i admit my reaction to this unnamable (sorry!!!!) person was strong but someone said “[impenetrable cipher]’s tags are amazing as always” and i started crying tears of blood down my pallid face

gogol im blocking u to prevent u from blackmailing me about this

elucubrare:

Legend has it that the name [Mycenae] was connected to the Greek word mycēs (μύκης, “mushroom”). Thus, Pausanias ascribes the name to the legendary founder Perseus, who was said to have named it either after the cap (mykēs) of the sheath of his sword, or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site.

“hey guys, any ideas for the name of our city? our mighty capital city, from which we will bring the world under our sway with fire and the sword? our city, blessèd by the gods? like “DRAGON” or something powerful? maybe lions? guys? no?“ 

"there are some really good mushrooms here!" 

thelostmoongazer:

over-sleep:

水たまりの向こう側の世界
（ みんなの動画 さんのツイート ）

元ソース：
this is beyond mesmerizing

（ 🌊(@mattwhitlockPM) さんのツイート ）

this video has such and ethereal aura to it
like… it feels like a delicate experience
as if one slip of the camera persons phone and it would have been lost to the mirroring world below 

theoppositeofprofound:

Was reading up on Maiar recently, brushing up on my lore, and there was a mention of the fact that a lot of them just don’t bother to take physical form. Even the elves in Valinor aren’t sure how many of them there are. They’re just like, weird invisible ghost friends, creeping around Middle-Earth, observing things and giving people weird dreams. Having a good time in general. 

This leads to the obvious question- did Morgoth have any followers who just couldn’t be bothered with physicality? His whole evil power shtick doesn’t seem like it would attract that sort of personality, his ethos is built on interfering with things, but there had to be at least a few who hung around him just to watch the fireworks. (Sauron: Come on, guys, you’re being a real drag. At least make the effort to do a wraith form.)

Does this mean that the War of Wrath had a post-mop up ghostbusting component? Some poor Edain watching Eönwë

shout at the empty halls of a liberated Angband about “going home and facing consequences” and “I mean it this time, don’t make me come get you.”

One corner of Lórien is mildly haunted for a few millennia by some Ainur who are under house arrest for Enabling This Nonsense.