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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh)
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taking immediate psychic damage by checking my phone and flooding my brain with all the terrible things going on in the world the instant my eyes open in the morning:
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
me looking through my hoodies the instant the first hint of Fall arrives:
September 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
September 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Twitter // X
July 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is where I post from:
July 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Founding Fathers on July 4th, 1776:
July 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
July 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
BREAKING: Big, Beautiful Battering Ram GROND passes the Great Gate of Minas Tirith!
July 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well, I gazed into the Mirror of Galadriel and I saw things that were…things that are…and some things…that have not yet come to pass.
June 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Read the account of this tragedy here:

jrrjokien.substack.com/p/man-betray...
June 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
June 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Bilbo, Thorin, and the other Dwarves arriving at the Lonely Mountain looking for Smaug:
June 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
one does not simply declare a ceasefire
June 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Looking at an iced coffee at 4pm:
June 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
when the worship leader goes back to the bridge again when you thought the song was done:
June 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What's a book cover (or covers) that's burned itself into your brain?

Definitely these Narnia covers, but also the 1983 The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings paperback covers. They are...well, they're something else.
May 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
FRODO: Where were you Gandalf?

GANDALF: I was...delayed.

FRODO:
May 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Bilbo to the guests at his eleventy-first birthday party after putting on the One Ring:
May 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
when you open a shared doc and someone else is viewing the doc at the same time:
May 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Name a more iconic trio. I'll wait
May 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
white smoke rises from Isengard! a new white wizard has been chosen as Gandalf succeeds the former white wizard, Saruman
May 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
white smoke rises. a pope has been chosen this vote
May 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
when you ask the DM a question about the campaign and all they say is "you'll have to wait and see"
May 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
what it feels like to "per my last email" someone:
May 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM