Phew anyway - STAN our favorite hot murderous space prince

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congratulations on your little achievements that most people wouldn’t even consider achievements. you’re still making progress even if it’s little by little.

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#ao3 #frodo baggins #lotr

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friendships end. relationships end. fictional man whos doing even worse than you is forever

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loving a character so much will unlock such vulnerable and cringe parts of you that you try to suppress so bad but you can't like it's so humbling

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German hobo signs / thieves’ cant code, 1540

A very early depiction of hobo signs, the earliest I’ve ever seen for sure, from a little book written by a German judge somewhere in Werse (North Rhine-Westphalia today). It’s rogue literature but in the sense of “beware of rogues!”, not rogues are cool or anything. The hobo signs are called Zeichen in the book (which just means “signs”, in general), but by the 18th century they would be known by the cant term Zinken.

So who used them, exactly? Who were these rogues and vagabonds who communicated in secret code? The book calls them Brenner (literally “burners”) or Mordtbrenner (arson AND murder!), and it’s a bit above my pay grade to give you specifics with any certainty. But from what I gather, it’s a mishmash of people on the road due to their profession (tinkers, peddlers, etc), beggars, mercenaries or ex-soldiers left to their own devices, fugitives (I’m guessing that Läufer, literally “runner”, means on the lam), and various itinerant groups.

May or may not be relevant: the Yenish people, who emerged as a distinct itinerant group in Germany and neighbouring regions in the 19th century, are theorised to have “descended from members of the marginalized and vagrant poor classes of society of the early modern period”. And their language is cant-adjacent: “Yenish speakers generally speak their local German dialect, enriched by the Yeniche vocabulary, which is derived in part from Rotwelsch, with influences from Yiddish, Romani, and other minority languages of the region.” (Rotwelsch is basically the German thieves’ cant.)

The book translates the “signs and secret codes”, and also gives a list of known vagrants, which I find chilling. This isn’t a description of a criminal class, it’s criminalisation in action, of an already marginal class. The list includes names, descriptions (a lot of them have red beards, for some reason), occupations (beggar, carter, traveller, soldier), and comments like “wicked man”.

I don’t actually speak German, so if anyone wants to give it a go and translate any of this to English, it would be fantastic (for background, this may help).

Source: Der Mordtbrenner Zeichen vnd Losunge, etwa bey Dreyhundert vnd Viertzig, ausgeschickt, by Ambrosius Trota, published in 1540 in Wittenberg. You can download it as a PDF, no OCR though.

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I am probably being unfairly snarky here but

So who used them exactly? Who were these [people who needed to communicate] in secret code [for their own safety]?

Me: it’s going to be Roma, Jews, and Jewish Roma.

Me: Oh hey, it’s Roma, Jews, Jewish Roma, and a whole different nomadic society partially descended from Jews and Roma

Me: you don’t say

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I’ve never seen or read Lord of the Rings*. Here’s what I’ve learned through cultural osmosis:

*my sister forced me to sit through Two Towers when I was 10 and would’ve rather been playing Pokemon, so I hardly have any memory of it and therefore it doesn’t count

basic plot:

a Hobbit named Frodo is tasked with throwing an evil ring into an evil volcano and he tries very hard to not also become evil along the way
he succeeds at the first thing and only sorta succeeds at the second thing
also a bunch of friends tag along like an RPG
also there’s a war? I haven’t figured out where that’s supposed to fit in
or the giant sentient trees. I know they’re in there but why and also how
everything is set in alternate New Zealand (Old Zealand?)
there is an awful lot of wandering through forests, especially in the second movie, which according to my memory is at least 90% trees (not the talking kind) and some horses (I don’t think they can talk either)
Dumbledore dies?? unknown
it’s all a metaphor for Jesus somehow
there’s also a prequel starring Martin Freeman and Bendydick but we don’t talk about those

characters:

Frodo and Sam are ride-or-die. I’m assuming Frodo would’ve gone full evil if Sam wasn’t there
Frodo & Sam are the Serious Hobbits and Merry & Pippin are the Comedy Relief Hobbits
there’s a Good Gandalf and a Bad Gandalf one of them is grey one of them is white ~~one tells the truth the other only speaks in lies~~
Good Gandalf carries a big stick and dispenses fatherly wisdom. Bad Gandalf probably fronted for a metal band and encourages kids to do Satanism
there’s a dwarf (Grimly?) who’s like,,, short Hagrid
Boromir is ‘one does not simply’ guy. he has a brother (?) named Faramir and every time I see that name I think “but where’s Nearamir?” and snicker to myself. I don’t know anything about these characters except that Boromir seems like a real downer
Legolas is a pretty-boy elf who either gets on people’s nerves or everyone else gets on his nerves, I can’t remember which
”Legolas Legolas what do your elf eyes see” “they can see you’re being a lil bitch” is probably a real exchange that really happened
Arwyn is also an elf. at some point she glows and sings and it’s Very important
Gollum used to be an adventurer like you, but then he took an evil ring to the psyche. it turned him into a horrible little gremlin man with a penchant for riddles. he has a second name that sounds like a Pokemon but I can’t remember it
Big Evil Eye … dunno what he does. don’t think I want to know
in the books there is a C. S. Lewis easter egg in the form of Tree

races / classes:

Hobbits (known for being hardcore introverts who like beer and potatoes but they can party hard also don’t try to take their land they’ll shank you)
humans (boring)
orcs (bad)
dwarves (good)
elves (20/20 vision, live forever, can’t tell lies?)
dragons (probably evil but very cool)
wizards (Extremely cool regardless of alignment)
Trevenants (I don’t know their actual name)
if there’s more than these I haven’t heard about them so they are probably not that important

books vs. films:

either I’m not privy to the debate on which is better or the books and films are equally good in their own right
I’ve also heard the soundtracks are good but personally I only know the two motifs that got memed to death in the hit classic “Taking the Hobbits to Isengard” (2006)
I have heard it said that Tolkien was the kind of person who’d stop and contemplate a blade of grass for half an hour and it shows in his writing
reading the books allows you to unlock Hidden Ability: Elvish
people will literally murder you if you do not watch the extended editions of the movies so tread lightly and keep your bladder empty bc there are no pee breaks where we’re going

important quotes:

one does not simply walk into mordor
they’re taking the hobbits to isengard
my precious
you shall not pass
boil em mash em stick em in a stew
and something about second breakfast which,, isn’t that just brunch? brunch is what that is

as you can see I know just enough to fool people (for like 5 minutes) into thinking I might have seen the movies once while half asleep and this might be why I have gone so long without actually seeing them.

please do not murder me