i will never apologize for being a lover of song lyrics. i will always write them in the tags, in an audio post of the song they’re from, even in a text post by themselves. i will put that shit in a notebook. sometimes if there’s a verse i particularly enjoy i will pull up my damn notes app and write it out just to look at it for a while. if you want me to stop doing this then you will need to kill me.
He definitely did, but since the whole book is supposed to be a translation of something he found and not something he personally wrote, they’re switched for the audience’s convenience. There’s a lot more to it, but here’s a chart of Shire months from the appendices at the end of RoTK. Elves and men are different, but there was no handy chart.
“time flies why is everything happening so fast!” <- that’s me most of the time too. i found one way to make it go extremely slow. slower than you’d ever believe. step 1 is have insomnia (sorry). step 2 is stay up so late that your only option is to push it even farther in order to try to at least get back to an okay time tomorrow. while you are waiting for your goal time the seconds will inch by like an inchworm. this is not advice don’t do this i’m just telling you that’s the only way but i pray you never see a second hand this slow it is unnatural and dare i say demonic
“Autumn is a fleeting season, melancholy by nature. Its ghostly beauty cultivates a fertile atmosphere for memories that write their history on a tablet of fallen leaves.”
