moved blog titles!!!!

I firmly believe that there is an incredibly catchy Irish-style drinking song, the type you can't help whistling along to even if you don't know the words, that is known in all Beleriand.

The problem is that it has two sets of lyrics, with wide debate about which is original. One set mocks the Sindar for hiding in the forest rather than fighting and generally being less scholarly. The other mocks the Noldor for killing elves as often as orcs and being bad at wilderness exploration.

After a several violent bar brawls, Gil-Galad bans the tune, both sets of lyrics, and any poems with a similar meter from being performed in Lindon.

This works for about six hundred years, until they find out there's a third set of lyrics and Elros made it the national anthem of Numenor.

Victor Hugo - The Castle in the Moonlight

Surely there's somewhere in Middle Earth that uses 'having an Elvish wedding' or 'attending an Elvish wedding' as a euphemism

“yeah, we know eachother in the ‘elvish sense’ if ya know what i mean”

the most heartbreaking part of hamlet really is the whole “goodnight sweet prince” part because when horatio says “and angels sing thee to thy rest” he is using the intimate form of thou, and it’s the first time he ever does it. hamlet consistently uses the intimate form of thou for horatio (only when they’re in private though, which – if shakespeare intentionally wanted to give their relationship homoerotic subtext, which he totally did – shows that hamlet wants to keep his romantic love for horatio a secret to the greater public) but horatio, being the respectful person he is and also given the fact that if he were to use the intimate form of thou it would pretty much be a romantic confession, never ever uses thou. except when after hamlet dies. when it’s too late. 

here hamlet is, dying in horatio’s arms, asking horatio if he ever held him in his heart. and horatio doesn’t get a chance to reply. hamlet dies. only then does horatio realize his mistake of not confessing sooner

…op please stop coming for my emotions my heart can’t take it

I mean, if you want to be a killjoy, you can argue that Horatio doesn’t use it because Hamlet’s royalty and he’s not, and being that casual with royal people would be a big no-no, and Hamlet might be trying to show respect to Horatio in public, but being less formal out of public because they’re buds…

But, you know, I really really like the above theory more, so let’s go with that.

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another theory is that.....  the position of king was at least partly chosen/elected and there’s signs that maybe Hamlet “should” have had it,  people make hints about it, there’s mentions that maybe the people in general prefer him (and later also prefer laertes when he has a chance).  so pehaps Horatio is one of the few people who notices the lack and tries to treat him with the honor he is not getting elsewhere, neither fawning sycophancy or talking down.  but ofc this comes at the expense of the intimacy of “thou”

and he only let lose with that in the one second it no longer mattered, right before nothing did. 

Finarfin, king of the Noldor in Valinor. Sindarin Beleriand mode.