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saintstars · 3 months
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that's my emotional support ancient evil
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thelordofgifs · 10 months
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so apparently two thirds of my followers don’t know who Eldacar is??? I am FAILING in my ONE DUTY. Here’s the full history lesson, which I spent a good hour typing up, but I suppose the blorboganda could stand to be condensed a bit. So, Eldacar, CliffNotes edition:
the twenty-first King of Gondor
unlike all his predecessors, he wasn’t a full-blooded Númenorean – his mother was from Rhovanion, the land to the north of Gondor
as a result the racist nobles of Gondor did a lot of muttering – and a lot more than muttering – about how Eldacar wouldn’t be as long-lived as a proper Númenorean, and shouldn’t become king, etc etc
when he did finally become king a full-scale civil war called the Kinstrife broke out, especially in the coastal southern regions of Gondor
eventually Eldacar’s second cousin Castamir (whom we hate, deeply and avowedly) usurped his throne
this is called, very sensibly, the Usurpation of Castamir
Osgiliath (which was the capital city of Gondor then) was sacked and burned. Eldacar fled north to Rhovanion, where his mother’s people came from
but!!! Castamir had captured Eldacar’s eldest son, Ornendil!!! and he cruelly put him to death!!! WE’RE VERY SAD ABOUT THIS OK
Castamir tried to be the King of Gondor but he was a shit king. Nobody liked him and he tried to move the seat of the king south to Pelargir (one of the port cities) which made people less keen on him
meanwhile Eldacar, who was “fearless” and also “handsome and valiant” (these are DIRECT QUOTES. also a direct quote: “the bestest boy in the world”) showed up with an alliance of people from Rhovanion and the North of Gondor
which was made easier because Castamir was such a shit king that people were more than happy to fight for Eldacar instead
and they had a big battle. lots of people on both sides died.
and Eldacar PERSONALLY KILLED CASTAMIR and he AVENGED HIS SON. how’s THAT for a triumphal return of the true king!!!
and then he lived to be 235 so they were all wrong about his lifespan anyway
the end.
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utilitycaster · 4 months
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The answers Marisha gave in this 4SD felt a lot more realized than in the past, which is good! But it still makes me feel like this character concept is incredibly ambitious and when juxtaposed with the various "I don't want to think anymore"/"go with the flow" statements I'm not sure she realized that.
The biggest example is that Laudna has two conflicting traits: she is extremely sensitive to betrayal, and she is very quick to trust even after experiencing a number of betrayals in her life. And when I say "conflicting" I mean that they are in conflict with each other, not that it doesn't make sense for a character to be a complicated person with traits that frequently work against them; in fact that's in my opinion a fantastic way to create a compelling character. But it feels like the why is only just starting to get explored in any capacity, and because of that even good choices raise more questions: why is this only coming out now; why so young a regression; why has it peeked out so weirdly and inconsistently in the past; why haven't the repeated betrayals in the past two months affected her mindset and made her more closed off. It once again makes me really wish we'd gotten a sustained outburst after the party reunited, because that would have made far more sense - a fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me situation.
I agree with the opinion that Laudna conceptually just fits far more with being an actual child herself - her desire to befriend children frankly comes off slightly weirder (not line-crossing or anything, just a little off) than it would had she died younger, as does her approach of dolls, and her failure to do anything with Delilah would make a lot more sense if she was at an age to be much more reliant. It would also make her inability to just blend into a city much more reasonable; no one is going to rent to a lone 11 year old. It really does feel that when the creepy child idea was rejected - which is a valid choice - it wasn't reworked sufficiently to fit someone who died in her late teens or early 20s.
I also don't really get the idea of her childlike nature being without malice. A pretty consistent theme for the various traumatic childhoods the characters of Bells Hells (and, tbh, past parties as well) has been the cruelty children are capable of - Ashton even says it in 3x78. Delilah being stuck with someone without malice would honestly lead to a situation in which Laudna was very trusting of her, which isn't the case, which again goes back to the conflict of betrayal as a trigger vs. being so quick to trust. Given that Laudna was frequently bullied and rejected as a kid, one would think she'd be aware of this. The specific example of Delilah calling Ashton a child and Laudna making him a doll still works wonderfully, but the overarching theme falls apart in places.
I think things have been on an upswing as of late, but ultimately we're at a point where, without some retcons I don't think Laudna will ever truly make complete sense because it's just such an intensive concept that did not get the work that required, and still feels reliant on a now-rejected premise.
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ayliffe · 7 months
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hiiiiiiiii do i know any medieval latinists and if so do they want to translate a couple of documents for me (for money obvs) <3
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tenth-sentence · 11 months
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September 21. Frodo and Samwise set out from Hobbiton.
