‘but whyyy would tolkien shoehorn sam into a romantic relationship with rosie when it’s so obvious that frodo’s the most important person in his life?’
hear me out, what if…and this is a long shot…tolkien had lived through some deeply harrowing experiences that emphasised that people can love each other in different ways and they’re all equally important? and that the strongest bonds you form aren’t always explicitly romantic? what if everything in tolkien’s work (eowyn’s different loves for faramir and aragorn, boromir having no interest in romantic relationships and putting everything into his love for his city) fairly dripped with the idea that romance isn’t the only important sort of love? what then?
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.” - C.S. Lewis
Wandering the unfeeling world
filipino. catholic. animanga enthusiast. frustrated poet. writer. roleplayer.‘but whyyy would tolkien shoehorn sam into a romantic relationship with rosie when it’s so obvious that frodo’s the most important person in his life?’
hear me out, what if…and this is a long shot…tolkien had lived through some deeply harrowing experiences that emphasised that people can love each other in different ways and they’re all equally important? and that the strongest bonds you form aren’t always explicitly romantic? what if everything in tolkien’s work (eowyn’s different loves for faramir and aragorn, boromir having no interest in romantic relationships and putting everything into his love for his city) fairly dripped with the idea that romance isn’t the only important sort of love? what then?
Also heterosexual people exist and are in fact the overwhelming majority, so even if Frodo is the most important person in Sam’s life it’s a pretty good bet that they have zero physical or romantic attraction to each other.
‘but whyyy would tolkien shoehorn sam into a romantic relationship with rosie when it’s so obvious that frodo’s the most important person in his life?’
hear me out, what if…and this is a long shot…tolkien had lived through some deeply harrowing experiences that emphasised that people can love each other in different ways and they’re all equally important? and that the strongest bonds you form aren’t always explicitly romantic? what if everything in tolkien’s work (eowyn’s different loves for faramir and aragorn, boromir having no interest in romantic relationships and putting everything into his love for his city) fairly dripped with the idea that romance isn’t the only important sort of love? what then?
“But that’s not SEXY!” “Oh, good. You’re catching on.”
I don’t WANT my laptop to be the Thinnest Model Yet
I want a battery that will outlast the sun, a screen big enough to blind the person behind me, more USB slots than there are apple fanboys in the bay area, a fucking disc reader/writer
i will pay extra for it to be heavy enough to bludgeon someone to death
Just a reminder to all the new followers that I’m a devout Catholic, prolife, and refuse to engage in conversations with petty people. I wish kindness on all of you but if that’s not what you’re here for you are free to unfollow or even block.
they were unkind to you. don’t let that make you unkind.
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
— Romans 12:21 (NIV)
“Do not say ‘I am hated, and that is why I do not love’ for this is why you ought to love most”
– St John Chrysostom
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.“
- Jesus, Matthew 5:43-44
vtubers aren’t very popular on tumblr because their main role in society, in function if not in intention, is to give lonely guys a view into the lives of very weird neet women who turned their terminally online lifestyles into a career. Tumblr however is already 80% terminally online weird neet women but the corporatism doesn’t stick because we do it for the love of the game
Shit take, me and my girl watched Nerissa, Kiara, Calli, and Bijou play Baldur last night :3
One time in literature class my professor was talking about myths and Christianity and how in the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice he fails to overcome death but how in the medieval version “Sir Orfeo” the hero succeeds because now this myth was being told in a world where Death was a thing that was overcome and could be, where the King had rescued his bride; and then he started talking about the transition and difference between the pagan world and the advent of Christianity and said “in a world full of stories of gods pursuing people in wrath and lust, can you imagine how it must have been to hear of a God pursuing people in love?” And every few days I still get emotional about that
So one of my favorite books of all time is the Heliand. It is a cultural translation of the Gospels written by Frankish Monks to the Gothic pagans. They realized that the Goths weren’t getting the message of scripture because they kept getting hung up on weird details. They changed a lot of stuff, like calling cities hillforts, and turning Joseph from a Carpenter to a Warband Leader, and the Holy Ghost decending from heaven from a dove to a crow. But one of the more interesting aspects is that they repeatedly hammer home over and over again Jesus overcoming Fate. To the Germanic pagans, all men were bound by Fate. None could defy it at all, and the ultimate fate of every man was Death. This was a central belief to them. So that turned into a HUGE message in the Heliand. the first time is Mary and Joseph fleeing from Herod with Baby Jesus. They viewed that as him defying his fated death for the first time. There are a handful of other instances, but it builds and builds until he actually is killed, and all is lost. This GodMan who defied Fate since his birth, and was sent as our new war leader who will ever bring us victory, was murdered. All hope is gone. But no, he defied his fate one last time and arose from the dead! This is miracle of miracles! This is unbelievable! Death, the Great End, the fate that all men and even gods eventually find themselves at could not hold him for more than three short days.
It was this message that converted the pagans. This idea of overcoming that which was unavoidable by all, and being offered the same gift.
Also, the Heliand is a song and I desperately want to hear it sung.
