…..you know I would like to thank @voyoock for this reply because tbh I kind of wanted to break one of these open and taste it myself.
Just think, these stones contain the water from ancient seas from millenia ago, and a well educated scholar STILL couldn’t resist their pull. Not one of us is immune to the siren call of ancient tide pods.
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
the most unrealistic thing about traditional fantasy as a genre is that if a bitchy little wizard came up to me with a “you are the Chosen One (chosen to perform free heroic labor)” spiel i’d send that cunt packing and return to my personal mundane-but-containing-wifi-and-lacking-deadly-peril timeline, thank-ye-very-much.
and yet, if the selfsame message was delivered by a talking cat?absolute and automatic acquiescence, no questions asked
u know that thing where an animals grow in a far off place and some idiot introduces him to a new habitat and it turns out its characteristics that help them in their own sometimes are too helpful in the new one and they become like an invasive species yeah thats the word i was missing anyway back to my point i think i saw a human version of that just now i was driving in tonights snow storm and i saw a man wearing a big ass cowboy hat to keep the snow off him and a bandit red bandana to keep it off his face and a big ass pancho to keep him warm and nice ass cowboy boots to keep his calves dry and he was prancing along while everyone on the road looked miserable and frozen solid and idk i guess the point im trying to make here is i feel like cowboys would have taken over russia if given the chance or something
As an Evolutionary Biologist, this is a roller-coaster from start to finish.