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me: why are there so many cities with the same name in the US

me:

me: oh wait nvm

(all places called Lhota or Lhotka in Czech Republic)

I would never wish for less people to love the Leithian story but sometimes I think about how that skews the perception a lot of people have of Thingol and I get sad

Czech Tolkien musicals directory || musicals by Falešné společenstvo (False Fellowship)

(Disclaimer: I’ve only watched Beren a Lúthien, Fëanor a jeho synové, Děti Húrinovy, and Pád Doriathu)

Rohirové (Rohirrim) (2015)

The story of Rohan, from Eorl the Young to Théoden and Éowyn. [No captions or translation available.]

Hobit (The Hobbit) (2014) and (2020)

An Unexpected Journey; or: There and Back Again. [No captions or translation available.]

Beren a Lúthien (Beren and Lúthien) (2016)

The tale of Beren and Lúthien, and their quest for the Silmaril. [No captions; translation in progress.]

Aredhel (2017)

Aredhel, from the founding of Gondolin to her death; Maeglin, and his betrayal. [No captions or translation available.]

Fëanor a jeho synové (Fëanor and his sons) (2018)

Fëanor and his family, from the childhood of his sons to his death. [Captioned in English; I am also working on a translation.]

Děti Húrinovy (Children of Húrin) (2019)

The tragedy of Húrin’s family, from his visit to Gondolin to his death. [No captions; currently being translated by @nereb-and-dungalef.]

Pád Doriathu (Fall of Doriath) (2022)

The slow fall of Doriath, from the claiming of the Nauglamír to the deaths of Dior and Nimloth. [Captions in Czech; auto-translate works. No available script, so no translation is in progress.]

not a musical:

Nienor Níniel fan movie - English and Czech 

A short fan video about Nienor Níniel.

upcoming Falešné společenstvo projects:

Pád Gondolinu (Fall of Gondolin)

Númenor

list subject to change, updates

The Oath of Fëanor in Fëanor a jeho synové

Tak pravil Maedhros v přísaze, || So spoke Maedhros in the oath, stejně Maglor, jehož každý zná, || As did Maglor, who is known by all, Celegorm, Curufin taktéž, || Celegorm and Curufin as well, dvojčata, Caranthir. || The twins and Caranthir. Kdo přísahu slyšel, zachvěl se, || Whoever heard the oath trembled, zazní slova nezrušitelná, || The irrevocable words rang, lhostejno, co pravda, co lež, || Whether they were right or wrong je nedobytný cíl. || Their goal cannot be reached.

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i genuinely feel like The Whole Point of Jin Guangyao’s demise is that it was not justice. in-universe, it did not actually come about because of any of his deeds that we the modern audience would consider the most heinous. Nie Huaisang plotted against him because he killed Nie Mingjue specifically, and… like, Mingjue explicitly and with pre-meditation tried to kill Jin Guangyao three separate times, with the novel (my preferred text source) heavily implying he only started playing the evil music after that third time. this could very reasonably be argued to be self-defense.

i’m not necessarily interested in re-litigating which of JGY’s worst acts were, which ones were justified, which ones he maybe didn’t do, which ones were okay because they were sexy, how unforgivable any of them are, etc, but i think we can all agree that if he simply avoided killing NMJ, his other deeds would not instantly become fine. so NMJ is not the golden snitch of fucked-upness in his repertoire. it is far from The Worst Thing He’s Done.

but it is the reason that NHS hunted him.

JGY’s punishment was not about justice on a moral scale, but on a personal scale. (this is a narratively valid reason to destroy someone, btw. JGY clearly did not kill his own father because his dad was a graceless abusive imperialist sex offender and war profiteerer who ordered the slaughter of dozens of innocents and ruined countless lives. he killed JGS because JGS insulted his mother. so while i sincerely believe that NHS wanted personal vengeance, with moral justice being relatively unimportant to him, that’s not at all meant to be a criticism of him.)

to further cement it, the final blow dealt against JGY was explicitly for a deed he did not do. narratively, it would have been SO EASY to write him making a last desperate attempt to run and getting caught on a sword, or lunging for some final hostage and missing. this would be completely in line with his behaviour leading up to that point: the author created COUNTLESS opportunities for some hero or another to run him through when he was actively scheming and manipulating. but she deliberately didn’t.

she deliberately made JGY, a person who had committed so many vile deeds that anyone in the jianghu could accept his execution as just, die an unjust death, slaughtered for something he didn’t do.

(do you think the characters cared that JGY had killed some nameless working women, btw? even LXC was more concerned about his scumbag father. that time he slaughtered an entire family of civilians as enrichment for Xue Yang? to the best of my recollection, that wasn’t even brought up in the main book. that was just for us.)

i’m making this post because a lot of people have told me point blank that JGY “earned” his miserable ending by doing bad shit, that Jiang Cheng/JGY/LXC/whoever the person thinks is an antagonist because they were mean to wangxian were “punished” with horrible fates, and this is how MXTX is codifying who the villains and who the heroes are, and the story is actually explicitly about moral uprightness prevailing over repugnance. and i just think that’s kind of a lackluster reading for a text that’s so blatantly explained that in this universe, good or bad things will simply happen to people completely regardless of whether or not it’s fair.

friend izzy points out that in the world of MDZS, “justice only happens on a personal scale”. there is no societal change. there is no large-scale justice. guilt is basically determined whenever some powerful people get in a room together and agree on it. and neither of the protagonists actually bother to change this. WWX’s big heroic stand was to save a village of a few dozen family members and retreat from larger society completely. LWJ’s heroic deeds account to literally just vigilantism. and this is good. the Wen ghosts coming out of the blood pool said: that was enough. sizhui’s whole existence says: protecting a handful of “unimportant” people for a year was worthwhile.

