eleemosynecdoche: “ musicofthe-ainur: “Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny ” A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal,...

eleemosynecdoche:

musicofthe-ainur:

Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

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