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greg’s frog supremacy

@tolkientrash

kit/tolkie, queer af, they/she, 30s, 🇺🇸 in 🇮🇪, massive nerd, outdoor enthusiast. currently in my bg3 era, ALWAYS in my tolkien era
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🍁 mae govannen 🍁

well met, travellers! i’m kit, more commonly known online as tolkie! y’know, on account of the lifelong tolkien obsession. i’m from the states (north carolina to be specific) but i live in ireland, where i’m getting my master’s of folklore. my undergraduate degree is in linguistics, so please talk language nerdery to me, I beg of you.

a few things: i am 33 and a whole queer-ass adult, so while this isn’t strictly a nsfw blog, i’d ask that minors proceed with caution. i’m horny on main from time to time!

my main fandom will always be lord of the rings, but i’m definitely in my stranger things era currently. i thank canon for its contributions, but the fruity four is real to me xoxo

⛵️ ships i’m currently writing or following: ⛵️

  • steve harrington x eddie munson
  • robin buckley x nancy wheeler
  • robin buckley x chrissy cunningham
  • dream of the endless x hob gadling
  • stede x ed
  • olu x jim
  • caitlyn kiramman x vi(olet)
  • adora x catra
  • thorin oakenshield x bilbo baggins
  • legolas x gimli

🔗 links 🔗

ao3 - fics on tumblr - wips - my face

#nav#intro#pinned#they call me tolkie#tolkientrash
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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

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@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

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I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

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What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

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Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

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So what is a rain shadow?

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Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

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Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.

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May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.

#OOOOH WHAT A FUN TOOL#ehehehe#i love maps#world building#writing
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looks up at you with big eyes do i really have to have money to survive or can i be a useless faggot forever

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