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If you know you know.

... Extrapolating from incomplete data be like...

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things that formed most of my advanced english vocabulary: Tolkien's works, fanfics, Shrek

#personal stuff #just so you know I learned the phrase 'plausible deniability' thanks to ao3

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Lay of Leithian: The Rock Opera (x)

    + Favourite lines

#lay of leithian #lay of leithian rock opera #lol the rock opera

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ah, the striking difference between тоска(toska)(the noble feeling, the crushing ache of the soul, the thing that kills Tolkien's elves) and тоска(toska)(boredom, looking out the window of a moving car, kinda the I-wanna-do-something-but-I-don't-know-what feeling)

#personal stuff

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TEA👌

#personall stuff

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this girl(me) started her jorney as a pirate by pirating movies and music and now look at her, she is getting her ship driving license

#personal stuff

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watched attack on titan for the first time and I gotta say, the moment when Levi saw the huge amount of wine his subordinates had been planning to bring to their mission and genuinely went "ugh?? but we have tea??????" was the funniest shit ever. also feeling him with every fibre of my soul

#personal stuff #attack on titan

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You were NOT kidding, the Going Merry’s sendoff really did hurt…holy shit.

Every time I re-read that bit I'm like "okay I've read this part like nine times I'm not gonna cry this time" and then I cry anyway because good GOD is it built up well

#one piece #going merry #so true #I cried two times during one piece(probably more actually but I don't remember them) #one of those two times was the death of going merry #(the other one is whitebeard's death btw)

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me, every inch a russian:*gets a very normal once-in-a-few-months figure scating obsession*

me:*decides to rewatch Yuri On Ice because why not*

me:*finds out that Yuri On Ice is blocked in Russia*

#personal stuff #guess who is pirating anime with a vpn rn... #yuri on ice

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Saw this image on pinterest (from The Red Dress Film) and it is so very Caranthir coded to me 😭

#caranthir #tolkien #silmarillion #I absolutely love how we as the silm fandom decided caranthir is good at embroidery and canonised this ides

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my mom:*calls for me*

me: okay chores time I guess

my mom: how about we make a mural depicting the shapes of the fellowship of the ring on our neighbor's fence

#personal stuff #she doesn't even like lotr #yet so badass

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captive prince trilogy(in a nutshell): so it all started when main character number one killed second main character's brother. it's very important to the plot and their personalities and their relationship

every captive prince fanfic: wrong! the brother lives

#personal stuff #read captive prince trilogy as you can see heh. I quite liked it #captive prince

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one piece fans be like "I hope the live action turns out alright" and then the first scene is (old man yaoi) Garp executing Roger and one piece fans are screaming crying throwing up because The Tropes and The Writing and They Have History and Oh That Makes Marineford Hirt Even More and that's me, I'm the one piece fans

#personal stuff #one piece live action #monkey d garp #gol d. roger #listen adding garp to the execution scene was imho the best decision the showrunners or oda or idk who made

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me: hi! I'm from Matvey Sergeevich, he was supposed to put me in the lists yesterday

the guard at the theater, sighing like Matvey is his beloved but misbehaving child/cat: "Matvey Sergeevich" didn't do anything

#matvey sergeevich is Skazki's theater producer #we actually simply call him matvey #because he's like 32 with a nose piercing and stupid hoodies #not a first+father name material at all #personal stuff

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well I guess I finally hit the "making lists of the things you need to do is a necessity now" era

#personal stuff

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#one piece #monkey d. luffy #marshal d teach #okay but listen I would fight for georgian cuisine too

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does the Oath of Feanor work as a magical compulsion, or does it have magical properties, and its consequences real?

yes, because the magic of Arda is also based on words of power, and it would be dissatisfying and limiting to assume that somehow that power doesn't work in this specific instance. no, because even if Feanor is the one speaking, not even his power could bend the fate of elves to that extent. yes, because the fate of any one people can be bent, delayed, or weirdly modified until an oath is fulfilled; in LOTR, the ghosts of the path of the dead prove it. no, because Manwe and Varda would not feel bound to enforce an oath of death with them as witnesses, and it goes against the rules of oathing. yes, because the enforcer is Eru, they just stand as witnesses and do not have the power to release the swearers as Eru would. no, because we don't even know if Eru accepted that oath. yes, because if the oath was invalid from the start, it would be beyond callous of Manwe and Varda not to inform the swearers and allow the consequences of the oath to happen. no, because a magical compulsion would remove or to an extent at least lessen responsibility of actions taken in its pursuit. yes, because the author of the story acknowledges a certain "will" of the oath by making it wake or sleep with active verbs. no, because even swearing without additional magic on top can feel like a compulsion to do things or to keep going that otherwise would not exist or not be felt by a given swearer. yes, because no matter what the everlasting darkness is or does, it can be real independently from any other prior compulsion to act; in other words, there may not be a magical property to the oath, but its called consequences for the swearers are very real. no, because there's several slightly different versions of the oath across the texts, and it's impossible to do a literal, word for word reading of its lines if it's possible to recite it slightly differently at a given time. yes, because the only valid version is the original pronounced by Feanor in Tirion, you can't wiggle out of that one. no, because who's to say that was recorded correctly, it's far too poetic for a sudden decision. yes, because who's to say that Feanor couldn't whip out all that via improvisation, I bet he could. yes, because other characters beyond the sons of Feanor treat the oath as something absolutely serious and real, and that includes Finrod in speaking to Andreth, when he says that Eru's name is not called upon even in jest, as well as Melian, when pointing out the strong forces awakened by involving that power. no, because neither of them can talk to Eru anyway. yes, because it's narratively more satisfying to imagine characters morally struggle against something that is eventually unbreakable and unavoidable like in any good tragedy. no, because it's narratively more satisfying to imagine characters do it to themselves and compromise with who they are out of family loyalty. yes, because the curse of Mandos actively turns it against the swearers into a betraying force, a consequence that wouldn't otherwise be a given, that is, nothing says that everything they start well would have finished badly and that the oath would have led them to defeat, and if it weren't magical before Mandos' addition, it is now. no, because Amrod's death in a draft would prove it breakable through his (admittedly only guessed) desire to turn back. yes, because he still died in the process, aka the everlasting darkness claimed him for being an oathbreaker. no, because how is it possible that it's simultaneously unbreakable and broken. yes, because the fate of arda and that of elves is inscribed within the eternal paradox of everything being predicted and everything being free will, and that will never be solved, neither regarding the fate of the elves nor the oath of Feanor. no, because the oath is a narrative device. yes, because the oath is a narrative device. three hundred more lines.

hope this helps. hope it doesn't. your pick.

#tolkien #silmarillion #the oath of Fëanor #sons of fëanor #okay that's imho one of the greatest silmarillion lore related posts #absolutely beautiful