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Combine the completely useless guards from The Shannara Chronicles with the lack of railings in Middle Earth, put the Hogwarts school staff in charge and we have one of the greatest health, safety and security disasters of all fiction.

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Reasons to Join the Tolkien Fandom

[anthropologyarda]

- old. like really old. older than star trek old.

- immortal. existed for over half a century before anybody thought about making movies. will keep existing after people forget them.

- full of nerds. hardcore nerds who do good research. A+

- full of nerds. like actual climatologists and geologists. official nerds who publish in official journals about speculative science in a fantasy world. 

- high chance they will read your fanfic/meta. Tolkien is not an easy read and they probably have the patience/skills to get through your writing easy

- what is canon? we just don’t know

- appreciates my excessive collection of nature photos. Mostly trees and mountains.

- likes shiny things

- does not approve of keeping shiny things. sometimes approves of stealing them

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Reason #841 I need to fight J.R.R. Tolkien IMMEDIATELY

[canolacrush]

Okay, so, now that I’ve slept, I can now talk about the reason for my BURNING NEED TO FIGHT J.R.R. TOLKIEN PHYSICALLY AND IMMEDIATELY with considerably less drama than I would’ve otherwise expressed.

This all started just because I wanted to translate the word “net” (like a fishing net) into Elvish.  That’s all I wanted.  One small task.

Of course, I then immediately find out that, lo, there’s not just one Elvish.  There are multiple Elvish languages.  Ha ha ha, oh Tolkien, of course you’d do that.  You eccentric dead coot.  Thanks for making my task more difficult than necessary, but you know, whatever, that makes the world of middle earth more realistic and he seemed to really enjoy inventing languages, and why should I criticize a dead man for having fun with his world, yeah?

So while I’m attempting to navigate through this endless…WORDPILE of information on different Elvish languages and which one would be most appropriate for translating the word “net,” I of course discover there’s several other languages, which actually does not surprise me.  I mean, of course, it’s only natural that the different races would have different languages.  I can roll with that logic.

This is about where my willingness to go along with Tolkien’s antics starts to crumble.

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