If more people valued good food and cheer over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
— Thorin, The Hobbit (novel) by J.R.R. Tolkien (via asterrifique)
We Are Who We Read
Witness the power of storytelling.
This…explains a great deal about my ex-boyfriend’s behavior. He almost exclusively favored horror with deeply misogynistic under(and over)tones and the revenge-driven-dark-vigilante trope. (And it’s telling of his macho killer machine-centric approach to Heathenry).
It also explains a great deal about me. I hope my proclivity for the Noldor doesn’t take a FĂ«anorian turn…it’s probably best I stay away from fields like practical astrophysics and engineering.
And anything to do with jewelry making.