drivingmradam:

Favorite film villains (10/?): Louise Walker “The Warden” from Holes

This is my special nail polish. I make it myself. You want to know my
secret ingredient? Rattlesnake venom. I just love what it does to the
coloring. It’s perfectly harmless… when it’s dry.

… Tolkien’s own misadventures with his first automobile, purchased in 1932, were the source of some of Mr. Bliss’s escapades. Tolkien was known to accelerate across busy intersections crying out ‘Charge ‘em and they scatter!’ and once knocked down a stone wall during a family vacation.

Beyond The Hobbit, Janet Brennan Croft

I give you John “Road Rage” Tolkien

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ravenclawboys:

Depending on where you began the story, it was about this place: the long stretch of mountain that had straddled a particularly potent segment of the ley line. Months before, it had been Cabeswater, populated by dreams, blooming with magic.

Now it was merely an ordinary Virginia forest, green thorns and soft sycamores and oaks and pine trees, everything slender from the effort of growing through rock.