“in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars. And the last king of the line of Anárion had no heir.” (2/2)
- Faramir on the decline of Gondor, the Two Towers.
Here’s what I think about the SS United States:
“Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living. and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry;” (1/2)
It’s really quite incredibly how a man can invent a fictional race of creatures, everyone finds them endearing and delightful, and they’re all just English country folks.
In 1958, a young student named Deborah Webster was preparing a school presentation about J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings.
Needing more details about the his personal life, she wrote to Tolkien directly.
He actually replied with this letter:
It’s hard to call Charles Coulombe a LARPer anymore because that guy just lives in Europe now, where all his monarchism would actually kinda makes sense.
The people are no longer capable of understanding the distinctions between ethnicity, nationality, and culture, and how they relate to one another. Unless it’s with non-white people. Then they get it perfectly. The way they think is pathological.
Who do you consider more German?
A) Born and raised in Germany to a German father and Turkish mother
B) Born and raised in America to two German parents. Speaks no German and never been to Germany.
Dunno if OP is culpable of this, but the question speaks to a larger phenomenon. These distinctions are even subtle ones, they’re fairly clear and categorical.
In Homer's Iliad, we rarely encounter the original Greek word for 'I' or much that refers to internal thought or decision-making. https://t.co/4Nl2HcALdo
In this challenging article, cultural theorist Brian J. McVeigh agrees with Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes' claim that the Homeric Greeks had no internal life or self-awareness.
Now, do I believe that Vishnu is an actual deity? As a Catholic, no.
However, I do believe that if enough people believe something is real, they might be able to manifest it into reality, like the Buddhist concept of a tulpa—an autonomous being willed into existence by others' thoughts.
That's why you should be very careful about whom or what you disrespect, especially if it's held sacred by a lot of other people.