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Good news: This is a legit rescue, carried out by Tigers in America. This organisation rescues tigers from horrible situations like this.

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^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

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Hi Merthur fans.

I created a Merthur community on Dreamwidth with the purpose to have one place where we can exchange information how to stay in touch, just in case.

And my brain initially accepted it because Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep are the first recorded gay couple in history. No issues there. I continued scrolling past. 

Then my brain went “hang on a minute, go back a second” and so I scrolled back up and looked at the text more closely. In particular, the ‘translation’ of the names of Niankhamun and Khnumhotep. At this point I know it’s my Egyptological training showing, but in my head I translate Egyptian names as I read them and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that those names do not translate the way this post says they do.

For starters, the parents of both of them would have had to have the absolute amazing foresight of the parents of the main character in an anime to give them a name that would manifest in their gay destiny. 

Both names also contain the name of a god: the creator god, god of the source of the Nile; Khnum. 

Khnumhotep is easy to translate. We already have Khnum, so what does the other part mean? Htp (pronounced ‘hotep’) means ‘peace’ ‘satisfaction’ or ’offering’ so Khnumhotep means ‘Khnum is satisfied’ 

If you’re wondering about the glyphs here’s Khnumhotep:

Niankhkhnum is a little tricker, but we have ‘Khnum’ so what about the other parts? The ‘ni’ is an anglicisation of the preposition ‘n’ meaning ‘of’ ‘for’ or ‘belonging to’ and ankh in this context means ‘life’. So, Niankhkhnum means ‘Life belonging to Khnum’. 

Here are the hieroglyphs:

(And just in case you’re wondering: the pot in the names stands for Xnm (khnum) and is a representation of the god. It looks weird, but in Egyptian mythology Khnum was said to create mankind on his potters wheel from the fertile Nile silt…of which he was also god of. So he’s represented by a piece of pottery.)

So, no, the names do not mean ‘joined in life and death’. However their titles include m-r jr ant pr aA ‘Overseer of Those Who Do Fingernails’ (which is the literal translation but we idiomise as Manicurists), which I love to bits. They’re also both  Hrj sStA “guardian of secrets” for the King Nisurre Ini, and have the title  mHnk nswt “confidant of the king” and wab nswt “one who purifies the king.” (a personal priest to the king). 

In short, these two gay men loved each other so much they were buried with one another, and also were personal attendants to the king, meaning they were extremely close to him personally too. Nisurre must have thought well of them too because they were allowed to write all about the good deeds they performed for him in their tomb. In the Old Kingdom you needed the King’s favour and permission to build a tomb like they have, and also to write what they did. These two were extremely well respected in their time, and that’s very important. 

I’d recommend this link to learn more about them (but you’ll have to ignore the stuff where the author insists they’re brothers because that’s very out of date now. The ‘but they can’t be gay, they have wives and children!’ doesn’t really hold much weight these days, and I’d like to see how you explain away the ‘kissing noses’ and the fact that ‘brother’ doesn’t always mean brother in Egypt (they’ve got like 6 words for family - not even a word for uncle))

Tolkien wrote The Hobbit like waaaay before he even dreamed up the idea for Lord of the Rings, so when he DID dream up LotR, he had a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make sense. Like plotholes galore

Like for example in the first version Gollum was a pretty nice dude who lost the riddle contest graciously and gave Bilbo the ring as a legit present and was very helpful and it was super nice and polite and absolutely nobody tried to eat anyone because this is a story for kids and that’s very rude

But that doesn’t work with LotR, so Tolkien went back and re-released an updated version of The Hobbit with all the lore changes and stuff to fix everything that didn’t work

This is the version we know and love today

BUT rather than pretend the early version never existed, Tolkien went and worked the retcon into the lore

If you pay attention in Fellowship, there’s a bit where Gandalf is telling Frodo about the ring and he mentions how Bilbo wasn’t entirely honest about the manner in which it was found

To us modern readers, this doesn’t make a ton of sense, so mostly we just breeze by it–but actually that line is referencing the first version of The Hobbit

The pre-retcon version of the Hobbit is canonically Bilbo’s original book. The original version with Nice Gollum is canonically a lie Bilbo told to legitimize his claim to the ring and absolve him of the guilt he feels for his rather shady behavior

Then the post-retcon version is an in-universe edited edition someone went and released later to straighten out Bilbo’s lies

So it’s 100% plausible that the in-universe editor who fixed up Bilbo’s Red Book and translated it from whatever language Hobbits speak was a human who knew about Christmas Trees and tossed the detail in to make human readers feel more at home, because that’s the kind of thing that sometimes happens when you have a translator editor person dressing up a story for an audience that doesn’t know the exact cultural context in which the original story was written

Tolkien was a medieval scholar and medieval stories are rife with that sort of thing, so like… yeah

No that’s right! The basic point still stands and is neat but a lot of Rohirric names are translated as Old English, like Theodred and Eorl and so on. Another interesting thing is that he sometimes modernized them to modern English because, apparently, those names were intelligible to Westron speakers, either because Gondorians knew them or because the Hobbits recognized them from their dialects (they once lived near the Rohirrim and borrowed a bunch of words, including their name for themselves). Here’s a good link about it from Tolkien Gateway, it’s SUPER cool.