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Who up bloodying they mary

(it still needs prettifying but it's late and i have more actual work to do)

*ahem*

slide deck, please:

three different people looked at "his dad is a dick" and strenuously disagreed that this was irrelevant, so, you know. i stand corrected.

we are all very sad that boromir lost his horse. even though the horse, canonically, was fine.

i always forget that people who are primarily film fans just Do Not Know that bilbo ground the whole council of elrond to a halt to give a poetry reading and complain about the catering.

why is this allowed? because bilbo is elrond's emotional support hobbit. frodo is bilbo's emotional support hobbit which is why he adopted him. sam is, of course, frodo's emotional support hobbit. merry and pippin are everyone's emotional support hobbits. fatty bolger is nobody's emotional support hobbit because he stayed in the shire, where fortunately Nothing Bad Happened At All, Definitely Not

i have been vehemently vindicated in my belief that "curse you and all your kin to darkness and death!" is an entirely valid response to being called before 11am

Even if everything had gone right. Even if Dubois and Shapiro had survived. Even if the mission went off without a hitch.

He was Stratt's right hand man. He was there for the bombing of Antarctica, the paving of the Sahara, and each and every terrible, terrible choice they were forced to do. He saw all of it, and at points was absolutely complicit. He even begged to be allowed to continue to work on the project.

If he had not gone on the Hail Mary, not been cemented in history as a hero (and later on, once the truth comes out, the sacrificial lamb), he would have been condemned right next to Stratt.