The real reason Maglor (probably) never showed up in Rivendell was because he knew about the Tra-La-La-Lally song and was super embarrassed about ever having known Elrond
More things that get left out of Dracula adaptations
Van Helsing pulls 29 year old Dr Seward's ear like he's still a schoolboy
There's a relationship-establishment flashback between Van Helsing and Seward
In it, Van Helsing accidentally gets cut with something unclean. His then-student Seward immediately drops everything to start sucking on the wound raw
At one point, Seward asks to become his "pet student again."
Dracula has a big, permanent scar on his forehead from Jonathan Harker's shovel
Arthur Holmwood saying "Tally ho!"
Transylvanians conclude that the delirious, amnesiac Jonathan Harker is English due to "his violent demeanour."
Despite attempts to keep low profile, Dracula gets into the news twice in two months (in one of them as a missing dog)
Dracula getting misreported as a dog because English people have never seen a wolf
London newspapers treat Lucy's vampire attacks on children as a meme among kids because they don't believe in vampires
Dracula gets sworn at by a British sailor solely because he thinks Dracula is French
Van Helsing is baffled why British sailors keep talking about blood and bloom (it's swearing)
Van Helsing is friends with real life turkologist traveller Arminius Vámbéry, who is his main source on the Dracula family
Van Helsing is friends with Hans Christian Andersen and references The Ugly Duckling
Van Helsing getting one-upped by Mina every single time he says something sexist about her intelligence
Dracula failing to destroy the evidence against him because Mina backs up her files
Mina and Jonathan kissing on the mouth in front of everybody
Quincey Morris spontaneously gifting Mina the Victorian equivalent of a MacBook Air
Finrod: born to tra-la-la-lally, forced to sing in answer a song of staying resisting battling against power of secrets kept strength like a tower and trust unbroken freedom escape of changing and of shifting shape of snares eluded broken traps the prison opening the chain that snaps
kevin day collecting homoerotic situationships to go play at the olympics with him one day
Yes. Have YOU considered that sometimes working on hard things is both necessary and worthwhile?
Some heavy referenced Halethel because as soon as I saw this picture I thought about them
“Weight on the bed had him drawing his arm back. Jean was leaning over him, one hand braced on the mattress beside Jeremy’s head. His charcoal dress shirt was only half-buttoned, and Jeremy instinctively followed the line of his throat down to his exposed collarbone…
If Jean noticed his distraction, he gave no sign. His expression was serious as he said, ‘Tell me the phrase.’”
-The Golden Raven by Nora Sakavic
This moment has been living in my head rent free
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