i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers
i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i
there’s something endlessly hilarious to me about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. like i just picture a bunch of nerds at podiums & one’s like “of course there was a paleolithic bear cult in Northern Eurasia” and another one just looks him in the eye and says “i’ll kill you in real life, kevin”
honestly when aliens arrive we should start having sex with them as soon as possible. so when they decide to take over a lot of them already have emotional connections/physical offspring and will form a sizeable resistance. not me, i don’t want to, but i know a lot of you would be into that, and i’m telling you it’s okay, you’re actually the last hope for our species.
also i love the dichotomy between how newt and hermann view their relationship vs how LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE ON EARTH does. hermanns like ugh just because i share a lab with the man doesn’t mean we’re working TOGETHER if anything i’m trying to prove him WRONG!!! meanwhile times is publishing about the Duo, the Partnership, the Inseparable Set of scientists who are working CLOSELY to save the world. newts like raleigh you don’t understand you stupid ASSHOLE i’m spending all my time with hermann and following him around and sleeping next to him because we’re ARGUING…….. OBVIOUSLY
honestly when aliens arrive we should start having sex with them as soon as possible. so when they decide to take over a lot of them already have emotional connections/physical offspring and will form a sizeable resistance. not me, i don’t want to, but i know a lot of you would be into that, and i’m telling you it’s okay, you’re actually the last hope for our species.
@crazy-write said: I went to the Tolkien exhibition in Oxford and it had an early manuscript where Thorin was named Gandalf and Gandalf was named … Blorfindel
I saw that too & it was like a glimpse of a bizarre alternate timeline
master blorfindel said not to leave you and i dont mean to, bingo bolger-baggins, i dont mean to
*Aragorn voice* for Bingo
Sorry I think you meant to say:
*Peregrin Boffin voice* for Bingo
wait so, I’ve read that Frodo was originally the name given to one of the other hobbits. if Aragorn was at one point going to be Peregrin… does that mean Pippin was going to be Frodo??
It was kind of complicated how the original hobbits all developed. Original Frodo kind of disappeared, this dude Odo stuck around for aaages and a lot of his lines ended up going to Pippin but it wasn’t a case of Tolkien just changing Odo’s name.
Aragorn was originally called Trotter instead of Strider. Tolkien wrote a bunch of dialog with him and I think was still playing with his background and real name when they got to Rivendell. By that point iirc Pippin was present but was called Fastred. Tolkien eventually decided Trotter was a human instead of a hobbit and so abandoned hobbit-y names like Peregrin, which he then gave to Pippin (and briefly considered calling him Perry).
Uh,,, hope that makes sense. Anyway the History of Middle Earth is fucking wild.
I’m so glad we don’t live in the timeline where Pippin’s name is Perry or Fastred bcos those both sound like asshole names.
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