im so convinced that discord is a realm between heaven and hell because somehow people confess and talk about the worst most otherworldly shit that i have never seen the likes of on any other social media platform. what the fuck is going on.
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.
another hilarious example:
my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is