If you're ever bored w far too much time on your hands, sit down, look up "Middle earth time line" and start reading. Click on whatever seems interesting. This will most definitely occupy you for a long while.
More nuanced takes coming soon* when I've made more progress, but am I gonna need to write Seeker Sifo-Dyas fluff fic about this damn book? Yes, I am. Is it going to be tooth-rotting? Yes, it will be.
*lol jk like I ever have a nuanced take
Hanging out with old people rules because after a while they trust you enough to confess to murder totally unprompted
he's so dramatic. :-)
Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst
Legolas:
I too need 20 years to complete any task. It's a problem. Send help.
Overcoming the slightest challenge of my day: “This is just like the Odyssey.”
"the ides of march". "neil banging out the tunes". "superputinelection"
Cha chas real smooth out the window
there’s been so many amazing moments during the Hermitcraft charity livestream day but this is one of my favourites. Skizz’s horse just died and Grian gets him to try a jaffa cake for the first time. seeing these two interacting IRL is so emotional and wholesome 😭
“oh no, my audience has begun to guess the big twists of my story and are accurately predicting what will happen!”
incorrect response: write the rest of the story to be as twisty, shocking and counter to expectations as possible, regardless of whether this is a logical or satisfying way for the plot to go
correct response: