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whativebeenreadin:

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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:

awful lotta sass in middle earth

@lotrfansaredorcs

YES 

Hands-down my favorite example of Middle-Earth sass, though, is the Hobbit. Just the whole thing.

Because  “The Hobbit’ is canonically an in-universe book “written” by Bilbo  (the way “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them” was “written” by Newt Scamander , “not” JK Rowling.)

So when The Hobbit’s third person narrator mocks someone, or snarks about how bad Bilbo is at adventuring, or sarcastically calls Thorin a “Very Important Dwarf”…..that’s really Bilbo talking.

When you re-read the Hobbit with that in mind, it becomes hilarious.

Cuz here old Bilbo is,  just being an absolute savage, writing this book where he drags all the dwarves and then roasts himself

Like here’s the narrator–who remember, is really Bilbo– sarcastically describing one of Thorin’s speeches:  “This was Thorin’s style [of speaking.] He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would have gone on like this until he was out of breath without telling anyone anything that was not known already.” 

such a tiny hobbit, such a huge level of sass

ngl the see-saw from the Sublime to the Mundane – a paragraph of soaring description being punctured by a punchline – is my favorite thing and I use it to death but I will NEVER STOP

Saruman and his amazing techni-coloured dream coat