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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

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BREAKING: in a 9-0 decision, the black-robed Supreme Injustices of Mordor have ruled that the Dark Lord has immunity for official acts undertaken while wielding the One ring to rule them all.

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BILBO: Happy Friday! GANDALF: What do you mean? Do you wish me a happy Friday, or mean that it is a happy Friday whether I want it or not; or that you feel happy this Friday; or that it is a Friday to be happy on? BILBO: All of them at once, I suppose.

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"to the tune of GROND" might be my favorite musical notation I've ever read hahaha

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logging into a social media app after being gone for months:

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me to all the books on my many bookshelves:

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[youth pastor voice] you know who else was briefly down?

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🎶 CERVEZA CRISTAL! 🎶

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hey, so why were you late? I was waiting— "Darkness took me" ???

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me: look for my coming at first light of the fifth day my date: ok can you be more specific are you thinking about coffee or-- me: at dawn, look to the east

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I made this joke on twitter in August 2023 (and variations of it with the first Dune movie back in 2021)

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dune 2? yeah I'm into dune 2: dune 2 others as you would have them dune 2 you

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THE BEACONS ARE LIT! GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!!

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reconnecting with mutuals from the blue bird site:

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Bluesky invites are now worth a little less than Kohl's cash but a little more than NFTs

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wow, unfollowing now, loved his gifts of knowledge and rings to the peoples of middle-earth, was unaware he forged in secret a master Ring, to control all others

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Dispensing with the requirement for invites, Bluesky now only asks you to "speak friend and enter" to sign up

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these days you can't even make one ring to rule them all anymore, because of woke

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me (secretly a dragon): would you still love me if I was a wyrm?

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Guess who just got back today That old gray wizard who had gone away These days he’s more white than gray But man I still think that wizard’s great They were asking if he was around Where he was how he could be found Don’t you know he was living down south Driving all the old ents crazy

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Toyotathon was originally a pagan holiday before Big Auto changed the date of the Sale-bration to December to increase profits

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"You know what the dwarves awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... antlers and flame"

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Drums… drums… in the deep Pa rum pum pum pum A shadow moves in the dark Pa rum pum pum pum We cannot get out Pa rum pum pum pun They are coming Pa rum pum pum pum, Rum pum pum pum, Rum pum pum pum

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hahaha, I love it 😂

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haha, you're welcome!

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Feel free to spell it however you'd like when you use it 👍

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You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid And Donner and Blitzen But they were all of them deceived for another reindeer was made

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[youth pastor voice] are you in the top 1% of listeners to the Word of God?

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everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. strike swiftly and decisively while they are distracted by this other battle

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🎵 Last Christmas I gave you my heart... 🎵 ARAGORN: and my sword LEGOLAS: and my bow GIMLI: and my AXE!

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I feel you. I tried to very gently make my aunt a little more aware of what's going on in the world so that she doesn't fall for these crazy social media conspiracy theories, and suddenly my uncle is all up in my face like "Láthspell I name you, Ill-news; and ill news is an ill guest they say."

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me: *walking up the driveway to my parents' house yesterday* no politics this year, josh also me after one (1) beer: WHERE WAS GONDOR WHEN THE WESTFOLD FELL??

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certain days are just like being a kid in a candy shop haha

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I have pulled the parachute cord that was on the skydiving Christian baby and that he was probably saving until I gave in Forgive me it was so easy like candy taken from...well, a baby

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[youth pastor voice] let me tell you about a real baby who came from heaven to earth to show the way

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A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to

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what people don't know is that the proud tradition of skydiving Christian babies began with baby Jesus himself, who skydived from heaven to earth on the very first Christmas

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when you're an uruk-hai climbing a siege ladder at helm's deep and hear a dwarf and an elf counting at the top:

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It used to be that you could become the Messiah of a band of desert warriors and ride giant sandworms to overthrow the dictatorial regime oppressing you all, and then start a galaxy-wide holy war that left you supreme emperor of all humanity, but wokeness took that from us 

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Used to be you could be so strong that no man could kill you. Feminism ruined that.

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used to be you could forge in secret a master Ring to control all others: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. can't anymore though, because of woke

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Love this! Well done 👏

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for your...precious...little one

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