MOTHERS ARE ALL SLIGHTLY INSANE.

#lotr#sometimes I think about how real authority - real kingship especially - is at heart service and submission#and how Aragon spends his life (ranger or king or friend) serving others#kneeling before them#affirming the kingship of other kings EVEN THOUGH he sometimes outkings them!!#and the moment of his greatest authority is really a submission of his will to his vocation#when I say I sometimes think about this#I mean easily 2-3 times a week (via byjovimbeinghumble)

#aragorn didn’t go to the hollywood school of ‘need is love’  #he went to the terrence rattigan school of ‘duty is love’  #duty as a positive and willingly-perfomed service  #not without sacrifice but without doubt

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

"Now being righteous – that requires imagination! But sin? It's a dull business." – Gerald Morris, The Legend of the King

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

May we live in very uninteresting times

may you experience very precedented events

do you ever think about how a series of tiny choices like "I guess I'll watch that show" can like totally and entirely change huge aspects of your life