“You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of ‘trees’ and ‘stars’ saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was ‘myth-woven and elf patterned’.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, from ‘Mythopoeia’
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u ever look at a shade of green and think "yes."
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imagine spending the holidays at grandma’s, grandma being galadriel
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“Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them,” said Elrond, “not when you look straight at them. They can only be seen when the moon shines behind them, and what is more, with the more cunning sort it must be a moon of the same shape and season as the day when they were written. The dwarves invented them and wrote them with silver pens... These must have been written on a midsummer's eve in a crescent moon, a long while ago.”
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it just got better
name a more iconic duo, i’ll wait
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oh well
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actually-
name a more iconic duo, i’ll wait
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name a more iconic duo, i’ll wait
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imagine being the third generation baggins, frodo’s niece or nephew, sitting on the front porch of your hobbit-hole in bag end one typical evening, smoking a pipe, listening to the crackling of the fire and the crickets in the grass, and waiting for the inevitable adventure to come your way
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