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OMG TOLKIEN JOKE
mad-baggins:
In his book, Tom Shippey describes Bilbo as “bourgeois” (at the beginning of The Hobbit, in any case) even though Tolkien didn’t use the word outright himself. Tolkien resented the Norman French influence on the English language, and so one of the apparant virtues of the Baggins family is that they have referred to their home with an English name. However, “Bag End” is translated...
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END OF THE YEAR TAG MEME
cardgamesonmotorbikes:
HOW TO: open a new text post and type letters a-z into the tags and take your favorite tag it suggests and post it out of context. this only works if you use tags as obsessive conversational add-ons like me, and if your computer saves the tags you’ve used before.
WHAT YOU COME UP WITH SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF REFLECTION OF YOUR CHARACTER. ENJOY.
A- “and the worst part is...
“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to...”
– W.B. Yeats (via painted-bees)
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“I always thought that what Russell T. Davies did in Doctor Who was extremely...”
– Mark Gatiss, on gay representation on television (via adoringuncertainty)
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