(XXC, SL, Mianmian etc also just kind of peaced out and wandered around helping people on an individual basis. and since I’m being petty anyway, I’ll once again throw out the fact that the person who affected the largest-scale positive societal change was in fact JGY, whose watchtowers were repeatedly praised for saving countless civilian lives, by the narration and by WWX himself.)

NHS committed himself to vengeance, neglecting his duties to his sect, killing animals, catching Qin Su in it as collateral, endangering children, desecrating the grave of an innocent woman, traumatising Jin Ling and thrusting him into a massive power vacuum at age 14, and destablising the politics of the entire Jianghu because there was no other way to get the piece of justice he personally needed.

any family member of any of the 3,000 people that Wei Wuxian killed at Nevernight have exactly as much right to do to Wei Wuxian exactly what Huaisang did to Jin Guangyao.

but nobody in this story “got what they deserved”. they just got it.

“There Grímhild dwelt,

guileful in counsel,

grimhearted queen

grey with wisdom,

with lore of leechcraft,

lore of poison,

with chill enchantment

and with changing spells.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien: Völsungakviða en nýja 

Not gonna lie, Grímhild sounds cool.

I’m 2nd of four sisters and I relate to him strongly. Every day. Every one of his choices is completely understandable to me. 

I have a hypothesis that needs testing

Reblog with how many siblings you have, your place in the birth order, and your opinions on Jiang Cheng.

would you like to explain the untamed like im -5 ? just are they brothers? friends? (google exists but mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no)

Local man in black does a little necromancy and Goes Through Some Shit and both he and Mr. Headband are real gay about it.

(Like...really, really gay about it.)

This is your local hated necromancer’s brother, who will deny to the ends of the earth that he still loves and cares for his brother, and proceeds to have 50 episodes worth of big feelings about it.

This is that other dude’s brother, who spends approximately 40+ episodes pretending that he’s got his shit together and the other 5 having a big gay existential crisis, and I think that’s very sexy of him.

And this is Nie Huaisang who’s just happy to be here.

(I’m so sorry if you wanted a serious answer; it’s like 3:30 in the morning and I’m exhausted and also dying. GODSPEED.)

One year ago, on August 14th, The Untamed’s last episode aired, and our best summer memories began.

Micah 4:3

(The 100)

Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)

(The 100)

And now I am trying to save you. All of you.

This is very true.

@ everyone on tumblr.

Other people, when they walk through spider web: "Ugh, now I got spider in my face!" Me, when I walk through spider web: "Who cares about a spider?? Now I got dead flies in my mouth!!!"

So, Tony could have meaningfull and quite beautiful conversation with his father and Steve could stare at Peggy for what felt like minutes, but Thor couldn’t even glance at Loki as he passed by? Even if he is dead for him? Come on, give us something!

If you wanna do all of these things, they're your friend.

if you wanna hug them, they’re a hufflepuff

if you wanna talk to them all night, they’re a ravenclaw

if you want them to be at your party, they’re a gryffindor

if you want to punch them, they’re a slytherin 

Based on the story of Tolkien and the spider, I have to also assume that Tolkien also had terrible encounters with:

Shiny stones

Shoes

People trying to buy his house

Black cloaks

Boats

Someone: I’ve heard you have some handicap. I’m so sorry… but what kind of…?

Me: yea… I’m dis…

S.: oh, like dysgraphic?

Me: no… like disaster

Maeglin is just a tragic victim of cousinzone.

Feanor was the first, who predicted the end of Infinity War.

me: ( I’ve failed to blow a soap-bubble in a shower ) “That’s so sad… Alexa, play ,,Thanos likes bubbles"

Prague, Czech Republic :)

Silm International

One of my favorite things so far about the Silm/Tolkien fandom is it’s definitely the most international fandom I’ve ever been in? Really curious where y’all are located so if ya feel comfortable, reblog with your [City, Country] (or just country if ya prefer). 

The Rise and Fall of the Sun

1. Sunrise over Karavankas, Slovenia, summer 2018 (view from Stol).

2. Sunset in Färnebofjärden National Park, Sweden, summer 2018 (peninsula Östa)

I’m not alone? Good to know...

Reblog this if you’re still active in the Merlin fandom in 2018

I just wanna know that I’m not all on my own out here

Krkonoše Mountains - Czech Republic

Owl Waterfall (4.2 m) and Veil Waterfall (8.2 m)

I practically grew up in Krkonoše Mountains, but I still had no clue these beautiful secluded places existed until I found them this summer. My country may be small and many people may not even know it exists, but it’s profoundly beautiful.

,,Watch out here comes my arrow

It flies super fast, makes sad everyone

Watch out here comes my arrow

Now Baldr sucks

And Loki is the one"

-Probably Loki, during Baldr’s death