Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Dark in the Dell under Weathertop

Tolkien wrote about PTSD.  He did it really quite well.  He didn't make a big fuss about it, just included it because he knew what war did to people.

Frodo of the Nine Fingers, and the Ring of Doom.
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Also consider that time is not linear. It only appears linear from the bottom of a temporal gravity well. Events ripple, and the bigger the impact, the wider the ripples. Any notable point where the lines cross will cause the ripples to heterodyne, so you may notice higher peaks or deeper troughs.
In other words, he wasn't kidding when he said "wibbly wobbly timey wimey"...

innnnnnnnnnteresting.
Exactly.

We think forward into the future and back into the past, and sometimes we meet ourselves coming and going.