A two part hammered high karat gold sheet ornamental element, presenting
an attractive sinuous design, perhaps from a garment or scabbard, with
small attachment holes along perimeter, from an important
Maotic-Scythian hoard purportedly found near the Black Sea.
I practiced using one of the ink pens in Clip Studio Paint for fun. I just wanted to draw some characters I have missed drawing and also try out some outfit ideas for Fingon and Maglor (I suck at sticking to outfits and then constantly draw new ones… which sometimes turn out really uninteresting. Gotta improve on that)
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
Two Persian bracelets of gold and turquoise with terminals in the shape of birds. While the bracelets are modern, dating to the 19th-20th centuries, the style reflects the jewelry of the Seljuks, a Turkish dynasty which ruled a vast empire in Western Asia during the 11th to 13th centuries CE. Image from Bonhams.
Ancient Persian engineers made their
own freezers that kept ice cold – even
during desert summers. By 400 BCE, they
had perfected the ‘yakhchal,’ which are
made of thick, heat-resistant materials.
They had vents to funnel breezes to an
underground storage area and push
warm air out the top, and ice could be
brought in during winter to use for
making chilled treats in the summer. SourceSource 2
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