Love in the shadow of the sun

90% of nature documentaries: "Until now the female has been very impressed by the males drag performance of Orwell's Homage To Catalonia, soundtracked exclusively by Maria Carey songs. A demanding performance like that knows to impress. But... Oh No... One note in the final tune was one cent flat. It doesn't look good for the male now. She is ordering an orbital laser strike to burn his beautifully groomed plumage from space. It will take all year to regrow, effectively ending this one's mating season early. Better luck next time, little guy. Women are a tough audience."

The US and Israel have a long and well-documented history of false flag operations. And the fact that the US far right ends up being guilty of literally everything they accuse others of means their accusations of false flags against everyone else may as well be a confession.

I’ve been assuming that Magic’s some inherent thing that requires a process of making and some element of mysticism and a little Valar influence thrown in but no! No apparently you can just read a book like… this isn’t HoME stuff this is Lord of the Rings secure 100% accepted canon material that we now have to just deal with! This means fucking Pippin could have been a Wizard if he’d studied hard enough! We have to process that! John! Did you ever think of that?! 

But Pippin probably *could* learn to do things that hobbits would call magic, or spells. In fact, in Lorien, when Sam says that he’s interested in the Elvish rope, one of the Elves helping to load the boats says it’s a pity he hadn’t mentioned it earlier since they would have ‘taught him much’.  Given that we later see the rope shines against the sudden dark that came over Frodo, and came when Sam called it, it might well be that if Sam had learned rope-making in Lorien, it would have included things that he would call spells.  But no doubt the Elves would just call it ‘making ropes’.  You can see it might be difficult to find a tutor in magic if everyone you ask about magic goes : ‘no idea. I hear these other guys can do all sorts of mysterious stuff, but it’s all just basic ropemaking here.’ 

Any creative act is, to some degree, an act of magic, formalized or not, in Middle-Earth.

Sam and Rosie and Frodo had thirteen children, and while Elanor became Queen Arwen’s handmaiden and keeper of the Red Book, and Frodo-lad inherited Bag End and perhaps his father’s work, the others must have done something with their lives. I propose that Gardner, Gamgee & Co. was the finest purveyor of elven definitely-not-magic rope in Arnor for several centuries thereafter.

#lot of good thoughts in here #the question of Wizards is interesting because afaicr it’s a proper noun rather than a general noun; right? #like: there are only Five Wizards; “wizard” is not a codified term for just any magic-user trained in a certain way #it’s basically just for These Five Maiar #(am i wrong on that? must look it up) #and the way things pan out it makes me wonder if “sorcerer” works similarly; see also: Necromancer #Sauron after all is a Maiar who uses a bunch of different types of magic but nobody ever refers to HIM as a wizard #even though he has a lot in common with Gandalf and Saruman etc. if you’re looking at it from the outside #alternatively let’s ponder “The Witch King of Angmar” because… witches? what??? #JRR what does that even mean in the context of Middle Earth #and why is it being applied to a KING #(another thing to refresh my memory on i guess; i always thought it meant #that he was a King with witch-y powers in some sense; perhaps related to his ring #i never thought it might mean that he was a king over witches – i.e. that he had a bunch of servants who were “witches”; but hmm) #and then you have Gimli referring to Galadriel as an “elf witch”; which at least is a more expected use of the term #ANYWAY #all of that to say that beyond these terms it really IS interesting how magic may be something that happens all around #but people don’t think of it as such; even though they may regard the doings of a neighbor race or kingdom as being “magical” #because what THEY do isn’t a part of their own lives and thus it stands out #and i like the idea that the magic of the hobbits is in their making the results of their planting and husbandry super abundant

"I know a man" = "I am about to tell you a story."

“He’s a great man” = he has saved countless lives and changed the world irrevocably

They bounce! 🧡💚💙

PLEASE PREACH IT LOUDER.

He's one of two people paid to work in that warehouse now (the other person being the manager), and he's a lynchpin of activity there, their sole regular and reliable source of physical labour. When he takes holidays, they have to plan around it, because his consistent hard work has become such a critical asset to their work. And he's not taking nearly as many holidays as he should -- he works extra unpaid hours, lifts loads that are somewhat heavier than he should be lifting, shoulders the work of others when they need breaks, and we all have to urge him to take more days off for his health since he's not a young man any more. For my entire life this man has been a pile of old mud in the shape of a human, and the instant he found a job that fulfils his needs, he won't fucking stop. He's gonna die in that warehouse and die happy.

uno . . dos …tres !!!

The masculine side of Morpheus is really evident in the Matrix and his feminine side is evident in the Neb.