YES its tru i tell wraiths to hug my soda bottles before i drink them….its energy efficient natural cooling….ok
sauron is using green energy now?
mordor is solar powered
Isn’t mordor covered in shadow? I would say it’s magma powered.
O shit u right. Geothermal.
I just took (and passed!) my exam to be credentialed in a set of green building standards today, and I can weigh in on this discussion! Natural refrigerants are best because artificial ones either are horrible for global warming (HFCs), are horrible for the ozone layer (CFCs, banned by the Montreal Protocol), or are a little bit harmful for both (HCFCs), so cooling via wraith hugging would be an excellent way to achieve the Refrigerant Management prerequisite and credit if Barad-dur were to apply for LEED certification! Unfortunately, geothermal isn’t an acceptable renewable energy system under LEED (although Ainurin magic could be; Sauron’s team could just submit an appeal when their renewable energy credit was denied).
Got any more questions about how Mordor can go green, @sauron-the-wraith-fucker? I’m an expert now! (This would have been a great way to study for my test, actually!)
(On a side note, I’m looking for a job doing this kind of work, so if anyone knows of any openings, hmu! Dartmouth College graduate with BA in Environmental Studies & extensive internship experience!)
Excellent….excellent….
You would make a fine servant!
This is iconic
Sauron and environmentalism…the crossover the world truly needed
If there are any of y’all out there trying to tell me, with a straight face, that Poor Baby Mairon Is An Innocent Cinnamon Bun And Never Did Anything Wrong, I’m fully willing to bring up certain of Tolkien’s writings and quote them to you verbatim.
Poor Baby Mairon is a horrible, sadistic cinnamon roll who always did everything wrong. I love him very much.
And okay, my first though was “and the galaxy was saved because even Anakin Skywalker would struggle to keep trusting Palpatine with that music playing in the background”
Anakin think he’s gone COMPLETELY insane (maybe he’s finally been electrocuted too many times and its fried his brain). He doesn’t tell anyone though because he can still fight just fine just… everything is a lot more musical. He doesn’t want to be thought crazy and taken off the front lines.
Once he figures out what the various musical cues mean he actually finds them useful in figuring out how dangerous a situation is. Also battles are so much cooler now and boring landscapes are slightly less boring because at least now they have mood music. Yep, he can live with this.
(Although he is always confused why the ominousness that is The Imperial March starts playing at some of his decisions)
*cracks up*
Anakin: I’m so worried about something. I should probably keep my feelings to myself and attempt to solve my problems by working with Palpatine. He seems like he has my best interests at heart.
Music: DUN DUN DUN, DUN DA-DUN, DUN DA-DUN!
Anakin: [pauses] [looks around] Uh…OK. I mean, I’ll…go talk to Obi-Wan?
Music: [hopeful woodwind instruments]
Anakin: …and be open and honest about my life and what is bothering me, and try to work out a non-violent resolution to my problems?
The Force: Son, please… Guess I’m gonna enable the hints menu.
THE HINTS MENU. *dies*
Maybe Obi-Wan hears the music, too, and then the day is saved.
Obi-Wan: [walking away] Welp, guess it’s off to kill Grievous I’m sure Anakin will be fi –
Music: [Duel of the Fates]
Obi-Wan: OMG not this shit again [runs back down the hall towards Anakin]
Anakin: [running back towards Obi-Wan] Obi-Wan I just heard that Ominous Music again and also I secretly married Padme and she’s pregnant and I haven’t slept in 6 days and I keep thinking she’s going to die and I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT and if you leave I will 100% end up killing everyone and –
Obi-Wan: – oh my God! OK…it’s OK, I heard my own ominous music a second ago when I was getting ready to leave and so I won’t and we’ll fix th –
Anakin: – I heard mine when I thought about maybe talking to the Chancellor instead of y–
Palpatine: [sidling up behind them smugly] Everything all right, gentlemen?
Music: [scary ass music from the opera scene]
Anakin and Obi-Wan: AHHHH
I randomly thought of this post again today and it made me laugh
For the record in that last line I always pictured them clinging to each other in fear like Shaggy and Scooby:
So English used to have the formal/informal you distinction, and “thou” was informal. Tolkien makes use of this in his books, whether it’s Fingolfin’s brotherly closeness (”Thou shalt lead and I will follow”) or Eowyn and Aragorn sharing a moment after her recovery and engagement (Aragorn’s ”I have wished thee joy ever since I met thee”) where he had previously used the formal “you” while she, in love and desperate to stop him from taking the Paths of the Dead, had used “thee” (”because they would not be parted from thee–because they love thee”). In general, Tolkien uses “thou” to show moments of high emotion and closeness.
But “thou” can also be fighting words, when used inappropriately. (Remember Shakespeare’s Tybalt telling Romeo “Thou art a villain”?)
Feanor’s confrontation with Melkor is a moment of emotion, but not closeness. Feanor uses the informal “thou” as an insult, showing how he looks down on Melkor, when he says, “Get thee gone from my gate, thou jail-crow of Mandos!” In case the point wasn’t clear enough, he proceeds to slam the door in the face of “the most powerful being in all Ea.”
Melkor must be furious. Feanor, a mere elf, not only refused him, but refused him rudely, showing even in his pronoun choice that he looked down on Melkor despite all Melkor’s power.
I’d make a point that Feanor never uses formal you when talking (I may be wrong but I don’t remember one instance, even in Tolkien’s extended lore), nor does anyone else. It’s still pretty poignant, however, that he would do it both to Melkor and, notably, to the Herald of Manwe (maaaybe Eonwe, but the name isn’t in the text.)
Then turning to the herald he cried: ‘Say this to Manwë
Súlimo, High King of Arda: if Fëanor cannot overthrow Morgoth, at least he delays not to assail him, and sits not
idle in grief. And it may be that Eru has set in me a fire
greater than thou knowest. Such hurt at the least will I do to
the Foe of the Valar that even the mighty in the Ring of
Doom shall wonder to hear it. Yea, in the end they shall
follow me. Farewell!‘
In that hour the voice of Fëanor grew so great and so
potent that even the herald of the Valar bowed before him
as one full-answered, and departed; and the Noldor were
over-ruled.
Here’s Feanor using the formal “you” even when angry:
But good point about the Herald of Manwe part!
Boy how could I forget the speech to Olwe of all things lol
But thank you for the reminder! Though I wonder if it isn’t a plural instead of formal?
Feanor, answering his door in the middle of the night, shirtless, unshaven, and holding a can of beer: Melkor, thou ain’t shit.
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