Only if you are indiscreet. And I hope you are too clever for that. *kisses her hand and releases it*
Only if you are indiscreet. And I hope you are too clever for that. *kisses her hand and releases it*
*deftly and firmly catches her hand by the wrist*
Madam, winsome spitfire though you are, you do not have my leave.

Orc ladies yeah yeah yeah!
(Kind of a response to this post, mine aren’t all that monstrous though)
Please. I’m not going to fall for that trick every time one of you lunatics bursts in and starts making
infinitely. infinitely replicating.

infinitely replicating patterns.
……..

Rhodochrosite – N’Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Chilta hazar masha (coat of a thousand nails), kulah khud (helmet), bazu
band (arm guards). Indian armored clothing made from layers of fabric
faced with velvet and studded with numerous small brass nails, which
were often gilded. Fabric armor was very popular in India because metal
became very hot under the Indian sun. This example has additional armor
plates on the chest area, arms, and thighs. Hermitage Museum.

Hinge via Medieval Art
Medium: Iron
Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
I feel like the women in Sauron’s life are giving him a hard time…ages, centuries, millennia.
Shelob and I get along splendidly, thank you very much.
Well, I thank you for the compliment, but one typically does not begin stroking a person’s face before introducing oneself.

Not surprised? By my ‘promotion’ or by my exile to this moldy island in the middle of an elvish swamp?
Don’t pretend as though you knew lord Melkor’s plans before I did, you glib little sky-rat. Like it or not, you’re stuck here just the same as me, so we may as well try to get along.

Dropped your keys, have you?
Well I don’t have a second set to give you, you’ll have to crawl through a window if you want inside the castle.

Choosing is for chumps! Who’s stopping me from taking both, hm?
But for hypothetical cupcakes, I’ll take gold on the inside– gooey and molten, if you’re really trying to get on my good side.
THOSE ARE DYED AND TOOLED OLIPHANT LEATHER–!
*sprays with lemon scented forge-cleaner*