Tolkien Describes Goth Shelob

> "Christopher, my son, did I ever tell you the full story of Shelob? You know the monstrous spider - descended from the vile Ungoliant! - which I used to read aloud of in our Oxford meetings of the Inklings? Well what I didn't mention back then was that Shelob could also transform into a totally hot babe; all pale and dark and also similar enough in appearance to what will later come to be known as the goth subculture. In fact she looked very much like the pornographic actress Stoya who will be born 13 years after I die. Christopher, I will be entrusting you with my estate. If there is ever a videogame adaptation of my work you must make sure they get this Shelob right - make sure she is what the Anglo-Saxons would have called a hæða ecge, a real sexy bitch."

Мем представляет женскую форму Шелоб из вселенной «Властелина колец» и вымышленное письмо Дж. Р. Р. Толкина своему сыну Кристоферу. Шутка пародирует старомодный стиль Толкина, будто он заранее описал сексуализированный готический образ Шелоб и даже сравнил её со Стойей, задолго до появления видеоигр и готической субкультуры. EN: The meme shows Shelob’s female form from The Lord of the Rings universe alongside a fictional letter from J. R. R. Tolkien to his son Christopher. The joke parodies Tolkien’s archaic writing style by pretending that he foresaw Shelob’s sexualized goth appearance and even compared her to Stoya long before video games and the goth subculture existed.

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