Tag: mood

philosoverted:

“Tolkien was so “wedded” to his lunar chronology that he sometimes reached impasses in his work. In an April 26, 1944 letter to his son, Tolkien said he had “struggled with a recalcitrant passage in ‘The Ring’,” and then went on to say that “at this point I require to know how much later the moon gets up each night when nearing full, and how to stew a rabbit.” (TTT).”

— http://www.physics.ccsu.edu/larsen/astronomy_of_middle.htm
(via crocordile)

lesbianwaves:

i’m really surprised that the real historical feasibility of madi and flint’s revolution is a thing that is debated, certainly because by the end i think the show has firmly shifted the discussion from whether the revolution is possible or not, to how much sacrifice will be necessary for this now unstoppable wide-reaching movement, but also because to be like “hm, actually historically…” is not even in the top 100 instincts i have in response to the inspirational portrayal of a wide-reaching social uprising against england itself to dismantle colonial rule and the many faced institutionalized oppression that comes with it led by a gay pirate captain whose life and love was destroyed by homophobia and a black queen whose people’s lives are still being destroyed by slavery, especially when it’s in a show that tells you both of the importance and power of stories and to doubt narratives and history when told by the oppressors in power