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madamebomb:

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jemthecrystalgem:

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bagginshield:

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systlin:

philosoverted:

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

Sorry it’s what to elves

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.

Legolas said fuck the horizon

katherinebarlow:

There once was a man, of German origin, perhaps, who was trapped inside a cavern in Europe after an avalanche. For years he made his home there, amongst innumerable Meta menardi, or cave orbweavers, that, being a photophobic species, lived there. They lay hundreds of eggs, and new hatchlings are wont to balloon outside for dispersion. These were unable to leave, and he was forced to rely on them for sustenance. A journalist calculated how many every person on Earth must consume to match how many he’d eaten, and a tabloid, having a tenuous relationship with the truth, reprinted that figure as fact. Of course, it would be a fool’s mistake to count such a statistical outlier in a more serious academic text.

Tell me, Will, are you an outlier? Or do you count?