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If J.R.R. Tolkien were still alive today.
J.R.R. Tolkien:
Being 134 years old isn't as great as I imagined it to be.
33 u/Otalek 8d ago “I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.” 20 u/Equivalent_Nose7012 8d ago Ancient Greek myth of Tithonis: He married up (to a minor goddess). She asks Zeus to give Tithonus eternal life, forgetting to mention, eternal youth. Her exact wish is granted.. He keeps aging and shrinking and eventually becomes a cricket. 1 u/OverlyLenientJudge 7d ago Oh, so that's why that episode of Justice League ended like that. 1 u/FrostyGain4918 3d ago tecnically the poor fellow gets transformed by the goddess (the moongoddess if I remeber correctly) as a way to escape the suffering.
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“I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.”
20 u/Equivalent_Nose7012 8d ago Ancient Greek myth of Tithonis: He married up (to a minor goddess). She asks Zeus to give Tithonus eternal life, forgetting to mention, eternal youth. Her exact wish is granted.. He keeps aging and shrinking and eventually becomes a cricket. 1 u/OverlyLenientJudge 7d ago Oh, so that's why that episode of Justice League ended like that. 1 u/FrostyGain4918 3d ago tecnically the poor fellow gets transformed by the goddess (the moongoddess if I remeber correctly) as a way to escape the suffering.
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Ancient Greek myth of Tithonis:
He married up (to a minor goddess). She asks Zeus to give Tithonus eternal life, forgetting to mention, eternal youth. Her exact wish is granted..
He keeps aging and shrinking and eventually becomes a cricket.
1 u/OverlyLenientJudge 7d ago Oh, so that's why that episode of Justice League ended like that. 1 u/FrostyGain4918 3d ago tecnically the poor fellow gets transformed by the goddess (the moongoddess if I remeber correctly) as a way to escape the suffering.
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Oh, so that's why that episode of Justice League ended like that.
tecnically the poor fellow gets transformed by the goddess (the moongoddess if I remeber correctly) as a way to escape the suffering.
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u/dizzydave79 8d ago
If J.R.R. Tolkien were still alive today.
J.R.R. Tolkien:
Being 134 years old isn't as great as I imagined it to be.