Tolkien Meta Meme

kareenvorbarra:

(I realize that the more specific questions are mostly devoted to The Silmarillion, but the general ones can involve LOTR characters if you so desire.)

1. Pick a character who does not appear in either The Lord of the Rings or the published Silmarillion, and elaborate on their backstory.

2. Who are Gil-galad’s parents, and what was his upbringing like?

3. Describe the wife of one of the Sons of Feanor. (Or the wives of all the ones you think are married!)

4. Describe the wife of Elendil, Isildur, or Anarion. (Or the wives of all three!)

5. Pick an OTP whose first meeting is not specifically described in Tolkien’s works, and explain what it was like.

6. Twin time! Did Amras die at Losgar, or at Sirion with his brother? What happened to Elured and Elurin? Are Elrond and Elros twins, and if so are they identical? Answer as many of these questions as you want.

7. What happened during the first meeting of the host of Feanor and the host of Fingolfin after the latter arrived in Beleriand? Who was present and how did they handle it?

8. Pick your favorite dwarf and give them a backstory.

9. Pick a sibling relationship and describe how it operates and why.

10. Pick a character or group who you believe is unappreciated, undervalued, or undeservedly reviled by fandom and explain why they are awesome. 

the-queen-of-angsts:

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powerliftingpinay:

iwillfightu:

drained of blood, the heart is white

woah

No, that is NOT what this is. You’ve taken an amazing medical invention, a total game changer, and made up some stupid, faux-deep sentence fragment for it that is a complete falsehood. You should be embarrassed and ashamed, honestly.

This is a ghost heart. What they’ve done is taken a pig heart and stripped it down to, basically, a cell framework that they can use to BUILD A NEW HEART UPON. You could inject stem cells into this framework so that a newly formed personalized heart can be transplanted into a donor with a significantly reduced chance of rejection. FUCKING AMAZING. It’s not been done with human tissue yet, but the promise this given to people who need hearts – or kidneys or livers or whatever – is beautiful. Science is beautiful.

And it’s IMPERATIVE to mention that a woman, Doris Taylor, at the Texas Heart Institute developed this. And she started with a rat heart and worked up to he bigger, more complex (and more human) pig heart. What a total bad ass.

So look, quit making shit up, learn to do a reverse image search on stuff you find on the internet, and STOP ERASING WOMEN IN SCIENCE.

Reblogging for:

  • The corrected information
  • WOMEN IN SCIENCE
  • The fact that rejection rate would be LESS which is VITAL
Source: iwillfightu

cycas:

“Dear Sir,” I said—Although now long estranged,
Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.
Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned,
and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned:
Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light
through whom is splintered from a single White
to many hues, and endlessly combined
in living shapes that move from mind to mind.
Though all the crannies of the world we filled
with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build
Gods and their houses out of dark and light,
and sowed the seed of dragons—’twas our right
(used or misused). That right has not decayed:
we make still by the law in which we’re made.”

JRRT : On Fairy-stories