JRR Tolkien saying that tobacco is “probably” native to Númenor, and therefore implicitly a gift from god to the beleaguered men who brought Morgoth low, is one of his funnier old man-isms.

Did a puzzle with my sisters for the holidays.

If hobbits have potatoes they should also get to have pumpkins large enough to climb inside.

You know what field desperately needs more disabled people in it? Medicine. You know what field is least friendly to disabled people? Medicine. I’m not even looking at an MD, just research, and still getting locked out at every turn.

a few weeks ago I got briefly knee deep in the works of a gemologist named egor gavrilenko who has three websites, and let me tell you, they’re all bangers.

<chuckling> There he goes again, Sauron the Deceiver, up to more deceiving hijinks.

Phone camera picture

when you call sauron the lieutenant of morgoth you should be pronouncing it as Tolkien did (leftenant)

Tolkien characters who should be given a gun (comedic blunderbuss in line with his views on technology) Elwing Fatty Bulger Celeborn Beleg but it evaporates IMMEDIATELY after he dies

People often don't realize that pricing for library ebooks & audiobooks is super expensive and libraries are only purchasing the license for the item. Publishers will often force a repurchase after x amount of time / uses

The three act structure

Skating on the wettest ice in Georgia. There is a place for the erotic potential of mixing phase states and this is not it!

Amethyst Deceivers💜 🍄📷

Failing at NaNoWriMo in the traditional sense (writing words) but I have so many PDFs about poetry and Minoan frescoes.

Ruined a pair of trousers clambering on rocks to get this one but that is life!

Taking a leaf out of the ASOIAF analysts’ book and rating every Silmarillion character on a scale from ‘boydaughter’ to ‘girlson’ starting with Manwë Súlimo.

fëanor and galadriel, unfriends for ever, etc. etc. —— silmarillion.

The constant fandom whiplash over Maglor is funny actually. "He's the good one" "he's the worst one" "he's soft and gentle" "he's a violent warrior." STOP. he's barely a character. He's got like one long paragraph of canon across the Silm and relevant HoME - he's whoever you want him to be babes

Forget zodiac signs what’s your favorite Le Creuset color(s)

The funniest version of Tol Eressëa is that it’s just Island Time for tired elves. Fruity drinks and bonfires on the beach. Mournful songs on the ukulele.

Fondly remembering that period shortly after NoME came out when everyone lost their minds about elf sex lore

listen to him

Trying to figure out how which of my seven online personalities to incorporate into this new platform, in which proportions, like a baker testing out a recipe in a new oven.