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do u ever think about how maedhros refused to burn the ships because of his friendship with fingon while c&c burnt the ships despite their friendship with aredhel. and scream.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #celegorm #curufin #c & c definitely win the worst cousin besties award #just threw aredhel aegnor and angrod under the bus #the silmarils >>>>>>> (half)-cousins

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:)

Bonus internet points will be awarded to anyone who actually tries this exercise before voting.

Assume you need to get the spelling at least somewhat close, and if a character has multiple names, only one counts. Also, if a character doesn't have a canonical name, I'm sorry, but "that guy's wife" doesn't count.

For reference, if you can name the 9 members of the Fellowship, the eponymous Hobbit and his 13 dwarf buddies, 3 prominent women, and the guy who runs the Rivendell B&B, that's 27 characters right there. And you probably also know the name of a dragon.

For further reference, Tolkien Gateway has 637 (!!) pages dedicated to Third Age characters. (Don't click that link until you've voted, of course)

Edit: Your humble pollmaker gave this a try, and got as far as 73 before deciding she was too tired to keep trying to remember dwarf and Silm names. If you also want to share (and don't mind people being incredulous at your having forgot ____), pastebin allows you to paste text and share it for free. :)

#tolkien #232 i think

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Who's that handsome man on the wall?

#iwtv #lestat de lioncourt

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one small betrayal, of course, doesn't count,

one small betrayal, of course, doesn't count,

one small betrayal is not sin for noblemen!

#can't believe that this flopped out of all my gifsets 😭

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Oh I realized a thing about the Paul/Feyd-Rautha fight. So usually if you have a big fight scene, but especially if you do something like have a character get injured in a way that would definitely be fatal if they weren't cursed with inescapable Main Character Energy, you follow up the fight scene with some moment of comfort or relief or something, which serves to release the tension for the audience and let them know whew, that was scary, but it's okay now. Your character is hurt but they're gonna survive. (Or alternately, if they're dying heroically, it was worth it and what the narrative demanded.)

But here there's nothing. Paul is surrounded by devoted followers; his mother; his lover; one of his oldest teachers and a loyal servant of House Atreides. No one steps forward to offer a shoulder to lean on or help him to his feet. He's left them all behind. He's not a person who got hurt in a fight anymore; he's a myth that people shrink back from. So he pulls the knife out by himself. He stands up by himself. Other than the emperor very begrudgingly touching his hand to kiss the ring, I don't think anyone touches him at all for the rest of the movie. He's completely alone. They never release that tension, because Paul's alive but it is very much not going to be okay.

#dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #!!!

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"What you have not done," Paul went on, "is heard my mother sobbing in the night over her lost Duke. You have not seen her eyes stab flames when she speaks of killing Harkonnens."

LADY JESSICA & DUKE LETO ATREIDES IN DUNE: PART TWO (2024)

#dune #dune part 2 #lady jessica #leto x jessica #💔

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on another note i was today years old when i learned fingon's name means "hair lord"

#ajshshajh #tolkien heritage post #tolkien #the silmarillion #and fingonfin the mighty singer:)

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The one that saw Darkness once Will never trust in Light. Every sacred thing came to naught And his eyes will not lie to him...

Maxim Rakovsky as Raistlin Majere in The Last Trial

#i am being sad that the universe apparently has something against me seeing dalamar!maxim live #(i'll be in spb on may 8th but won't be in msc on 16th) #and he won't be playing cauchon in spb too #so raistlin!maxim to lift the spirits #the last trial #dragonlance #raistlin majere

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one small betrayal, of course, doesn't count,

one small betrayal, of course, doesn't count,

one small betrayal is not sin for noblemen!

#joan of arc #жанна д'арк #maxim rakovsky #mikhail sidorenko #the long awaited tango #the tango that was promised (for two years) even #(also if finrod rock opera reboot has direction half as good as as this it will be a treat) #musicaledit

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IT HAPPENED

happy rakovsky & sidorenko dancing tango day to those who celebrate!

#and i hope somebody filmed the dip close up

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happy rakovsky & sidorenko dancing tango day to those who celebrate!

#we've waited #for two entire years

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paul and alia atreides

#dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #alia atreides #beloveds

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— Eclipse, Pink Floyd

Muad'dib was the Fremen name of one of the moons of planet Arrakis. It was named after the geological formation on its surface that resembled the desert mouse.

#dune #dune part 2 #duneedit #dune spoilers #paul atreides #* #*gif #moviegifs #movieedit

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bonus points if you tell me in tags/replies what elves specifically you have foresight headcanons for!

#finrod obv #he predicted his own death deaths of fingolfin and aegnor and the outcome of the silmaril quest #and arda healed probably it's never specified if it was an actual vision or a concept he envisioned #(i imagine him and mandos like to chat and share spoilers in second/third age aman) #also. canonically galadriel idril and glorfindel #and all of them have vanyarin blood! and the vanyar are linked to music in the text #and in finrod and galadriel's case they are part falmari and it's said that the echo of a Song can be heard in the water #and falmari are the great mariners and sea-listeners #that's where cirdan's also canonical foresight comes from #also i headcanon that eärwen was foresighted and olwë as well

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#tolkien #the silmarillion #maglor #awesome art #he contains multitudes

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Paul Atreides & Feyd Rautha in Dune: Part Two // Dune by Frank Hubert, Chapter 48

#dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #feyd rautha harkonnen #paulfeyd #the greatest failmarriage that never was 😔

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no, you don't understand, he was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, so much less than a god, so much more than a man. there was no measuring his motifs by ordinary standarts, he denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand. and he ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins.

#dune #dune part 2 #dune spoilers #dune part 2 spoilers #paul atreides #he is the worst (affectionate)