Because sometimes what you need most is to marvel at the sight of an enormous python coiling and uncoiling its long, muscular body to clime up a coconut tree in Thailand. It’s snek parkour:
Hey guys, as I mentioned a while ago, I finally got around to cross-posting my Tolkien tumblr promptfic to AO3, and since I haven’t posted anything else to that AO3 profile and also since I got a bunch of new tumblr followers recently, I figured I should let people know I have one! Feel free to check out the edited and titled versions of those fics if any of them sound interesting. Or leave kudos or w/e if you read and liked them the first time >_o
For the prompt: “wildness on the loose” + “children of finwe in
the woods of beleriand during the long siege?” requested by the most
astonishing wonderful gogollescent.
Andreth and Aegnor, the hunt and a moment by Aeluin before dawn.
For even after the ruin the hearts of the Dúnedain were still set
westwards; and though they knew indeed that the world was changed, they
said: ‘Avallónë is vanished from the Earth and the Land of Aman is taken
away, and in the world of this present darkness they cannot be found.
Yet once they were, and therefore they still are, in true being and in
the whole shape of the world as at first it was devised.’
All Hobbits know how to distinguish one kind of mushroom from
another, and which ones all sensible Hobbits avoid. Belladonna Took goes on
more than one kind of trip.
Elros in the aftershock of the sinking of Beleriand, creeping
realization and impending doom, and, as always, a twin brother. For the
prompt: “One foot in another world”
Elrond and Elros, aged 496. A shared moment on the western
shores of Númenor in the evening. Stargazing and birdwatching. Parents,
age, and time. For the prompt “small birds, dry grass”
The north wind doth blow, and we shall have… Tolkien Secret Santa 2017!
Welcome to the Tolkien Secret Santa! This is a little gift exchange held during the Most Wonderful Time of the Year™. Everyone who participates gets to make and receive a small digital present from their Secret Santa, which could take any number of forms: a fic, a playlist, an artwork, a poem, a graphic – you name it!
Sold? This is how it’s gonna work:
Reblog this post!
Fill out this sign-up form so I can make your pairs! EDIT: The form does not allow multiple selections for fandoms due to my own error. If you want to create/receive for multiple fandoms, please select “Other” and write which fandoms they would be. Really sorry for the inconvenience! The site won’t let me change it unless I pay and I am but a poor student
Follow this blog (you’ll get updates, maybe some inspiration/ideas for gifts, if someone asks something relevant you can see that too etc.)
Wait until partners are sent out on December 1st.
Post your small gift any time between December 16th and December 23rd without tagging/revealing your Secret Santa OR you can wait until the 24th and post it then if you don’t want to go back and reblog/tag.
Tag your Secret Santa on December 24th and I’ll reblog your work to this blog!
A few more things…
Please please try and join before December 1st! There’ll be a chance to pinch-hit a gift if you’re late and a partner can’t be found, but it’s less stress for all of us if you sign up by December 1st!
Feel free to drop anonymous messages to your giftee before the reveal! Little compliments, maybe an unambiguous question, something to hype them up before the 24th…
If you want to contact your Secret Santa through this blog, that’s fine too! Just send an ask on anon and I’ll tag them.
I’ll track #tolkiensecretsanta2017 so be sure to tag your gift so that I can reblog it
Do ask any questions on this blog! An FAQ is in the works and should be up shortly.
Here’s to an amazing and joyous exchange to ring in the season!
Gif stands for Graphics Interchange Format. when graphics is pronounced “JAFFICKS” Then I will pronounce Gif with a “J”
^ This
It’s followed by an R of course it would be a hard g. But Giraffe is a soft g. Genius is a soft g. Gin is pronounced with a soft g too. GIF is I following a g, it would be pronounced with a soft g.
It aint Jif peanut butter though.
It would still be pronounced like that. The general rule is if the g is followed by an e or i, it’s soft g. U or a consonant is generally a hard g.
I will DIE WITH MY HONOR
Gear =/= Jear
Get =/= Jet
Gift =/= Jift
Give =/= Jive
In English, words with a ‘G’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ can be pronounced with either a hard ‘G’ or a soft ‘G’.
Words with Germanic roots such as ‘gear’, ‘get’, ‘gift’, ‘give’ (see above) are pronounced with a hard ‘g’ while words with Latin or Greek roots such as ‘gem’, ‘general’, ‘giraffe’, ‘giant’, are pronounced with a soft ‘g’.
So no, it’s not exactly a “general rule” that ‘g’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ makes a soft ‘g’ sound.
Additionally, “GIF” is an ACRONYM starting with a word that begins with a hard ‘g’ sound, so “GIF” is therefore pronounced with a hard ‘g’.
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