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Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.
“I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying ‘gloom’, especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies”
He was like how dare you sir I am the biggest tree fan out there
A tree tried to eat the hobbits. Tom Bombadil had to save them. There's Mirkwood, "The Forest of Great Fear." I'm on the side of the writer of the letter to the editor.
Because Tolkien is Tolkien, he actually directly defended the actions of all his forests and trees in this same letter I’m referencing
This is the best thing in the entire world. Here is a transcript:
Beautiful place because trees are loved
From Prof. J.R.R. TOLKIEN
SIR—with reference to your leader of June 29, I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying “gloom,” especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies.
Lothlorien is beautiful because there the trees were loved; elsewhere forests are represented as awakening to consciousness of themselves. The Old Forest was hostile to two-legged creatures because of the memory of many injuries.
Fangorn Forest was old and beautiful, but at the time of the story tense with hostility because it was threatened by a machine-loving enemy. Mirkwood had fallen under the domination of a Power that hated all living things, but it was restored to beauty and became Greenwood the Great before the end of the story.
It would be unfair to compare the Forestry Commission with Sauron because, as you observe, it is capable of repentance; but nothing it has done that is stupid compares with the destruction, torture and murder of trees perpetrated by private individuals and minor official bodies. This savage sound of the electric saw is never silent wherever trees are still found growing.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Merton College, Oxford
"Old Man Willow did nothing wrong" is not the Tolkien take I expected today, but I'm here for it.
"I run a plush business" cool do you sew or did you just draw up designs and have them get made in bulk overseas
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oh. i just found out that the writer of the vincent van gogh doctor who episode wrote it as a tribute to his sister.
Richard Curtis wrote, "So – here’s the thing – the key reason I wrote this episode – was out of love for my sister Bindy. She was a gorgeous and brilliant person, 2 years older than me. She loved Vincent Van Gogh and life. She couldn’t have been more full of generosity and joy.
But half way through her life she was hit by depression and intermittently it hurt her for the rest of her life. And a few years before this show, like Vincent, she took her own life.
And in the key scene of the episode - when they bring Vincent to the future... that was me trying to show Bin how glorious she had been in our lives - and how nothing could change that.
And then also to deal with the fact that mental health issues are hard - and the capacity for joy, as I know Bindy did know how much she was loved, is intertwined with the immense difficulty of the illness sometimes...
So taking her own life wasn’t a failure by her, or a rejection of all of us. It was, as they say on Love island, what it was."
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1/8 tsp though? Surprisingly underwhelming.
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ALTA multi-media piece I did to frame and highlight my “Worship Yourself” block print.
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The print is a blend of acrylic and Speedball water-based ink on cardstock. The frame is built up with textured paint, then carved. (I mixed some cheap acrylic paint up with glue, modge podge, baking soda, and puffy paint, then painted a ton of layers of that outside in the sun so it’d dry fast.)
Described in alt ID.
mental transition; coming out of a depression; releasing emotional baggage
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[Caps say “six of fuck”]
Not sorry but if you consider a person automatically and irredeemably guilty because of their country of birth, country of residence, religion, or ethnicity, you’re just a bigot actually, no matter what reason or excuse you might give yourself for why it’s morally good this one time.
How dare you hide this in the tags
[ID: tags reading "and yes this applies to everyone and every country. Russia and Israel included.]
