he not gotten like hypothermia

[matias-crtz-art]

"Luthien, the glory of Beleriand! Beautiful, she danced upon the grass While Beren watched her. His pain vanished And because of Luthien, he fell under a spell. Clad in blue like the sky, Her eyes gray and hair black. White as the dawn in Aman... Of the children of Ilúvatar... the most beautiful".

2019 december.