Galadriel said this about Celebrimbor’s proposal btw

My goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be: 1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! 2. Treacherous as the Sea! 3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth! 4. All shall love the new me, and despair!

The top 2 things that surprised me in The Lays of Beleriand were that Christopher Tolkien never talked about how his dad clearly first envisioned Beleriand as Brittany and that Beren and Luthien fuck.

On to Part 4!

A little #TROPRewatch thought on 1.4: Absolutely everybody in the Second Age has daddy issues.

My #TROPReforged fic for episode 1.3 and the prompt "Sun." Since the episode is "Adar," it's all dads all the time. archiveofourown.org/works/738491...

I am once again asking you to please imagine Edmund Bertram as the sexiest man you know the story doesn’t make sense otherwise

Woohoo, back in the writing saddle for the first time since the move! More TRoP Reforged coming up from me!

Every time I see a picture someone has taken of a white deer, I wonder if the photographer paused to consider that they were being Called to Adventure.

Hello! I’m Mal! Illustrator, printmaker, and product designer out of Indianapolis :) Shop: stablercake.etsy.com Website: stablercake.com

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday! Born in 1892, Tolkien paved the way for modern fantasy literature and his creativity continues to inspire the minds of many to this day. ✨ 📸 | Tolkien, Bournemouth, July 1965 Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien photogr. 7, fol. 75r (c) Tolkien Trust, 2015

needless to say,

Books of 2025!

Happy New TROP Year 🫂 I wonder how we'll celebrate Elrond being sad and conflicted this year? Art by @mgcoco.bsky.social

It bugs me just slightly every time I hear Galadriel say, "your people have no king, for you are him." Not because she's jumping to conclusions, but because it should be "you are he." I KNOW grammatical rules like that are silly and don't matter. But GALADRIEL should have correct grammar.

I think Professor Tolkien would appreciate that I've managed to shelve his work right above the language books.

Psst. Hey, come closer. No, closer. I have a New Year’s secret for you. It’s this: If you care about people you don’t even know, and try to live your life that way, you are absolutely beautiful no matter what you look like.

The question is who would be in Celebrimbor's fellowship. Galadriel, Elrond, Narvi... who else?

The years 2004-2021 (after Frasier but before Only Murders) were the Golden Age of Nobody Saying the Word “Jejune” on American Television.

Storing my hard copy of my completed dissertation with all my fandom stuff as though it is The Greatest Fanfic of All

My partner today out of nowhere while waiting for the train: “You know who reminds me of a Pallas cat? Pharazon.”

It storm

Honestly, I love the Secret Third Option years. Like bird year, that was also great

It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns

Proper post tomorrow but for now, here’s the prompt set for #TROPReforged season 2! and #TROPRewatch returns on 9 Jan at 9pm your local time!

Merry Christmas!

Your daily fortune: Eat, drink, and be merry. Then read, sleep, and be wary.

The Grinch lives in a mountain to the North. Could he also be Morgoth?

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

Well done, everyone. Halfway out of the dark.

Somebody said the U.S. has big “dying mall” energy right now and I can’t stop thinking about his accurate that feels

I might have to put the Eras Tour documentary on on a loop. The show of astonishing competence is really motivating.

Help, I need a hug

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

*wheezes*

I did not spend 40 or 50 years learning to read faster than most people can talk to to sit there like a lemon for the endless milliseconds it takes for a guy to say "uhhhhhhh so what you're gonna want to do, in this next section, is..."

"I used AI to generate ideas" ys just like "Ich used pickpocketing to generate a litel pettye cash"

I'm having a hard time balancing the unpacking in my new place with holiday prep without feeling overwhelmed and cranky. What suggestions do you have for me, bluesky?

The best. Omg.

The unpacking is going slowly, but everything is fitting on the bookshelves remarkably well so far, and I will take that win.

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me. This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold. Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD. Timeless beauty! 📷 Corning Museums of Glass 🏺

It's worth sticking around, I think.

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