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I'm Mr. Cat Miser, I'm Mr. Purr. I'm Mr. Chase Mousie... I'm Mr. Lots of Fur

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The student loan debt thing got me thinking. Fuck the founding fathers of course, but "I am compelled to study war and politics so that my sons might have liberty to study philosophy and mathematics" is a great line and I think about it every time some fool starts complaining that life doesn't suck as much as it used to

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really miss people rn

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Am I the only one sad about the Rings of Power situation in social media in general, bit specifically on Tumblr? The show has become so controversial that almost every single post is about people hating it or defending it, there is no space for anything else. I have always come to Tumblr to check out all the funny posts, memes, metas, fanart, etc of the things I like, but with Rings of Power the beef is so extreme that there is no space for creativity and fun, just everybody's takes. Could we please stop arguing and just let the fandom create content and enjoy themselves? It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a place to actually enjoy the show anywhere

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Every generation of elf has a gay as fuck relationship with a dwarf and that's beautiful

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am i the only one who loves Rings of Power so far?? 💀

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Elves and mortals usually end in tragedy but I'm rooting for them so hard ;u;

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Me on my way to welcome all the new people that will be coming into the Tolkien fandom because of The Rings of Power:

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girl hobbits!!! girl hobbits 🫶🫶🫶 girl hobbits😭😭😭 girl hobbits covered in mud and dirt and being silly and eating lots food and being messy and free and having fun!!!

GIRL HOBBITS

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I like how everyone in LotR tumblr is being all euphemistic and vague about their aesthetic complaints with Rings of Power speaking about immersion and how the short hair is ruining the experience instead of just saying what they mean

They made Elrond unfuckable and it sucks

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It’s what she deserved

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The creators of The Rings of Power seem to have forgotten (or never understood) Tolkien's one absolute core message:

WAR BAD

It's not something you should aspire to, it's not something to glory in. It's horrible and violent and all-around shit. But sometimes, you have no choice.

He was a veteran of WW1 ffs.

He saw it all, the blood, the dying, the dogged determination of his comrades and the women fighting to save lives, plugging bullet holes as best as they can. Holding the hands of the dying while being shelled.

But US culture is so rife with war glorification. In US media, depicting war as something horrid, something awful, something that should be avoided if at all possible - that started and stopped in the 80s.

"Saving Private Ryan" was the last hurrah of that line of works a decade later.

If you view, like, Eowyn through that lens? Her character arc isn't "strong war maiden turns into docile wifey". It's "Clinically depressed woman yearning for one last act of glory and then death gets confronted with the realities of battle, does what she strove for, but realizes that she wants to live. And do something with her life that doesn't involve bloodshed and killing."

Because Tolkien doesn't see glory in war.

Or, to bring in a quote from another franchise: "Wars make no one great."

And if you lose that message? You lose everything.

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highkey the rings of power are cowards for not giving dwarven women beards like in the hobbit concept art. look at them