6 hour long fight at this year’s Tolkien Historical Society Conference about whether Middle Earth has bees, before I reminded everyone that the Rohirrim had mead halls, which means they had honey, which means there’s bees. Everyone sighed and the conference continued. This is the life of a Tolkien scholar. 

It’s what he would have wanted

op why did you wait six hours 

OP deciding to wait

Look academics are like toddlers, you got to let them tire themselves out a little first before you can expect rational thought when they’re worked up about something. Drop mead halls to soon in the discussion and they’ll just start arguing if there might be a form of mead made without honey, or if mead is just the closest English equivalent to what Rohan had.

Hello? Beorn and his bees? Like, it’s talked about!

Jeez next time I’ve gotta go over there and yell too.

Look. You can’t tell me that Tolkien would not be thrilled by people arguing over something he’s already given them the answer too. It just means he gets to fuck off from the one lecture he actually bothered to give this semester early.

Fuck. You’re right. His ghost is probably there smoking a pipe and just LOVING it.