Elanorpevensie - Dreaming Of A Castle Library

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one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

daisy updating the team on how things are going with sousa:

I really really really need prayer, if anyone could pray that would be wonderful

One half of my otp: *dies*

Me: it’s funny how you think dying is going to get you out of this ship

sometimes a song is good because you saw it on a fan edit for your favorite ship like ten years ago

It's a cliché to say that Tolkien's experiences in WWI affected all aspects of his writing, how he wrote about friendship and grief, how he wrote about desolate blasted landscapes. But I wish someone who knows more about Tolkien's military career could help me understand how Tolkien related to retreats. His description of Faramir keeping his people together on the retreat from Osgiliath is one of the best-written sequences in the trilogy, and hardly anyone remembers it. It's about a desperate retreat, and a leader whose presence, whose strength manages to keep it from turning into a rout. There's something very vivid in the descriptions: don't break formation, don't start running or they'll pick you off one by one, keep together, keep moving, hold all of that fear at bay. Tolkien describes that retreat as genuinely heroic, a superhuman act of will, one that exhausts Faramir almost to death, and Denethor still does not accept it as heroic because it's a retreat. It saved men but it lost territory, therefore in his eyes it's a failure.

Tolkien has strong opinions about heroic retreats, in the Silmarillion he sometimes gives the retreat-through-the-dangerous-wilderness plotline to female characters (Emeldir, Idril), he always writes them with respect. Sometimes, getting out of there and keeping most of your people alive is a great act of valour. I feel like he must have had a personal experience about what it means to retreat, and what it means to hold a retreat together, and what it means to get no thanks for it.

“and the tune he played made lucy want to cry and laugh and dance and go to sleep all at the same time.”

final outcome from a college project!! we had to illustrate a section from a story and i would never pass up an opportunity to draw my babygirl mr tumnus <3

(close ups under the cut)

Tolkien characters + Latin: Faramir

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.