Gimli got a haircut!
Gimli got a haircut!
Hi friends!
I started a new blog for all of my Tolkien related things. I’d love for you to check it out.
It’s called Akallabêth and it’s living at subcreation.tumblr.com.
Thanks!
This is a new blog. Its purpose will be to document my reading of Tolkien’s work.
I’ve decided to steal the title from my main blog, jssjrdm.com. This blog will now be titled “Akallabêth,” while my main blog returns to its original title of “jssjrdm.”
Below you’ll find an old post of mine explaining why the titular word is so significant to me.
So, welcome to Akallabêth; enjoy.
For a while the title of my Tumblog was simply ‘JSS JRDM.’ My name without vowels. I recently changed it. Here’s why.
J.R.R. Tolkien, writing in Quenta Silmarillion This passage describes Elwë falling in love with Melian.
In Tolkien’s work, there are many more instances of two characters falling in love, and they all follow this type. There is a beautiful woman singing and/or dancing in the woods. Then, a man happens to stumble upon her and is cast into a spell, enchantment, swoon, etc., and then they stand around looking at each other for a very long time.
This type of falling in love is seen with Beren and Lúthien as well as Aragorn and Arwen. It is also exactly the way in which Tolkien describes himself falling in love with his wife Edith.
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I got myself some awesome canvas sneakers. I like them a lot.
On Zappos: Tretorn Nylite
J.R.R. Tolkien, writing in The Lord of the Rings. This quote hits on a similar idea as my previous post, in regards to scientific ethics.
Topher Brink (played by Fran Kranz) from Dollhouse’s Epitaph One, asking a very important question that science does not often ask of itself.
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