Lily

frodo getting criticized for decades for not doing much / not being a hero compared to sam is fitting when you consider mental health and strength is often trivialized. frodo carried the most dangerous and insidious item in middle earth for YEARS. ancient beings (elves, gandalf, etc) were taunted and tempted by it. boromir was corrupted within weeks without even touching it. men and hobbits turned against their brethren for it. killed for it. and frodo, with a wound from a morgul knife, bore it’s weight when no one else could. had it been anyone else, middle earth would have fallen.

Hey if we are talking about Chekhov's guns in the Time of Iron series, has anyone considered:

Ngl I find the beef Tolkien had with The Scottish Play (all world's a stage I'm not saying the name) hilarious.

“It’s nice in a way, how books change. If the magic and illumination isn’t in the story any more, the magic and illumination was always in you. The story caught a reflection of you at the right time.”

another one of my favorites:

Do ya’ll think that while Rae and Key were having that whole moment where they were writing their names in the sky, and he specifically was hiding how well he could actually read and was probs fuming about another lie, there was some random person elsewhere who saw the lightning and went

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

Um. Yikes

Y'all remember when Key said, “But remember the bargain we struck, my lady. Be the most cunning traitor in the palace, weave tales to enchant and deceive.”