Florn [they/them]

Prometheus

Every man who gets away stays alive to rebuild later. Every man who gets caught extends the war and dies for nothing.

In one of Tolkien’s letters, he specifically says that if Gollum had been redeemed as much as he could, he would have taken the ring and jumped into Mt. Doom voluntarily.

They died like human beings, doing something for themselves, instead of dying like pigs for someone else’s money.

Another problem in the US is the Senate working as intended

The four cardinal directions are, themselves, a fact of the weave

Which NOT PORN show were you watching? Which actor did you want to replace?

I’ve been told that I seem calm under pressure.

No, I’m just always under pressure and have trouble making that known to people

I get SAD in summer

Mine 😔

i started drinking wine just to get away from IPAs

It’s more like a wound that never healed than just ripples - early South Korean leaders were people who had formerly collaborated with the Japanese, and it showed in the way they treated their people. It’s only relatively recently that South Korea became what anyone would call a liberal democracy.

I’m just a little too tall to hang from most ceilings 😔

The bed sounds more fun, I was hogtied

A girl tied me up and tickled me last week

The Legendarium represents the cultural perspective of the Noldor and the Men who adopted much of their cultural tradition. It’s not an objective history, and some things that exist in the world, such as Tom Bombadil and Ungoliant, aren’t really accounted for by the Noldor cosmology, even though these beings are known to them.

Similarly, Morgoth isn’t just an Elvish version of Satan, he’s Satan himself as the Elves understood him - with the implication that Satan is just the same being, viewed through the Abrahamic tradition.