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  • Forgetting that Melkor created the orcs specifically as a perversion of the elves:

    “and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. For the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Iluvatar; and naught that had life of its own, nor the semblance of life, could ever Melkor make since his rebellion in the Ainulindale before the Beginning: so say the wise. And deep in their dark hearts the Orcs loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery. This it may be was the vilest deed of Melkor, and the most hateful to Iluvatar.”

    Or that Melkor imbued the Orcs with evil intent:

    “Now the Orcs that multiplied in the darkness of the earth grew strong and fell, and their dark lord filled them with a lust of ruin and death; and they issued from Angband’s gates under the clouds that Morgoth sent forth, and passed silently into the highlands of the north.”

    Source: The Silmarillion






  • Step 1: Have your spine try to kill you in your sleep.

    Step 2: Be unable to stand up long enough to shave for 3 months.

    After that, the beard just kind of takes care of itself. :)

    Edit I find it goes in stages:

    1. Normal beard.
    2. Amish farmer.
    3. Hasidism.
    4. Homeless dude.
    5. Rasputin.

    Right around stage 3 I need to think about trimming it back. :) I did hit full Rasputin during covid, that was interesting.

    Hypothetical but as yet unexplored stages:

    1. ZZ Top
    2. Gandalf