Thank you for articulating my long-simmering feelings on this ending! Just … the cold tense air as they stare each other down. (Which I saw for the first time at four years old, my dad really should’ve checked behind the couch for crept-out children)

THANK YOU it involved several trades and sales at an unhinged pace out of a German folk tale

Of course, for Tolkien, these spiritual victories may not mean that you live. Boromir doesn't fail - Aragorn tells him, "No! You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory." Theoden likewise does not fail, even though he dies. He wins the spiritual battle, the more important one.

Chizmar: [reading carrie] whoa whoa whoa Chizmar: what's all this menstruation stuff? Carter: [whispers in chizmar's ear] Chizmar: EVERY MONTH?!?!?! Chizmar: holy shit Chizmar: that's metal Garris: what are you talking about, i want to know too!

I YEARN FOR THE DAYS OF WOT CHAOS

And to be sure, "nob" starts in England before it makes its way to San Francisco. And yet that marvelous phrase "his nibs" comes from...something else entirely.

Vanness Pens is a retailer in Little Rock, Arkansas - vanness1938.com I’ve always found them super kind, quick, and welcoming to all.

THIS OWNS BONES I’d expected like Kraft paper or something, this is perfectly adequate butcher paper

Hold the phone Mike got me an enormous ledger, let’s see what the paper is like

SUPER disappointed in the Goulets, Vanness still seems pretty solid