Dreamy

Anytime you finish lotr or the hobbit it’s the loneliest most gut wrenching desolate feeling in the world lmao. 100% meant this to sound that dramatic because it’s true. Frodo sailing off or Bilbo letting Gandalf in the door and it showing the lonely mountain map. My heart sinks every time.

PLEASE CYBERBROS DRIVE YOUR TRUCK INTO THE NEAREST LAKE. DONT WORRY ITS A FEATURE

Monument valley & cores by qing ying

my only issue with tumblr is that every time I go to the tags it is at precisely the time the heart from me liking the same post gets to that spot

Arya pasted “Durza” into all the dictionaries and thesauruses she and Glen have in the flat for the definition of Sadist and Glen doesn’t discover it till like…the next time Eragon and Co are in Ellesméra for war resupply.

Glen: Really?

Arya: *looks up sees what he’s showing her, starts giggling* Hey, at least I think I’m funny.

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a very famous headcannon in the fandom about dwarf culture, whose braids have meaning (including courting), but Bilbo doesn't know it

btw, I'm still traveling and working so I took a break from my modern au, but I did it so at least I wouldn't end up not posting anything

Merlin + yearbook quotes

There is a small but important scene right at the end of eldest, where Angela has just come back from poisoning the army and Eragon and Orik spot her and go to ask her what’s going on. The important bit happens here, Nasuada shows up to tell Eragon and Orik that yes Angela was acting under her orders, and after a brief chat, tells Eragon that she has chosen him as her successor as the leader of the Varden. It’s a big deal for both of them. But the detail I love in this scene is that Nasuada shows up guarded by 4 Urgals, including Nar Gharzvog, who had only joined the varden a few hours before, which most of the varden are angry about. While I think the text says that she’s dressed for battle a few pages earlier, whenever I picture Nasuada I always see her in a luxurious dress, and the picture in my mind of Nasuada stood calm and composed, looking incredibly beautiful, surrounded by a squad of urgals under the dim moonlight is one I have thought about for years. I’m still learning to draw, it’ll be years before I can replicate the image in my head, but this one scene speaks to Nasuada’s character so well, and I can’t wait for the day I can finally replicate it.

I think a lot of people are getting the wrong idea when they call Tolkien a freak because he invented this elaborate framing device whereby the Red Book of Westmarch was actually written by Bilbo and Frodo (with some addenda by Sam) and he, Tolkien, was merely an editor and translator. Throughout history it's actually been a very common literary device for an author to represent their work as having been written by a character who appears in the story, with the author themselves variously positioned as a translator, editor, and/or literary executor. At the time that Tolkien was writing, such a device would have been seen as somewhat old-fashioned, but certainly not eccentric. Like, Tolkien was definitely a freak, but not for that reason.