didipenny:

I’m convinced in 30 years Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson will basically be Mr Incredible and Frozone

captveitingtveit:

reasons to date me:

  • i like showtunes
  • i will belt showtunes in the car
  • i will seduce you with showtunes
  • i will force you to sing showtunes with me in the shower
  • i’ll annoy you with all my showtunes
  • you shouldn’t date me

One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918, all but one of my close friends were dead.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, forward to The Lord of the Rings

http://greenbooks.theonering.net/guest/files/040102_02.html

Just a reminder that Tolkien was a veteran of World War I.