oh i see what you mean. You’re kind of visualizing it like a flip side of a coin or card, take the word “swims” and turn it upside down by actually turning it 180 degrees.
THATS WHAT UPSIDE DOWN MEANS
bella do me a favor and literally write down the word on a piece of paper and turn it upside down
OKAY BUT I DONT SEE HOW THATS GONNA
oh
Ironically enough, your sad, angry smiley face will also read the same when turned upside down…
These are called Ambigrams, and they are fucking amazing!
I realized a while back that “bear” in “Ringbearer” can mean not only “to carry” but “to tolerate or withstand” and I don’t think this is accidental, coming from Tolkien.
If language is involved, nothing involving Tolkien is ever accidental.
“You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of ‘trees’ and ‘stars’ saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was ‘myth-woven and elf patterned’.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, from ‘Mythopoeia’ (via bulgakeov)
Mr comes from the French monsieur, which I think literally translates as ‘my lord’ and basically just means master, and Mrs comes from maistre which is the feminine form of master, so actually—for once—no.
This was an extremely relevant comment and I thank you for educating me
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