–Drabble, hot off the press, probably full of typos, written in great haste. Warnings for *:･ﾟ✧~mild gore~*:･ﾟ✧ Shoutout to @thearrogantemu for lighting a goddamn fire under me with their meta post jfc
The Strickland Brooch from England dated to the 9th Century on display at the British Museum in London
This silver brooch is an especially fine piece of Anglo-Saxon jewellery. Its intricate pattern of animated animals with glittering gold bodies and blue glass eyes in inlaid with niello, a black metal alloy that was popular at this time. The mixture of materials is unusual for a brooch of this date and was probably worn by someone of high status and wealth.
Yavanna meets Gimli. Yavanna is not happy to meet Gimli, but did anyone deigned to ask her before allowing a dwarf to stroll through Aman? No. No, of course not.
Not directly Tolkien-related, but I think the good professor would appreciate you taking a stand against fascism no matter the odds, don’t you think? 🙂
If you’re in the USA and eligible to vote, give those bastards what for!
I’m at the British Museum today. OMG. What a place. I think I soundly gasped when I saw the Rosetta stone.
Here’s a little 18th century thing: an orrery, or model that showed the way earth and planets moved around the sun.
Orrery, ca. 1750, British Museum.
Our voyage inside this manuscript ends with these very interesting astronomical diagrams, especially of the Earth, in red and black. Once again, we can use this manuscript to dismiss the common notion of the Middle Ages as a period of time during which people believed the Earth was flat.
Here you can find the facsimile and here the video orientation!
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