valar apologist

gunsandfireandshit:

theweirdwideweb:

Talk about getting two birds stoned at once lol

randomslasher:

curse-you:

mirkwoodest:

mikkeneko:

bookhobbit:

so Shire-talk is canonically a very different dialect of Westron than what Gondorians or Elves or whatever speak and some of the hobbits can code switch between the two and it’s extremely interesting to see how Tolkien portrays it

I’ve just gotten to the part where Frodo meets Faramir, and the difference between how he talks to Faramir and how he talks to Sam, for instance, is v noticable

with Sam he’s a lot more casual and even slightly more modern (for the value of 1954, not 2017) vs with Faramir where he switches to this very formal, quite archaic to our ears (“seven companions we had”)

and then Sam himself doesn’t seem comfortable speaking this prestige dialect (his style includes rather more general “vernacular” features common across regional nonliterary English dialects) – probably bc unlike Frodo he was not given the type of education that would lend itself to learning how to speak it comfortably – so there’s this clash between how Faramir talks to them and how Sam talks back

there’s also the bit where Theoden meets Merry and Pippin, and Merry greets him in very high formality, Pippin addresses Gimli casually bc they’re friends, then turns to Theoden and switches to the formal style, they both talk some more to him, and then after he’s gone Pippin turns to Merry and says Theoden was a “fine old fellow, very polite” (in the more casual style)

In that one scene you have a lot of style switching depending on the person they’re addressing and their status and relationship to the hobbits, but, for instance, Gimli’s sentence structure sounds more like the formal dialect even when he’s happily berating them and calling them villains, probably because he doesn’t use Shire-talk

basically: you can tell this dude was a linguist

Remember the time Sam squared up and addressed Faramir in a manner literally  described as “giving a stern talking-to a child who just gave him sass” and Frodo was just like oh my god Sam what are you doing

@curse-you I feel like we were just talking abt that scene?

YEA we were !! sam just went off on faramir

i LOVE this bit

Listen Samwise Gamgee is the hero of this book and I love him more than anything.

vangoghsdaughter:

kylehasatumblr:

raysaidsomething:

steviemcfly:

July 10th, 1932: Antifaschistische Aktion, better known as Antifa, holds its first rally in Berlin.

July 10th, 2018: The GOP introduces the Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018 in the House, which aims to make antifascist activism punishable by fifteen years in prison.

If you’re not worried, you should be.

if antifa wasn’t a terrorist organization people would actually care.

also, per this article:

“In more than 30 years of antifa activity, there has been one confirmed fatality caused by an antifa group member ― in 1993, when a Nazi in Portland, Oregon, was shot during a fight at a gas station. Far-right extremists, by contrast, were responsible for 670 fatalities, 3,053 injuries and 4,420 attacks in the United States from 1990 to 2012, according to a report from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.”

nobodysflower:

here is your gentle reminder that there are dandelions growing through cracks in the sidewalk. there is a fence lizard on the porch who is growing a new tail. there are trees growing through an abandoned house, branches tearing through the ceiling, ferns carpeting the floor. there is life pushing forward, pushing through. 

st0p-the-dams:

Me: inanimate objects don’t have feelings

Also me but autism™️: this bouncy ball will be sad if I don’t keep it

sodomymcscurvylegs:

When you’re trying to have fun in a video game and the developers throw a timed mission at you: