dukeofbookingham:mozalieri:kaaatebishop:eleemosynecdoche:musicofthe-ainur: Am I the only perso
dukeofbookingham:mozalieri: kaaatebishop: 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. another hilarious example: my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is My favorite for some reason was always when someone was meant to get water and came back without it, and when asked where it was, goes “I CAN‘T CARRY WATER IN MY POCKETS” -- source link