By God, I'll not lose Hardy!

I do love the form of literary analysis that is essentially, "If I were put in a situation, I would simply not have an emotional response at all, and all my actions would be both logical and moral. The character, who has acted otherwise under duress, must simply be a defective person."

hey do you guys ever think about what it was like to be finrod during the dagor bragollac. the flames coming so suddenly, without any warning, destroying every living thing in their path. riding north as fast as you can with your army in the midst of the chaos and confusion. the horror of a landscape burning down around you. walls of fire rising up, enemies everywhere you turn, all closing in to cut you off from your men. knowing in your bones that you're about to die or be taken. hoping against hope that somewhere, somehow, the people you love have managed to get themselves to safety. and then, by some miracle, you survive. you owe your life to this descendent of your long-dead friend, this man who arrived unlooked for and saved you against every odd. and so you retreat. you have to; there's nothing left to save, nothing left for you to do except try to keep living, and so you return to your delved halls, safe when so many still aren't. eventually the flames recede and the last sparks die, and they reveal a land of utter ruin, ash and devastation, bodies charred beyond recognition. in the confusion it's impossible to know who survived and who didn't, which lands stood and which fell. until at last the smoke clears and the dead are counted as best they can be, and you finally learn for certain that the thing you feared the most, this terrible truth that you've been trying so hard not to face, can be avoided no longer: they're gone. both of them. your brothers are dead, just like that, taken from you in one fell swoop. their lands— so much closer to angband's might, so much more vulnerable than your own— burned around them, and the enemy swarmed, and the flames rose to swallow them, and you weren't there. anyway do you guys ever think about that

listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it

20 years. I am not happy about this.

I’m delighted at the bucket reappearing but dismayed at the passage of time

Happy 20 years to Lolrus and his bucket!

"That pairing would never be canon" and what of it? I'm only supposed to ship what the church tells me to or something?

surely there has to be another option between "churning out 20-episode seasons every year and the actors never see their family or friends and don't have time to do any other job and hate the show at this point" and "maybe you'll get 8 episodes every 2 to 4 years :)"