writing lessons i learned from tolkien that go against conventional wisdom

- you can make up as much lore as you want

- characters can have like five different names if you darn well please Just finished the silmarillion. it’s not five names it’s more like fifty names

- characters can sit around at home not starting the story for as long as you want

- you can spend huge blocks of text describing events that happened in the past without dialog and can in fact write a whole book like that

- you can make viewpoint characters just not be there for giant important events and hear about it later and go ‘oh’

- after setting a standard for everything having an in-depth lore explanation, sometimes a giant spider or a weird dude in the woods can just kind of show up and you don’t have to explain it

- i can do whatever i want

FOUNDATION (2021– ) season II official teaser

Brother Day🤴

Thranduil and Legolas

This is so sweet 😋

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Collecting Foundation (Asimov) mutuals on tumblr like shiny Pokémon because there are literally FIVE of us.

The Tolkien fandom, collectively, does not explore Thranduil’s trauma as a refugee of Doriath and witness to the Kinslayings, and how that impacts him as a character and ruler.

Which I understand, everyone saw him in the Hobbit films and have had no coherent thoughts ever since (myself included), but I think in the analysis of his character and explaining why he’s so isolationist and hostile towards outsiders, people overlook the most obvious canonical event that explains that behavior (the kinslaying)

Evolution of Cleon (left season 1, right season 2)

ngl he looks hotter this season

Brother Day🤴

Sea and water themed Adûnaic board! 

Adûnaic was the language of Númenor and though its original forms were mostly lost after the fall of Númenor, its presence in Middle Earth during the second age led to it becoming a key part of Westron, one of the common tongues of Middle Earth during the Third Age and beyond. 

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                                               Gondor wanes, you say.                                                  But Gondor stands,                                           and even the end of its strength                                                   is still very strong.

featuring:  ghassan massoud as denethor ii aishwarya rai as finduilas of dol amroth rana daggubati as boromir shaheer sheikh as faramir psd by @kingsleigh​ edits with help of @lesbiansforboromir​ boromir fc courtesy of @lesbiansforboromir​

Do you run away from me?

- No.

am I seeing things or does cleon have blood on his face and neck here? are empire finally going to lose some of their plot armour? 👀

That's definitely blood.

Which brings me back to a question I've had since episode 8 and the spiral walk, what does medical care look like for injured/sick cleons?

there's gotta be some kind of imperial healthcare, right? I assume that day healed immediately after the spiral walk because he had his nanobots restored - we've seen how quickly skin-deep injuries are fixed as soon as they're injected. he probably got some emergency hydration too, idk, maybe a juice box? 😂

I imagine the cleons are kept healthy through a ton of preventative measures. they're so insulated that germs aren't really a concern, and their shield bracelets do an impressive job of protecting them from injury (if they would stop taking them off!). there's almost certainly gene editing going on to reduce the risk of disease. we know from the official podcast that they're purposely made sterile from birth and can't have kids of their own, as cleon the first wanted to stay solely in control and avoid a future succession crisis. that's probably just the tip of the genetically modified iceberg...

but there's always going to be a freak accident that slips through, or an illness that can't be magicked away. elderly dusks will always grow fragile and start to deteriorate in their final days. the nanobots also seem fairly useless against deeper tissue damage (see: dawn XIV having bruises after his fall, and lord dorwin being shot dead at point-blank range).

I'd guess that they have an excellent medical staff on hand because accidents and old age happen, and they are only human at the end of the day, but the sheer strength of the goldfish bowl they live in means it's not required very often. (this only applies to the season one status quo of course - who knows what's going to happen once things start getting crazy!)

Belted Galloway, new born calf..and Swaledale sheep, Malham, Yorkshire Dales, England

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