#lotr humor
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As someone who grew up with the og Saturday cartoon I will say I’m not the biggest fan of the Netflix Winx show.
Bloom is not a likeable character in fact I’d hazard at comparing her to Denethor but that’s just me. Whatever. There’s some other stuff that could be potentially problematic, but I binged all of season one so it’s safe to say I like it - as a separate piece of work.
I WILL FUCKING SAY THOUGH. The best fucking scene is watching Farah, Saul, and Ben commiserating over some agave juice and war stories and acknowledging that these fucking teens think they’re so sneaky when these beautiful old fucks were in fact the ones that broke those rules first.
The thing that makes this worth it is the profs.
Please, Netflix, if you’re gonna give us anything more - give us more of that
Map of Europe in a Fantasy Tolkien Style
I’ve been making a few of these style maps recently, I did New EnglandandScotland previously for fun. Europe was a bigger challenge due to the scale of the place and the fairly complicated coastlines and water features. Particularly around Finland and Sweden (why you have so many lakes?). The whole thing took around 6 hours total.
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If you want more like this, let me know! You can download the high resolution version below for free, and likewise If you want to know how these are made click the other link below for a general outline:
- Download Full Resolution Version Here [Google Drive 19mb]
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- How to: Making a fantasy style map [Via Medium]
Instead of trying to label everything accurately, this time I’ve stuck to some islands, most capital cities, and the main mountain ranges as it is supposed to be mostly a geographical map - the density of European borders don’t lend themselves nicely to maps at this resolution.
Fair to say there are some issues with text legibility in this - if I started again I’d vary text colour to stand out against mountain ranges - things are only really readable at around 100% zoom. I might come back to this later on and clean things up a bit.
Google drive links needed updating, should work now!
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Frodo: Lady Galadriel, what’s that on your hand?
Galadriel:Nenya.
Frodo:Nenya?
Galadriel: Nenya business.
Describing Lord of the Rings Characters Badly
Frodo: Must have done something really horrible in his past life.
Sam: Makes your own friends look like cabbages.
Pippin:YOLO.
Merry: Also YOLO, but knows when to draw the line.
Gandalf: Salty AF; eats death for breakfast.
Aragorn: Will find an excuse to bring his heritage into anything and everything.
Boromir: Pin-cushion for orcs.
Legolas:*I’m sensing something*
Gimli: Has no filter.
Elrond: Makes a lot of good points. Too bad no one listens to him.
Arwen: Has a literal death wish.
Galadriel: A bit cryptic, but all right once you get to know her.
Saruman: “Knowledge is power”.
Gollum: Looks like a pale malnourished frog; has a bit of a dark side.
Éowyn: Middle-earth Mulan.
Faramir: Has daddy issues.
Denethor: Source of said daddy issues.
Aragorn: Can you find me some athelas?
Sam: Some what?
Aragorn: You probably know it a kingsfoil. I was using its fancy name to let you know that I’m really smart.
