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Yall. I just finished reading "Castle in the Air" and it was SO GOOD!!!

(Spoilers)

Like Howl is the genie, Sophie was Midnight, CALCIFER WAS THE CARPET, and I just Loved the cameos!

And little Valeria 😭 She just kept screaming, and it was HILARIOUS when all the princesses were like, "Go on girlie, bawl, weep, scream, cry, KEEP MAKING NOISE!" And by goodness, did Valeria SCREAM

And the Strangian soldier was Prince Justin??? Bro just can't catch a break 😭

And little Morgan---he didn't appreciate being a human baby after being a kitten, poor guy. And HOWL CALLED HIM UGLY it was GREAT

And the way the king of Ingary just made two new positions for Abdullah and Flower-in-the-Night is great!

King of Zanzib: I want to kill Abdullah for marrying my daughter!! 😡😡

King of Ingary: oh no no no no no, my good sir! He now has a position on my royal court!

And the way the princesses planned to show Abdullah to Hazruel 😭😭

I can only imagine it went like:

Beatrice, princess of Strangia: okay dude, so you need to take your clothes off--

Flower-in-the-Night: hey now that's only for me--

Princess of Tsapfan, covering Valeria's ears: there are LITTLE EARS in the room!!!!!!

Abdullah, very Confused: I need to take my clothes off????????????????

And Sohpie was describing Howl and Abdullah was like, "why would you say those things about him???" And Sohpie was like, "bro I'm DESCRIBING him, that's just how he is."

Like all in all, 10/10, very good! I love Dianna Wynne Jones's writing style!

Had to make another poll because I’ve seen some more weird takes about my boy:

Please reblog for a bigger sample!

Isildur is Elrond's, like, a gazillion times great nephew

Facts to share with new Tolkien Fans who are watching The Rings of Power:

Currently (within the timeline of the show) the earth is flat.

Maglor from the Silmarillion

Elven genealogies don't fail me now

Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.

Begin.

Looking for LGBT/ally Christians

If you’re an LGBT Christian or a Christian who supports and affirms LGBT people please reblog so that I may follow you.

THE OLD GUARD (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood

bonus:

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

Elrond

You agree you reblog

Read The Hobbit, starting reading lotr now, read the Silmarillion, starting reading the Book of Lost Tales now, and have watched all Hobbit movies, LotR movies, and RoP show.

KOTLC AND TOLKIEN'S LEGENDARIUM: READERSHIP OVERLAP

I've been feeling curious about how much overlap there is between the readership of these works, because I've seen several KOTLC people posting legendarium-related things recently (and I myself suspect that some elements of KOTLC were inspired by it, and thus find these elements interesting). So, if you could humour me and answer the question below:

Read the options CAREFULLY and vote whichever option FITS YOU BEST (I think I've covered most if not all). If you're confused about the options, the relevant information is below the poll. Also, I'd love it if you could tell me what you voted in the tags!

So without further ado:

REMINDER: If you have NOT read KOTLC (Keeper of the Lost Cities), then PLEASE do not vote.

Please REBLOG for larger sample size! Because I really am quite curious :)

If you are confused about any of these options, please read the explanations below:

If you've watched AND read some of these, please don't select the watch-only option :)

The definition of READ here (for everything but HoME where a dedicated skim or half the book counts) is if you've read the text IN ITS ENTIRETY or closely enough that it may as well be so (leaving this one up to your judgement but as a rule, let's say about 80% to 90% and with skipping only non-essential bits (LOTR prologue and appendices, geography chapter etc -- again, these may seem essential to you, but these are the ones most people seem to skip/skim)).

Also, although I doubt this will actually be a cause of debate, audiobooks count. They always count.

(rest of the explanation under cut if needed)

You do not have to have read all the Great Tales either; having read only one or a few counts.

The osmosis/pop culture option is for things like 'I mean I've watched 'They're taking the hobbits to Isengard' and/or 'I have an irl friend or beloved mutual or person I follow who's read the books/watched the movies and talks about them a lot'.

For ONLY WATCHED, fan-films and fan-adaptations (such as the many Silm-related rock operas) count.

Silm refers to The Silmarillion (1977), as in the published text only.

The Great Tales refers to The Children of Húrin (2007), Beren and Lúthien (2017) and The Fall of Gondolin (2018). For the purposes of this poll it also includes The Fall of Númenor (2022)

HoME refers to The Histories of Middle-earth (1983-1996). For the purposes of this poll, it also includes Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (1980) and The Nature of Middle-earth (2021) and (though this one's iffy) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981); if you've read Letters but not any of Silm/Great Tales/other HoME, just vote for the LOTR and/or Hobbit option.

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A cursed thought just occured to me and I decided to make you all suffer to

So in Tolkien lore elves are immortal right? After a certain point they don't age and will just keep living, save for the intervention of accidents, illness/poison, or very pointy objects. This leads to a whole laundry list of questions on biology but there's one in particular I want to bite into today(pun much intended).

Teeth.

How do elf teeth work? Because the main issue with teeth over time is that they wear down with use. This is not as much of a problem in modern times, we are spoiled with a lot of very soft easy to chew food, but it's still a thing and historicaly you wore down your teeth alot over the course of your life. Things like smoking a pipe can carve a grove in your teeth where you hold the pipe stem.

And this means that if you're immortan and alive long enough, your teeth will wear down to nothing because elves do need to eat. But obviously Galadriel and Elrond aren't looking like grandmas who forgot their dentures, so elves must have something to solve this.

I therefor present my 3 running theories for how elves keep their teeth:

- The OP Teeth Of Steel Theory

Elf teeth are simply to strong to wear down. A bit boring if you ask me.

- The Elves Are Rodents Theory

Rodent front teeth grow continiously their entire life, it's realy cool. It's also why they're always chewing on things, because if they don't their teeth will grow so long it stops them from eating. This theory proposes elf teeth also just grow forever(this could lead to a extremely annoying habit of elves to grind their teeth to keep them down, but oh well).

- The Elves Are Sharks Theory

Sharks tackle the problem of teeth by simply?

Growing more teeth?

Like they just keep loosing teeth and growing new ones. For elves this could mean that when a tooth gets to worn it simply falls out and a new one grown in, like human milk teeth but their entire life.

This was all writen in about 10min while getting ready for bed, so please enjoy these lovely cursed thoughts while I escape to dreamland :)

@tathrin

for quite some time now ive wanted to redesign some of my existing maiar designs as well as give proper designs to some ive never really bothered with before, so here's some updated fullbody concepts! im happiest with mairon's honestly, but i really like the idea of olorin being a haggled, minimalistic shepherd who walks around valinor covered in dirt HAHAHAH

i also wanted to explore some of their potential dynamics with each other 😙 esp eonwe-ilmare and mairon-arien as siblings so these are just some quick doodles cuz my neck is in pa i n

compiled fullbody ref sheet under the cut 💃

fëanor's eldest sons