how beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “your God reigns!” - Isaiah 52:7
My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land—the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. I pick it up, exile that I am […] and in one wash of memory the colors deepen and gleam, the early world draws breath.
Sylvia Plath, from “Ocean 1212-W”,
in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, 1977 (via lovingsylvia)
‘I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Lúthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.‘
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Book Six, Chapter VI
14/♡ of my favorite movies: fantastic mr. fox (2009) dir. wes anderson 🦊
“why a fox? why not a horse, or a beetle, or a bald eagle? i’m saying this more as, like, existentialism, you know? who am i? and how can a fox ever be happy without, you’ll forgive the expression, a chicken in its teeth?”
the best Christmas present I’ve received are these❤️ I must share my love for these as they keep me very warm and are cute which is a plus! I want to support the little businesses so here’s the link if u like ;)
Gregory Orr, “Ask the tree or the house”, How Beautiful the Beloved
[Text ID: “That music has been playing
Since you were born.
You must be mad to resist it.
Always the beloved
Surrounds us.
Eager to dance.
All we have to do is ask.”]
Thinking about how the vast majority of Tolkien's "most beautiful" elves basically have the same features as his wife, and sightly crying all over again