"but Celeborn Would Add Nothing To The Plot And Would Be Boring" "he's Just Galadriel's Boring Husband"

One of the funny things about LotR is that almost every people in it professes to disbelieve in the supernatural, but because they live in a fantasy world their baseline for "natural" is so jacked up. The Rohirrim are like, yeah, there's a wizard in this tower and ancient tradition that we have no reason to doubt says this mountain is full of ghosts, but walking trees? Short people? I don't think so. Galadriel is like, "Listen I heard you describe what I do as magic and look I just gotta clear some things up, okay." Gondorians are like, yeah, of course the Enemy has spectres of men who lived long ago and never died and can now fly above us and incapacitate us with just their voices. This is just a fact of life, okay? But shut up about this magic weed that makes comatose people better. That's an old wives' tale. Royalty? Press X to doubt.

The people group in Tolkien's work who seem most receptive to magic and least restricted by their own notions of what it can do actually seem to be the hobbits. And they use it to avoid meeting people they don't want to talk to

Sometimes you wake up super depressed and feel like you can't carry on but then you eat a potato and you feel just a tiny bit better and you're like. Well I've gotta keep going. If one potato did that what could 2 potatoes do? 5? You have to keep living for the potential of more potatoes down the line

one of my very favorite obscure story tropes is when there’s an episode/plotline/tabletop campaign session where the conceit is ‘each member of the gang gets trapped in a specially tailored dream/nightmare/illusory mindscape and has to break out’

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

why must I work for money? is it not enough to sit quietly in my pajamas, writing fic, deranged ?

Leaked footage from 8x01

I know I’m a few months late to Dead Boy Detectives because it came out in April, but from what I’ve seen, there’s been little to no speculation about the actors (specifically George and Jayden’s) sexualities. Which is nice. I mean, it’s terrible that we had to learn the hard way with Kit Connor but at least people have learned