witchking-jr reblogged
Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny
A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language.
kaaatebishop
another hilarious example:
mozalieri
my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is
dukeofbookingham
inneskeeper
to the uneducated it may seem like hobbits are the only funny bitches, and gandalf just picked it up from them.
to the learned, it is known that gandalf is the first ever funny bitch, and he has taught generations of hobbits every petty snark they’ve ever known because theyre the only motherfuckers who can keep up with him