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Since I was screaming about Lebennin earlier—

Beregond:

“For this attack will draw off much of the help that we looked to have from Lebennin and Belfalas, where folk are hardy and numerous.”

General appearance:

before them was the Anduin glittering in the sun, as it flowed away, out of the sight even of Legolas, into the wide flats and green haze of Lebennin and South Ithilien.

Elves have songs about how beautiful Lebennin is, no big:

Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui
In the green fields of Lebennin!
Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea
The white lilies sway,
And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin
In the green fields of Lebennin,
In the wind from the Sea!

In the celebrations of Aragorn’s arrival/coronation:

there were players upon viols and upon flutes and upon horns of silver, and clear-voiced singers from the vales of Lebennin.

The narrator’s overview of the people of Lebennin:

“[T]he most part of the people of Gondor lived in the seven circles of the City, or in the high vales of the mountain-borders, in Lossarnach, or further south in fair Lebennin with its five swift streams. There dwelt a hardy folk between the mountains and the sea. They were reckoned men of Gondor, yet their blood was mingled, and there were short and swarthy folk among them whose sires came more from the forgotten men who housed in the shadow of the hills in the Dark Years ere the coming of the kings.”

L E B E N N I N  ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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Thinking of P&P again and one of my favourite evolutions (and I think one that’s semi-overlooked) is this:

Ch 10:

Elizabeth could not help observing, as she turned over some music books that lay on the instrument, how frequently Mr Darcy’s eyes were fixed on her. She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man; and yet that he should look at her because he disliked her was still more strange.

Ch 56:

“If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up.”

“In marrying your nephew I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter: so far we are equal.”

The latter is, I think, seen most often as a simple statement of sociological fact, even if it leaves out a lot of pragmatic details (and therefore an appropriate answer to Lady Catherine’s reliance on rigid hierarchies). But it is not what Elizabeth herself thought at the beginning of the novel and her relationship with Darcy, and I think her evolution from “too important to look at me” to “technically, we’re equals, so fuck off” is … something. An interesting something!

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queen-of-carven-stone said:

“God forbid Gondor is something other than a vague reward for Aragorn” - AN ETERNAL MOOD

I replied:

It is certainly my eternal mood!

#gondor has a rich complex culture and history of its own #it includes large and beautiful stretches of land #coasts and mountains and valleys and farms and forests and rivers and waterfalls #it has a population of millions of citizens #there is so much there!!!! that has vanishingly little to do with being aragorn's prize! #like. aragorn himself realizes this!! #anywayyyy

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I reblogged this post I made in 2014:

I could be working on my paper

alternately I could try and figure out a rough estimate of the populations of Gondor

Okay, the army raised from the outlands to defend Minas Tirith:

• 200 from Lossarnach
• 300 from Ringló Vale
• 500 bowmen from Morthond
• a ‘long line’ of ill-equipped men from the Anfalas
• 'a few grim hillsmen’ from Lamedon
• 100-odd spared from the ships of the Ethir
• 300 from Pinnath Gelin
• 700 men at arms from Dol Amroth and a company (100-200?) of knights

Altogether, it’s stated to be just under 3000, most remaining home to defend their own lands. After the defeat of the Corsairs removes most of that threat, Aragorn leads a large host out of the south to the Pelennor Fields. Several days later, 4000 arrive from Pelargir, and “many” others. Ultimately, the Gondorian contingent of the army that rides to the Morannon consists of 2000 southern Gondorians under Aragorn, 3500 Gondorians under Imrahil, and 500 horsemen, and they’re able to leave behind more defenders in Minas Tirith than it had for the battle itself; ergo, over 3000. Most of the remaining Rohirrim follow Elfhelm to take command of the North Road, so that 3000+ would be overwhelmingly Gondorian (…and we already know of over 4000 that are, soooo). The various provinces of Gondor would also not be left entirely unguarded.

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I really like LOK and there’s a lot that’s great about B3, but every time I remember people telling Korra that she’s never!! faced enemies like the Red Lotus!!!, it’s just like…

Korra: *remembers fighting a mega-powerful bloodbender projecting his trauma onto the world in general and her specifically*

Korra: *remembers fighting the cosmic spirit of darkness and chaos*

Korra: really

tags: #if noatak hadn't acquiesced in murder-suicide (for kids!) he could and would have crushed zaheer like a bug #and vaatu ... i mean. lol

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dalpuri said:

i saw you tags about f/f zukaang and it's so galaxy-brained, i can't stop thinking about it! if that was canon, my life would probably be dedicated to it lmao

I replied:

Heeeh, thank you! It would be amazing.

tags: #look canon zuko and aang are great and their relationship is a++ and the ship is great #but f!aang + f!zuko becoming super close as they work together for a better world for a decade #and then... one day... they Realize

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I reblogged a meme about writing three sentences of your project whenever you see the meme, and added:

tags: #i've had this up for three days but i outlined a bit and sat down to do it and suddenly wrote a page #so #writing #original fic rambles #but also fic if that's what you're doing!

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I reblogged this post and added:

part of me is like, okay, it takes awhile to read 900+ submissions, and part of me is like … IT’S BEEN FIVE DAYS, I PERISH

tag: #*collapses onto my fainting couch* just reject me already

[ETA: 7/28/2023: they did, lol, but long after this iirc]