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cleverbouquetwhispers
Ooh
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I was thinking about the parallels between boromir/ hector of troy, and gondor/ troy largely, and the similarities between homer’s heroic ethos & the one in tolkien.
- an age past the age of true greatness, when godlings have walked and ruled the earth.
- a great city in the declining years of the long war, aware that it very much might not win it, but standing as proud as it ever did.
- and yet there are cracks which go through the city’s core, as the enemy it is facing is too strong, and one is too hurt and too tired to be good, but still does their most.
- the favored son of the great city, resolute, kind, and brave, whose main fault is that the story is not about him. that, in the depth of his devotion to protect those he loves, he doesn’t see a greater intent, and a greater mission.
- and yet, he steps into a battle he knows he cannot win, in order to do what is right.
- deceived by the ring/ deceived by the gods.
- and the death he gets is the most honored, most powerful, and most human; and the burial is the final note of the book - in the fellowship of the ring, and in the iliad.
- (i just read the two death scenes next to each other & i need a hug).
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New level of #academicdrama
This dude just called himself out in his own footnotes???
“Notoriously complacent in this regard is Freudenberg (1993).”
……but you *are* Freudenberg (1993) even though you’ve Evolved into Freudenberg (2001).
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Linguistics alignment chart from Nathan Sanders on Twitter.
Source: twitter.com
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viggo mortensen’s appeal as aragorn is 70% the voice, 25% the scene where the wild horse saves him from drowning, 12% hair, 8% ‘the beacons are lit!’, 3% swinging around the broken blade, 1.03% spitting soup back into the bowl on a windy day, .3% the way he speaks elvish (which mostly fits into the voice, but its elvish so its special), and .0004% when he kicks the orc head and screams
This is blatant “smoking a pipe with his hood on in Bree” and “shoving the double doors of helm’s deep open” erasure and I will not stand for it.
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The guys on queer eye looking at the straight guy’s unclean lifestyle: how can you live like this?
Me, sitting on the floor of my dirty apartment in goodwill sweatpants eating cheetos: yeah CHAD how can you LIVE like that?
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me, finding a cat lounging in the ruins of a roman settlement: oh shit dude, is that you, caesar? what have you been up to in the past two millennia, man? run into brutus lately?
cat: miaow
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that’s too much, man
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My favorite part about making an omelette is the exact moment where you know you're making scrambled eggs instead
Don’t come for me like this
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lotr meme: FIVE FIGHT SCENES [3/5] → Battle of the Hornburg
“Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for ruin. And the red dawn!”
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archive moodboard: @literateure
Source: sekhmcts
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Dolce & Gabbana | Spring/Summer 2017
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These ancient mosaic fragments, slightly submerged in the sea, can be found on a deserted stretch of minor road on the East coast of the Greek mainland, untended, unsignposted, unnoticed.
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Ok now I feel personally attacked
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I feel personally targeted