Kit’s Stuff

I’m doing Bad Things Happen Bingo! Feel free to send me in a prompt from this card!

I don't want to go all 'some of you have incredibly biased opinions of Fëanor based on fanon and fail to acknowledge the canon complexities of such a character' but it really be hard to not do that sometimes

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Thanks for picking up my tags! Since we're at the Discourse Store, let me add, Shib clarifies explicitly that a crucial factor to the burning of the ships was that Fingolfin declared himself "Finwe-Nolofinwe". Since in Noldorin culture Finwe=King, this was a declaration of intent of usurpation (and was indeed shortly followed by Fingolfin declaring kingship of the Noldor - before he arrived in Beleriand.) Now I am also a Fingolfin stan. I believe he was ambitious but well-intentioned and genuinely believed wrestling the Noldor out of Feanor's influence was the best for his people. Which is... Correct. Yet, if I was terrified of replacement/usurpation and had been stoked in that direction further by Satan and someone openly declared their intent to usurp me and had a larger army than mine, and was due to arrive at my flank, I too wouldn't want them there. Things can be bad without being incomprehensibly unhinged and comically evil. They can have a rationale and reasons without it being enough moral justification. Permitting personhood is not apologia.

self insert? no. this is an elf insert. stuck an elf in where there shouldn't be one

I mean, given that Tolkien retconned “The Hobbit” so Bilbo’s little invisibility ring became an ancient piece of jewelry that controls minds and drives the mighty mad, one can at least understand why it seems plausible that the other shiny white gem that destroys empires and makes the mighty go mad with greed could be linked from his kid’s book to his gigantic early mythology in retrospect??

@shewhodoesnotexist what says you? :P

Sting may or may not be Angrist, the knife that Beren used to get the Silmarill off of Morgoth’s crown

“Average Hobbit finds at least one world war inspiring artifact when on a journey” statistic inaccurate. The Spiders Took Family, who find a world war inspiring artifact every five feet they step outside the Shire, were outliers and should not have been counted.

Do you think Cersei would have been less or more insulted it Robert had called out Ned’s name on their wedding night instead of Lyanna’s

It’s too hot to give a fuck that the prime minister resigned…again

This is almost better than finding out new info through the supernatural meme

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

thanks to carbonite han not only misses learning about luke's training montage on dagobah, he's also half-blind during their whole escape on tatooine. luke's out there force-kicking henchmen with his gucci boots and doing flips and shit and han can't see a goddamn thing. now on endor luke's yeeting threepio with the power of his mind and han's just like 'the last time we hung out i had to stuff him in a tauntaun sleeping bag'.

don't write for yourself. write to make your friends kill you with hammers

Whenever I see the phrase "foul magic" in fantasy media I have to try very hard not to think about how one definition of "foul" is "having an unpleasant smell", because it's challenging to take a character seriously when their title is Master of the Stinky Arts.

Gandalf: Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Yes. You can go sing to Mandos and if you’re talented enough, he’ll bring a loved one back to life. It’s actually the plot of my favorite show, Middle Earth’s Got Talent. It’s the bad singers who really make the show worth it. Anyways, we’re at war, a lot of people are going to die, which means this new season is going to be great. 

I love the concept of Tooks. "Everybody in the Shire is very very businesslike and respectable and has no use for adventures except for this one entire family of mad lads who also run the municipal government"