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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
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the funniest thing ever just happened to me
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whoa dude when I heard about "radfems" I thought it would be some most radical females! 😍🤙
but these chicks are saying some bogus things about other babes 😬
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i hope every single show i love rn dies actually. like in a fiery blaze set by the writers themselves
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Frodo may be Bilbo’s actual adopted nephew, but Merry and Pippin are his younger cousins, and Sam is his old gardener’s son whose family he clearly has a soft spot for and who he taught to read and write, and Gimli is the son of one of his old adventuring friends, and Legolas is, similarly, the son of the Elvenking who named him an elf-friend, and we know Aragorn is canonically his friend as well, who he very possibly could have met as a small child in Rivendell when he passed through, so really, like 7/9 members of the Fellowship are people he can employ weird elderly relative (or the honorary equivalent thereof) energy on if he wants to and I think that’s very powerful.
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Coming home from a four day trip makes me feel like that little gay guy from the hobbit
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Sam, Frodo, Gandalf, Boromir:
Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli:
Merry, Pippin:
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Éowyn and the Witch-king of Angmar by Alan Lee
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The fellowship as book dedication pages that no one asked for
Gandalf:
Aragorn:
Legolas:
Gimli:
Boromir:
Frodo:
Samwise:
Merry:
Pippin:
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no one ever talks about gimli being not even slightly tempted by the ring. motherfucker had no hesitation just walked up with his axe and immediately tried to wreck it. obviously that didn’t work but like, the ring had zero visible effect on him. amazing… gold sickness in the line of durin WHOMST?? not in gimli son of gloin
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aragorn, practicing his elvish: hey what’s up?
legolas: ??????
aragorn, adjusting his dialect: oh sorry.. howdy how yall doin today
legolas: OH howdy!! :) what’s truckin partner
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