"The Lord of the Rings: Appendices - Appendix B" - J.R.R. Tolkien
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planet4546b · 9 months
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i’ve been on a really good run lately of finding REALLY good media except also all of it has made me feel sick i need to find something that is fun and normal STAT before oxenfree 2 obliterates me next week
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emyn-arnens · 1 year
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to the sea
written for the Three Sentence Ficathon on Dreamwidth, also crossposted to AO3
prompt: any, any, floating and drifting
“Let the current of the stream carry you—don’t fight it, for it is gentle and will not take you far,” Boromir instructed, withdrawing his hands from beneath Faramir’s back as his brother began to drift with the movement of the stream, his eyes narrowed against the afternoon sunlight and his face pensive and still. Boromir smiled—always his brother seemed lost in thought, pondering the nature of the world, though his years were few. But he would rather Faramir keep to the tomes and scrolls that he so loved than to train as Boromir now did, spending long and weary hours among the men of the Guard and reminded often by their father of the role he would soon fill. Wading behind Faramir, just far enough to not disturb the water and upset his brother’s careful balance, but close enough to lend aid if needed, Boromir silently wished that they might have more time like this, when they were not separated by their duties and lessons, and when their father’s grief did not hang upon them like a dark pall. “This stream joins the Great River, does it not?” Faramir asked, and after Boromir’s confirmation, he mused, “I wonder if one might float all the way down the Great River to the Bay of Belfalas and so come to the sea.” Boromir laughed and said, “It would be quite the test of one’s limbs to do so, for the Anduin runs many leagues before it spills into the mouth of the sea.” “Perhaps we could find a boat or raft, then,” said Faramir, “and lie back and float down the river until it carries us out to sea.” Smiling, Boromir leaned forward and held back an overhanging branch that was about to snag upon Faramir’s shoulder. “Maybe we will.”
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leander-ligo · 4 months
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The lesson I have learned over the last few days is that if you have lower right intestinal pains and feel like you’re gonna throw up, go see a doctor!
Thanks to my very low pain tolerance I made a fuss about it sooner rather than later and because of that my appendicitis was caught before my appendix ruptured
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willowcrowned · 2 years
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VERY frustrated to learn that my 37 page research paper does not meet the 10 page requirement. this is unthinkable
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britneyshakespeare · 6 months
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i read doctor faustus by christopher marlowe in one day. it's been on my to-read list for like six years and i read it in one day.
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heartofstanding · 11 months
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Five Things You Might Find in My Fics
@shredsandpatches tagged me in this a month ago and while I do also love navel-gazing about my fic and talking about it, I've been busy with other things and then forgot. But I've done it now!
Angst, angst and more angst. I've been told on good authority that "extremely upsetting" is my hallmark and sure enough, the #1 additional tag on my AO3 profile is "angst" and the #2 tag is "heavy angst" so it checks out. Even the fics that aren't meant to be upsetting have a bit of angst in them. I'm not very good at keeping the angst out but then I don't think I ever really try, it's just not very interesting to me. I think for me, I'm interested in character histories and how they carry that around. It's probably telling that I got obsessed with the Epictetus quote, "you are a little soul carrying around a corpse" some years back.
Sympathy and nuance. Hopefully this doesn't sound too up myself... I don't like the sort-of goodies and baddies, devils and angels that so much historical fiction and a great hunk of fandoms in general do. I like the idea that everyone has their own complex personality, that while the story might be from one character's POV, if we moved into a different character's POV, everything would be different particularly if that character is in some way in opposition to the first character. I usually end up loving everyone and just get a bit "now you might think Henry IV is a bit of a cock and he is a bit of a cock but he is my cock!" levels of defensive.
Family issues. Probably part of my interest in character histories, I'm just very interested in the issues within family. Give me a character with daddy issues, with mummy issues, with brother issues, with sister issues and I'm there for it. Honestly, I could barely understand anything in the Henriad the very first time I watched it but I understood Prince Hal's daddy issues. The family issues I write don't really reflect my own family issues but I do find them interesting to explore.
Characters grounded in context, the ordinary. I'm not quite sure how I'd describe this. I tend to be happiest playing within the bonds of the universe, at least as far as it can be recovered, than to reject it to write a sort of power fantasy? I'm not particularly interested in like, the idea of writing female characters as some "yas kween slay" type of character. I'd rather ground their character in (my attempt to recreate) their "real" context than an idealised, perfect-for-modern-consumption world.
My own thing. I guess this is sort of a cop-out answer and also related to the above but in general, I'm not really interested in following sort of trends? It's not to say that I don't, can't or won't like popular things in fandom but I'm more interested in like, hitting my Id's happy spot than like writing something that I know the fandom will like. I've tended to be interested in more obscure figures or gotten into things past their heyday, even if they are now judged "basic" by fandom (hello, yes, I turned up late with Starbucks for Loki in 2017). And stuff that's really popular in fandom can hit me as, like, overexposed and make me. a bit. y'know. tired and less interested in it? I guess it's a sort of thing of "well, everyone else is writing that so I don't have to and it's a bit boring when everything is like that". Like, the fanon about dwarven culture that came out of The Hobbit films - potentially, very interesting! But everyone was doing their own version of the same thing ("the stuff in Tolkien's books is an Elf lie and dwarven culture looks like 2010s fandom's idea of a progressive society"), so I found it more interesting to do something more in keeping
Not tagging anyone since it's taken so long for me to do this but if anyone wants to, please consider yourself tagged by me!
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From Blood and Ash giving us a book from Willa's pov. The stories are gonna be wild! But also I'm excited for all the extra info. I'm a sucker for world building
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ppl keep talking about how the Amazon show can’t mention Feanor and the Silmarilli bc they don’t have the rights to the Silmarillion (only to the LotR appendices) as if Appendix A didn’t namedrop Feanor on the very first page like
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What the hell are you talking about. What LotR appendices were you reading.
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zombified-queer · 8 months
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you uh. you reading house of leaves, buddy?
Almost done with it! :D
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cunked · 1 year
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i see hardcore tolkien fans on goodreads detest the lotr movie adaptations because they don't do the books justice from skipping so much, but don't understand that if these movies were anything more like the books, they would actually be unwatchable
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tenth-sentence · 11 months
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June 16. They set out for Gondor.
"The Lord of the Rings: Appendices - Appendix B" - J.R.R. Tolkien
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