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Is it just me or does 'Aemond' sound like a Targaryen/Valyrian version of 'Ormund'?
Like, I could be imagining it, but I think the two names sound rather similar, and I think there's an actual chance that Alicent might've come up with a Valyrian name that sounds like an Andal one which her family uses.
On the other hand, it could also be that 'Aemond' is a variation of 'Aemon' or even 'Daemon', though I find the latter somewhat unlikely as it's doubtful that Alicent would've named/let her second son be named after Daemon.
Who knows, maybe it was the name of some ancestor of the Targaryens/a Targaryen from before the Doom of Valyria.
I'm probably reading too much into this, but I think it's worth pondering [especially since 'Aemond' is just 'Daemon' with the 'd' swapping places] how the Targtower children got their names, especially Aemond and Helaena [I don't think the name 'Helaena' was used before Alicent named her daughter that; it could also be an altered/Valyrian-ized Andal name].
I just saw a post about House of the Dragon S03E01 where someone criticized that Jace abandoned his one proof of legitimacy when he got out of the saddle to swim to the surface, and I just. I can't.
Like, what else was he supposed to do?
Stay chained to his sinking, drowning dragon and just die alongside it?
At that point – when he literally got submerged because of his sinking dragon – there was no way in hell that he thought that Vermax would make it out of there.
That dragon couldn't fly anymore, couldn't swim, was sinking, and was most certainly going to drown; unchaining himself from the saddle to try and get to the surface was literally the only thing Jace could've done in that moment.
I finished Maul: Shadow Lord this week and promptly rewatched it and I gotta say
Marrok | First Brother & the Crow | Eleventh Brother are a duo I didn't know I needed until now but their dynamic is actually insane
#star wars#maul shadow lord#marrok#first brother#inquisitor crow#eleventh brother#they fight far too synchronized for this to be the first time they're working together#i don't even really care about the nature of their relationship#just. give me more of them please#and their respective quirks/unhinged behaviorisms#like what even was the crow's screech in ep. 9?#or marrok looking at that stormtrooper like that?
Angmar *angrily ranting*: —and of course elves get to live in heaven, on top of being naturally immortal and having the choice to get re-embodied, while us mortals only get to live some 200-500 years—
Khamûl *annoyed*: or 40-70 years
Angmar:
Khamûl: since, you know, not everyone is Númenorean and gets to live for centuries
Angmar: you can't make everyone like you, you're not Khamûl
Morgomir *confused*: not everyone likes Khamûl, my Lord?
Angmar *equally confused*: what do you mean not everyone likes Khamûl?
Angmar:
Angmar: who doesn't?
Morgomir *hesitantly*: well—
Angmar *threateningly*: i want names. now
Morgomir *panicking*: uh—
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education is important
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Guide to understanding Tolkiens writing
"He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord,
= he's pretty
as strong as a warrior,
= he's buff
as wise as a wizard,
= he's smart
as venerable as a king of dwarves,
= he's honorable
and as kind as summer."
= he's babygirl
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Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.
This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.
Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.
Maybe this is too many hobbits.
We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.
But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.
So away you go.
And things go bad in the worst possible way.
Over and over.
You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.
It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.
You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.
Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"
....
There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.
This was a four hobbits problem.
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The First among the Nine. He was the younger son of Tar-Ciryatan, the most gifted and powerful of the many great Lords of Númenor. The Black Prince, as he was once called, ever hungered for both power and knowledge. The Dark Lord saw this and offered the prince all he desired and more. Greatest and most feared of the Nine, the Witch-King stalked the battlefield but rarely, leaving the fortresses of Mordor only at Sauron's most pressing command. But such was the power he commanded and the fear he installed that his mere presence upon the field could drive Men to the brink of despair and madness.
