Still my favorite story from the Lord of the Rings set: Viggo Mortensen bonded so much with the horse he rode in the movies that after filming was over he bought it from its owner. If that doesn’t warm your heart I don’t know what could.
don’t forget that he also bought arwen’s horse for her stunt rider when she couldn’t afford it awww
also sort of relevant viggo also bought the horse that costarred with him in the movie hidalgo and subsequently took the horse (tj) with him to the red carpet premier.
Also most of the Riders of Rohan are actually women because when they put out that call mostly women showed up with their horses and the costume team just stuck beards on them.
if this isn’t the best post i don’t
So you’re saying the entire Rohan army could have killed the Witch-King of Angmar.
Witch King: No living man can kill me!
several thousand riders of Rohan: *rip their fake beards off*
“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”
– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
“I have seen the throne of the Gods and it was empty” - Corypheus Dragon Age: Inquisition.
holy shit i just learned about the “proxy strike” tactic in france in which radicals blockade or occupy a workplace, allowing workers to strike without losing their wages. that’s brilliant, wow
How does that work, exactly?
if you and your coworkers say “we’re striking” and occupy your workplace, your boss won’t pay you, but if your friends and your coworkers’ friends occupy it for you, you say “sorry boss shit’s occupied” and you still get paid because you’re not the ones striking
the 5,528 people who have reblogged this post as of right now could probably paralyze a decent chunk of a city’s economy using this tactic lmao
The party is currently exploring an old temple deep in the jungle, but due to traps and undead encounters, we decide to barricade ourselves in an old infirmary and rest for the night, after chucking out the remains of the undead who previously occupied it. We set up a watch, and partway through the rotation…
DM: Okay, roll for perception.
Goliath Monk, currently standing watch: … I rolled a twelve?
DM: You hear a shuffling sound, and there are scratching sounds coming from the door. Something’s on the other side.
Monk: Aw man. Well, the door’s still holding, so I keep standing watch.
The human fighter then takes their turn as lookout.
Dm: Roll perception again.
Fighter: *rolls a three*
Dm: You don’t notice a thing, maybe a few weird sounds here and there but nothing to worry about. There totally isn’t anything weird going on at the door or anything.
Nervous laughter from all of us; finally my Dragonborn Paladin goes up to stand watch, but when I roll a higher perception check….
Dm: You see that the door has been almost completely demolished by undead. Only a few wood planks are actually keeping them from pouring in, and you’re not entirely sure how it went on for this long unnoticed.
Paladin: How did you miss an entire zombie hoard trying to break the door down??
Dm: Beats me. The sound alone is loud enough to, as one might say… wake the dead… *Cue groans of agony*
