huf [he/him]

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Cake day: November 11th, 2021

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  • this is why the legend in this map is misleading.

    eg, in hungary’s case, you’d never have this kind of confusion about the first floor, because of the words used.

    • ground floor = földszint (literally, ground level)
    • first floor = első emelet (literally, first thing that is raised, emel is the verb for lifting, raising)

    so you start building a house by building walls around the ground floor, then you raise a story on top, which is the first lifted thing (that is, it’s not on the ground).

    so there’s no programmer’s logic involved, it flows quite naturally from the words we use.












  • in universe, unknown (deliberately so). his wife has nature goddess vibes, except that nothing else in LOTR really fits in with that.

    in the real world, he’s a character tolkien invented long before he wrote LOTR (he appears in some poems, alongside farmer maggot). when tolkien was writing LOTR, he didnt initially have a very good idea what the plot would end up being (all he knew is, he was writing the hobbit 2), so he included a tom bombadil adventure just so the hobbits would have something to do.

    and then he just never took the episode out during the subsequent 18283281 waves of revisions he did to LOTR during the writing process.