Patrick, late 90's kid, human being under construction. I would like it noted that I have no clue what I'm doing, but I have a lot of opinions on things.
I'm really harmless and fluffy most of the times, though.
Something to note about the film (I don’t think this scene was in the books? I think it was just talked about in appendices) is that it’s Pippin the rich boy who asks Aragorn about second breakfast. Sam is completely silent in the scene.
Which leads me to the question - do working class hobbits also eat second breakfast, or is it more like 9am snack?
farm work usually involves 5 or 6 meals a day, depending on milking schedule
if there are cows needing to be milked, and they’re milked twice a day, someone has to get up at around 5 o'clock in the morning to milk them (so that the second time milking is at around 17:00, so it’s finished before dinner time), so that’s first breakfast, a cup of coffee or milk and a slice of bread, because wrangling cows on an empty stomach sucks
then, once the cows have been milked, it’s time for actual breakfast, with bread and jam and cereal and coffee and milk and everything
and after that, there’s a small meal break at around 9:00 and another at around 15:00 and a larger meal each for lunch and dinner
it’s not six very lavish or extensive meals, but they’re pretty necessary, and missing any one of them makes the day suck significantly more
Hey do elf children go through the mortal stage where they won’t stop asking questions, especially why questions? Because if so, RIP Noldorin parents in general but especially RIP Finarfin and Earwen having to deal with Finrod. Imagine Athrabeth: Toddler Version and despair
I beg your pardon, op?!!!
*in Feanor’s voice* Elves, especially Noldor, consider this period as one of the best in life!!! Finally our kid started asking questions!! Look at this 100% noldo, he’s already tried to steal his mother’s necklace and brought home 6 different types of clay to test which one is better for making toy animals! Child is an engine of progress! Your child will ask you about everything, an excellent opportunity to tell them everything you know and make a few discoveries, break new ground!!
You know what? You’re right @warthoong. My mortal bias is showing. Your assessment is Correct
fëanor would also be utterly delighted to answer ‘i don’t know’
there’s a pretty decent chance that when asked a why-question by any toddler, he’ll go 'i have no idea, we should go and figure it out together’, or in some cases 'i have no idea, let’s see if we can change it’
he’s done his time, and everyone agrees namo needs a break, so fëanor is eventually re-embodied, and because the valar really want him to not fuck up this second chance, there has been some very careful timing involved
so fëanor gets picked up by the poor sod who has to be high king for this decade, escorted to approximately where his family lives, and no one is entirely sure this is a good idea, since said family is very, very tired, and adding one more exhausting family member might go very, very wrong
and instead of any proper welcome, the door is opened by curufin, holding the newest pair of fëanorian twins and looking like he hasn’t slept in years, going 'oh thank the valar, you look awake, here’s your great-grandchildren, i’m going to take a nap’
and the kids are slightly confused but mostly unconcerned, and one of them goes 'mama said you’d answer all the questions we have’ and the other one 'and keep an eye on us in the library or the workshops’
and the high king and his guard are slightly concerned, seeing as fëanor not only hasn’t been greeted by anyone whatsoever, but has also been instantly demoted to babysitter of the most exhausting and frustrating children anyone has ever met, surely some sort of explosion is going to happen now
and instead, fëanor picks up the kids, and turns to the high king, tears in his eyes and smiling as widely as anyone can ever remember seeing, and goes 'did you hear that, this is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me, do any of you want to hang around and witness the utter perfection and wonderfulness of my great-grandchildren?’
and most of everyone suddenly remembers that they’ve a very important meeting or left the stove on or something and run for their lives, but there’s a few parents among them whose parental instincts outweigh their dislike of fëanor, and surely someone has to make sure the children won’t be harmed
by the time curufin comes to fetch fëanor and the twins for dinner, every parent in a ten mile radius has managed to find an excuse to leave their very curious toddler with him, and fëanor is surrounded by children looking at him with almost as much awe and adoration as he looks at them with
curufin sighs, and goes back to the house to bring them some snacks and tea instead
The person running that channel watching Parks & Rec: ‘This is not a comedy show, it is a documentary.’
I literary started to laughing like a crazy hyena going through these! And just for the record, it’s just not the state of Oklahoma who wants to pet a mountain lion…
if the pride you take in your craft is all about getting minor visual details to look absolutely perfect, instead of doing things properly so that they will hold up to being used and being exposed to time and wear and decay, you’re missing pretty much all of the points, ever
