carnivalseb: eschatolegation:dukeofbookingham:mozalieri:kaaatebishop:eleemosynecdoche:musico
carnivalseb: eschatolegation: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 That’s, like, what the hobbits are for. Tolkien uses them to punctuate and deflate his own saga-riffic language and ground things back to a modern audience. the word for this shifting of registers for comic effect is ‘bathos’, if anyone wanted to know -- source link