Thanks, Legolas. I'll be adding this to my repertoire of Excuses To Leave. 😄😄
“Your son is a soldier, Lirin. A soldier who inherited his father’s determination, skill, and compassion. You tell me honestly. Who would you rather have out there fighting? Some crazed killer who enjoys it, or the boy you trained to care?”
(Rhythm of War)
He had promised to help Azir. But why? Because his mother had trained him to care. As Dalinar had worked to make Adolin into a weapon, Evi had worked to make Adolin into one that had meaning.
(Wind and Truth)
I loved how those two passages rhymed. Kaladin and Adolin - the boys that care. I love them so much.
Alternate eye colour for Kaladin, and alternative state of awakening for Adolin's armour. 😂
after a lifetime of hearing about aragorn but not reading the books or watching the movies, genuinely nothing could have prepared me for his actual introduction. the hobbits picked this man out of a dumpster. he is a textbook softspoken angst prince and he is covered in dirt and he probably smells so bad. he’s the coolest man alive and is so casual about it. his number one skill is Knowing Where They Are and his number two skill is Having A Horrible Destiny That Torments Him. tolkien got it in one i’m afraid aragorn son of arathorn you are the guy of all time
"I do not believe this darkness will endure."
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson
Superaudio Matcha 83 (Video 1)
My fave part of this tweet is that even though a lot of people are assuming this was an AI thing or whatever
this is the actual lede of their review of the Super Mario movie
"But it is also, if I check the clock, Mario Time". Poetry
And when Hebrews said that Jesus "taste[d] death for every man" and I Corinthians said "Death is swallowed up in victory" and "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
When the Apostle Paul said “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” and John Donne said “Death, be not proud,” and the Arcadian Wild said “May you know Death lost already,” and
I admire all kinds of nonsense, balderdash, hogwash, and above all, malarkey.
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