The Hobbits absolutely do have a class system
The Hobbits absolutely do have a class system
I’m well aware of that, but conceptually Middle Earth is an analogue of Midgard. It’s the land inhabited by humans in the middle.
I think Middle Earth is meant to be more of an analogue of Midgard. It’s the middle of the earth, as opposed to the sea in the middle of the earth.
Wait until you hear about what comes next…
Feel like I’ve seen this in Tbilisi before. Where was this one?
Never underestimate the internet’s ability to correct mistakes
I feel like the Green Dragon probably did pretty well when the Hobbits returned after a long journey. But I’d call that a pub rather than a bar.
All I did was give Bilbo a nudge out of the door and Frodo a ring that I suspected could possibly be an ancient Ring of Power™ forged by the Dark Lord Sauron, into which he poured his cruelty, malice, and his will to dominate all life.
Fun fact: the s was added to island in the 16th century as a mistake because grammarians added an s to isle to make it look more like the Latin insula, even though there was no s sound in either island or isle.
So in Slavonic linguistics, there’s a sound change known as the Slavic liquid metathesis, which is what gives us South Slavic forms like grad (town) as in Belgrad, as opposed to East Slavic forms, like gorod, as in Belgorod.
The reconstructed ancestor of gorod and grad is *gord (in historical linguistics, an asterisk indicates a reconstructed form). Due to changes in syllable boundary rules in the Slavic language of the day (roughly 8th/9th century AD), you could no longer have two consonants at the end of a syllable, so *gord had to change. In East Slavic, this was solved by adding an extra vowel to break up the consonant cluster, giving us gorod. In South and West Slavic, this was done by moving the /r/ sound to the onset (start) of the syllable (and the vowel was also changed), giving us grad. The “liquid” part of the name refers to “liquid” sounds, /r/ and /l/, since this particular process applied to them.
It almost looks like this is what’s going on here, although not quite. It would have to be gulgulg > gluglug to count as liquid metathesis, but the l and u switched around, which is good enough for me. Plus there’s the pun with liquid and water.
Hopefully that at least somewhat explains the joke. I don’t know if it’s very clear.
Slavic liquid metathesis moment
I miss the good old days of surreal memes. Meme man and orang fighting against each other across an arbitrary and unpredictable universe, questioning the fabric of reality, surreality and irreality, all while striving to avoid eternal yamnation.
6 months up front
“I was just following orders”
Typical Jerry, just trying to get Tom in trouble
AfDler in Germany
Yeah, I think it’s all about context. If it’s just part of a personal project or something you’re sharing with a few friends, it’s a useful tool. If it’s being presented as real art or even used commercially, that’s when the issues start coming up.
Gandalf the White
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