wolves have no kings

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

decay exists as an extant form of life

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

this has been going on for 9 million years

@elodieunderglass Quite literally a massive continuity of ducks

this is what powers the Earth

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

Hezekiel Starbuck

Oh wait until you meet some of his siblings, like Sylvanus and Gayer, or Syl's kids Hepzabeth and Uriah. The old Nantucket Quakers knew how to name a fellow. I suppose I'm lucky I ended up Sam and not named for great-granduncle Soloman.

Bold of you to add that quote to a picture of a dog. 

Yep, Tolkien's linguistic puns and translation jokes are legendary. Although it's not accurate to say the in-universe origin of the books is that an elf told the stories to Tolkien. Rather, Tolkien is translating them from a volume he found, written in Westron, called the Red Book of Westmarch. This contains Bilbo's book (The Hobbit), Frodo and Sam's additions to it, (LoTR), as well as Bilbo's translations of Elvish histories he encountered during his time in Rivendell (The Silmarillion). These were all in one volume and Tolkien himself made the editorial decision to publish them all separately. Even more fascinating, the Red Book is not even the original writings, which of course would have been lost by now to time and disintegration. It's actually a copy of the original, or probably a copy of a copy, multiple times removed. And it wasn't copied from the original, either, but from a copy that made it to Gondor where it was annotated and corrected. There's probably even more to its history that I'm forgetting, but yeah, even this kind of metatextual provenance was something Tolkien thought a lot about that very few writers even consider anymore. Which, of course, they're not obligated to; but the fact that Tolkien was even interested in that kind of thing just shows how above and beyond he went

Professors will do literally anything other than grade your exams (valid)