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mozalieri: “ kaaatebishop: “ eleemosynecdoche: “ musicofthe-ainur: “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...
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Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

eleemosynecdoche

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:

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mozalieri

my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

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LOTRJRR Tolkien

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