jean prouvaire learning conversational english from fine works of poetry, such as beowulf
#greeting tourists with a friendly HWAET
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Ic gelyfe no
þæt him eorðwelan
ece stondað.
Simle þreora sum
þinga gehwylce
ær his tiddege
to tweon weorþeð:
adl oþþe yldo
oþþe ecghete
fægum fromweardum
feorh oðþringeð.
Forþon biþ eorla gehwam
æftercweþendra
lof lifgendra
lastworda betst
I do not believe
that the riches of the world
will stand forever.
Always and invariably,
one of three things
will turn to uncertainty
before his fated hour:
disease, or old age,
or the sword’s hatred
will tear out the life
from those doomed to die.
And so it is for each man
the praise of the living,
of those who speak afterwards,
that is the best epitaph
O shit my mother did not tell me about this
Tolkien, I take back everything I said about your tallness boner. People in glass houses, etc.
(1 cubit = 1.5 feet/44cm)
i made a post about feanor being a huge fuckup and it has like 100 notes and there are at least 6 reblogs of it that are tagged #go big or go home. i understand
to be perfectly clear: feanor is go big; thingol is go home. every other elf falls somewhere between the two. it is the spectrum of elfhood.
So true
actualmermaid replied to your post: hey guys, ask me my headcanons or speculations…
how do the economic systems of various elvish cultures work
1. elves don’t have regular generational overturn
2. magic!!
3. elves don’t have regular generational overturn
4. like humans’, but different human cultures are different depending on various specific historical sequences of events and geographies and there’s no need for elves (or tolkien humans, for that matter) to hew exactly to the systems of one society or another, mix-and-match is fine if making it up wholesale is too hard (it is).
5. ELVES DON’T HAVE REGULAR GENERATIONAL OVERTURN
Bird Homes From 16th Century Ottoman Empire
Ottoman architecture, despite being unique and beautiful, had one element in common. In Turkey, houses came with birdhouses, inviting flocks of birds to rest for the night.
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 